Colleen Dalton
Assistant Professor
Office: CAS 131G
Phone: 617.358.5433
E-mail: dalton@bu.edu
Educational Background
| Ph.D. |
2007 |
Harvard University |
| Sc.B. |
2000 |
Brown University |
Research
Colleen Dalton investigates the structure of the Earth’s interior using seismic waves generated by earthquakes. Ongoing research projects include efforts to image three-dimensional variations in upper-mantle seismic attenuation and velocity on global and regional scales. Interpretation of these results in terms of mantle temperature and composition is pursued by incorporating laboratory results from mineral physics.
Geophysics research group
Solid Earth and Tectonics research group
Teaching
- The Dynamic Earth (ES 101)
- Geodynamics I (ES 360/ES 660)
- Analysis and Modeling of Geologic Processes (ES 702)
- Methods of Seismology (ES 781)
Recent Students
- Muhlis Unaldi; MA (Candidate); Amplitude seismology
Selected Publications (*=student)
- Dalton, C.A., G. Ekström, and A.M. Dziewonski (2009), Global seismological shear velocity and attenuation: A comparison with experimental observations, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 284, 65–75.
- Dalton, C.A., G. Ekström, and A.M. Dziewonski (2008), The global attenuation structure of the upper mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 113, B09303, doi:10.1029/2007JB005429.
- Dalton, C. A., and G. Ekström (2006), Global models of surface-wave attenuation, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B05317, doi:10.1029/2005JB003997.
- Dalton, C. A., and G. Ekström (2006), Constraints on global maps of phase velocity from surface-wave amplitudes, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03142.x.
- Ekström, G., C. A. Dalton, and M. Nettles (2006), Observations of time-dependent errors in the long-period instrument gain at global seismic stations, Seismol. Res. Lett., 77, 12-22.
