Anne Sheehan

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)

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.[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

  • Sheehan, Anne F.; Abers, Geoffrey A.; Jones, Craig H.; Lerner-Lam, Arthur L. (1995). "Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 100 (B10): 20391–20404. Bibcode:1995JGR...10020391S. doi:10.1029/95JB01966. ISSN 2156-2202.
  • Dueker, Kenneth G.; Sheehan, Anne F. (1997). "Mantle discontinuity structure from midpoint stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 102 (B4): 8313–8327. Bibcode:1997JGR...102.8313D. doi:10.1029/96JB03857. ISSN 2156-2202. S2CID 140704480.
  • Burger, Henry Robert; Sheehan, Anne F.; Jones, Craig H. (2006). Introduction to applied geophysics : Exploring the shallow subsurface. New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-92637-8.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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. ^ a b "Sheehan CV" (PDF). January 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Speaker Series | Earthscope". www.earthscope.org. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b "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.