Students & Postdocs

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


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