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DANIEL ANDREW FROST
University of South Carolina
School of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
701 Sumter Street
EWS 516
Columbia, SC
USA
Education
Ph.D. The University of Leeds 2010 -2014
Thesis: ”Seismic observation of the Earth’s small-scale structure”
Structure of lower mantle using scattered seismic waves and relation to large-scale features
Detecting the edge of the Pacific Large Low Shear Velocity Province using P-waves
MEarthSci The University of Oxford 2006 -2010
Earth Sciences 2 .1 Classification
Masters thesis: ”A marine geophysical study of the Tonga Trench-Louisville ridge collisional system in the South-West Pacific Ocean”
Employment
Assistant Project Scientist University of California, Berkeley 2019-present
- Funded by NSF grant 1829283 : Resolving the influence of mantle heterogeneity on estimates of inner core anisotropy
- Understanding structure and tectonics of mantle beneath Alaska
- Implementing regional box tomography
- Improving resolution of deep Earth by understanding shallow mantle influence
Postdoctoral Scholar University of California, Berkeley 2016 -2019
- Funded by NSF grants 1135452 and 1829283 : Resolving the influence of mantle heterogeneity on estimates of inner core anisotropy
- Inner core anistoropy using exotic seismic phases and seismic arrays and mineral physics
- Supporting the research output and organisation of the Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER) program
- Preparing educational reports on multidisciplinary topics for CIDER
- PDRA: Barbara Romanowicz
Postdoctoral Scholar Arizona State University 2014 -2016
- Funded by NSF grant PVS0695 : Deep mantle cycling of oceanic crust
- Distribution of small-scale heterogeneities throughout both the upper and lower mantle and their relation to mantle dynamics and subduction
- The influence of broad lower mantle heterogeneities on deep-travelling S-waves and the effect on analysis of outer core structure
- PDRA: Edward Garnero
Research Interests
Whole Earth structure, earth evolution, cross-disciplinary studies, influence of convection on mantle structure, seismic scattering, core structure, anisotropy, chemical heterogeneity, D′′ complexity, array seismology, tomographic inversion, developing seismic methodologies
Publications
Creasy, N., Bozdag, E., Frost, D.A., Sources of Body Wave Polarization Anomalies due to Earth’s Coriolis Effect, submitted to GRL
Frost, Daniel A.; Avery, Margaret S.; Buffett, Bruce A.; Chidester, Bethany A.; Deng, Jie; Dorfman, Susannah M.; Li, Zhi; Liu, Lijun; Lv, Mingda; Martin, Joshua F.: Multidisciplinary constraints on the thermal-chemical boundary between Earth’s core and mantle, in review at G3
Frost, Daniel A.; Romanowicz, Barbara; Lasbleis, Marine; Chandler, Brian: Seismic evidence of slow translation and preferential equatorial growth of the inner core, Nature Geoscience, 2021, 14, p. 531–535
Frost, Daniel A.; Romanowicz, Barbara: Effects of upper mantle structure beneath Alaska on core wave absolute and differential measurements: implications for estimates of inner core anisotropy, Phys. Earth. Planet. Int., 2021, 315, 106713
McMahon, Sean; Ivarsson, Magnus; Wacey, David ; Saunders, Martin; Belivanova, Veneta; Muirhead, David; Knoll, Pamela; Steinbock, Oliver; Frost, Daniel A.: Dubiofossils from a Mars-analogue subsurface palaeoenvironment: the limits of biogenicity criteria, Geobiology, 2021
Frost, Daniel A. ; Romanowicz, Barbara; Roecker, Steve: Upper mantle slab under Alaska: contribution to anomalous core-phase observations on south-Sandwich to Alaska paths, Phys. Earth. Planet. Int., 2020, 299, 106427
Frost, Daniel A. ; Romanowicz, Barbara: On the orientation of the fast and slow directions of anisotropy, Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 2019 , 286 , p. 101 -110
Frost, Daniel A. ; Garnero, Edward J.; Rost, Sebastian, Dynamical links between small- and large-scale mantle heterogeneity: seismological evidence, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2018 , 482 , p. 135 -146
Frost, Daniel A. ; Romanowicz, Barbara, Constraints on Inner Core anisotropy using array observations of P′P′ , Geophys. Res. Lett., 2017 , 44 , p. 10 ,878 -10 ,886
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Garnero, Edward J.; Li, Mingming; Seismic evidence for Earths crusty deep mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2017 , 470 , p. 54 -63
Rader, Erika; Emry, Erica; Schmerr, Nicholas; Frost, Daniel A. ; Cheng, Cheng; Menard, Julie; Yu, Chunquan; Geist; Dennis, Characterization and Petrological Constraints of the Midlithospheric Discontinuity, G-Cubed, 2015 , p. 3484 -3504
Rost, Sebastian; Earle, Paul S.; Shearer, Peter M.; Frost, Daniel A. ; Selby, Neil D; Seismic Detections of small-scale heterogeneities in the deep Earth, Springer Monograph, 2015 , in The Earths Heterogeneous Mantle, c. 12 , p. 367 -390
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; The P-wave Boundary of the Large-Low Shear Velocity Province beneath the Pacific, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 2014 , 403 , p. 380 -392
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Selby, Neil D.; Stuart, Graham W., Detection of a tall ridge at the core-mantle boundary from scattered PKP energy, Geophys. J. Int, 2013 , 195 , p. 558 -574
Publications – in preparation
Frost, Daniel A.; Garnero, Edward J.; Aderoju, Adeolu: The influence of lower mantle structure on resolution of the Earth’s core
Creasy, Neala; Bozdag, Ebru; Frost, Daniel A.: Sources of Body Wave Polarization Anomalies due to Earth’s Coriolis Effect
Rost, Sebastian; Frost, Daniel A., Nowacki, Andrew; Cobden, Laura: Hawaiian plume structure from Pdiffracted ray-path anomalies
Frost, Daniel A.; Waszek, Lauren: The sharpness of the inner core hemispheres: assessing the impact of the upper mantle on PKiKP
Frost, Daniel A.; Rost, Sebastian: Physical properties of scattering heterogeneities throughout the mantle
Non-peer reviewed work
Frost, Daniel A. ; Romanowicz, Barbara: On the different flavours of seismic reference models, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7 wb6377 n
Invited Presentations
2017 European Geophysical Association General Assembly Vienna
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Garnero, Edward J.; Romanowicz, Barbara; The dynamic connection between small and large-scale mantle heterogeneity
2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting San Francisco
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Garnero, Edward J.; Seismic detection of oceanic crust in Earths lower mantle and its relation to large-scale mantle structure
2013 European Geophysical Association General Assembly Vienna
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Selby, Neil D.; A global study of the lowermost mantle using scattered PKKP waves (PK KP)
2012 Faculty of Environment Conference Leeds
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Selby, Neil D.; Stewart, Graham W.; The Earth in detail: Seismology as a tool for studying the Earth’s fine-scale structure
2012 Congres de Doctorants IPGP, Paris
Frost, Daniel A. ; Rost, Sebastian; Selby, Neil D.; Stuart; PKP Scattering: Detecting a Heterogeneous Ridge Above the Core-Mantle Boundary
Campus Presentations
2019 Origins Seminar UC Davis
Frost, Daniel A. ; Seismological evidence of the dynamical links between small- and large-scale mantle structure
2019 Seismology and Tectonics Seminar UCLA
Frost, Daniel A. ; Inner core dynamics from patterns of seismic anisotropy
2018 Seismological Laboratory Seminar California Institute of Technology
Frost, Daniel A. ; Seismological evidence of the dynamical links between small- and large-scale mantle structure
2018 Department of Physics Colloquium New Mexico State University
Frost, Daniel A. ; The dynamical links between small- and large-scale mantle structures: seismological evidence
2016 Deep Thoughts, Earth and Life Science Institute, Tokyo
Frost, Daniel A. ; Seismically mapping kilometre-scale structures throughout the mantle
2016 Berkeley Seismological Lab Seminar University of California, Berkeley
Frost, Daniel A. ; Seismically mapping kilometre-scale structures throughout the mantle
Proposals – funded
2021 National Science Foundation CSEDI program
Value: $408,190 Collaborative Research: The Origins and Implications of Inner Core Seismic Anisotropy
Myself as PI with Bruce Buffett (UC Berkeley), and Lowell Miyagi (University of Utah) as CoIs
2021 National Science Foundation Geophysics program
Value: $221,284
Imaging deep mantle structure beneath Alaska using full waveform tomography
Myself as PI, with Barbara Romanowicz (UC Berkeley) as CoI.
2020 National Science Foundation Geophysics program
Value: $72,612
“Collaborative Research: Towards improved imaging of the outermost core through determination of the effects of lowermost mantle heterogeneity and anisotropy”
Myself as CoI with Edward Garnero (Arizona State University) as PI, and CoIs Ebru Bozdag (Colorado School of Mines) and Maureen Long (Yale University).
2018 National Science Foundation Geophysics program
Value: $152 ,142
“Resolving the influence of mantle heterogeneity on estimates of inner core anisotropy”
Co-authored with Barbara Romanowicz. Named researcher.
2014 National Science Foundation Cooperative Studies Of The Earth’s Deep Interior program
Value: $550 ,121
“Deep Mantle Cycling of Oceanic Crust”
This proposal was authored by PIs at ASU, but the seismological investigations (one third of the proposed activities) were built around my skill base, to specifically fund my involvement in the multidisciplinary research
2014 Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
Young Scientist Research Award
Value: 9 months
“Characterisation of small-scale heterogeneities beneath IMS arrays for improved source location and magnitude estimation”
Authored proposal and the project was awarded, but I turned this down to accept a postdoctoral position at Arizona State University
Teaching Experience
University of California, Berkeley
Pathways to Scientific Teaching course (Feb 2020)
Guest instructor: Earthquake of the week EPS 256 (2018 , 2019 ) – Graduate level
Guest lecturer: Physics of the Earth‘s Interior EPS122 (2017 )
Arizona State University
Undergraduate student pitching workshop (2015 )
The University of Leeds
Teaching assistant: Global Seismology (2011 , 2012 , 2013 )
Guest lecture on graduate research: Global Seismology (2013 )
Teaching assistant: Computing (2011 , 2012 , 2013 )
Teaching assistant: Geological fieldwork courses (2011 , 2012 , 2013 )
Teaching assistant: Petrology (2013 )
Teaching assistant: Inverse theory (2012 )
Teaching assistant: Geological map skills (2012 )
Teaching assistant: Applied geophysics (2011 )
Teaching assistant: Geophysical data acquisition field course (2011 )
Multidisciplinary Research Experience
2018 CIDER Summer School UC Santa Barbara, California
”Relating geophysical and geochemical heterogeneity in the deep Earth” (attendant)
Worked to constrain the nature of the thermal boundary layer at the core-mantle boundary from a multidisciplinary approach
2017 MEXT Shin-Gakujutsu Winter school Kusatsu, Japan
”Origin and Evolution of Deep Primordial Reservoirs” (attendant)
2016 CIDER Summer School UC Santa Barbara, California
”Flow in the Deep Earth” (attendant)
Worked on integrating multidisciplinary observations and experiments of the lower mantle to understand its chemical and thermal structure
2014 ELSI Summer School Earth and Life Sciences Institute, Tokyo
”Computational Tools for Planetary Formation and Earth Evolution” (attendant)
2013 Seismic network deployment
Assisted in decommissioning Faultlab Dense Array in Northern Anatolia in Turkey
2013 CIDER Summer School UC Berkeley, California
”From mantle to crust: continental formation and destruction” (attendant)
Worked on the nature, prevalence, and possible explanations for observations of the Mid-Lithospheric Discontinuity
2010, 2012 Research Scientist AWE Blacknest, UK
Analysed seismic scattering using CTBTO data
2009 Volunteer Research Scientist
Centre of Exchange and Research in Volcanology, Colima University, Mexico
Volunteered as a research assistant for 2 months working with seismic data and thermal camera images to analyse volcanic activity at Volcan de Colima. Took part in several field trips to observe and sample Volcan de Colima
Scientific Service
Reviewer: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Journal International, Geophysical Research Letters (Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, 2018 )
2019 Facilitator at ”How to Be an Effective Mentor and Mentee” Workshop at the AGU Fall Meeting Student and Early Career Scientist Conference
2016 – 2019 Maintaining CIDER’s online presence
2019 Supported the organisation of CIDER summer program
2015 – 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting OSPA Judge
2018 Volunteered as an undergraduate mentor at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2018 Organised CIDER pre-AGU workshop
2018 Supported the running and organisation of CIDER summer program
2017 Volunteered as an undergraduate mentor at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2017 Co-organised CIDER pre-AGU workshop
2017 Assisted with running CIDER summer program
2016 Organised student pitching competition at Arizona State University
2012 Assisted with delegate services for the SEDI 2012 meeting held in Leeds
2012 Co-organised the British Geophysical Association Postgraduate Research in Progress Meeting held in Leeds
Service to University
2019 Co-organised Berkeley Seismological Lab seminar series
2018 Organised lab-wide discussion meetings on recent seismicity and professional development
2017 Postdoc representative on UC Berkeley Seismological Lab web design committee
2016 Co-organised Berkeley Seismological Lab seminar series
2015 Organised research group-wide social meetings at Arizona State University
2013 Postgraduate student representative at both the research institute and school level at University of Leeds
Outreach
Winter 2019 Will organise visit and teach lesson on geophysics to Gifted and Talented Education program from Bay Area school
2019 Popping the Science Bubble – public research talk at Berkeley Public Library
2019 Remotely taught seismology to 3 rd and 4 th grade students at school in central Kansas
2019 Presented research and basic seismology lesson to 7 th grade students visiting from local school
2019 Presented at UC Berkeley CalDay on Earth’s core to advertise geophysics research to prospective students
2019 Support Berkeley Seismological Laboratory at UC Berkeley CalDay
2019 Taught tectonics to 6 th grade students with Bay Area Science in Schools
2019 Remotely engaged with third grade students at a rural school to discuss earthquake hazards and research
2018 Engaged with the public at a question and answer session at The Bay Area Science Festival
2018 Presented on behalf of UC Berkeley Seismological Lab at the City of Berkeley ShakeOut
2018 Presented at UC Berkeley Compass to advertise geophysics research across campus
2018 Presented at UC Berkeley CalDay on Earth’s core to advertise geophysics research to public
2018 Supported Berkeley Seismological Laboratory at UC Berkeley CalDay
2018 Taught statistical analysis to students for science fair projects in a Bay Area middle school
2018 STEM mentor for Be A Scientist program in a Bay Area middle school
2017 Taught seismology to 6 th grade students with Bay Area Science in Schools
2017 Presented on behalf of UC Berkeley Seismological Lab at the Bay Area Science Festival
Professional Development
2018 University of California, Beyond Diversity lectures
Discussion of inclusion in STEM education
2016 University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral Development Courses
Management and Python programming
2015 Arizona State University Postdoctoral Development Course
Pitching and application writing
2015 IRIS Webinars
Programming skills and career development
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