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

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

We are pleased to welcome Sawyer Butler, a junior undergraduate student, and Edie Raines, a senior undergraduate student, from the Department of Geology & Geophysics to our research group. Sawyer will be working with graduate student Sean Hutchings to analyze mantle earthquakes in continental regions. Edie will focus on the distinguishing between tectonic earthquakes, explosions and induced earthquakes. Welcome to the group, Sawyer and Edie. We are excited to have you both an

We are pleased to announce that Alysha Armstrong has successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation today and earned her doctoral degree in...

Grad student, Sean Hutchings, had his paper titled " Simulating High‐Frequency Seismograms in Realistic Earth Models to Better Understand...

Sean and Alysha both had papers published this month. Sean's work titled " Upper Mantle Earthquakes Along the Edge of the Wyoming Craton...

PhD student, Sean Hutchings, will be interning with Sandia National Labs over the summer. He will be using machine learning for source discrimination. Congrats, Sean!

Valerie Springer, an undergraduate student at the University of Utah, has joined our research group. She will be working with graduate...

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

Keith and Jiaqi attended the Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD over 12-18 April, 2025. Jiaqi had a poster...

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

PhD candidate, Alysha Armstrong, attended the Machine Learning in Solid Earth Geoscience Meeting in Santa Fe, NM on 27-31 January, 2025....

Keith, Sean, and Alysha presented at the AGU annual meeting in Washington, D.C.. Below are the titles of their talks and posters. ...

Jiaqi Geng is a new PhD student joining our group. Welcome, Jiaqi!!

PhD candidate, Alysha Armstrong, is heading to the National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, CO for a summer internship. She will work on developing a deep-learning phase re-picker for global seismicity. Good luck, Alysha!

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!