Interests:

    My research is focused on using seismology to better understand tectonically active regions. For my research I have primarily focused on the North and South American Cordillera and Africa. I have been involved with projects studying California, Utah and northern Arizona, Alaska, Colorado, Wyoming, Peru, and Argentina. I am particularly interested in how the angle of subduction impacts regional deformation. Some of the techniques I work with are receiver functions, ambient noise tomography, and surface wave tomography. I am also interested in regional ground and surface water studies.

-Crustal Structure of the San Francisco Volcanic Field

-Optimizing Geophysical Surveys for Planetary Exploration

Publications:

Craddock, J. P., Malone, D. H., Porter, R., Compton, J., Luczaj, J., Konstantinou, A., et al., 2017. Paleozoic reactivation structures in the Appalachian-Ouachita-Marathon foreland: Far-field deformation across Pangea. Earth-Science Reviews, 1–93. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.04.002

Brumbaugh, D. S., Porter, R., & Young, J. J., 2016. Seismic and Tectonic Analysis of the 2014–2015 Flagstaff, Arizona, Earthquake Sequence. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 106(6), 2695–2705. http://doi.org/10.1785/0120150357

Porter, R., Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Holt, W. E., & Holt, W. E., 2016. Lithospheric records of orogeny within the continental US. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(1), 144–153. http://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066950