I am a geophysicist and seismologist. I have a broad range of research interests in Earth Science and Geophysics that include the structure and evolution of continental lithosphere, continental rifting, subduction zone earthquakes, the mantle transition zone, and landscape evolution.

NEWS

• Erica gave a virtual presentation about "The Science of Tsunami Warning Centers" to the Augustana College Geology Club (February 2021)

• Collaborator M. Sobh published a new paper about the Lithosphere of the Saharan Metacraton in Journal of Geophysical Research (June 2020)

• Paper on the Mantle Transition Zone beneath the Transantarctic Mountains has been published in Geology (May 2020)

• Erica has started a new position as geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (January 2020)

• Colleague A. Kumar presented new results on East Antarctic upper mantle structure at the AGU meeting in San Francisco, California (December 2019)

• Erica presented new research on the Antarctic Mantle Transition Zone at the SAGE/GAGE workshop in Portland, Oregon (October 2019)

• New Mexico Tech, Great Basin & Landscape Evolution colleagues and I gave several presentations at the GSA meeting in Phoenix, AZ (September 2019)

• Colleague Samantha Hansen and I co-convened a session at the ISAES meeting in Incheon, South Korea, where we presented new research on Antarctic crustal and mantle structure (July 2019)

• Check out our "Science Spotlight" article in the Spring 2019 GeoPRISMs newsletter! (July 2019)