Anne Sheehan

Anne Sheehan is a geologist known for her research using seismometer data to examine changes in the Earth's crust and mantle.

Anne F. Sheehan
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Boulder
ThesisLateral variation in upper mantle temperature and composition beneath mid-ocean ridges inferred from shear-wave propagation, geoid, and bathymetry (1991)

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.[2] In 1993 she moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was promoted to professor in 2006.[1]

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."[3]

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[4] and the East Pacific Rise,[5] the subduction zone near New Zealand,[6] and the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.[7] Her research on the impact of induced seismicity describes the process by which earthquakes occur following fluid injection.[8] 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.[9][10] This research would benefit coastal communities in the path of tsunamis formed after earthquakes at the seafloor.[11]

Selected publications

Awards and honors
  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2014)[3]
  • EarthScope Distinguished Lecturer (2013)[2]
  • New Zealand Geophysics Prize, Geoscience Society of New Zealand for papers in 2016[12] and 2019[13][14]

References
  1. "Sheehan CV" (PDF). January 2021.
  2. "Speaker Series | Earthscope". www.earthscope.org. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. "Sheehan". Honors Program. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  4. Sheehan, Anne F.; McNutt, Marcia K. (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. 93 (3–4): 377–391. Bibcode:1989E&PSL..93..377S. doi:10.1016/0012-821X(89)90037-X. ISSN 0012-821X.
  5. 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. doi:10.1126/science.280.5367.1215. PMID 9596564.
  6. Wallace, L. M.; Webb, S. C.; Ito, Y.; Mochizuki, K.; Hino, R.; Henrys, S.; Schwartz, S. Y.; Sheehan, A. F. (2016-05-06). "Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand". Science. 352 (6286): 701–704. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..701W. doi:10.1126/science.aaf2349. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27151867. S2CID 206647253.
  7. 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. Bibcode:2004Sci...305..660B. doi:10.1126/science.1099181. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 3837364. PMID 15286370. S2CID 30221241.
  8. 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. 347 (6224): 830–831. Bibcode:2015Sci...347..830M. doi:10.1126/science.aaa0494. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 25700505. S2CID 206632570.
  9. Palmer, Jane (2011). "Eavesdropping on Tsunamis: Underwater instruments assist early-warning systems". Spheres (6): 7. ISSN 2380-2855. JSTOR 24352818.
  10. "How commercial vessels could become tsunami early-warning systems". CU Boulder Today. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  11. 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. 8 (3): e2020EA001390. Bibcode:2021E&SS....801390H. doi:10.1029/2020EA001390. ISSN 2333-5084.
  12. Wallace, L. M.; Webb, S. C.; Ito, Y.; Mochizuki, K.; Hino, R.; Henrys, S.; Schwartz, S. Y.; Sheehan, A. F. (6 May 2016). "Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand". Science. 352 (6286): 701–704. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..701W. doi:10.1126/science.aaf2349. PMID 27151867. S2CID 206647253.
  13. Warren-Smith, E.; Fry, B.; Wallace, L.; Chon, E.; Henrys, S.; Sheehan, A.; Mochizuki, K.; Schwartz, S.; Webb, S.; Lebedev, S. (June 2019). "Episodic stress and fluid pressure cycling in subducting oceanic crust during slow slip". Nature Geoscience. 12 (6): 475–481. Bibcode:2019NatGe..12..475W. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0367-x. ISSN 1752-0908. S2CID 182644542.
  14. "New Zealand Geophysics Prize » Geoscience Society of New Zealand". Geoscience Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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