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Member Since 2001
Nick C. Schmerr
Associate Professor, University of Maryland College Park
President-Elect, Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Executive Committee; Section President-Elect, Council; 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
Doctorate
2008
Arizona State University
Doctorate
Publications
Focal Mechanism Determination of Event S1222a and Implications for Tectonics Near the Dichotomy Boun...
On 4 May 2022 the InSight seismometer SEIS‐VBB recorded the largest marsquake ever observed, S1222a, with an initial magnitude estimate of MW...
September 03, 2023
Global Variability of Density Contrast Across the 660‐km Dis...
February 16, 2023
Effects of Lunar Near‐Surface Geology on Moonquakes Ground M...
September 11, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Determining Tidally Driven Icequake Focal Mechanism Along a Rift on Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
AGU 2024
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
AGU 2024
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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Recently Active Lunar Wrinkle Ridges Exploration and Discovery Mission Proposal
AGU 2024
planetary sciences | 12 december 2024
Caleb Becker-Schwartz, Melissa Buys, Sophia Zippar...
Wrinkle ridges are a tectonic feature on the Moon thought to be the surface expression of folding above buried thrust faults (Plescia & Golombek, ...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
President
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Executive Committee
2025 - 2026
Section President
Council
2024 - 2026
Member
Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Award for Graduate Research Committee
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