Preparing for seismology on icy ocean worlds using the Greenland ice sheet.
Graduate Students
Aisha Khatib (Ph.D.)
Lunar Seismology
Sept. 2019-present
Linden Wike (Ph.D.)
GEODES Graduate Student
Sept. 2020-present
Mariam Naseem (Ph.D.)
Icy-Ocean World Seismology
Sept. 2022-present
Jacob Giles (M.S)
GEODES and Lava Field Structure
Sept. 2022-present

Visiting an EarthScope seismometer station (Q59A) in eastern Maryland.
Postdoctoral Scholars
Jingchuan Wang
PhD University of Alberta (2022)
Planetary Geophysics
Oct. 2022-present
Ernest Bell
PhD University of Maryland (2021)
Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary Exploration
Sept. 2021-present
Leandro de Paula
PhD University of Sao Paulo (2013)
Seismometer design
2018-present
Planning a seismic array on the Moon using the Cinder Lake study site in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, Arizona.
Undergraduate Theses
Lynn Montgomery
Robbie Burgess
Jessica Kronenwetter
Joshua Gaal
Foteine Dimtracopoulos
Benton Williams
Caroline Liegey
Youchuan Wang
Jessica Lindsay
Emily Moy
Logan Edwards
Austin Hoyle
SIobhan Light
Structural geology students checking out some amphibolite in western Maryland.
Past Members of the Lab
Kira Olsen
PhD Columbia University (2019)
GEODES and planetary seismology
2020-2021
Doyeon Kim
PhD Cornell University (2018)
GEODES and planetary seismology
2020-2021
Ross Maguire
PhD University of Michigan (2018)
Icy world seismology and deep Earth structure
2018-2020
Foivos Karakostas
PhD Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (2018)
Martian and Icy world seismology
March 2019-2021
Ernest Bell (Ph.D.)
Terrestrial Analogs for Planetary
Sept. 2015-2021 (Dissertation)
Quancheng Huang (Ph.D.)
Upper mantle structure
Sept. 2015-2020 (Dissertation)
Angela Marusiak (Ph.D.)
Planetary Geophysics
Sept. 2015-2020 (Dissertation)
Brianna Mellerson (M.S.)
Lava Tube Geophysics
Sept. 2020-2021
Jonathan Guandique (M.S.)
Firn aquifer structure
Sept. 2017-2019 (Thesis)
Lauren Waszek
PhD University of Cambridge (2012)
Seismic velocity and attenuation structure of Earth's inner core
October 2015-2016
Andy Cai
PhD Yale University (2014)
Melt migration and lithospheric processes
October 2014-October 2015
Bryon Kelly
Undergraduate Student
300 km discontinuity of the upper mantle
June 2010-August 2010