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Overview

Cecily J. Wolfe is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Computer Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Wolfe's work integrates subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research.

Their primary research topics focus on Seismology and Earthquake Studies, earthquake and tectonic studies, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, and Seismic Waves and Analysis. Additionally, Wolfe has contributed to studies in Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, and Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications.

Wolfe's recent publications include the following:

  • U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program decadal science strategy, 2024, published in U.S. Geological Survey circular/U.S. Geological Survey Circular
  • Phase 1 technical implementation plan for the expansion of the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system to Alaska, 2025, published in Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • Preliminary Observations of the 5 April 2024 Mw 4.8 New Jersey Earthquake, 2024, published in The Seismic Record
  • GeoTyper: Automated Pipeline from Raw scRNA-Seq Data to Cell Type Identification, 2022, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors include William D. Barnhart, P. S. Earle, Douglas D. Given, Valerie Thomas, and Oliver S. Boyd.

Wolfe's work has been published in several venues repeatedly, with notable publications in The Seismic Record, U.S. Geological Survey circular/U.S. Geological Survey Circular, Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • Seismic structure of the Iceland mantle plume

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Ingi Th. Bjarnason;John C. VanDecar;Sean C. Solomon

  • Seismic anisotropy of oceanic upper mantle: Shear wave splitting methodologies and observations

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Paul G. Silver

  • Seismic evidence for a lower-mantle origin of the Iceland plume

    Yang Shen;Sean C. Solomon;Ingi Þorleifur Bjarnason;Cecily J. Wolfe

  • Mantle shear-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hot spot.

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Gabi Laske;John A. Collins

  • Imaging the deep seismic structure beneath a mid-ocean ridge : The MELT experiment

    Forsyth Dw;Scheirer Ds;Webb Sc;Dorman Lm

  • Mantle flow, melting, and dehydration of the Iceland mantle plume

    Garrett Ito;Yang Shen;Greg Hirth;Cecily J. Wolfe

  • Shear-Wave Splitting and Implications for Mantle Flow Beneath the MELT Region of the East Pacific Rise

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Sean C. Solomon

  • Assessing the depth resolution of tomographic models of upper mantle structure beneath Iceland

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Ingi Þorleifur Bjarnason;John C. VanDecar;Sean C. Solomon

  • Microearthquake characteristics and crustal velocity structure at 29°N on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge: The architecture of a slow spreading segment

    Cecily J. Wolfe;G. M. Purdy;Douglas R. Toomey;Sean C. Solomon

  • The Marquesas archipelagic apron: Seismic stratigraphy and implications for volcano growth, mass wasting, and crustal underplating

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Marcia K. McNutt;Robert S. Detrick

  • Double layering of a thermochemical plume in the upper mantle beneath Hawaii

    Maxim D. Ballmer;Garrett Ito;Cecily J. Wolfe;Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Sean C. Solomon

  • Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell: evidence from teleseismic receiver functions

    Garrett M. Leahy;John A. Collins;Cecily J. Wolfe;Gabi Laske

  • On the Mathematics of Using Difference Operators to Relocate Earthquakes

    Cecily J. Wolfe

  • Periodic slow earthquakes on the flank of Kīlauea volcano, Hawaiʻi

    Benjamin A. Brooks;James H. Foster;Michael Bevis;L. Neil Frazer

  • Cretaceous Guyots in the Northwest Pacific: an Overview of their Geology and Geophysics

    Edward L. Winterer;James H. Natland;Robert J. Van Waasbergen;Robert A. Duncan

  • Mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Cecily J. Wolfe;Cecily J. Wolfe;Paul G. Okubo;Paul G. Okubo;Paul G. Okubo;Peter M. Shearer;Peter M. Shearer;Peter M. Shearer

  • Initial results from the ICEMELT Experiment: Body-wave delay times and shear-wave splitting across Iceland

    Ingi Th. Bjarnason;Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Gunnar Gudmundson

  • Shear‐wave splitting at central Tien Shan: Evidence for rapid variation of anisotropic patterns

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Frank L. Vernon

  • Swarms of similar long-period earthquakes in the mantle beneath Mauna Loa Volcano

    Paul G. Okubo;Cecily J. Wolfe

  • Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot

    Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Gabi Laske;John A. Collins

  • Systematic relocation of seismicity on Hawaii Island from 1992 to 2009 using waveform cross correlation and cluster analysis

    Robin S. Matoza;Peter M. Shearer;Guoqing Lin;Cecily J. Wolfe;Cecily J. Wolfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean C. Solomon
Sean C. Solomon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Gabi Laske
Gabi Laske University of California, San Diego
John A. Orcutt
John A. Orcutt University of California, San Diego
Robert S. Detrick
Robert S. Detrick Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
David Bercovici
David Bercovici Yale University
Erik H. Hauri
Erik H. Hauri Carnegie Institution for Science
Paul G. Okubo
Paul G. Okubo United States Geological Survey
Bruce F. Houghton
Bruce F. Houghton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Yang Shen
Yang Shen University of Rhode Island
Frank L. Vernon
Frank L. Vernon University of California, San Diego

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