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Anne F. Sheehan
Workplaces:University of Colorado Boulder
Alma Mater:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title:Lateral variation in upper mantle temperature and composition beneath mid-ocean ridges inferred from shear-wave propagation, geoid, and bathymetry
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:1991
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Anne Sheehan is a geologist known for her research using seismometer data to examine changes in the Earth's crust and mantle.

Education and career

Sheehan has a B.S. from the University of Kansas (1984) and earned her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991.[1] Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Nevada, Reno. In 1993 she moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was promoted to professor in 2006.

In 2014 Sheehan was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for developing methods to image the Earth using seismometer arrays, to explain deformation processes of mountains, oceanic, and continental plates."[2]

Research

Sheehan's research centers on the Earth's crust and mantle with a focus on formation of the lithosphere and the impact of Induced seismicity. She uses field data collected from seismic instruments deployed in a variety of locations including oceanic lithosphere near the Bermuda Rise[3] and the East Pacific Rise,[4] the subduction zone near New Zealand,[5] and the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.[6] Her research on the impact of induced seismicity describes the process by which earthquakes occur following fluid injection.[7] While Sheehan was working with ocean-bottom seismometers in New Zealand she realized that small waves detected by the instruments could be expanded to outfit cargo ships with instrumentation to detecting tsunamis.[8] [9] This research would benefit coastal communities in the path of tsunamis formed after earthquakes at the seafloor.[10]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

Notes and References

  1. Web site: January 2021. Sheehan CV.
  2. Web site: Sheehan . Honors Program . 23 July 2021.
  3. 1989-07-01. 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. en. 93. 3–4. 377–391. 10.1016/0012-821X(89)90037-X. 0012-821X. Sheehan. Anne F.. McNutt. Marcia K.. 1989E&PSL..93..377S .
  4. Team. T. M. S.. 1998-05-22. Imaging the Deep Seismic Structure Beneath a Mid-Ocean Ridge: The MELT Experiment. Science. 280. 5367. 1215–1218. 10.1126/science.280.5367.1215. 9596564.
  5. Wallace. L. M.. Webb. S. C.. Ito. Y.. Mochizuki. K.. Hino. R.. Henrys. S.. Schwartz. S. Y.. Susan Schwartz. Sheehan. A. F.. 2016-05-06. Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand. Science. en. 352. 6286. 701–704. 10.1126/science.aaf2349. 27151867. 2016Sci...352..701W . 206647253. 0036-8075. free.
  6. Boyd. Oliver S.. Jones. Craig H.. Sheehan. Anne F.. 2004. Foundering Lithosphere Imaged beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Science. 305. 5684. 660–662. 10.1126/science.1099181. 3837364. 15286370. 2004Sci...305..660B . 30221241. 0036-8075.
  7. McGarr. A.. Bekins. B.. Burkardt. N.. Dewey. J.. Earle. P.. Ellsworth. W.. Ge. S.. Hickman. S.. Holland. A.. Majer. E.. Rubinstein. J.. Sheehan. Anne F.. 2015-02-20. Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection. Science. en. 347. 6224. 830–831. 10.1126/science.aaa0494. 25700505. 2015Sci...347..830M . 206632570. 0036-8075.
  8. Palmer. Jane. 2011. Eavesdropping on Tsunamis: Underwater instruments assist early-warning systems. Spheres. 6. 7. 24352818. 2380-2855.
  9. Web site: 2020-12-10. How commercial vessels could become tsunami early-warning systems. 2021-07-25. CU Boulder Today. en.
  10. Hossen. M. J.. Mulia. Iyan E.. Mencin. David. Sheehan. Anne F.. 2021. Data Assimilation for Tsunami Forecast With Ship-Borne GNSS Data in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Earth and Space Science. en. 8. 3. e2020EA001390. 10.1029/2020EA001390. 2021E&SS....801390H . 2333-5084. free.
  11. Web site: Speaker Series Earthscope . www.earthscope.org . 30 July 2021.
  12. Wallace. L. M.. Webb. S. C.. Ito. Y.. Mochizuki. K.. Hino. R.. Henrys. S.. Schwartz. S. Y.. Susan Schwartz. Sheehan. A. F.. 6 May 2016. Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand. Science. 352. 6286. 701–704. 10.1126/science.aaf2349. 27151867. 2016Sci...352..701W . 206647253. free.
  13. Warren-Smith . E. . Fry . B. . Wallace . L. . Chon . E. . Henrys . S. . Sheehan . A. . Mochizuki . K. . Schwartz . S. . Webb . S. . Lebedev . S. . Episodic stress and fluid pressure cycling in subducting oceanic crust during slow slip . Nature Geoscience . June 2019 . 12 . 6 . 475–481 . 10.1038/s41561-019-0367-x . 2019NatGe..12..475W . 182644542 . en . 1752-0908.
  14. Web site: New Zealand Geophysics Prize » Geoscience Society of New Zealand . Geoscience Society of New Zealand . 30 July 2021.

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