NEW_Accomplishments.indd - IRIS

2006 IRIS 5-YEAR PROPOSAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
A Surface-Wave Analysis of Seismic Anisotropy Beneath Eastern North America .......................................................................90
Scattered Wave Imaging of a Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary Beneath Eastern North America .................91
Subduction Potential at the Eastern Margin of North America ...........................................................................................................92
SURFACE OF THE EARTH: GLOBAL STUDIES
BOLIVAR & GEODINOS: The SE Caribbean Continental Dynamics Project .......................................................................................93
The Reflections Under the Scottish Highlands (RUSH) EXPERIMENT: Mapping Fine-Scale Heterogeneities within
the Continental Mantle Lithosphere Beneath Scotland, Combining Active- and Passive-Source Seismology .........94
(quasi)-Love Found in Tuscany: US-European Seismic Array in Italy Catches the Big Wave ......................................................95
PASSCAL Experiments in Central Europe Target Lithospheric Structure ..........................................................................................96
Origin and Tectonic Evolution of Active Continental Lithospheric Delamination in the Vrancea Zone, Romania:
Project DRACULA ......................................................... 97
The Eastern Turkey Seismic Experiment: The Study of a Young Continent-Continent Collision ..............................................98
Systematic High-Resolution Imaging of the Karadere-Düzce Branch of the North Anatolian Fault ......................................99
Tectonic Structure and Surface Wave Dispersion in Eurasia and North Africa ............................................................................ 100
Upper Mantle Q and Thermal Structure Beneath Tanzania, East Africa from Teleseismic P Wave Spectra ....................... 101
Structure and Evolution of the Main Ethiopian Rift .............................................................................................................................. 102
The Upper Mantle P Wave Structure Beneath Ethiopia and Kenya ................................................................................................. 103
Crustal Structure Beneath Ethiopia and Kenya: Implications for Rift Development in Eastern Africa ................................ 104
Small-Scale Variations in Seismic Anisotropy Near Kimberley, South Africa ................................................................................ 105
Xenolith Constraints on Seismic Velocities in the Upper Mantle Beneath Southern Africa ................................................... 106
S-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the KAAPVAAL Craton ................................................................................................................ 107
Kyrgyz Seismic Network KNET: Application of KNET Data in Scientific Researches ................................................................... 108
Characterizing Crustal Deformation in the North Tien Shan Using Geodetic and KNET Seismic Data .............................. 109
High-Resolution Surface Wave Slowness Tomography in Central Asia .......................................................................................... 110
Seismic Imaging of the Himalayan Collision Zone 111
Receiver Function Imaging of the Eastern Syntaxis of Tibet .............................................................................................................. 112
Shear-Wave Splitting Beneath the Eastern Syntaxis Tibetan Experiment ..................................................................................... 113
Structure and Deformation of the Tibetan Lithosphere ...................................................................................................................... 114
Lithospheric Deformation within a Continental Strike-Slip Fault Zone: Marlborough Fault System, South Island,
New Zealand ............................................................... 115
Seismically Imaging the East Antarctica/West Antarctica Boundary with TAMSEIS .................................................................. 116
Upper Mantle Velocity Structure Beneath the TAMSEIS Network, Antarctica .............................................................................. 117
Cooling History of the Pacific Lithosphere: Evidence for Thermal Boundary Layer Instabilities and Dislocation Creep .....
118
Advances in Active-Source Seismic Imaging Using Traveltime and Waveform Tomography ................................................ 119
High-Resolution Waveform Tomography at a Ground Water Contamination Site .................................................................... 120
Hunting for Ocean Island Moho: The Snipe Bites Back ........................................................................................................................ 121
UPWELLING AND DOWNWELLING
Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS): I .................................................................................................................. 122
Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS): II ................................................................................................................. 123
Subduction-Zone Anisotropy Beneath Corvallis, Oregon: A Serpentinite Skidmark of Trench-Parallel
Terrane Migration? ................................................... 124
Imaging Subduction Beneath Alaska: Results From BEAAR ............................................................................................................... 125
The TUCAN Broadband Seismic Experiment: Imaging the Central America Subduction Factory ........................................ 126
Receiver Function Analysis of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica ....................................................................................................... 127
Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure in the Flat Slab Region of Central Chile and Argentina ............................................... 128
Imaging Shallow Subduction Zones With Surface Waves .................................................................................................................. 129
Detailed Structure and Sharpness of Upper Mantle Discontinuities in The Tonga Subduction Zone ................................ 130
Evidence of Mid-Mantle Deformation From Shear-Wave Splitting ................................................................................................. 131
Seismic Anisotropy in the Izu-Bonin Subduction System ................................................................................................................... 132
Finite Difference Synthetic Test for Kirchhoff Migration of Receiver Function on Subducting Slab ................................... 133
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