Ryan Porter
Northern Arizona University
School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
PO Box 4099, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Phone: (928) 523-2429
Email: Ryan.Porter@nau.edu
Northern Arizona University
School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
PO Box 4099, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Phone: (928) 523-2429
Email: Ryan.Porter@nau.edu
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Tucson, AZ
Ph.D. Geosciences December 2011
WHITMAN COLLEGE Walla Walla, WA
B.A. Geology-Physics May 2006
History Minor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Earthquake Seismology, Active Tectonics, Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure, Subduction Zone Processes, Seismic Anisotropy, Shallow Geophysics, Groundwater
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor Northern Arizona University January 2014 -Present
Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Institution for Science April 2012 - December 2013
Postdoctoral Researcher University of Arizona January 2012 - March 2012
RA/TA University of Arizona August 2006 - December 2011
Undergrad Researcher Keck Geology Consortium June 2005 – April 2006
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Porter, R., Hoisch, T. Holt., W. E., 2017. The Role of Lower-Crustal Hydration in the Tectonic Evolution of the Colorado Plateau. Tectonophysics. 712-713, 221-231.
Craddock, J. P., Malone, D. H., Porter, R., Compton, J., Luczaj, J., Konstantinou, A., et al., 2017. Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea. Earth-Science Reviews, 1–93. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.002
Brumbaugh, D. S., Porter, R., & Young, J. J., 2016. Seismic and Tectonic Analysis of the 2014–2015 Flagstaff, Arizona, Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(6), 2695–2705. http://doi.org/10.1785/0120150357
Porter, R., Liu, Y., & Holt, W. E., 2016, Lithospheric Records of Orogeny within the Continental US. Geophysical Research Letters, 43. http://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-8007
Craddock, J., Malone D., Porter, R., MacNamee A., Mathisen M., Kravtiz K, Leonard A., 2015, Landslide Origin of the ~49.5-51.7 Ma Allochthonous South Fork Structure, Wyoming, USA. The Journal of Geology. 123, 4. 311-335.
*Delph, J.R. and Porter R.C., 2014, Crustal structure beneath southern Africa: Insight into how tectonics events affect the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Geophysical Journal International. 200 (1), 245-264.
Porter, R. C., Fouch, M. J., & Schmerr, N. C., 2014. Dynamic lithosphere within the Great Basin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(4), 1128-1146.
*Allison, C., Porter, R., Fouch, M., Semken, S., 2013. Seismic evidence for lithospheric modification beneath the Mojave Neovolcanic Province, Southern California, Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (19): 5119–5124
*Ward, K., Porter, R., Zandt, G., Beck, S., Wagner, L., Estela, M., Hernando, T., 2013. Ambient Noise Tomography Across the Central Andes. Geophysical Journal International, 194 (3): 1559-1573.
Porter, R., Gilbert, H., Zandt, G., Beck, S., Warren, L., Calkins, J., Alvarado, P., Anderson, M., 2012. Shear wave velocities in the Pampean flat-slab region from Rayleigh wave tomography: Implications for slab and upper mantle hydration. Journal of Geophysical Reseach-Solid Earth, 117, B11301.
Porter, R., Zandt, G., McQuarrie, N., 2011. Pervasive lower-crustal seismic anisotropy in Southern California: Evidence for underplated schists and active tectonics. Lithosphere, 3, 2011.
*Student Publications
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Porter R. Why the West is High: A Geophysics Perspective. 2017. Outcrop. Rocky Mountain Association of Geologist. Denver, CO. 66 (11). 27-30.
Porter et al., The Anisotropic Magnetic Susceptibility Of Proterozoic Northshore Volcanic Rhyolites, Keweenaw Rift in: 19th Annual Keck Symposium; http://keck.wooster.edu/publications
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
SUNY Stony Brook – May 2016
Washington State University – September 2015
University of Arizona – September 2014
AGU Fall Meeting – December 2013
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – February 2013
Saint Louis University – January 2013
EarthScope Transportable Array Team Meeting – September 2012
Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism – June 2012
TEACHING
GLG 101 – Intro to Geology
GLG 440C – Field Camp
GLG 470 – Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
GLG 560 – Applied Geophysics
GLG 561 – Regional Tectonics
GLG 565 – Solid Earth Geophysics
GLG 698 – Laramide Tectonics
GLG 698 – Orogenic Systems
AWARDS
University of Arizona Galileo Circle Scholar 2009
Geodaze 2009 Best Geophysics talk
AGU Fall Meeting 2008 Outstanding Student Paper
Whitman College Eugene Marx Award for Distinguished Campus Service 2006
FIELD WORK
2016 - Present - Analog Field Deployments of Small Aperture Seismic Arrays on Terrestrial Bodies
2016 - USGS Pipe Springs Groundwater Project (TEM)
2015 - 2017 - USGS Truxton Basin Project (CSAMT)
2015 - 2017 - USGS Chino Valley Groundwater (CSAMT)
2013 - 2014 - Sunset Crater Seismic Experiment
2010 - 2011 - Central Andean Uplift and the Geodynamics of High Topography (CAUGHT)
2010 - 2011 - PerU Lithosphere and Slab Experiment (PULSE)
2008 - 2009 - Labarge Wyoming Seismic Project
2007 - 2009 - SIerras pampeanas Experiment using a Multicomponent BRoadband Array (SIEMBRA)
2007- Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project (SNEP)
2007 - Cascadia GPS Deployment
2005 - KECK Minnesota Project
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geological Society of America (GSA)
SERVICE
Mentor for the Scientists in the Classroom Program Sinagua Middle School
Northern Arizona Planetary Science Alliance Steering Committee
NAU IRIS Representative
IRIS Quality Assurance Advisory Council
NSF Reviewer for: EarthScope, Geophysics, Tectonics, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
Reviewer for: ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Army Research Offic, BSSA, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geology, G-cubed, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Geosphere, Journal of Geodynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Marine Geophysical Research, PLOS ONE, Tectonics, Tectonophysics
Reviewer for: National Science Quiz Bowl
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Tucson, AZ
Ph.D. Geosciences December 2011
WHITMAN COLLEGE Walla Walla, WA
B.A. Geology-Physics May 2006
History Minor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Earthquake Seismology, Active Tectonics, Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure, Subduction Zone Processes, Seismic Anisotropy, Shallow Geophysics, Groundwater
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor Northern Arizona University January 2014 -Present
Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Institution for Science April 2012 - December 2013
Postdoctoral Researcher University of Arizona January 2012 - March 2012
RA/TA University of Arizona August 2006 - December 2011
Undergrad Researcher Keck Geology Consortium June 2005 – April 2006
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Porter, R., Hoisch, T. Holt., W. E., 2017. The Role of Lower-Crustal Hydration in the Tectonic Evolution of the Colorado Plateau. Tectonophysics. 712-713, 221-231.
Craddock, J. P., Malone, D. H., Porter, R., Compton, J., Luczaj, J., Konstantinou, A., et al., 2017. Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea. Earth-Science Reviews, 1–93. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.002
Brumbaugh, D. S., Porter, R., & Young, J. J., 2016. Seismic and Tectonic Analysis of the 2014–2015 Flagstaff, Arizona, Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(6), 2695–2705. http://doi.org/10.1785/0120150357
Porter, R., Liu, Y., & Holt, W. E., 2016, Lithospheric Records of Orogeny within the Continental US. Geophysical Research Letters, 43. http://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1944-8007
Craddock, J., Malone D., Porter, R., MacNamee A., Mathisen M., Kravtiz K, Leonard A., 2015, Landslide Origin of the ~49.5-51.7 Ma Allochthonous South Fork Structure, Wyoming, USA. The Journal of Geology. 123, 4. 311-335.
*Delph, J.R. and Porter R.C., 2014, Crustal structure beneath southern Africa: Insight into how tectonics events affect the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Geophysical Journal International. 200 (1), 245-264.
Porter, R. C., Fouch, M. J., & Schmerr, N. C., 2014. Dynamic lithosphere within the Great Basin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(4), 1128-1146.
*Allison, C., Porter, R., Fouch, M., Semken, S., 2013. Seismic evidence for lithospheric modification beneath the Mojave Neovolcanic Province, Southern California, Geophysical Research Letters, 40 (19): 5119–5124
*Ward, K., Porter, R., Zandt, G., Beck, S., Wagner, L., Estela, M., Hernando, T., 2013. Ambient Noise Tomography Across the Central Andes. Geophysical Journal International, 194 (3): 1559-1573.
Porter, R., Gilbert, H., Zandt, G., Beck, S., Warren, L., Calkins, J., Alvarado, P., Anderson, M., 2012. Shear wave velocities in the Pampean flat-slab region from Rayleigh wave tomography: Implications for slab and upper mantle hydration. Journal of Geophysical Reseach-Solid Earth, 117, B11301.
Porter, R., Zandt, G., McQuarrie, N., 2011. Pervasive lower-crustal seismic anisotropy in Southern California: Evidence for underplated schists and active tectonics. Lithosphere, 3, 2011.
*Student Publications
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Porter R. Why the West is High: A Geophysics Perspective. 2017. Outcrop. Rocky Mountain Association of Geologist. Denver, CO. 66 (11). 27-30.
Porter et al., The Anisotropic Magnetic Susceptibility Of Proterozoic Northshore Volcanic Rhyolites, Keweenaw Rift in: 19th Annual Keck Symposium; http://keck.wooster.edu/publications
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
SUNY Stony Brook – May 2016
Washington State University – September 2015
University of Arizona – September 2014
AGU Fall Meeting – December 2013
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – February 2013
Saint Louis University – January 2013
EarthScope Transportable Array Team Meeting – September 2012
Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism – June 2012
TEACHING
GLG 101 – Intro to Geology
GLG 440C – Field Camp
GLG 470 – Physics and Chemistry of the Earth
GLG 560 – Applied Geophysics
GLG 561 – Regional Tectonics
GLG 565 – Solid Earth Geophysics
GLG 698 – Laramide Tectonics
GLG 698 – Orogenic Systems
AWARDS
University of Arizona Galileo Circle Scholar 2009
Geodaze 2009 Best Geophysics talk
AGU Fall Meeting 2008 Outstanding Student Paper
Whitman College Eugene Marx Award for Distinguished Campus Service 2006
FIELD WORK
2016 - Present - Analog Field Deployments of Small Aperture Seismic Arrays on Terrestrial Bodies
2016 - USGS Pipe Springs Groundwater Project (TEM)
2015 - 2017 - USGS Truxton Basin Project (CSAMT)
2015 - 2017 - USGS Chino Valley Groundwater (CSAMT)
2013 - 2014 - Sunset Crater Seismic Experiment
2010 - 2011 - Central Andean Uplift and the Geodynamics of High Topography (CAUGHT)
2010 - 2011 - PerU Lithosphere and Slab Experiment (PULSE)
2008 - 2009 - Labarge Wyoming Seismic Project
2007 - 2009 - SIerras pampeanas Experiment using a Multicomponent BRoadband Array (SIEMBRA)
2007- Sierra Nevada Earthscope Project (SNEP)
2007 - Cascadia GPS Deployment
2005 - KECK Minnesota Project
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geological Society of America (GSA)
SERVICE
Mentor for the Scientists in the Classroom Program Sinagua Middle School
Northern Arizona Planetary Science Alliance Steering Committee
NAU IRIS Representative
IRIS Quality Assurance Advisory Council
NSF Reviewer for: EarthScope, Geophysics, Tectonics, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs
Reviewer for: ACS Petroleum Research Fund, Army Research Offic, BSSA, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geology, G-cubed, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters, Geosphere, Journal of Geodynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Marine Geophysical Research, PLOS ONE, Tectonics, Tectonophysics
Reviewer for: National Science Quiz Bowl