Jay Pulliam

Biography

I joined Baylor in 2008 following thirteen years at UT Austin's Institute for Geophysics and, before that, two years at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. More recently, I spent the 2004-05 academic year at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and the Puerto Rico Seismic Network. I currently have three funded research projects, all of which involve fieldwork to deploy temporary seismographs, as well as analysis and interpretation of the data these seismographs record. My Research Interest: • Observational seismology: Lateral heterogeneity in the mantle; structure of Earth's internal discontinuities; anisotropy of the lithosphere and deep mantle, structure of the core-mantle transition zone; structure of the lithosphere from waveform modeling, ocean bottom seismology • Regional investigations of tectonic processes: Seismicity and tectonics of the northeast Caribbean; lithospheric and mantle structure beneath the Cameroon Volcanic Line, the Rio Grande Rift, and Texas • Theoretical and computational seismology: ray perturbation theory; fast computation of Fresnel zones in 3D media; parallel computing in seismology; seismic tomography; computation of confidence intervals in inverse problems; resolution estimation; global optimization methods

Research Interest

Observational seismology, Regional investigations of tectonic processes, Theoretical and computational seismology