Anne Sheehan

Professor of Geophysics
Department of Geological Sciences
Fellow, CIRES Council of Fellows
University of Colorado at Boulder

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
B.S. University of Kansas, 1984

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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

My main research interests are in the study of crust and upper mantle structure of the Earth and its relation to tectonic deformation. My ongoing projects include work in the Himalaya, New Zealand, the Colorado Rocky Mountains, and the Rio Grande Rift. Much of the work I do includes the deployment of portable seismometers that record both distant and local earthquakes. The earthquakes are used as signals to image subsurface structure and to study earthquake source characteristics. I have recently started to use GPS as a tool to measure how the Earth's surface is moving very slowly. I have a major GPS field campaign going on right now in Colorado and New Mexico, and we hope to learn whether the Rocky Mountains and the Rio Grande Rift are tectonically active today. Another ongoing project involves the use of shallow subsurface geophysics to study the hydrologic critical zone in the mountains west of Boulder.

See also: Geophysical Sciences Program, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Featured Research
New Zealand Ocean Bottom Seismic Project
Rio Grande Rift Experiment

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In the News

January 2009
'US Scientists Head for the Depths'

February 2, 2009
'New Zealand Teacher at Sea'

November 20, 2008
Seismometers See Under Rockies (News & Events)

September 28, 2007
'Critical Zone' Of Boulder Creek Watershed To Be Studied By CU-Boulder Researchers (News & Events)

September 28, 2007
'Risky Science at the Top of the World'

September, 2006
Sheehan named IRIS/SSA 2007 Distinguished Lecturer

June 18, 2006
CU Science Explorers teaches hazards workshops throughout Colorado (Daily Camera)