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Affiliate Faculty
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1979
Email: rhett@iris.edu
Office: POST 825
Phone Number: (808) 956-9438
Fax Number: (808) 956-3188
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
1680 East-West Road, POST 602
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
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Research Interests:
(IRIS) Global seismology
Current
Projects:
I am an Adjunct Geophysicist and on the Faculty of HIGP. I manage the Global Seismographic Network (GSN) for the IRIS University Consortium, of which UH Manoa became a founding member when I was on the full time HIG staff. The GSN currently has over 120 world-wide stations, operating broadband seismometers and other sensors and supplying data in near-real time to the scientific community for education and research and to society for earthquake emergency response and hazard mitigation, tsunami warning, and nuclear test monitoring. I am the Principal Investigator on the Hawaii-2 Observatory (H2O) project, which has re-used the retired Hawaii-2 telephone donated by AT&T for establishing a seafloor observatory between Hawaii and California. I serve as the representative for IRIS and the National Science Foundation on the U.S. State Department Verification and Monitoring Task Force for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
My current projects in the Pacific Ocean include completing the 21 GSN stations on Pacific Islands (including 9 sites collaboratively funded with Japan), and installing real-time satellite links to these sites.
My current research interests include seismic wave propagation throughout the Pacific Ocean region, and antipodal studies of the Earth's deep interior. The Pacific Ocean research involves observations from GSN stations and other undersea assets. Antipodal research analyzes the Earth using seismic stations diametrically opposite to earthquakes, utilizing the focusing of the Earth as a lens to illuminate subtle but important features of the Earth's inner and outer core boundaries.
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