Geophysical Journal International

Editorial Board

J. Trampert (Editor-In-Chief), Department of Earth Sciences, PO BOX 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
J. Renner (Deputy Editor-In-Chief), Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

D. Agnew,University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Y. Ben-Zion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A. Biggin, University of Liverpool, UK
J. Brodholt, University College London, UK
X.-F. Chen, School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, China
G. Egbert, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
M. Everett, Texas A&M, TX, USA
W. Friederich, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
E. Fukuyama, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
S. Goes, Imperial College London, UK
I. Grevemeyer, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
E. Hauksson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
R. Holme, Jane Herdman Laboratories, University of Liverpool, UK
G.R. Keller, University of Oklahoma, School of Geology and Geophysics, OK, USA
J. Korenaga, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, CT, USA
F. Krüger, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Potsdam, Germany
S. Labrosse, Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, Lyon, France
G. Laske, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, USA
A. Morelli, Sezione di Bologna - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy
E. Petrovsky, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
O. Ritter, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany
C. Thomas, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany
B. Vermeersen, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
J. Virieux, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France
J. Wassermann, LMU Geophysics, Munich, Germany

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PEN PORTRAITS and CONTACT DETAILS

J. Trampert (Editor-In-Chief)
Department of Earth Sciences, PO BOX 80021, 3508 TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
E-mail: trampert@geo.uu.nl

Jeannot Trampert is a professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University. His main interest is the study of the Earth’s deep interior. More specifically, he investigates seismic anisotropy and the density structure in the mantle and core. A key focus of his approach is the reliability of seismic tomography and its interpretation in terms of temperature and composition. He has interests in all aspects of geophysical inverse theory and recently started to work on problems relevant to exploration geophysics.
Joined GJI Board 2005

J. Renner (Deputy Editor-In-Chief)
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
E-mail: renner@geophysik.rub.de

After his dissertation at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Jörg Renner held postdoctoral fellowships and appointments at MIT and GFZ Potsdam before he became Professor for Experimental Geophysics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2001. His major research interests are in two strongly linked topics, subsurface fluid transport and rheology of rocks. He addresses problems from groundwater flow near the surface, to oil, gas or geothermal energy production from the upper crust, to melt transport in the Earth's mantle by performing and analyzing field and laboratory experiments.
Joined GJI Board 2007

Editors

D. Agnew
IGPP, M/C 0225, University of California, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0225, USA

Duncan Carr Agnew is a professor of geophysics at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego. His main research interest is in crustal deformation and most especially its measurement, which he pursues using GPS and strainmeters. He is also interested in data analysis methods, seismic and geodetic instrumentation, historical and statistical seismology, and earth and ocean tides.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Gravity, geodesy and tides; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2009

Y. Ben-Zion
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern Califonia, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, USA.
Phone: +1-213-740 6734
Fax: +1-213-740 8801
E-mail: benzion@usc.edu

Yehuda Ben-Zion is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Southern California. His research interests are focused on the physics of earthquakes and faults. Examples include theoretical studies on rupture dynamics, friction, damage rheology, and spatio-temporal evolution of earthquake and fault patterns. Related observational research topics include high-resolution seismic imaging of fault zone structures, analysis of seismic catalogues, and earthquake source properties.
Section: Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2005

A. Biggin
Geomagnetism Laboratory, Oliver Lodge Labs, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZE, UK

Andy Biggin is a NERC Advanced Fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Geomagnetism Lab since 2009 and has worked previously at labs in Mexico, France, and the Netherlands. He is mainly involved in the field of fundamental palaeomagnetism: using the magnetism of rocks to study the behaviour and evolution of the Earth’s magnetic field over a wide range of timescales (decades to billions of years). Primary research interests currently include improving the reliability of absolute palaeointensity measurements and the use of the palaeomagnetic record to provide insights into how processes occurring in the core, mantle, and crust of the planet interact with one another.
Joined GJI Board 2010

J. Brodholt
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

John Brodholt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bristol in 1992, and he is now Professor of Mineral Physics at University College London. His main interest is in the study of the Earth's deep interior. More specifically he uses computational and experimental mineral physics to understand the properties of materials under mantle and core conditions. His recent work has focussed on the elastic properties core and mantle materials, as well as their transport properties. He also works with seismologists in order to apply these results directly to the Earth.
Joined GJI Board 2009

X.-F. Chen
School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Phone: +86-551-3600791
Fax: +86-551-3607386
E-mail: xfchen1@ustc.edu.cn

Xiaofei Chen is currently a professor of geophysics at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He had been a professor in Peking University for more than a decade before joining USTC recently. He received his PhD in Seismology in 1991 from University of Southern California in USA. His research actives cover the theoretical and computational seismology, such as the development of both analytical and numerical methods for modeling the seismic wave-filed in complex media, and theoretical studies on dynamics and kinematics of seismic source. His current research interest is focused on the synthetic study of the physics of earthquake and strong ground motion prediction, and application to seismic hazard mitigation.
Section: Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2008

G. Egbert
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
E-mail: egbert@coas.oregonstate.edu

Gary Egbert is a professor in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. An organizing focus of his diverse research interests is combination of numerical models and geophysical data, through application of multivariate statistics and stochastic processes, inverse methods, and data assimilation. He has applied these methods to imaging Earth conductivity using electromagnetic data, to geomagnetism, and to physical oceanography. Examples of recent studies include development of 3D inversion methods for magnetotellurics, with applications to regional conductivity of the western US, global induction studies (data analysis, improved source models, 3D inversion), variational data assimilation for the geodynamo, ocean tides (assimilation of altimetry data; mapping dissipation and implications for ocean mixing; long period tides and implications for Earth rotation).
Joined GJI Board 2011

M.E. Everett
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, USA
E-mail: everett@geo.tamu.edu

Mark Everett is a professor of theoretical and applied geophysics at Texas A&M University, where he has been on the faculty since 1995. His main research interests are in electromagnetic forward modeling and inversion, time series analysis and data processing, satellite and ground-based geomagnetic induction, non-seismic techniques in near-surface applied geophysics, marine controlled-source electromagnetics, and archaeological geophysics. His recent work has spanned a wide spectrum of topics: fundamental scaling behavior of EM signal-generated geologic noise; 3-D finite element analysis of EM induction in heterogeneous media; role of the external field in the establishment of the geodynamo; exploration of offshore gas hydrates; analysis of low-Earth orbiting satellite data; electromagnetic characterization of meteorite impact craters; WWII battlefield preservation.
Sections: Geomagnetism, rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism; Marine geosciences and applied geophysics.
Joined GJI Board 2004

W. Friederich
Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Geophysics, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
E-mail: friederich@geophysik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Wolfgang Friederich is a professor of geophysics at the Faculty of Earth Sciences at Ruhr-University Bochum. His main interest is in theoretical and computational seismology with a focus on waveform tomography and the simulation of seismic wave propagation. He has been recently involved in a large-scale temporary seismic experiment in the Southern Aegean and is also interested in wave propagation and imaging problems related to tunnel seismics, shallow seismics and ultrasonics.
Joined GJI Board 2011

E. Fukuyama
National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
E-mail: fuku@bosai.go.jp

Eiichi Fukuyama is a Principal Senior Researcher at National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED). His research interests cover earthquake rupture dynamics including numerical modelling of earthquake rupture propagation along complicated fault system, investigation of stress field around the earthquake focal area, experimental approach for the investigation of constitutive relation of earthquake rupture, and near-fault waveform modelling of earthquake rupture.
Joined GJI Board 2010

S. Goes
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK
Phone: +44 (0)20 7594 6434
Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 7444
E-mail: s.goes@imperial.ac.uk

Saskia Goes is a geophysicist with research interests in lithosphere and mantle dynamics, which she investigates by combining constraints from (geophysical) data interpretation and dynamic modeling. Her recent work addressed subduction zone dynamics and plate motions, with applications to tectonic evolution and seismic hazard assessment, the physical interpretation of seismic spherical mantle structure, mantle plume dynamics and seismic expressions, and thermo-chemical structure of continents.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Marine geosciences and applied geophysics; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2008

I. Grevemeyer
IFM-GEOMAR, Marine Geodynamics, Wischhofstr. 1-3, 24148 Kiel, Germany
Phone: +49 431 600 2337
Fax: +49 431 600 2922
E-mail: igrevemeyer@ifm-geomar.de

Ingo Grevemeyer is a senior research scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR) and university lecturer at Kiel University, Kiel. His research has covered a wide range of topics in marine geophysics, including crustal seismology and heat flow surveys of mid-ocean ridges, hotspot provinces, and subduction zones. In recent years he focused his research on seismotectonics using ocean-bottom-seismic networks and global seismic data surveying seismic source mechanisms and rupture processes.
Joined GJI Board 2009

E. Hauksson
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
E-mail: hauksson@caltech.edu

Egill Hauksson is senior research associate in geophysics at the Seismological Laboratory, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology. His main research interests are in regional seismology and seismotectonics, including synthesis of large seismological data sets for understanding earthquake source processes, earthquake statistics, crustal properties, seismotectonics synthesis, as well as real-time seismology, including earthquake early warning.
Joined GJI Board 2012

R. Holme
Jane Herdman Laboratories, University of Liverpool, UK
E-mail: r.t.holme@liverpool.ac.uk

Richard Holme is a reader in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Liverpool. His primary research focus is in observational geomagnetism, both modelling of data (particularly from satellites) and using the models to constrain the physics of the deep Earth, particularly the core-mantle boundary region. He has more general interests in all aspects of the Earth's magnetic field, geophysical inverse theory and data modelling in general, Earth rotation, dynamo theory, and all areas of geophysics applied to the core.
Sections: Geomagnetism, rock magentism and palaeomagnetism; Marine geosciences and applied geophysics.
Joined GJI Board 2004

G. R. Keller
University of Oklahoma, School of Geology and Geophysics, OK, USA
E-mail: grkeller@ou.edu

G. Randy Keller is a Professor in the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma and holder of the Edward Lamb McCollough Chair in Geophysics. His research interests stress the use of geophysics to solve geological questions and span a variety of techniques at a variety of scales. He has conducted many studies of the structure and evolution of the lithosphere around the world using seismic, gravity, magnetic, and remote sensing measurements integrated with geological data, often as part of large international cooperative efforts. He has been very involved in the Geoinformatics initiative and is interested in the development of databases, techniques that foster data integration, software tools, and web services.
Joined GJI Board 2004

J. Korenaga
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, PO Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520-8109, USA
Phone: +1 (203) 432-7381
Fax: +1 (203) 432-3134
E-mail: jun.korenaga@yale.edu
Web: http://earth.geology.yale.edu/~jk525/

Jun Korenaga is a professor at Yale University. He has been working on the long-term thermal and chemical evolution of Earth and other terrestrial planets, by combining a range of geophysical and geochemical methods. He has also been active in crustal seismology in relation to the formation of large igneous provinces.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Marine geosciences and applied geophysics; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2005

F. Krüger
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Univ. Potsdam, Karl Liebknechtstr. 24, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Fax: +49 331 977 5700
E-mail: kruegerf@geo.uni-potsdam.de

Frank Krüger is a seismologist and staff scientist at the University of Potsdam. His research interests are in different fields of seismology, mainly teleseismic seismology and array seismology. One focus was the study of lower mantle and core mantle boundary structure. Current research: study of seismic source mechanisms and rupture processes with seismological arrays; imaging of structure of cratonic lithosphere.
Section: Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2007

S. Labrosse
Laboratoire de Sciences de la Terre, ENS-Lyon, 46, allee d'Italie, 69364 LYON, Cedex 07, France
Phone: +33 04 72 72 85 15
Fax: +33 04 72 72 86 77
E-mail: Stephane.labrosse@ens-lyon.fr

Stéphane Labrosse is a professor at the Ecole Normale supérieure de Lyon. His research covers several aspects of the global dynamics and evolution of the Earth interior, including thermal, chemical and magnetic evolution of the core, heat transfer by mantle convection, core-mantle interactions. He also works on the dynamics and evolution of the early Earth, with a particular interest in core formation and magma oceans.
Joined GJI Board 2009

G. Laske
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, CA, USA
E-mail: glaske@ucsd.edu

Gabi Laske is a research geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, where she has worked since 1994. Her primary research interests are the analysis of long-period seismic signals and seismic tomography on regional and global scales. Her most recent efforts include the extension of long-term passive seismic surveys to the ocean floor. Further research interests include the assembly of reference global models of crustal, mantle and core structure and the analysis of ambient noise.
Sections: Geodynamics and tectonics; Marine geoscience and applied geophysics; Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2004

A. Morelli
Sezione di Bologna - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via Donato Creti 12, 40128 Bologna, Italy

Andrea Morelli is Chief Scientist at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy. His scientific interests mostly focus on modelling seismic waves to image the Earth's interior and earthquake sources through use of tomographic inverse techniques and, more recently, applying 3D numerical wave propagation methods at regional, continental and global scale. His interests involve the interpretation of seismological models for understanding underlying geodynamic processes of the lithosphere and upper mantle. He has also been involved in managing geophysical instrumentation projects.
Joined GJI Board 2011

E. Petrovsky
Institute of Geophysics, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
E-mail:edp@ig.cas.cz

Eduard Petrovsky graduated from solid state physics and completed a PhD in geophysics. Since 2003 he has been a Chair of Department of Geomagnetism at the Institute of Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His main research interests are rock magnetism and its environmental applications. Although his first published paper was dealing with paleomagnetism, the scope of subjects of his published papers range from basic rock magnetism through magnetic properties of polluted soils, palaeoclimatic studies to research of nano and microparticles for biomedical applications. The core of his expertise is in magnetic properties of environmental samples (soils, sediments, atmospheric dust). Besides research, he regularly give lectures on Rock Physics at the Charles University in Prague and lectures on Environmental Magnetism in Prague, Brno and Helsinki.
Joined GJI Board 2012

O. Ritter
GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Section 2.2, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49 / 331 / 288-1257
Fax: +49 / 331 / 288-1266
E-mail: oritter@gfz-potsdam.de

Oliver Ritter is a geophysicist at the GFZ Potsdam, Germany's national research centre for geosciences. He obtained a PhD at Edinburgh before joining the GFZ in 1996. His primary research focus is on all aspects of geomagnetic induction in the Earth. Over the last couple of years, he has been involved in a series of large scale magnetotelluric experiments to investigate active and fossil tectonic regimes in all parts of the world. He is particularly interested in multi-disciplinary, integrative interpretation approaches. He has also worked on electromagnetic data processing and modeling methods, the exploration of geothermal systems, and in geophysical volcanology. Being responsible for developing the MT component of the geophysical instrument pool of the GFZ he has a strong interest in geophysical instrumentation.
Main areas of interests: Magnetotelluric method, tectonics, integrative interpretation, geophysical instrumentation.
Sections:Geodynamics and tectonics; Geomagnetism, rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism; Marine geosciences and applied geophysics; Mineral physics, rheology, heat flow and volcanology.
Joined GJI Board 2006

C. Thomas
Institut für Geophysik, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Corrensstr. 24, 48149 Münster, Germany

Christine Thomas is Professor at the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Münster since 2009 and has worked previously at the University of Liverpool. Her main research interests are array seismology and global seismology, especially of the Earth's mantle. Focus areas are the structures and processes of the core-mantle boundary region as well as the upper mantle discontinuities. This includes the investigation of seismic structures in the D" region and their link to the post-perovskite phase transition in, anisotropy in the D" region and fine-scale resolution of structures linked to mineral phase transitions in the upper mantle.
Section: Seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2009

B. Vermeersen
Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 15 2788272
E-mail: L.L.A.Vermeersen@tudelft.nl

Bert Vermeersen is an associate professor at the Department of Space Engineering of the TU Delft Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in the Netherlands. His main geophysical research interests are at the interface between solid-earth geodynamics and earth-oriented space research, notably on glacial isostatic adjustment and associated sea-level variations, co- and postseismic deformation, and geoid and gravity variations due solid-earth dynamics. He is involved in both numerical modelling of these various geodynamical processes and in their observation by means of space-borne techniques such as GPS, satellite gravity and satellite altimetry.
Section: Geodynamics and tectonics.
Joined GJI Board 2011

J. Virieux
Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France
E-mail: Jean.Virieux@obs.ujf-grenoble.fr

Jean Virieux is a Professor of Geophysics at the University of Grenoble I - Joseph Fourier. His research interests cover topics on seismic wave propagation for seismic source modelling and for seismic imaging. Both kinematic and dynamic finite earthquake sources are of interest to him in order to better predict ground motion. Both active seismic field related to seismic exploration and passive seismic monitoring related to geodynamics or reservoir tracking have concentrated his modelling effort. A few key words may be listed where he has made contributions: seismic tomography; numerical modelling (Finite Difference, Finite Volume), dynamic rupture modelling of earthquakes, ray theory, ray seismograms, asymptotic theory of wave propagation, waveform inversion (Born or Rytov approximation), inverse problems.
Joined GJI Board 2006

J. Wassermann
LMU Geophysics, Munich, Germany
E-mail: jowa@geophysik.uni-muenchen.de

Joachim Wassermann received his PhD in geophysics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1997. After his PhD he was with the Institute of Geophysics of the LMU Munich for half a year before he took a six-year assistant professorship at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Potsdam. Since 2004, he has been senior research scientist at the Geophysical Observatory of the LMU Munich. His research interests are observational seismology with the main focus being on signal processing, the automatic ‘real-time’ processing of seismological network/array data with special focus on small scale problems and volcano seismology.
Joined GJI Board 2010