Graduate Students
At present I advise a third year ESS graduate student, Robert Weekly and a first year Oceanography graduate student, Dax Soule.
Robert Weekly is working on the Keck microearthquake data set implementing automated techniques to locate earthquakes with accuracies that are comparable to human analysts. One goal is to use this technique to search for earthquake swarms that may have caused a large hydrothermal perturbation to the Salty Dawg hydrothermal field in the summer of 2005 by Jonathan Kellogg, a student of my colleague Russ McDuff. Robert is also learning about tomographic techniques in preparation for the Endeavour Tomography Experiment. Dax Soule is new graduate stuen my group and will also be participating in the Endeavour Tomography students.
Two of my recent students graduated in June, 2007. Timothy Crone obtained a Ph.D. developing observational techniques to measure fluxes from black smokers and modeling the effects of ocean tides on subsurface flow in these systems. He was the first researcher to unambiguously show that black smokers make sounds, a study that was published in PLoS ONE and which generated some press coverage. You can read about this study and the rest of his Ph.D. work on his web site at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory where he is presently a postdoctoral investigator.
Tami Ben Zvi obtained an M.Sc. working on tomographic data from Deception Island. Her work is described on my Deception Island page.
Opportunities
I can advise students in the School of Oceanography and the Department of Earth and Space Sciences. I am always keen to talk to potential graduate students and promote the graduate programs at the University of Washington, but I do not currently anticipate having research assistant support for a new graduate student in fall 2009.