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Douglas R. Toomey is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Geophysics. Their work spans 31 publications primarily within this field, emphasizing topics related to seismic and tectonic phenomena.

Their main research topics include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Seismology and earthquake studies
  • Anomaly detection techniques and applications

Douglas R. Toomey has published extensively across a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Toomey are:

  • "Advances in seismic imaging of magma and crystal mush" (2022), published in Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Magma Chamber Detected Beneath an Arc Volcano With Full-Waveform Inversion of Active-Source Seismic Data" (2022), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Status and Performance of the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System: 2019-2023" (2024), published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Relationship Between Active Faulting/Fracturing and Magmatism Around Santorini: Seismic Anisotropy From an Active Source Tomography Experiment" (2021), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Body Wave Tomography of the Cascadia Subduction Zone and Juan de Fuca Plate System: Identifying Challenges and Solutions for Shore-Crossing Data" (2020), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Throughout their career, Toomey has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • E. E. Hooft
  • M. Paulatto
  • C. B. Papazachos
  • Benjamin Heath
  • Joanna Morgan

Douglas R. Toomey's subfield expertise primarily lies in geophysics, but also extends to artificial intelligence, civil and structural engineering, and computer networks and communications.

Best Publications

  • Tomographic inversion of local earthquake data from the Hengill-Grensdalur Central Volcano Complex, Iceland

    D. R. Toomey;G. R. Foulger

  • The three-dimensional seismic velocity structure of the East Pacific Rise near latitude 9° 30′ N

    Douglas R. Toomey;Douglas R. Toomey;G. M. Purdy;Sean C. Solomon;William S. D. Wilcock

  • Tomographic imaging of the shallow crustal structure of the East Pacific Rise at 9°30′N

    Douglas R. Toomey;Sean C. Solomon;G. M. Purdy

  • Microearthquakes beneath the Median Valley of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge near 23°N: Hypocenters and focal mechanisms

    Douglas R. Toomey;Sean C. Solomon;G. M. Purdy;Mark H. Murray

  • Three‐dimensional seismic structure and physical properties of the crust and shallow mantle beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°30'N

    Robert A. Dunn;Douglas R. Toomey;Sean C. Solomon

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

    Forsyth Dw;Scheirer Ds;Webb Sc;Dorman Lm

  • Microearthquakes beneath Median Valley of Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 23°N: Tomography and tectonics

    Douglas R. Toomey;Sean C. Solomon;G. M. Purdy

  • Evidence for slab rollback in westernmost Mediterranean from improved upper mantle imaging

    M.J. Bezada;E.D. Humphreys;D.R. Toomey;M. Harnafi

  • Intergranular basaltic melt is distributed in thin, elogated inclusions

    Ulrich H. Faul;Douglas R. Toomey;Harve S. Waff

  • Crustal thickness and structure along three contrasting spreading segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 33.5°–35°N

    E. E. E. Hooft;R. S. Detrick;D. R. Toomey;J. A. Collins

  • Mantle seismic structure beneath the MELT region of the east pacific rise from P and S wave tomography

    Douglas R. Toomey;William S. D. Wilcock;Sean C. Solomon;William C. Hammond

  • 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 Cascadia Initiative: A Sea Change In Seismological Studies of Subduction Zones

    Douglas R. Toomey;Richard M. Allen;Andrew H. Barclay;Samuel W. Bell

  • Three‐dimensional seismic structure of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge (35°N): Evidence for focused melt supply and lower crustal dike injection

    Robert A. Dunn;Vedran Lekić;Robert S. Detrick;Douglas R. Toomey

  • Crustal and upper mantle seismic structure beneath the rift mountains and across a nontransform offset at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (35°N)

    J. Pablo Canales;Robert S. Detrick;Jian Lin;John A. Collins

  • Revised technical implementation plan for the ShakeAlert system—An earthquake early warning system for the West Coast of the United States

    Douglas D. Given;Richard M. Allen;Annemarie S. Baltay;Paul Bodin

  • Segment-scale variations in the crustal structure of 150–300 kyr old fast spreading oceanic crust (East Pacific Rise, 8°15′N–10°5′N) from wide-angle seismic refraction profiles

    J. Pablo Canales;Robert S. Detrick;Douglas R. Toomey;William S. D. Wilcock

  • Seismic velocity anisotropy and heterogeneity beneath the Mantle Electromagnetic and Tomography Experiment (MELT) region of the East Pacific Rise from analysis of P and S body waves

    William C. Hammond;William C. Hammond;Douglas R. Toomey

  • Skew of mantle upwelling beneath the East Pacific Rise governs segmentation

    Douglas R. Toomey;David Jousselin;Robert A. Dunn;William S. D. Wilcock

  • Crustal magma plumbing within a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 35°N

    Laura S. Magde;Andrew H. Barclay;Douglas R. Toomey;Robert S. Detrick

Frequent Co-Authors

William S. D. Wilcock
William S. D. Wilcock University of Washington
Sean C. Solomon
Sean C. Solomon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Joanna Morgan
Joanna Morgan Imperial College London
Paraskevi Nomikou
Paraskevi Nomikou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
G. M. Purdy
G. M. Purdy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert S. Detrick
Robert S. Detrick Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mike Warner
Mike Warner Imperial College London
Brandon Schmandt
Brandon Schmandt University of New Mexico
Donald W. Forsyth
Donald W. Forsyth Brown University
Richard M. Allen
Richard M. Allen University of California, Berkeley

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