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Brandon Schmandt publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brandon Schmandt sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 165 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Brandon Schmandt D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brandon Schmandt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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

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

    Brandon Schmandt;Eugene Humphreys

  • Continuing Colorado plateau uplift by delamination-style convective lithospheric downwelling

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

  • The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust

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

  • P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

    Brandon Schmandt;Fan Chi Lin

  • 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

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

    Brandon Schmandt;Eugene Humphreys

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

    Brandon Schmandt;Fan Chi Lin;Karl E. Karlstrom

  • Hot mantle upwelling across the 660 beneath Yellowstone

    Brandon Schmandt;Kenneth Dueker;Eugene Humphreys;Steven Hansen

  • Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Brandon Schmandt;Eugene Humphreys

  • Thermal classification of lithospheric discontinuities beneath USArray

    Steven M. Hansen;Ken Dueker;Brandon Schmandt

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

    Steven M. Hansen;Brandon Schmandt

  • Fossil slabs attached to unsubducted fragments of the Farallon plate

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Levander
Alan Levander Rice University
Fan Chi Lin
Fan Chi Lin University of Utah
Kenneth C. Creager
Kenneth C. Creager University of Washington
Karl E. Karlstrom
Karl E. Karlstrom University of New Mexico
Richard C. Aster
Richard C. Aster Colorado State University
Eugene D. Humphreys
Eugene D. Humphreys University of Oregon
John E. Vidale
John E. Vidale University of Southern California
Ken Dueker
Ken Dueker University of Wyoming
Victor C. Tsai
Victor C. Tsai Brown University
Robert W. Clayton
Robert W. Clayton California Institute of Technology

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