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MEGHAN SAMANTHA MILLER University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA +1-713-478-2915 or email: [email protected] http://earth.usc.edu/msmiller/ EDUCATION: Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia Doctor of Philosophy in Earth Science/Geophysics, June 2006 Cornell University, College of Engineering, Ithaca, New York Master of Engineering in Geological Science, January 2000 Columbia University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York, New York Master of Science in Mining Engineering and Applied Geophysics, February 1999 Whittier College, Whittier, California Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Geology, May 1997 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: University of Southern California – Associate Professor Los Angeles, California, February 2015-present California Institute of Technology – Visiting Associate Pasadena, California, 2015-present University of Southern California – Assistant Professor Los Angeles, California, March 2009-present University of Calgary – Research Scientist Calgary, Alberta, November 2008-March 2009 Rice University – Postdoctoral Research Associate then Adjunct Professor Houston, Texas, August 2006-November 2008, March 2009-2010 University of British Columbia – Postdoctoral Research Associate Vancouver, British Columbia, August 2006-November 2008 ACADEMIC AWARDS: Nominated for Blavantik National Award for Young Scientists by USC – 2015 Nominated for Popular Science Brilliant 10 by USC – 2014 NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) – 2011 NSF EarthScope Speaker Series, distinguished lecturer – 2010-2011 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow – 2006-2008 NSF MARGINS postdoctoral travel grants – 2006 and 2007 Best Geodynamics and Geochemistry Oral Presentation: VUESC – 2005 Best Poster Presentation: VUESC – 2004 Geological Society of Australia student travel grants – 2003, 2004, 2005 ANU Research School of Earth Science PhD Scholarship – 2003-2006 Australian Government International Postgraduate Research Scholarship – 2003-2006 Cornell University Geological Science Merit Scholarship – 1999 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Graduate Scholarship – 1999 Columbia University Henry Krumb School of Mines Fellow – 1997-1998 Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society – 1996 Whittier College John Greenleaf Whittier Merit Scholar – 1993-1997 Whittier College Emily Dickenson Scholastic Merit Award – 1993-1997 June 17, 2016 1 ACCOLADES: Briefed the U.S. Senate on the science results from 10 years of EarthScope USArray (May 2014) Miller and Becker (2014) journal article in Geology featured as a Research Highlight by Nature Geoscience Moresi et al. (2014) journal article in Nature featured in the New Scientist, Huffington Post, and by media outlets such as the ABC, Phys.Org, Science Codex, LiveScience.com, Science Daily, wordpress, Universities News, and promoted by USC News Research and undergraduate teaching program (Maymester 2013) in Morocco, funded by NSF CAREER award, was featured as a newspaper article by USC News Research on arcs highlighted in USC Dornsife Magazine in “Lexicon” (Summer 2013) Miller and Becker (2012) journal article in Nature Geoscience featured by USC News and 20 international online magazines such as MSNBC and Phys.org Levander and Miller (2012) journal article in Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems was picked as Editor’s Highlight Research on subduction zone processes highlighted by USC’s Center for High-Performance Computing and Communications HPCC (2012) Levander et al. (2011) journal article in Nature featured in Nature: News and Views and in popular science media such as Science Daily and phys.org. Miller and Eaton (2010) journal article in Geophysical Research Letters featured as an Editor’s Choice Highlight in Science. Research highlighted in Earth magazine published by the American Geological Institute (2010) Research on the Western U.S. funded by the NSF EarthScope program highlighted in the EarthScope Science Plan (2010) Presented research results and represented WiSE for the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees at USC (2010) FUNDING HISTORY: Major Awards: Geoscientists Without Borders (GWB) – Society of Exploration Geophysicists: Establishing earthquake monitoring in Timor-Leste, 2016-2017, $50,000. PI: M.S. Miller Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery Project: The global consequences of subduction zone congestion – 1/2015-12/2019, $712,000(AUD), Lead CI: L. Moresi, co-PIs: P. Betts, J. Whittaker and M.S. Miller NSF-Geophysics EAR-1345015: Using dense seismic arrays to map sharp features in the deep mantle – 7/2014-6/2016, $187,000. PI: M.S. Miller NSF-Tectonics/Geophysics/GVF EAR-1250214: Transitions in the Banda Arc-Australia continental collision as a bridge to understanding mantle and lithospheric controls on surface tectonics – 7/2013-6/2016, $719,000. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PIs: T.W. Becker & A.J. West NSF-CAREER EAR-1054638: Slab structure and dynamics of arcuate shaped subduction zones – 9/2011-8/2016, $522,530. PI: M.S. Miller NSF-GEO/EAR-PF: Structure of the North American craton from joint inversion of receiver functions, body waves, and surface waves, – 6/2013-5/2015, PI: R.W. Porritt, Sponsoring Scientists: M.S. Miller & F. Darbyshire NSF-Continental Dynamics EAR-0809023 Collaborative Research: PICASSO: Program to Investigate Convective Alboran Sea System Overturn – 9/2009-6/2013, $862,001. Lead PI: A. Levander, co-PIs: T.W. Becker, R. Evans, E. Humphreys, C-T. Lee, M.S. Miller, & J. Platt June 17, 2016 2 NSF-EarthScope EAR-0844741 - Collaborative Research: Examining the Evolution of the Colorado Plateau and Its Relation to the Surrounding Tectonic Provinces Using USArray Data – 7/2009- 6/2011, $160,094. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PI: A. Levander Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) – Multi-scale observation of seismic anisotropy as a constraint for stress and deformation along the San Andreas Fault, – 2/2014-1/2015, $30,000. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PI: T.W. Becker. Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) - Steps in lithospheric thickness: Investigating strain localization at major strike slip faults in southern California – 2/2012-1/2013, $30,000. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PIs: T.W. Becker & J. Dolan Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) - Investigating strain localization and Moho offsets across major strike slip faults in southern California – 2/2011-1/2012, $25,000. PI: M.S. Miller Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) - Systematic mapping of the Moho beneath southern California – 1/2010-12/2010, $25,000. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PI: J. Dolan National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) – Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, 3D structure of subducting oceanic lithosphere – 9/2006-8/2008, $80,000. PI: M.S. Miller Australian Research Council – Discovery Project: 3D modeling and geodynamic reconstructions of eastern Indonesia – 2009, $280,000. Lead CI: M.S. Miller, co-PI, M. Sandiford Secondary Awards: WiSE/USC Supplemental Faculty Support, 2015, $2,500, PI: M.S. Miller NSF CAREER – ERC Starting Grant Collaboration, 2015-2016 $6,524, PI: M.S. Miller, co-PI J. van Hunen WiSE/USC Major Support for Continuing Faculty Program – Imaging the Mediterranean from broadband seismic data, 2012-2013, $21,000, PI: M.S. Miller USC Postdoctoral Scholar Research Grant - Imaging the sharp slab in the mantle with help of the GPU computation, 2013, $16,000, PI: D. Sun, mentor: M.S. Miller DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service – Research Visit Grant for Faculty: Funding for collaboration with C. Thomas at the University of Münster, €1,897, PI: M.S. Miller NSF-EarthScope EAR-1045540 Collaborative Research: USArray Data Processing Short Course for the Next Generation of Seismologists II – 8/2010-7/2011 $49,992. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PIs: S. van der Lee & G. Pavlis Pending: Australian Research Council - Linkage Proposal: Collisional Tectonics of Indonesia’s Sunda-Banda Arc Transition, Lead CI: P. Cummins, co-PIs: S. McClusky, M.S. Miller & S. Widiyantoro NSF-CSEDI: Fate of relic subducted oceanic crust in the mid-mantle, $257,000. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PIs: T.W. Becker & D. Helmberger NSF-Earthscope: Waveform-analysis Integrated with Geodynamics and Geophysics to study the Lithospheric structural evolution in the Yakutat collision zone (WIGGLY), $248,510. Lead PI: M.S. Miller, co-PI: L. Moresi PUBLICATIONS (*postdoc, °graduate student, !undergraduate student): In preparation: P-1. Cooper, C.M. Miller, M.S. and L.N. Moresi, (2016), Internal structure of the continental lithosphere, for Tectonophysics. P-2. Miller, M.S., Piana Agostinetti, N., Bianchi, I., and O’Driscoll, L.J., Lithospheric architecture of the Mediterranean, for Earth and Planetary Science Letters. June 17, 2016 3 In Press: 54. *Porritt, R.W., Miller, M.S., *O’Driscoll, L.J., °Harris, C.W., and Roosmawati, N. (2016) Continent-arc collision in the Banda Arc imaged by ambient noise tomography, for Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 246-258, doi:10.1016.j.epsl.2016.06.011. Published: 53. Sun, D., Helmberger, D., Miller, M.S., and Jackson, J.M. (2016), Major disruption of D” beneath Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research, 121(5), 3534-3556, doi:10.1002/2015JB012534. 52. Jessell, M., Begg, G. and Miller, M.S. (2016), The geophysical signatures of the West African Craton, Precambrian Research, 274, 3-24, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.08.010. 51. Miller, M.S., *O’Driscoll, L., °Butcher, A.J., and Thomas, C. (2015), Imaging Canary Island hotspot material beneath
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    SAFOD: REVIEWING PAST PREDICTIONS, KEY RESULTS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS EARTHSCOPE SYNTHESIS WORKSHOP Room 101, Mitchell Building, Stanford University (October 12-14, 2018) The workshop’s goals are to; 1) review the data/techniques that formed early predictions for the SAFOD project and their correctness, 2) synthesize the key scientific outcomes from SAFOD science, and 3) develop a plan to apply SAFOD data to existing concerns surrounding earthquake hazard along creeping faults and the physics of earthquake nucleation. Such a development would also consider possible future research utilizing SAFOD data and the SAFOD facility. Friday, October 12, Morning Introduction, Current Status, and Past Predictions 8:30a.m. BREAKFAST 9:00 - 10:15a.m. Introduction and Current Status (15-minute talks) Bill Ellsworth Welcome Elisabeth Nadin EarthScope Update and Outreach Opportunities Brett Carpenter Meeting Layout and Goals Steve Hickman Current Status: SAFOD Borehole Kelly Bradbury Current Status: SAFOD Core 10:15 - 10:30a.m. BREAK 10:30a.m. - 12:10p.m Pre-drilling Predictions and Updates (20-minute talks) Mark Zoback Original Goals for SAFOD Drilling Diane Moore Geologic Setting and Fault-zone Structure Steve Roecker Seismic and Resistivity Structure Patrick Fulton Hydrologic and Thermal Structure Cliff Thurber Target Earthquakes 12:10 - 1:30p.m. LUNCH Friday, October 12, Afternoon Key SAFOD Science Outcomes 1:30 - 2:50p.m. Borehole and Earthquake Studies (20-minute talks) Mark Zumberge Strain in the SAFOD Borehole Bill Ellsworth Distributed Acoustic Sensing of the Seismic Wavefield at SAFOD Rachel Abercrombie Earthquake Source Properties Peter Malin Fault-zone Guided Waves and Their Implications 2:50 - 3:10p.m.
  • Geoprisms and Earthscope Education and Outreach to Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions in Eastern North America Via the MAGIC Deployment

    Geoprisms and Earthscope Education and Outreach to Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions in Eastern North America Via the MAGIC Deployment

    GeoPRISMS and EarthScope education and outreach to predominantly undergraduate institutions in Eastern North America via the MAGIC deployment Maureen D. Long, Margaret H. Benoit The Mid-Atlantic Geophysical Integrative Collaboration (MAGIC) experiment involves the deployment of 28 broadband seismometers in a dense linear transect from Charles City, VA to Paulding, OH. Data collection began in Fall 2013 and will continue through Fall 2016. The major E&O component of the MAGIC project involves outreach to faculty and students at primarily undergraduate colleges and universities in our field area, most of which do not otherwise have active ties to the GeoPRISMS and EarthScope initiatives and several of which do not have earth science departments. Our contacts with faculty at institutions in our field areas typically begin at the siting stage, when we are searching for a suitable location for a seismometer installation in the vicinity of the college. Contacts with faculty, staff, and students at institutions in our field area have proven invaluable to siting the MAGIC experiment. Three institutions are hosting MAGIC stations on their campus (Muskingum U., Denison U., and Virginia Commonwealth U.), while faculty or staff (or their family) at several others are hosting stations on privately owned land. Meetings with faculty and students at our host institutions allow for the MAGIC PIs to learn about the local student body and departments and programs, and allow us to increase awareness of the GeoPRISMS and EarthScope initiatives at local colleges. During the course of the field work for MAGIC and its predecessor pilot project (the Test Experiment for Eastern North America, or TEENA), we have worked with faculty, students, or staff from a total of ten institutions: Ohio Northern U.