2026 Brandon Schmandt: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	43	5067	4681	1896	1687	165	5917

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2015 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America

Overview

Brandon Schmandt is a researcher affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics. Their work also intersects with Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and General Health Professions.

The main research topics covered in their publications include:

Earthquake and tectonic studies
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Seismic Waves and Analysis
Seismology and Earthquake Studies
Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Earthquake Detection and Analysis
Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

Geophysical Research Letters
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Seismological Research Letters
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Key recent papers by Brandon Schmandt include:

"Injection-Induced Earthquakes on Complex Fault Zones of the Raton Basin Illuminated by Machine-Learning Phase Picker and Dense Nodal Array" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
"Combining Deep Learning with Physics Based Features in Explosion-Earthquake Discrimination" (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
"Local Source Vp and Vs Tomography in the Mount St. Helens Region With the iMUSH Broadband Array" (2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
"Seismic Discrimination of Controlled Explosions and Earthquakes Near Mount St. Helens Using P / S Ratios" (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
"Magma accumulation at depths of prior rhyolite storage beneath Yellowstone Caldera" (2022, Science)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Ruijia Wang
Margaret Glasgow
E. Kiser
Jin S. Zhang
Ross Maguire

Brandon Schmandt has received recognition in the form of awards such as the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2020 and the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 2015.

Best Publications

Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle

Brandon Schmandt;Steven D. Jacobsen;Thorsten W. Becker;Zhenxian Liu

395
Citations
Complex subduction and small-scale convection revealed by body-wave tomography of the western United States upper mantle

Brandon Schmandt;Eugene Humphreys

387
Citations
Continuing Colorado plateau uplift by delamination-style convective lithospheric downwelling

A. Levander;B. Schmandt;M. S. Miller;K. Liu

340
Citations
The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

Hsin Hua Huang;Fan Chi Lin;Brandon Schmandt;Jamie Farrell

303
Citations
P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

Brandon Schmandt;Fan Chi Lin

286
Citations
Mantle-driven dynamic uplift of the Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau and its surface response: Toward a unified hypothesis

K.E. Karlstrom;D. Coblentz;K. Dueker;W. Ouimet;W. Ouimet

209
Citations
Seismically imaged relict slab from the 55 Ma Siletzia accretion to the northwest United States

Brandon Schmandt;Eugene Humphreys

168
Citations
Distinct crustal isostasy trends east and west of the Rocky Mountain Front

Brandon Schmandt;Fan Chi Lin;Karl E. Karlstrom

164
Citations
Hot mantle upwelling across the 660 beneath Yellowstone

Brandon Schmandt;Kenneth Dueker;Eugene Humphreys;Steven Hansen

157
Citations
Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry

Fan Chi Lin;Victor C. Tsai;Brandon Schmandt;Zacharie Duputel

150
Citations
Joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity using USArray: Constraining velocity and density structure in the upper crust

Fan Chi Lin;Brandon Schmandt;Victor C. Tsai

141
Citations
Multiple fluvial processes detected by riverside seismic and infrasound monitoring of a controlled flood in the Grand Canyon

Brandon Schmandt;Richard C. Aster;Richard C. Aster;Dirk Scherler;Victor C. Tsai

135
Citations
Magma reservoirs from the upper crust to the Moho inferred from high-resolution Vp and Vs models beneath Mount St. Helens, Washington State, USA

Eric Kiser;Imma Palomeras;Alan Levander;Colin Zelt

135
Citations
3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations

Fan Chi Lin;Victor C. Tsai;Brandon Schmandt

133
Citations
Seismic heterogeneity and small‐scale convection in the southern California upper mantle

Brandon Schmandt;Eugene Humphreys

127
Citations
Thermal classification of lithospheric discontinuities beneath USArray

Steven M. Hansen;Ken Dueker;Brandon Schmandt

101
Citations
Automated detection and location of microseismicity at Mount St. Helens with a large‐N geophone array

Steven M. Hansen;Brandon Schmandt

101
Citations
Fossil slabs attached to unsubducted fragments of the Farallon plate

Yun Wang;Donald W. Forsyth;Christina J. Rau;Nina Carriero

97
Citations
Shrinking of the Colorado Plateau via lithospheric mantle erosion: Evidence from Nd and Sr isotopes and geochronology of Neogene basalts

Ryan Crow;Karl Karlstrom;Yemane Asmerom;Brandon Schmandt

96
Citations
Subduction in the southern Caribbean: Images from finite‐frequency P wave tomography

M. J. Bezada;M. J. Bezada;A. Levander;B. Schmandt

92
Citations
Analysis of teleseismic P waves with a 5200-station array in Long Beach, California: Evidence for an abrupt boundary to Inner Borderland rifting

Brandon Schmandt;Brandon Schmandt;Robert W. Clayton

87
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Levander Rice University

Fan Chi Lin University of Utah

Kenneth C. Creager University of Washington

Karl E. Karlstrom University of New Mexico

Richard C. Aster Colorado State University

Eugene D. Humphreys University of Oregon

John E. Vidale University of Southern California

Ken Dueker University of Wyoming

Victor C. Tsai Brown University

Robert W. Clayton California Institute of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Brandon Schmandt

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