Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Vera Schulte-Pelkum

Research Associate

Research Interests

crustal and upper mantle structure, deformation, and anisotropy

receiver functions

array processing

ocean microseisms

Current Projects

joint receiver function and surface wave inversion using harmonic stripping

deep crustal imaging in fault zones

upper mantle structure under Taiwan

lithospheric deformation during extension in the Central Basin and Range

validation of deformation models of the Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt with crustal receiver functions

deformation and anisotropy in the Cheyenne Belt suture zone

2-D structure and anisotropy detector from receiver function harmonics

lower crustal anisotropy based on Lake Athabasca exposures

Himalayan Seismotectonics Project

Publications

Schulte-Pelkum, V., G. Biasi, A. Sheehan, and C. Jones, Differential motion between upper crust and lithospheric mantle in the central Basin and Range, Nature Geosci., 4, 619-623, 2011 NGS link - please e-mail me for a copy if you don't have journal access

van Wijk, K., D. Mikesell, V. Schulte-Pelkum, and J. Stachnik, Estimating the Rayleigh-wave impulse response between seismic stations with the cross terms of the Green tensor, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L16301, 2011 pdf

Becker, T.W., V. Schulte-Pelkum, D.K. Blackman, J. B. Kellogg, and R. J. O'Connell, Mantle flow under the western United States from shear wave splitting, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 247, 235-251, 2006 pdf

Becker, T.W., S. Chevrot, V. Schulte-Pelkum, and D. K. Blackman, Statistical properties of seismic anisotropy predicted by upper mantle geodynamic models, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B08309, doi:10.1029/2005JB004095, 2006 pdf

Monsalve, G., A. Sheehan, V. Schulte-Pelkum, S. Rajaure, and F. Wu, Seismicity and one-dimensional velocity structure of the Himalayan collision zone: Earthquakes in the crust and upper mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B10301, doi:10.1029/2005JB004062, 2006 pdf

Schulte-Pelkum, V., G. Monsalve, A. Sheehan, M.R. Pandey, S. Sapkota, R. Bilham and F. Wu, Imaging the Indian Subcontinent beneath the Himalaya, Nature, 435, 1222-1225, 2005 pdf

Sheehan, A., V. Schulte-Pelkum, O. Boyd, and C. Wilson, Passive source seismology of the Rocky Mountain region, in: The Rocky Mountain region: An evolving lithosphere, Geophysical monograph series 154, AGU, 2005

Schulte-Pelkum, V., P. S. Earle and F. L. Vernon, Strong directivity of ocean-generated seismic noise, G-Cubed, 5, doi:10.1029/2003GC000520, 2004 pdf, new movie

Schulte-Pelkum, V., F. L. Vernon and J. Eakins, Large teleseismic P wavefront deflections observed with broadband arrays, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 93, 747-756, 2003 pdf

Schulte-Pelkum, V. and D. K. Blackman, A synthesis of seismic P and S anisotropy, Geophys. J. Int., 154, 166-178, 2003 pdf

Schulte-Pelkum, V., G. Masters and P. M. Shearer, Upper mantle anisotropy from long-period P polarization, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 21,917-21,934, 2001 pdf

Education

Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 2001, Geosciences

Diplom, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 1994, Geophysik