Anne Sheehan Research Group

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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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, the Great Plains, and the Colorado Plateau. 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 completed major seismic field campaigns in New Zealand and Nepal, and we are using that data to study mountain building processes beneath the Himalaya, plate boundary interactions between the Pacific and Australian plates, and earthquake faults at depth beneath New Zealand.

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

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New Zealand Anisotropy

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In the News

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 - registration required)

January 18, 2006
CU program gives teens opportunity to study natural disasters (Journal-Advocate - Sterling, Colorado)

September 12, 2005
Movement, Earthquake Risks of Rio Grande Rift are Focus of CU-Boulder Study (News & Events)

July 26, 2005
New Aspen Seismic Station Provides Improved Colorado Earthquake Data To CU-Boulder, U.S. Geological Survey (News & Events)

June 29, 2005
"Rock Below World's Highest Mountains Imaged For First Time By CU-Boulder Geophysicists" (News & Events)

July 30, 2004
"Molten Rock May Hold Key to Rise of High Sierra: Studies Suggest Breakaway Mass Led to Soaring Peaks" (San Francisco Chronicle)