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About Me GLY 5468 GLY 6932 CV Useful Links Home Raymond M. Russo Assistant Professor 223 Williamson Hall campus phone: 2-6766 rrusso@ufl.edu Office hours T-Th: 14:45-15:45 or by appointment	R. M. Russo's Home Page Ph.D. 1990, Northwestern University Sc.B. 1983, Brown University Research Interests Tectonics and seismology, with emphasis on upper mantle flow and lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions September 10, 2006 Gulf of Mexico magnitude 6.0 earthquake: The Gulf of Mexico is seismically active? Yes...... Current projects: Seismic attenuation and anisotropy in the Carpathians and adjacent basins, Romania Crustal and upper mantle structure, mantle flow, and the geodynamics of Chile Ridge subduction, Patagonia, Chile Geodynamics of Indochina and the South China Sea basin Lithosphere-asthenosphere coupling in the Pacific Basin Local-scale shear wave splitting in the Twin Sisters mantle section Shear wave splitting and upper mantle flow at subduction zones (Kamchatka, Aegean, Scotia) Gravity modeling of Central Atlantic rifting remnants: Demerara Plateau Numerical modeling of Pacific-Farallon ridge reorientation Courses Taught ESC 1000 Introduction to Earth Science GLY 2010 Physical Geology GLY 5455 Introduction to Geophysics GLY 5466 Seismology and Earth Structure GLY 5468 Terrestrial Gravity and Magnetism GLY 5476 Environmental Geophysics GLY 6932 Writing for Geology GLY 6932 Analysis of Time Series in Geology NSF Chautauqua Short Course 2006 Contact Info Department of Geological Sciences 241 Williamson Hall P.O. Box 112120 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 +1 352 392 6766 office phone +1 352 392 9294 fax russo@geology.ufl.edu rayrusso@cox.net (I use this email when I am away from campus) http://seismology.geology.ufl.edu