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Gail Christeson

Portrait of Gail Christeson

RESEARCH AFFILIATE

Gail is interested in crustal structure of various geological environments, including formation and evolution of the oceanic crust, size and morphology of the Chicxulub impact crater, and the rifting history of the Gulf of Mexico. In order to characterize the structure in these various environments she collects wide-angle seismic data using a large air-gun source and ocean bottom seismograph receivers. She then uses various techniques, including tomography and full waveform tomographic inversion, to constrain crustal structure.

INTERESTS

marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology

ACADEMICS

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
B.S., Texas A&M University

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glchristeson@utexas.edu
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HIGHLIGHTS

New course teaches students to turn data into science with Python

Students at the University of Texas at Austin have celebrated the conclusion of the first ever Python for Geoscience Research course. The course teaches the fundamentals of the programming language Python to future geoscientists and challenges them to put their coding skills to work in personal projects…Continue reading

[EOS] Age and Speed Matter in the Formation of New Oceanic Crust

New oceanic crust is continuously being formed as magma upwells at mid-ocean ridges. The characteristics of oceanic crust hold clues about its age and the environment in which it formed. A recent article in Reviews of Geophysics synthesized data on oceanic crust from many different studies globally, comparing age and… Continue reading

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