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About Michael H. Ritzwoller
- Michael H.
- Ritzwoller (born July 29, 1954) is an observational seismologist and professor of physics at University of Colorado Boulder.
- He is also the director of the Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior at University of Colorado Boulder.
- His early work was mainly in normal mode seismology and helioseismology.
- Research in the last decade has concentrated on developing methods to focus seismic models derived from surface wave dispersion information to tectonic scales, particularly in the US and China.
- Recent emphasis has focused on developing methods for exploiting ambient noise and earthquakes in surface wave tomography and combining this information to produce 3-D models of the crust and uppermost mantle.
- In addition, he has developed Monte Carlo methods for seismic inversions and has worked on applying physical constraints from geodynamical models and thermodynamics into seismic inversions.
- He has published numerous articles with an h-index of 50 (updated on 23 August 2015).
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