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Joseph Byrnes

Joseph Byrnes

Assistant Professor - Sustain Earth Systems Science
 
ORCID

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

Structure of the Mantle Keel of the Wyoming Craton and Its Relationship to Intracratonic Deformation and Magmatism 2026 - Journal Article
Joint body- and surface-wave probabilistic transdimensional tomography of upper mantle seismic anisotropy 2026 - Other
Elevated Asthenospheric Temperature Driving the Partial Melting of Enriched Lithospheric Mantle Feeding the DM‐EM1 Mixing‐Type Magmatism of the Jingpohu Volcano in Eastern NE China: Evidence From Teleseismic P‐Wave Attenuation 2026 - Journal Article
3D P‐Wave Attenuation Tomography of the Tonga‐Lau Subduction System With Improved Earthquake Source Parameters and a Transdimensional Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach 2026 - Journal Article
Structure of the Mantle Keel of the Wyoming Craton and its Relationship to Intracratonic Deformation and Magmatism 2025 - Other
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
3D P-wave attenuation tomography of the Tonga-Lau subduction system with a transdimensional Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach 2025 - Other
Spatial Variation in Anisotropic Shear Velocity of Oceanic Lithosphere-Asthenosphere in the Pacific 2025 - Other

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.