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Current Graduate Students

Ariful Islam
S. M. Ariful Islam
Investigation of Seismic Response of the Unconsolidated Mississippi Embayment
Sediments by Seismic Velocity Structure and Attenuation Modeling
PhD
Photo of Sonia
Sonia Bazargan
Wave Propagation Regimes in Near Surface Based on Atmosphere-Earth Coupling
PhD
Chidozie photo
Chidozie Opara
Seismic Imaging of the Sugar Creek Fault, Western Tennessee
MS



University of Memphis PhD Graduates I advised

Qingwen Miao
2007
The Local Magnitude Scale and Seismicity of the Central U.S.
Scientist, Seismological Bureau, Sichuan Province
Ting-Li Lin
2008
Infrasonic Induced Ground Motions
Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Chuntao Liang
2008
Studies in Passive Seismic Imaging and Wave Gradiometry
Professor, Chengdu University of Technology
Zack Lawrence
2008
Active Source Strong Motion Field Studies and in situ Measurements on Nonlinear and nonequilibrium dynamics in shallow, unconsolidated sediments
Exxon/Mobil Corporation
Ivan Rabak
2009
Crustal Structure of the Reelfoot Rift
Global Geophysical Services
Christy Chiu
2010
Shallow Crustal Structure in the Upper Mississippi Embayment, Central USA
CERI, retired
Elige Grant III
2010
Gladwin Tensor Strainmeter Calibration Using Seismic Data: Instrument Calibration Methods and Wave Gradiometry Applications
Senior Geophysicist, Chevron
Lauren Michelle Kendall
2014
High-Frequency Gradiometry
Geophysicist, Hess Corporation
Donny Triananda Dangkua
2014
Engineering Seismology Studies in Linear and Non-Liinear Ground Motion (co-advised with Chris Cramer)

Blaine M. Bockholt
2015
A Seismogenic Study of the Central and Eastern United States
Geophysicist, Idaho National Laboratory
Akram Mostafanjad
2015
Treatise on Seismicity and Velocity Structure of the Northern Mississippi Embayment
Staff Scientist/Data Specialist, IRIS/PASSCAL
Seyed Mostafa Mousavi
2017
Microseismic Monitoring and Denoising
Research Scientist, Google
Chunyu Liu
2020
Understanding seismic velocity structure and its time-varying process beneath the Mississippi embayment through ambient noise analysis
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yang Yang
2020
A seismological study of the northern Mississippi embayment
Postdoctoral Researcher, Nanyang Technological Univerisity, Singapore
Jia Zhang
2021
Use of curvelets in spatial array processing: method and wavefield analysis
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Oluwaseun Idowu Fadugba
2021
Waveform and geodynamic modeling of seismicity associated with the Charlevoix seismic zone
Scientist, Verisk Extreme Event Solutions, Boston
Oluwaseyi Joseph Bolarinwa
2022
Assessing the performance of an experimental gradiometer array

Jiayan Tan
2022
Joint inversion and dynamic time warping methods to explore crustal velocity structure
Scientist, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing



University of Memphis MS Graduates I advised

Concilia Fasola
2005
Reprocessing of USGS MIssissippi River Shallow Seismic Data
Salt Interpreter, CGG
Juanjuan Cao
2006
Structure in the Upper Crust at the Southern Terminus of the Blytheville Arch, Easten Arkansas

Mahari Ayele
2012
Crustal Velocity Structure Around the SAFOD Borehole using Vertical Wave Gradiometry
CGG
Md Monsurul Huda
2014
Coherence and Variability of Ground Motion Over 600m of the Nonvolcanic Tremor Array Site at Mooring, TN
CERI PhD Student
Alireza Shahjouei
2015
Time Stability of Horizontal-to-Vertical Ratio Ambient Noise in the Mississippi Embayment
Senior Research Scientist and Catastrophe Risk Engineer, AIG
John Meredith
2016
Non-thesis Option

Chloƫ Glover
2019
Transmission and reflection imaging of stratigraphy from passive array data
Graduate student, University of Pittsburgh