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Nick C. Schmerr
Associate Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Member, Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Award for Graduate Research Committee; President, Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Executive Committee; Section President, Council
Professional Experience
University of Maryland College Park
Associate Professor
2020 - Present
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
PhD
2012 - Present
Carnegie Institution for Science
2012 - Present
University of Maryland College Park
Assistant Professor
2014 - 2020
University of Maryland College Park
Assistant Research Scientist
2013 - 2014
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Education
Arizona State University
Doctorate
2008
Publications
Active Seismic Exploration of Planetary Subsurfaces via Compressive Sensing
Geophysical measurements, such as seismic experiments, are a key target for scientific activities on planetary surfaces. Dense spatial sampling of ...
March 10, 2025
Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Future Planetary Applicatio...
November 27, 2024
Focal Mechanism Determination of Event S1222a and Implicatio...
September 03, 2023
Global Variability of Density Contrast Across the 660‐km Dis...
February 16, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Determining Tidally Driven Icequake Focal Mechanism Along a Rift on Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF ICE DEFORMATION THROUGH OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS II POSTER
cryosphere | 13 december 2024
Zoe Schlossnagle, Mong-Han Huang, Kathrine Udell-L...
The Antarctic Rift Research for Ocean Worlds (ARROW) Project deployed 16 seismic and 12 co-located geodetic stations along the Western Rift 4 (WR4) on...
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Deformation of a Ross Ice Shelf Rift Measured Through GPS and Seismic Observations
IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF ICE DEFORMATION THROUGH OBSERVATIONS, MODELS, AND EXPERIMENTS I ORAL
cryosphere | 13 december 2024
Kathrine Udell-Lopez, Zoe Schlossnagle, Mong-Han H...
The Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) has multiple periodically spaced 100km long rifts formed due to a buildup of tensile stress as the ice shelf flows toward the...
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A Catalog of Short Period Seismic Events from the Apollo 11 Passive Seismometer
PLANETARY SEISMOLOGY II POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2024
Aisha Khatib, Nicholas C. Schmerr, Hannes Bernhard...
The seismic catalog collected on the Moon is the most extensive extraterrestrial seismic dataset . This data comes from an array of seismic stations i...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
President
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Executive Committee
2025 - 2026
Section President
Council
2024 - 2025
Member
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Award for Graduate Research Committee
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