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Prof. Robert D van der Hilst

Schlumberger Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Department Head / Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Chair, Program in Geophysics (EAPS)

Primary DLC

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

MIT Room: 54-522
(617) 253-3382

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Global Seismology
Mantle Structure, Composition, and Dynamics
(Hydrocarbon) Reservoir Imaging and Monitoring
Multi-Scale Seismic Imaging of Earth's Interior (Seismic Tomography; Inverse Scattering Methodologies; Seismic Anisotropy)
Deep Mantle Interfaces (e.g., Transition Zone Discontinuities, Core Mantle Boundary Region)
Seismic Structure of Continental Upper Mantle of Asia and and North America (with Dense Receiver Arrays, such as USArray/Earthscope)

Recent Work

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