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Member Since 1978
Barbara A. Romanowicz
Professor , University of California Berkeley
Professional Experience
University of California Berkeley
Professor
1991 - Present
Education
University of Paris 7
Doctorate
1979
Honors & Awards
William Bowie Medal
Received 2019
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR-Solid Earth
Received 2018
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR-Solid Earth
Received 2015
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Publications
Multi‐Mode Waveform Tomography of the Indian Ocean Upper and Mid‐Mantle Around the Reunion Hotspot

Réunion Island in the western Indian Ocean is well known as one of the most active volcanic hotspots on Earth. Its birth, ∼65Ma ago, cre...

August 12, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Real-time earthquake detection using a submarine DAS array in Monterey Bay, California
LEVERAGING DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSING IN MODERN MONITORING APPLICATIONS II ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Yuancong Gou, Richard M. Allen, Weiqiang Zhu, Li-W...
Seismic networks are mostly limited to onshore sensors. Application of DAS to submarine cables has the potential to extend the reach of seismic networ...
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Full waveform anisotropic tomography of the transition zone beneath the south west Pacific
SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DYNAMICS: OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS I ORAL
study of earth's deep interior | 14 december 2023
Dorian Soergel, Utpal Kumar, Barbara A. Romanowicz
The presence of ponding slabs at the base of the mantle transition zone (600-700 km) has been well known for a long time and can be explained by the c...
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Exploring the Earth’s Hum Excitation on the Ocean Floor: Observations of Infragravity wave at the Monterey Bay Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing
INNOVATIONS AND APPLICATIONS IN FIBER-OPTIC SENSING II POSTER
seismology | 14 december 2023
Li-Wei Chen, Yuancong Gou, Taka'aki Taira, Barbara...
Infragravity (IG) waves are ocean surface waves primarily generated by nonlinear interactions with higher-frequency wind waves and swell. These IG wav...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2023
Member
College of Fellows Distinguished Lecturers - Earth Interior
2018 - 2019
Associate Editor
Tectonics
2018 - 2018
Book Editor Only
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