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

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...

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...

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...

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

Previous M.S. student, Sean Hutchings, will be pursuing his Ph.D. in the Koper group. Congrats, Sean!

Grad Student, Alysha Armstrong, passed her qualifying exam today and has advanced to candidacy. Way to go, Alysha!

Master's student, Nick Forbes, defended his thesis titled "Spatiotemporal Analysis of the 2008-2009 Yellowstone Lake Earthquake Sequence...

Grad student, Alysha Armstrong, had her first, first author paper published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. It...