Yale University - Department of Geology and Geophysics













Jeffrey Park
Professor

Email Me
Office: 316 KGL
Phone: (203) 432-3172
Fax: (203) 432-3134
A More Detailed Webpage

Research Interests:
Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS)

Theoretical and observational seismology, geological time-series analysis, structure of Earth's subsurface.

Current Courses:
Introductory Geoscience: G&G 110a
Advanced Seismology: G&G 457b
Junior Seminar in Environmental Studies: EVST 466b

Students and Postdocs:
Garrett Leahy

Selected Publication(s):


Park, J., T. R. Song, J. Tromp, E. Okal, S. Stein, G. Roult, E. Clevede, G. Laske, H. Kanamori, P. Davis, J. Berger, C. Braitenberg, M. Van Camp, X. Lei, H. Sun, H. Xu, and S. Rosat, Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake, Science, 308, 1139-1144, 2005.

Leahy, G., and J. Park, Hunting for oceanic island Moho, Geophys. J. Int.,160, 1020-1026, 2005.

Levin, V., N. M. Shapiro, J. Park and M. Ritzwoller, Seismic evidence for catastrophic slab loss beneath Kamchatka, Nature, v418, 763-767, 2002.

Park, J., H. Yuan, and V. Levin, Subduction-zone anisotropy under Corvallis, Oregon: A serpentinite skidmark of trench-parallel terrane migration? J. Geophys. Res., v109, B10306, 10.1029/2003JB002718, 2004.

Park, J., and V. Levin, Seismic anisotropy: Tracing plate dynamics in the mantle, Science, v296, 485-489, 2003. Abstract: Full Text: