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Graduate Students
Abigail Bull
Teresa Lassak
Melissa Bunte
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
Some Recent Publications
Lassak, T.M., A.K. McNamara, E. J. Garnero, and S. Zhong, Core-mantle boundary topography as a possible constraint on lower mantle chemistry and dynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 289, 232-241, 2010. [pdf]
Bull, A.L., A.K. McNamara, and J. Ritsema, Synthetic tomography of Plume Clusters and Thermochemical Piles, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 278, 152-162, 2009. [pdf]
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]