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Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Seismic and petrologic structure of subducted lithosphere near Fiji and
Vanuatu.
Relationships
between earthquakes, stress patterns, and mantle dynamics beneath South
America and the western Pacific.
Combined
GPS and seismic estimates of convergent deformation in southern Mexico.
Current/recent
graduate student research:
Investigating
the nature of deep seismicity using earthquake rupture properties and
the state of stress in slabs.
Seismic
profiling of the mantle transition zone to examine the fate of subducted
lithosphere and the nature of mantle convection.
Fabric
in the lithosphere constrained by estimates of radial seismic anisotropy.
Seismic
and aseismic strain release on a subduction interface, including space-time
variability of interplate coupling, transient slip events and non-volcanic
tremor.
Impact
of experiential learning activities and increased quantitative exercises
in geoscience classrooms.
Selected
Publications:
Brudzinski, M.R. and W.-P. Chen (2005) Earthquakes and Strain in Subhorizontal
Slabs, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press, 10.1029/2004JB003470.
Lay,
T., Kanamori, H., Ammon, C.J., Nettles, M., Ward, S.N., Aster, R., Beck,
S.L., Bilek, S.L., Brudzinski, M.R., Butler, R., DeShon, H.R., Ekstrom,
G., Satake, K. and Sipkin, S. (2005), The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
of December 26, 2004, Science, 308, 1127-1133.
Brudzinski,
M.R. and W.-P. Chen (2003) Visualization of Seismicity Along Subduction
Zones: Toward a Physical Basis, Seismological Research Letters, 74, 731-738.
Chen,
W.-P. and M.R. Brudzinski (2003) Seismic Anisotropy in the Mantle Transition
Zone Beneath Figi-Tonga, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 13, 10.1029/2002GL016330,
4 pp.
Brudzinski,
M.R. and W.-P. Chen (2003) A Petrologic Anomaly Accompanying Outboard
Earthquakes Beneath Figi-Tonga: Corresponding Evidence from Broadband
P and S Waveforms, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, B6, 10.1029/2002JB002012,
19 pp.
Chen,
W.-P. and M.R. Brudzinski (2001) Evidence for a Large-Scale Remnant of
Subducted Lithosphere, Science, 292, 2475-2479.
Brudzinski,
M., (2000) Ice Breaker-Rock and Mineral Identification, in ISGS GeoActivities
Series: Activities and Other Resources for Teaching Geology, Illinois
State Geological Survey, Champaign, Illinois, 2pp.
Selected
Grants:
National Science Foundation 2005 - 2008 (with Chuck DeMets, University
of Wisconsin)
A study of transient
aseismic slip and non-volcanic tremor in southern Mexico with large aperture
seismic and GPS arrays
National
Science Foundation 2005 - 2006
International Collaboration for Study of Deep Subduction Using Seismic
Arrays in New Caledonia and Vanuatu
Alice
and Albert Weeks Endowed Research Fellowship (University of Wisconsin)
2002-2004
Observational Constraints on Intermediate Depth Earthquakes and the Overlying
Mantle Wedge
Teaching
Interests:
Geophysics
and Seismology (senior undergraduate & graduate)
Environmental Geology - natural disasters focus (undergraduate)
Physics of Earth Systems (undergraduate)
Geodynamics (graduate)
Subduction Zones Seminar (graduate)
For more information visit Dr. Brudzinski's personal
web page.
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