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Graduate Students
Abigail Bull
Teresa Lassak
Allen K. McNamara
Assistant Professor, Geodynamics
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Arizona State University
allen.mcnamara@asu.edu
Links
Geodynamics Links
ASU Geophysics Group
Ed Garnero's Homepage
Matt Fouch's Homepage
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG)
American Geophysical Union
The National Science Foundation
Ph.D., Geophysics, University of Michigan, 2002
M.S., Geology, University of Michigan, 1998
B.S., Physics, Michigan State University, 1996
B.S., Geology, Michigan State University, 1996
Recent Publications
Garnero, E.J., and A.K. McNamara, Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Lower Mantle, Science, 320, 626-628, 2008. [pdf]
Merkel, S., A.K. McNamara, A. Kubo, S. Speziale, L. Miyagi, Y. Meng, T.S. Duffy, and H.-R. Wenk, Deformation of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 post-perovskite and modeling of D'' anisotropy, Science, 316, 1729-1732, 2007. [pdf]
Lassak, T.M., A.K. McNamara, and S. Zhong, Influence of thermochemical piles on topography at the Earth's core-mantle boundary, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 261, 443-455, 2007. [pdf]