Welcome
Doug Toomey Professor of Geophysics
Positions Available:
Post Doctoral/PhD Graduate Student Positions Available Fall 2011
- Funding is available for a post-doc in seismology and post-MSc students with seismic data analysis and scientific programming experience. Please contact me if interested.
New Projects:
Cascadia Initiative Expedition Team (CIET)
Recent results:
GALAPAGOS:
Upper mantle structure beneath the Galápagos Archipelago from surface wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 2007. go to the Galapagos page
East Pacific Rise:
Effects of systematic variations in magma crystallization on crustal density and axial depth at fast-spreading ridges,(in review)
Mantle upwelling, Magmatic Differentiation, and the meaning of axial depth at fast-spreading ridges, Geology, 2008. Go to the Undershoot page
Skew of Mantle upwelling beneath the EPR Governs Segmentation, Nature, 2007. Go to the Undershoot page
Endeavour/Juan de Fuca
The Role of magma injection in Localizing Black Smoker ACtivity, Nature Geoscience, 2009
Hooft, E. E. E., H. Patel, W. Wilcock, K. Becker, D. Butterfield, E. Davis, R. Dziak, K. Inderbitzen, M. Lilley, P. McGill, D. Toomey and D. Stakes, A seismic swarm and regional hydrothermal and hydrologic perturbations: The northern Endeavour segment, February 2005, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. , 11 , Q12015, doi:10.1029/2010GC003264, 2010.
Under the Volcano
Somewhere on Earth, beneath its ocean, a volcano is erupting. As you read this, there are probably several submarine volcanoes spewing forth lava, creating new seafloor and renewing deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields that support unique animal communities. These erupting volcanoes lie along the globe-encircling mid-ocean ridge system, the largest continuous structural feature of our planet. This volcanic activity is not cataclysmic, but is the signature of a living planet, one that is evolving and one that is capable of hosting life.
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Click on the above. Some are gallerys, some photos.
