Postdoctoral Fellow
Tanner is interested in using marine geophysical data to study the structure and evolution of oceanic plates, particularly at subduction zones where the largest earthquakes are generated. He uses various types of data, but specialize in applying imaging and inverse techniques to active source multichannel seismic (MCS) and ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) reflection/refraction data. These techniques include time and depth imaging (migration), travel-time tomography, and acoustic/elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI). He also has experience in using differential effective medium modeling to extract useful information like water content from seismic data and is keen on improving these techniques by incorporating additional constraints.
Interests
Plate boundaries, faulting, earthquakes, hydrogeology
Academics
Ph.D., Marine Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
M.Res., Exploration Geophysics, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
B.S., Geophysics, Texas A&M University