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Joseph Byrnes

Joseph Byrnes

Assistant Professor - Sustain Earth Systems Science
 
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Currently accepting undergraduate and graduate students

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Professional Preparation

PhD - Geophysics
University of Oregon - 2017
BSc - Physics and Mathematics
Iowa State Univesity - 2011

Publications

Evolving Sediment Structure and Lithospheric Architecture Across the Indo‐Burman Forearc Margin From the Joint Inversion of Surface‐ and Scattered‐Wave Seismic Constraints 2025 - Journal Article
Imaging Upper-Mantle Anisotropy with Transdimensional Bayesian Monte Carlo Sampling 2024 - Journal Article
A New View of Shear Wavespeed and the Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere Boundary in the Southwestern United States 2024 - Journal Article
Volatiles and Redox Along the East African Rift 2024 - Journal Article
Insight into the Evolution of the Eastern Margin of the Wyoming Craton from Complex, Laterally Variable Shear Wave Splitting 2024 - Journal Article
Joint Analysis of Seismic and Electrical Observables Beneath the Central Appalachians Requires Partial Melt in the Upper Mantle 2023 - Journal Article
Seismic Architecture of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Western United States from a Joint Inversion of Body- and Surface-wave Observations: Distribution of Partial Melt in the Upper Mantle 2023 - Journal Article
Lateral Variations in Teleseismic Attenuation of the Conterminous U.S. and New Insights Derived From Its Relationship to Mantle Seismic Velocity 2023 - Journal Article

Awards

#1 Dad (in the Alden Byrnes catagory) - Pinecone Preschool [2023]
Outstanding Student Presentation - American Geophysical Union [2014]

Appointments

Assistant Research Professor
Northern Arizona Unversity [2022–2025]
Post-doctoral Scholar
Northern Arizona University [2021–2022]
Post-doctoral Scholar
University of Minnesota [2017–2020]

Funding

Seismic hazard in Las Vegas assessed with passive seismics and machine learning: Collaborative Research between the University of California Riverside and Northern Arizona University
$99,000 - United States Geological Survey [2025/09–2026/09]
Is Las Vegas at risk of a dangerous earthquake?
Collaborative Research: Data- and model-driven optimization of the SZ4D MultiArray: An on-shore/offshore network for integrated observations of subduction zone geohazards
$441,000 - National Science Foundation [2025/04–2026/04]
Funding for the design team for the Subduction Zones in Four-Dimensions Experiment, https://www.sz4d.org/
Investigating the composition of lower crust on a continental scale with Transportable Array data
$328,000 - National Science Foundation [2025/09–2027/09]
What is the lower continental crust made of?
A deep denoising algorithm targeting oceanic noise in seafloor seismometer data
$24,000 - Crescent, and NSF Funded center [2024/05–2025/05]
Developing machine-learning algorithms for analyzing ocean-bottom seismic data.
Constraining ocean-mantle dynamics by improving shear-wave splitting with ocean bottom seismometers
$290,000 - National Science Foundation [2024/04–2026/04]
Improving the technique known as shear-wave splitting for ocean-bottom seismic data.