Penn State - Earthquake Seismology



Minoo Kosarian
Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Geosciences
446 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16870

Voice: (814) 865-3622
FAX: (814) 865-7823

mkosari@geosc.psu.edu

Advisor:
Dr. Charles J. Ammon

Research Interests [More Details]

The aim of my research is to gain a better understanding of lithospheric structure of the Earth and to extract important constraints on the subsurface geology. I am investigating lithospheric structure throughout the Middle East, Europe, and North Africa using receiver functions and surface-wave dispersion. I am working on 166 stations across my research area; 72 stations in Middle East, 57 stations in Europe, 37 stations in central and north Africa. The diversity of the study area makes these data ideal for innovations of the seismic imaging methods. This work opens a door to new approaches to seismic imaging.

Selected Abstracts [Complete List]

M. Kosarian, Variation of Crustal Thickness and Poisson’s Ratio in Continental Lithosphere, 37th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, 2005 Penn State University.

M. Kosarian, W. Sevilla, C.J. Ammon, B. Herrmann, M. Pasyanos, and G. Randall, Simultaneous Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion For Lithospheric Structure Beneath The Middle East, North African, Central Asia, And Parts of Europe, 2004 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (S53B-0223).

Ammon, C., M. Kosarian, R. Herrmann, M. Pasyanos, W. Walter, and H. Tkalcic; Simultaneous Inversion of Receiver Functions, Multi-mode Dispersion, and Travel-time Tomography for Lithospheric Structure Beneath the Middle East and North Africa, 26th Seismic Research Review, Nuclear Explosion Monitoring, 2004.

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Penn State Earthquake Seismology

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Last Updated:Nov, 2005