Anne Sheehan

I am a professor in Geological Sciences and CIRES at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research group addresses problems in earthquake seismology, tsunami studies, active tectonics, and geophysical imaging of the subsurface. Research topics include deep structure and tectonics of mountain regions including the Rocky Mountains, Himalaya, and Southern Alps, subduction zone seismicity and structure, tsunami modeling using seafloor pressure measurements, tsunami forecasting with data assimilation, and studies of induced seismicity. Our work is field- and computer- based; we deploy seismometers, including ocean bottom seismometers, to record earthquakes and tsunamis as signals; we deploy geodetic and electromagnetic instruments, for tectonic studies and subsurface imaging complementary to seismology. The data sets that we collect are processed using modern algorithms, with significant emphasis on time series analysis, signal detection, and imaging technologies. Novel computational techniques include data assimilation, subspace detection, and interferometry.

Article about our recent paper on using ship-based GNSS in tsunami warnings

Current Research

Subduction zone studies: Sheehan is a PI on the Alaska Amphibious Array Community Seismic Experiment (AACSE) and the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITSS) experiments. Both of these projects involved the deployment of ocean bottom seismic and pressure sensors to study subduction zone processes including slow slip, megathrust earthquakes, and tsunamis. Graduate students and postdocs on these projects have worked on seismicity, attenuation, and tomography. Check out our video from summer 2018 ocean bottom seismic deployment offshore Alaska

Induced seismicity: Sheehan’s seismology group, in close collaboration with the hydrogeology group of Prof. Shemin Ge, also in the Department of Geological Sciences, and geodesist Prof. Kristy Tiampo (CIRES/ESOC/GEOL), has made numerous contributions in recent years to studies of human-induced seismicity. Sheehan’s group has an ongoing experiment in northeast Colorado and maintains a webpage with direct access to real time seismic data from throughout Colorado at earthquake.colorado.edu

Continental crust and mantle imaging: Sheehan’s group made many early contributions to the use of converted seismic wave imaging and anisotropy studies of the continental lithosphere. Current method development includes coda wave autocorrelation interferometry, with the goal of better utilizing short-term but dense deployments of seismometer, with targets including crustal faults at depth.

Tsunami studies: A recent focus of the Sheehan group is in tsunami studies. This grew out of Sheehan’s involvement with ocean bottom seismic experiments, and the recognition that tsunami signals were well-recorded on the pressure sensors associated with such deployments. This has led to productive collaborations with international researchers and new development of in-house expertise.

View of ocean bottom seismometers on R/V Sikuliaq near Seward, Alaska, July 2018. Broadband ocean bottom seismometers arranged on deck are ready to be deployed in support of the Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment. Photo: Anne Sheehan

Melody Zhang, Jack Bell, Anne Sheehan, and Tom Clifford deploying portable seismometer near Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado. Photo: Bob Kirkham

Honors and Awards

New Zealand Geophysics Prize (E. Warren-Smith lead, with 9 coauthors), 2019
President, Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union, 2019-20
New Zealand Geophysics Prize (L. Wallace lead, with 7 coauthors), 2016
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow, 2014
College Scholar Award, University of Colorado College of Arts & Sciences, 2014
EarthScope Distinguished Lecturer, 2013
Erasmus Haworth Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Kansas Department of Geology, 2009

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Stokes SM; Ge S; Brown MRM; Menezes EA; Sheehan AF; Tiampo KF. (Feb 2023). Pore Pressure Diffusion and Onset of Induced Seismicity. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 10.1029/2022jb026012
Clifford T; Sheehan A; Moschetti MP. (Jan 2023). Investigations of Ambient Noise Velocity Variations in a Region of Induced Seismicity near Greeley, Colorado. , 3(1), 12-20. 10.1785/0320220033
Liu C; Zhang S; Sheehan AF; Ritzwoller MH. (Nov 2022). Surface Wave Isotropic and Azimuthally Anisotropic Dispersion across Alaska and the Alaska?Aleutian Subduction Zone. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 10.1029/2022jb024885
Plescia SM; Sheehan AF; Haines SS. (Apr 2022). Active-Source Interferometry in Marine and Terrestrial Environments: Importance of Directionality and Stationary Phase. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , 112(2), 634-645. 10.1785/0120210160
Iwasaki Y; Mochizuki K; Ishise M; Todd EK; Schwartz SY; Zal H; Savage M; Henrys S; Sheehan AF; Ito Y. (Nov 2021). Continuous tremor activity with stable polarization direction following the 2014 large slow slip event in the Hikurangi subduction margin offshore New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 10.1029/2021jb022161
Yarce J; Sheehan A; Roecker S; Mochizuki K. (May 2021). Seismic Velocity Heterogeneity of the Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand: Elevated Pore Pressures in a Region With Repeating Slow Slip Events. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 10.1029/2020jb021605
Nakai JS; Sheehan AF; Abercrombie RE; Eberhart-Phillips D. (Mar 2021). Near Trench 3D Seismic Attenuation Offshore Northern Hikurangi Subduction Margin, North Island, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth , 126(3). 10.1029/2020jb020810
Hossen MJ; Mulia IE; Mencin D; Sheehan AF. (Mar 2021). Data Assimilation for Tsunami Forecast With Ship-Borne GNSS Data in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Earth and Space Science , 8(3). 10.1029/2020EA001390
Plescia SM; Sheehan AF; Haines SS; Worthington LL; Cook S; Ball JS. (Feb 2021). Teleseismic P-Wave Coda Autocorrelation Imaging of Crustal and Basin Structure, Bighorn Mountains Region, Wyoming, USA. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , 111(1), 466-475. 10.1785/0120200177
Barcheck G; Abers GA; Adams AN; Becel A; Collins J; Gaherty JB; Haeussler PJ; Li Z; Moore G; Onyango E. (Nov 2020). The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment. Seismological Research Letters , 91(6), 3054-3063. 10.1785/0220200189
Zal HJ; Jacobs K; Savage MK; Yarce J; Mroczek S; Graham K; Todd EK; Nakai J; Iwasaki Y; Sheehan A. (Feb 2020). Temporal and spatial variations in seismic anisotropy and V-P/V-S ratios in a region of slow slip. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 531. 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115970
Hossen MJ; Sheehan AF; Satake K. (Feb 2020). A Multi-fault Model Estimation from Tsunami Data: An Application to the 2018 M7.9 Kodiak Earthquake. Pure and Applied Geophysics , 177(3), 1335-1346. 10.1007/s00024-020-02433-z
Schulte-Pelkum, V; Monsalve, G; Sheehan, AF; Shearer, P; Wu, F; Rajaure, S. (Sep 2019). Mantle earthquakes in the Himalayan collision zone. GEOLOGY , 47(9). 10.1130/G46378.1
Warren-Smith E; Fry B; Wallace L; Chon E; Henrys S; Sheehan A; Mochizuki K; Schwartz S; Webb S; Lebedev S. (Jun 2019). Episodic stress and fluid pressure cycling in subducting oceanic crust during slow slip. Nature Geoscience , 12(6), 475-+. 10.1038/s41561-019-0367-x
Yarce, J; Sheehan, AF; Nakai, JS; Schwartz, SY; Mochizuki, K; Savage, MK; Wallace, LM; Henrys, SA; Webb, SC; Ito, Y; Abercrombie, RE; Fry, B; Shaddox, H; Todd, EK. (May 2019). Seismicity at the Northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, and Investigation of the Potential Spatial and Temporal Relationships With a Shallow Slow Slip Event. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 124(5). 10.1029/2018JB017211
Abers G; Adams A; Haeussler P; Roland E; Shore P; Wiens D; Schwartz S; Sheehan A; Shillington D; Webb S. (Mar 2019). Examining Alaska�s Earthquakes on Land and Sea. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union , 100. 10.1029/2019eo117621
Feucht, DW; Bedrosian, PA; Sheehan, AF. (Mar 2019). Lithospheric Signature of Late Cenozoic Extension in Electrical Resistivity Structure of the Rio Grande Rift, New Mexico, USA. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 124(3). 10.1029/2018JB016242
Wang, Y; Maeda, T; Satake, K; Heidarzadeh, M; Su, H; Sheehan, AF; Gusman, AR. (Feb 2019). Tsunami Data Assimilation Without a Dense Observation Network. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 46(4). 10.1029/2018GL080930
Murray, KD; Murray, MH; Sheehan, AF. (Feb 2019). Active Deformation Near the Rio Grande Rift and Colorado Plateau as Inferred from Continuous Global Positioning System Measurements. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 124(2). 10.1029/2018JB016626
Sheehan, AF; Gusman, AR; Satake, K. (Jan 2019). Improving Forecast Accuracy With Tsunami Data Assimilation: The 2009 Dusky Sound, New Zealand, Tsunami. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 124(1). 10.1029/2018JB016575
Todd, EK, SY Schwartz, K Mochizuki, LM Wallace, AF Sheehan, SC Webb, CA Williams, J Nakai, J Yarce, B Fry, S Henrys and Y Ito. (Aug 2018). Earthquakes and Tremor Linked to Seamount Subduction During Shallow Slow Slip at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 123(8). 10.1029/2018JB016136
Zietlow, DW, AF Sheehan and MV Bernardino. (Jun 2018). Teleseismic S-wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle. GEOSPHERE , 14(3). 10.1130/GES01591.1
Feucht, DW, AF Sheehan and PA Bedrosian. (Dec 2017). Magnetotelluric Imaging of Lower Crustal Melt and Lithospheric Hydration in the Rocky Mountain Front Transition Zone, Colorado, USA. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 122(12). 10.1002/2017JB014474
Nakai, JS, M Weingarten, AF Sheehan, SL Bilek and S Ge. (Oct 2017). A Possible Causative Mechanism of Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado Earthquakes Using Recent Seismicity Patterns and Pore Pressure Modeling. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 122(10). 10.1002/2017JB014415
Brown, MRM, SM Ge, AF Sheehan and JS Nakai. (Aug 2017). Evaluating the effectiveness of induced seismicity mitigation: Numerical modeling of wastewater injection near Greeley, Colorado. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 122(8). 10.1002/2017JB014456
Yeck, WL, AF Sheehan, JC Stachnik and FC Lin. (May 2017). Offshore Rayleigh group velocity observations of the South Island, New Zealand, from ambient noise data. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL , 209(2). 10.1093/gji/ggx054
Nakai, JS, AF Sheehan and SL Bilek. (Mar 2017). Seismicity of the rocky mountains and Rio Grande Rift from the EarthScope Transportable Array and CREST temporary seismic networks, 2008-2010. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 122(3). 10.1002/2016JB013389
ORourke, CT, GE Baker and AF Sheehan. (Oct 2016). Using P/S Amplitude Ratios for Seismic Discrimination at Local Distances. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 106(5). 10.1785/0120160035
Gusman, AR, IE Mulia, K Satake, S Watada, M Heidarzadeh and AF Sheehan. (Sep 2016). Estimate of tsunami source using optimized unit sources and including dispersion effects during tsunami propagation: The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 43(18). 10.1002/2016GL070140
Yeck, WL, AF Sheehan, HM Benz, M Weingarten and J Nakai. (Jul 2016). Rapid Response, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Induced Seismicity near Greeley, Colorado. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 87(4). 10.1785/0220150275
Zietlow, DW, PH Molnar and AF Sheehan. (Jun 2016). Teleseismic P wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle: Evidence of subduction of Pacific lithosphere since 45 Ma. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 121(6). 10.1002/2015JB012624
Gusman, AR, AF Sheehan, K Satake, M Heidarzadeh, IE Mulia and T Maeda. (May 2016). Tsunami data assimilation of Cascadia seafloor pressure gauge records from the 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 43(9). 10.1002/2016GL068368
Wallace, LM, SC Webb, Y Ito, K Mochizuki, R Hino, S Henrys, SY Schwartz and AF Sheehan. (May 2016). Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand. SCIENCE , 352(6286). 10.1126/science.aaf2349
Ball, JS, AF Sheehan, JC Stachnik, FC Lin, WL Yeck and JA Collins. (May 2016). Lithospheric shear velocity structure of South Island, New Zealand, from amphibious Rayleigh wave tomography. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 121(5). 10.1002/2015JB012726
Harris R; Wallace L; Webb S; Ito Y; Mochizuki K; Ichihara H; Henrys S; Tr�hu A; Schwartz S; Sheehan A. (Mar 2016). Investigations of Shallow Slow Slip Offshore of New Zealand. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union , 97. 10.1029/2016eo048945
ORourke, CT, AF Sheehan, EA Erslev and ML Anderson. (Feb 2016). Small-Magnitude Earthquakes in North-Central Wyoming Recorded during the Bighorn Arch Seismic Experiment. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 106(1). 10.1785/0120150114
Worthington, LL, KC Miller, EA Erslev, ML Anderson, KR Chamberlain, AF Sheehan, WL Yeck, SH Harder and CS Siddoway. (Jan 2016). Crustal structure of the Bighorn Mountains region: Precambrian influence on Laramide shortening and uplift in north-central Wyoming. TECTONICS , 35(1). 10.1002/2015TC003840
Sheehan, AF, AR Gusman, M Heidarzadeh and K Satake. (Dec 2015). Array Observations of the 2012 Haida Gwaii Tsunami Using Cascadia Initiative Absolute and Differential Seafloor Pressure Gauges. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 86(5). 10.1785/0220150108
Karalliyadda, S. C., Savage, M. K., Sheehan, A., Collins, J., Zietlow, D., Shelley, A. (Jan 2015). S-wave splitting in the offshore South Island, New Zealand: Insights into plate-boundary deformation: S-WAVE SPLITTING: OFFSHORE SOUTH ISLAND. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems , 16(9). 10.1002/2015GC005882
McGarr, A., Bekins, B., Burkardt, N., Dewey, J., Earle, P., Ellsworth, W., Ge, S., Hickman, S., Holland, A., Majer, E., Rubinstein, J., Sheehan, A. (Jan 2015). Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection. Science , 347(6224). 10.1126/science.aaa0494
Ball, JS, AF Sheehan, JC Stachnik, FC Lin and JA Collins. (Dec 2014). A joint Monte Carlo analysis of seafloor compliance, Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions at ocean bottom seismic stations offshore New Zealand. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS , 15(12). 10.1002/2014GC005412
ORourke, CT, AF Sheehan, EA Erslev and KC Miller. (Sep 2014). Estimating basin thickness using a high-density passive-source geophone array. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS , 402. 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.035
Yeck, WL, AF Sheehan, ML Anderson, EA Erslev, KC Miller and CS Siddoway. (Sep 2014). Structure of the Bighorn Mountain region, Wyoming, from teleseismic receiver function analysis: Implications for the kinematics of Laramide shortening. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 119(9). 10.1002/2013JB010769
Godin, OA, NA Zabotin, AF Sheehan and JA Collins. (Feb 2014). Interferometry of infragravity waves off New Zealand. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS , 119(2). 10.1002/2013JC009395
Zietlow, DW, AF Sheehan, PH Molnar, MK Savage, G Hirth, JA Collins and BH Hager. (Feb 2014). Upper mantle seismic anisotropy at a strike-slip boundary: South Island, New Zealand. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 119(2). 10.1002/2013JB010676
Sheehan, AF, TL de la Torre, G Monsalve, GA Abers and BR Hacker. (Jan 2014). Physical state of Himalayan crust and uppermost mantle: Constraints from seismic attenuation and velocity tomography. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 119(1). 10.1002/2013JB010601
Ball, Justin S and Anne F Sheehan. (Jan 2014). Hydroacoustic signals of Antarctic origin detected at ocean-bottom seismic stations off New Zealand. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 135(4). 10.1121/1.4877605
Wech, AG, AF Sheehan, CM Boese, J Townend, TA Stern and JA Collins. (Dec 2013). Tectonic Tremor Recorded by Ocean Bottom Seismometers. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 84(5). 10.1785/0220120184
Boese CM; Stern TA; Townend J; Bourguignon S; Sheehan A; Smith EGC. (Aug 2013). Sub-crustal earthquakes within the Australia-Pacific plate boundary zone beneath the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 376, 212-219. 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.06.030
Yeck, WL, AF Sheehan and V Schulte-Pelkum. (Jun 2013). Sequential H-kappa Stacking to Obtain Accurate Crustal Thicknesses beneath Sedimentary Basins. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 103(3). 10.1785/0120120290
Godin, OA, NA Zabotin, AF Sheehan, ZH Yang and JA Collins. (May 2013). Power spectra of infragravity waves in a deep ocean. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 40(10). 10.1002/grl.50418
Stachnik, JC, AF Sheehan, DW Zietlow, Z Yang, J Collins and A Ferris. (Dec 2012). Determination of New Zealand Ocean Bottom Seismometer Orientation via Rayleigh-Wave Polarization. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 83(4). 10.1785/0220110128
Yang, ZH, AF Sheehan, JA Collins and G Laske. (Oct 2012). The character of seafloor ambient noise recorded offshore New Zealand: Results from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment. GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS , 13. 10.1029/2012GC004201
Yang, ZH, AF Sheehan, WL Yeck, KC Miller, EA Erslev, LL Worthington and SH Harder. (Jan 2012). Imaging basin structure with teleseismic virtual source reflection profiles. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 39. 10.1029/2011GL050035
Berglund, HT, AF Sheehan, MH Murray, M Roy, AR Lowry, RS Nerem and F Blume. (Jan 2012). Distributed deformation across the Rio Grande Rift, Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau. GEOLOGY , 40(1). 10.1130/G32418.1
Befus KM; Sheehan AF; Leopold M; Anderson SP; Anderson RS. (Nov 2011). Seismic Constraints on Critical Zone Architecture, Boulder Creek Watershed, Front Range, Colorado (vol 10, pg 915, 2011). Vadose Zone Journal , 10(4), 1342-1342. 10.2136/vzj2010.0108er
Schulte-Pelkum, V, G Biasi, A Sheehan and C Jones. (Sep 2011). Differential motion between upper crust and lithospheric mantle in the central Basin and Range. NATURE GEOSCIENCE , 4(9). 10.1038/ngeo1229
Collins, JA, P Molnar and AF Sheehan. (Sep 2011). Multibeam bathymetric surveys of submarine volcanoes and mega-pockmarks on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS , 54(3). 10.1080/00288306.2011.589860
Befus, KM, AF Sheehan, M Leopold, SP Anderson and RS Anderson. (Aug 2011). Seismic Constraints on Critical Zone Architecture, Boulder Creek Watershed, Front Range, Colorado. VADOSE ZONE JOURNAL , 10(3). 10.2136/vzj2010.0108
Yang, ZH, A Sheehan and P Shearer. (Feb 2011). Stress-induced upper crustal anisotropy in southern California. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 116. 10.1029/2010JB007655
Monsalve, G, P McGovern and A Sheehan. (Nov 2009). Mantle fault zones beneath the Himalayan collision: Flexure of the continental lithosphere. TECTONOPHYSICS , 477(2-Jan). 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.12.014
Huang, GC, FT Wu, SW Roecker and AF Sheehan. (Oct 2009). Lithospheric structure of the central Himalaya from 3-D tomographic imaging. TECTONOPHYSICS , 475(4-Mar). 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.06.023
Monsalve, G, C Vivian and A Sheehan. (Dec 2008). An assessment of Colorado seismicity from a statewide temporary seismic station network. SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 79(5). 10.1785/gssrl.79.5.645
Bailey AR; Sheehan A. (Nov 2008). Shaking up the Lesson Plan. Seismological Research Letters , 79(6), 879-880. 10.1785/gssrl.79.6.879
Monsalve, G, A Sheehan, C Rowe and S Rajaure. (Aug 2008). Seismic structure of the crust and the upper mantle beneath the Himalayas: Evidence for eclogitization of lower crustal rocks in the Indian Plate. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 113(B8). 10.1029/2007JB005424
Sheehan AF; de la Torre T; Monsalve G; Schulte-Pelkum V; Bilham R; Blume F; Bendick R; Wu F; Pandey MR; Sapkota S. (Jan 2008). Earthquakes and crustal structure of the Himalaya from the Himalayan Nepal Tibet Seismic Experiment (HIMNT). Journal of Nepal Geological Society , 28, 1-8. 10.3126/jngs.v38i0.31466
de la Torre, TL, G Monsalve, AF Sheehan, S Sapkota and F Wu. (Nov 2007). Earthquake processes of the Himalayan collision zone in eastern Nepal and the southern Tibetan Plateau. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL , 171(2). 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03537.x
Boyd, OS, MK Savage, AF Sheehan and CH Jones. (Jun 2007). Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 112(B6). 10.1029/2006JB004552
Monsalve, G, A Sheehan, V Schulte-Pelkum, S Rajaure, MR Pandey and F Wu. (Oct 2006). Seismicity and one-dimensional velocity structure of the Himalayan collision zone: Earthquakes in the crust and upper mantle. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 111(B10). 10.1029/2005JB004062
Schulte-Pelkum, V, G Monsalve, A Sheehan, MR Pandey, S Sapkota, R Bilham and F Wu. (Jun 2005). Imaging the Indian subcontinent beneath the Himalaya. NATURE , 435(7046). 10.1038/nature03678
de la Torre, TL and AF Sheehan. (Jun 2005). Broadband seismic. noise analysis of the Himalayan Nepal Tibet Seismic Experiment. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 95(3). 10.1785/0120040098
Fox, OC and AF Sheehan. (Jan 2005). Upper Mantle Anisotropy Beneath Precambrian Province Boundaries, Southern Rocky Mountains. ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION: AN EVOLVING LITHOSPHERE: TECTONICS, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND GEOPHYSICS , 154. 10.1029/154GM26
Sheehan, A, V Schulte-Pelkum, O Boyd and C Wilson. (Jan 2005). Passive Source Seismology of the Rocky Mountain Region. ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION: AN EVOLVING LITHOSPHERE: TECTONICS, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND GEOPHYSICS , 154. 10.1029/154GM23
Boyd, OS and AF Sheehan. (Jan 2005). Attenuation Tomography Beneath the Rocky Mountain Front: Implications for the Physical State of the Upper Mantle. ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION: AN EVOLVING LITHOSPHERE: TECTONICS, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND GEOPHYSICS , 154. 10.1029/154GM27
Lastowka, LA and AF Sheehan. (Jan 2005). CDROM Interstation Pn Study Along the Rio Grande Rift. ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION: AN EVOLVING LITHOSPHERE: TECTONICS, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND GEOPHYSICS , 154. 10.1029/154GM28
Wilson, CK, CH Jones, P Molnar, AF Sheehan and OS Boyd. (Oct 2004). Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand. GEOLOGY , 32(10). 10.1130/G20657.1
Boyd, OS, CH Jones and AF Sheehan. (Jul 2004). Foundering lithosphere imaged beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. SCIENCE , 305(5684). 10.1126/science.1099181
Gilbert HJ; Sheehan AF. (Jun 2004). Correction to "Images of crustal variations in the intermountain west" (Vol 109, art. no. B06399, 2004). Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth , 109(B6). 10.1029/2004JB003106
Gilbert, HJ and AF Sheehan. (Mar 2004). Images of crustal variations in the intermountain west. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 109(B3). 10.1029/2003JB002730
Gilbert, HJ, AF Sheehan, KG Dueker and P Molnar. (May 2003). Receiver functions in the western United States, with implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 108(B5). 10.1029/2001JB001194
Smith, KD, JN Brune, D dePolo, MK Savage, R Anooshehpoor and AF Sheehan. (Dec 2001). The 1992 Little Skull Mountain earthquake sequence, southern Nevada Test Site. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 91(6). 10.1785/0120000089
Hazler, SE, AF Sheehan, DE McNamara and WR Walter. (Aug 2001). One-dimensional shear velocity structure of Northern Africa from Rayleigh wave group velocity dispersion. PURE AND APPLIED GEOPHYSICS , 158(8). 10.1007/PL00001230
Gilbert, HJ, AF Sheehan, DA Wiens, KG Dueker, LM Dorman, J Hildebrand and S Webb. (May 2001). Upper mantle discontinuity structure in the region of the Tonga Subduction Zone. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 28(9). 10.1029/2000GL012192
Lastowka, LA, AF Sheehan and JM Schneider. (Apr 2001). Seismic evidence for partial lithospheric delamination model of Colorado Plateau uplift. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 28(7). 10.1029/2000GL012360
Sheehan, AF, PM Shearer, HJ Gilbert and KG Dueker. (Aug 2000). Seismic migration processing of P-SV converted]phases for mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Snake River Plain, western United States. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 105(B8). 10.1029/2000JB900112
Savage, MK and AF Sheehan. (Jun 2000). Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow from the Great Basin to the Great Plains, western United States. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 105(B6). 10.1029/2000JB900021
Sheehan AF. (Mar 2000). Microearthquake Study of the Colorado Front Range: Combining Research and Teaching in Seismology. Seismological Research Letters , 71(2), 175-179. 10.1785/gssrl.71.2.175
Bhattacharyya, J, AF Sheehan, K Tiampo and J Rundle. (Feb 1999). Using a genetic algorithm to model broadband regional waveforms for crustal structure in the western United States. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 89(1).
Forsyth, DW, DS Scheirer, SC Webb, LM Dorman, JA Orcutt, AJ Harding, DK Blackman, JP Morgan, RS Detrick, Y Shen, CJ Wolfe, JP Canales, DR Toomey, AF Sheehan, SC Solomon and WSD Wilcock. (May 1998). Imaging the deep seismic structure beneath a mid-ocean ridge: The MELT experiment. SCIENCE , 280(5367).
Shen, Y, AF Sheehan, KG Dueker, C de Groot-Hedlin and H Gilbert. (May 1998). Mantle discontinuity structure beneath the southern East Pacific Rise from P-to-S converted phases. SCIENCE , 280(5367). 10.1126/science.280.5367.1232
Dueker, KG and AF Sheehan. (Apr 1998). Mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains and High Plains. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 103(B4). 10.1029/97JB03509
Bump, HA and AF Sheehan. (Apr 1998). Crustal thickness variations across the northern Tien Shan from teleseismic receiver functions. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 25(7). 10.1029/98GL00516
Lerner-Lam A; Sheehan A; Grand S; Humphreys E; Dueker K; Hessler E; Guo H; Lee DK; Savage M. (Jan 1998). Deep structure beneath the Southern Rocky Mountains from the Rocky Mountain Front broadband seismic experiment. Rocky Mountain Geology , 33, 199-216. https://doi.org/10.2113/33.2.199
Sheehan, AF, CH Jones, MK Savage, S Ozalaybey and JM Schneider. (Nov 1997). Contrasting lithospheric structure between the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin: Initial results from Colorado Plateau - Great Basin PASSCAL experiment. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 24(21). 10.1029/97GL02782
Dueker, KG and AF Sheehan. (Apr 1997). Mantle discontinuity structure from midpoint stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 102(B4). 10.1029/96JB03857
Ozalaybey, S, MK Savage, AF Sheehan, JN Louie and JN Brune. (Feb 1997). Shear-wave velocity structure in the northern Basin and Range province from the combined analysis of receiver functions and surface waves. BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA , 87(1).
Savage, MK, AF Sheehan and A LernerLam. (Aug 1996). Shear wave splitting across the rocky mountain front. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 23(17). 10.1029/96GL02146
SHEEHAN, AF, GA ABERS, CH JONES and AL LERNERLAM. (Oct 1995). CRUSTAL THICKNESS VARIATIONS ACROSS THE COLORADO ROCKY-MOUNTAIN FROM TELESEISMIC RECEIVER FUNCTIONS. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 100(B10). 10.1029/95JB01966
SHEEHAN, AF. (Jun 1993). MAPPING CONVECTION IN THE OCEANIC UPPER MANTLE. GEOTIMES , 38(6).
Sheehan AF; Steeples DW. (Jan 1993). Sensitivity of Kansas Microearthquake Network. Seismological Research Letters , 54, 13-20. 10.1785/gssrl.54.2.13
SHEEHAN, AF and SC SOLOMON. (Oct 1992). DIFFERENTIAL SHEAR-WAVE ATTENUATION AND ITS LATERAL VARIATION IN THE NORTH-ATLANTIC REGION. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH , 97(B11). 10.1029/92JB01093
DOUGLAS, A, AF SHEEHAN and RC STEWART. (Jul 1992). NORTHERN CHILE EARTHQUAKE OF 1980 MAY 26 - EVIDENCE OF UNILATERAL FRACTURE. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL , 110(1). 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1992.tb00722.x
DOUGLAS, A, AF SHEEHAN and RC STEWART. (Jan 1992). ON THE ONSET OF PP AND OTHER MINI-MAX PHASES. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL , 108(1). 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1992.tb00867.x
SHEEHAN AF; SOLOMON SC. (Nov 1991). JOINT INVERSION OF SHEAR-WAVE TRAVEL TIME RESIDUALS AND GEOID AND DEPTH ANOMALIES FOR LONG-WAVELENGTH VARIATIONS IN UPPER MANTLE TEMPERATURE AND COMPOSITION ALONG THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth , 96(B12), 19981-20009. 10.1029/91JB01988
SHEEHAN, AF and MK MCNUTT. (Jul 1989). CONSTRAINTS ON THERMAL AND MECHANICAL STRUCTURE OF THE OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE AT THE BERMUDA RISE FROM GEOID HEIGHT AND DEPTH ANOMALIES. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS , 93(4-Mar). 10.1016/0012-821X(89)90037-X
RIEDESEL, MA, TH JORDAN, AF SHEEHAN and PG SILVER. (Jun 1986). MOMENT-TENSOR SPECTRA OF THE 19 SEPT 85 AND 21 SEPT 85 MICHOACAN, MEXICO, EARTHQUAKES. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS , 13(6). 10.1029/GL013i006p00609