Dr. Keith Koper's Research Group at the University of Utah

In April 23, at the annual award lunch, Dr. Keith Koper received this academic year’s Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. Edie Raines won the Outstanding Student in Geophysics. Valerie Springer won the Outstanding Student in Geological Engineering. Many congratulations to them! Members of our group had a great showing at the departmental poster session 2026 on the morning of April 23! Sean won Second Place in the graduate poster session and Valerie won Third Place in undergra

Keith and Jiaqi presented at the AGU annual meeting in New Orleans. Here is the information of the poster: Geng, J., Koper, K., & West, J (poster). Enhancing the Observability of Precritical PKiKP Phases with Polarization Filters and Incoherent Array Processing. Here is the link of iPoster: https://agu25.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=E4-1D-A7-9A-1E-7D-90-BC-2F-AB-27-19-38-4B-77-38&guestview=true In addition, Jiaqi received a University of Utah travel grant of approximate

Alysha Armstrong was awarded the Department of Geology and Geophysics 2025 award for Outstanding PhD Student. Congratulations, Alysha!!

Alysha will be attending the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) Scientific Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, from 29 June to 4 July 2025. She is helping to co-convene the session titled "Innovative Data Collection, Machine Learning, and Processing Methods in Volcanology" and will give a talk on "Using Machine Learning to Enhance the Yellowstone Earthquake Catalog". Additionally, Alysha received a Seismological Society of Ame

Alysha has been selected to receive a student presentation award from the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting for her poster titled "Feature-based Magnitude Estimates for Small, Nearby Earthquakes in the Yellowstone Volcanic Region". Congrats, Alysha!

Ph.D. student Sean Hutchings received the best poster award at the 2024 Department of Geology and Geophysics Geofest. Way to go, Sean!