Michael Ritzwoller

Professor. Ph.D. University of California San Diego, 1987. Fellow, American Geophysical Union.

Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior
Department of Physics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0390
phone: (303) 492-7075
fax: (303) 492-7935
email: ritzwoller@ciei.colorado.edu

Michael Ritzwoller is the Director of the Center for Imaging the Earth's Interior.

Professor Ritzwoller is a global seismologist. His early work was mainly in normal mode seismology and helioseismology. Research in the last decade has concentrated on developing methods to focus seismic models derived from surface wave dispersion information to tectonic scales. Recent emphasis has included applying physical constraints from geodynamical models and thermodynamics into seismic inversions and using ambient noise in surface wave tomography. Considerable emphasis has also been placed on developing seismic methods in nuclear monitoring to improve event locations and the ability to discriminate nuclear explosions from earthquakes. Large scale data handling and computing underlie much of this research.
 
Publications. Short Vitae

Recent Classes: Methods in Theoretical Physics (Physics 2140), Earth and Planetary Physics I (Physics/Geology/APS 6610) , Modern Physics (Physics 2130) .
 

Selected Publications