Michael Wysession

Title:	Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Degree:	PHD, Northwestern University MA, Northwestern University BS, Brown University
Dept:	Earth & Planetary Sciences
Office:	Earth & Planetary Science Building 385
Mailbox:	Campus Box 1169 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Hide Full Mailing Address
Phone:	(314) 935-5625
Web site:	Michael E. Wysession
E-mail:	mwysession@wustl.edu

Courses
Earth and the Environment; Epic of Evolution; Earth Forces; Introduction to Seismology; Interior of the Earth

Research Interests
Seismic wave propagation, whole mantle seismic attentuation, evidence for water in the lower mantle, Missouri-to-Massachusetts (MOMA) IRIS PASSCAL Seismic Array, Florida-to-Edmonton (FLED) IRIS PASSCAL Seismic Array, diffracted wave dispersion, variations in Vp/Vs at the Base of the Mantle, Radial Lower Mantle Shear-Wave Attenuation Model, Diffracted Wave Amplitude-Frequency Modeling, Using ScS waves to Image the Lowermost Mantle, seismic force discrimination, Lg Wave Attenuation From Earthquakes and Bombs, The D'' Discontinuity.

Selected Publications:

Lawrence, J. F., and M. E. Wysession, QLM9: A new radial quality factor (Q) model for the mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 241(3-4), 962-971, 2006.

Aleqabi, G. I., and M. E. Wysession, Q(Lg) distribution in the Basin and Range province of the Western United States, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 96(1), 348-354, 2006.

Wysession, M. E., and V. S. Solomatov, Geophysics: Double-crossed again, Nature, 434, 834-835, 2005.

Wysession, M.E., D. Frank, and S. Yancopoulis, Physical Science: Concepts in Action, Prentice-Hall, 925 pp., 2004.

Fisher, J. L., M. E. Wysession, and K. M. Fischer, Small-scale lateral variations in D'' attenuation and velocity structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(8), 1435, doi:10.1029/2002GL016179, 2003.