Member Since 2007
Brandon Schmandt
Professor, Rice University
Associate Editor, JGR Solid Earth Section; Chair, Seismology Fellows Committee
Professional Experience
Rice University
Professor
2025 - Present
University of New Mexico Main Campus
Professor
2013 - 2024
Education
Doctorate
2011
University of Oregon
Doctorate
Doctorate
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Publications
Two Effective Degrees of Freedom Can Represent the Dominant Features of Global Rayleigh Wave Dispers...
Objectively exploring global variations in crust and upper mantle structure helps constrain fundamental aspects of Earth's plate tectonic and conve...
June 18, 2024
Examining Infrasound Propagation at High Spatial Resolution ...
November 06, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Understanding the Kodiak Forearc: High-Resolution Shear Wave Velocity Modelling Using Ambient Noise Tomography in the Southern M9.2 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake Rupture Area
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM: CONVERGENT MARGIN PROCESSES TRENCH TO ARC (ALEUTIANS/ALASKA AND BEYOND) III POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2024
Joshua Osasona, Lindsay L. Worthington, Brandon Sc...
We use data from a densely spaced seismic node array to determine shear wave velocity structure within the southern rupture area of the M9.2 1964 Grea...
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Surface deformation at magma bodies in rheologically heterogeneous crust: exploring the role of a compliant region
UNDERSTANDING VOLCANIC AND VOLCANOTECTONIC PROCESSES III POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 12 december 2024
Grant Block, Mousumi Roy, Brandon Schmandt
Surface deformation measurements play a key role in illuminating magma transport at active volcanoes, however, it is often challenging to link deforma...
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Measurement of small earthquake moment magnitude and implications for source processes in the Raton Basin
ADVANCES IN RELIABLE EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETER ESTIMATION I ORAL
seismology | 11 december 2024
Andres Felipe F. Peña Castro, Brandon Schmandt, Ma...
The Raton Basin, located on the Colorado-New Mexico border, has experienced a significant increase of earthquakes in the past two decades due to long-...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Chair
Seismology Fellows Committee
2023 - 2026
Associate Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
2023 - 2024
Member
Seismology Fellows Committee
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