Graduate Advisees
Richard C. Aster,  Professor of Geophysics

Current Advisees

• Kent Anderson, Ph.D. Program, kent@ees.nmt.edu
• Jonathan MacCarthy, Ph.D. Program, jkmacc@ees.nmt.edu
• Hunter Yarbrough , Ph.D. Program, hunter@ees.nmt.edu
• Julien Chaput, Ph.D. Program, jchaput@ees.nmt.edu

Past Advisees

Lisa Linville , IRIS PASSCAL Intern, 2007
Michigan Tech
lisa.linville@gmail.com

Christian Lucero, M.S. (Mathematics), 2007 (w/ Brian Borchers)
Ph.D. Program, New Mexico Tech Mathematics Department
Seismic Moment Rate Function Inversions from Very Long Period Signals Associated with Strombolian Eruptions at Mount Erebus, Antarctica
xian98@nmt.edu

David Brent Henderson, M.S., 2007
UNAVCO
Analysis of Seismic Similarity in Strombolian Eruptions from Mount Erebus, Antarctica
henderson@unavco.org

Victoria Miller, IRIS PASSCAL Intern, 2006
Pensylvania State University
vmiller@geosc.psu.edu

Aaron Hirsch, IRIS PASSCAL Intern, 2005
UNLV, Geoscience Department
hirscha2@unlv.nevada.edu

Sara McNamara, M.S. 2004
Source Mechanism Inversion of Very Long Period Signals Associated With Strombolian Eruptions at Mount Erebus, Antarctica (pdf)
sara@isla.hawaii.edu

Rafael Alvarado, M.S. 2004
Seismic Noise Characterization at the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer Site (pdf)
ralvarad@ees.nmt.edu

Wenzheng Yang, M.S. 2004
Ph.D. Program, Department of Earth Science, University of Southern California
An Adaptive, Automatic Phase Picking and Epicenter Location Program Based on Waveform Cross-correlation and its Application for Processing Seismic Data in New Mexico (pdf)
wenzheny@usc.edu

Dave Wilson, Ph.D. 2004
US Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Seismic Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle in the Southwestern United States Using Teleseismic Receiver Functions (pdf)
dwilson@usgs.gov

Alberto Lopez, IRIS PASSCAL Intern, 2004
Northwestern University, Department of Geological Sciences
alberto@earth.northwestern.edu

Mario Ruiz Romero, M.S. 2003
Ph.D. Program, Department of Geological Sciences, University of North Carolina
Analysis of Tremor Activity at Mt. Erebus Volcano, Antarctica (pdf)
mruiz@email.unc.edu

Sangyun Mah, M.S. 2003
Discrimination of Strombolian eruption types using very long period (VLP) seismic signals and video observations at Mount Erebus, Antarctica (pdf)
symah@ees.nmt.edu

Brady Romberg, IRIS PASSCAL Intern, 2003

Zachary Lawrence, IRIS PASSCAL Intern, 2002

Joe Leon, M.S. 2001
Santa Rosa Consolidated Schools, Santa Rosa, New Mexico
Seismic background noise along the RISTRA array of broadband seismic stations extending from west Texas to southeast Utah (pdf).
j_w_leon@msn.com

Charlotte Rowe, Ph.D. 2000
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Correlation-based Phase Pick Correction and Similar Earthquake Family Identification in Large Seismic Waveform Catalogues.
char@lanl.gov

Xiaobing Zhang, M.S. 1999
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Austin, Texas
Processing of Seismic Events Collected by the new Mexico Tech Seismic Network Using a Matseis-Based Review Tool and a Postgres Database.

Mitch Withers, M.S. 1994; Ph.D., 1997
Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Recording and Analysis of Borehole and Surface Seismic Signals and Noise near Datil, New Mexico (M.S.)
An Automated Local/Regional Seismic Event Detection and Location System Using Waveform Correlation (Ph.D.) (pdf)
withers@ceri.memphis.edu

Rebecca Knight , M.S. 1996
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Seismicity of Mt. Erebus Volcano, Antarctica, Recorded Digitally from November 12, 1994 to July 31, 1996.
knighr05@uwosh.edu

George Slad, M.S. 1995
IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, New Mexico Tech
Temporal Stability of Shear-Wave Anisotropy in the Vicinity of the Joshua Tree-Landers earthquake Sequence.
george@passcal.nmt.edu

Joe Henton, M.S. 1995
Pacific Geoscience Center, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada.

Rod Flores, M.S. 1995
An Improved Boundary element method for Strike-Slip Fault Mixed-Value Problems with Application to the Anza Seismic Gap, Southern California.

Mike Skov, M.S. 1994
U.S. National Data Center, Arlington, Virginia
Digital Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing as Applied to Seismic Networks in the Rio Grande Rift and on Mount Erebus, Antarctica.

Yvan Charnavel, M.S. 1993
Gaz de France, Paris.
Impact of an Earthquake on a Vertical Borehole.