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Overview

Nicholas Harmon is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States and focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses various subfields, notably Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Mechanical Engineering. The predominant emphasis lies within geophysics, which constitutes the majority of their work.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Seismic imaging and inversion techniques
  • Geological and tectonic studies in Latin America
  • Earthquake detection and analysis

Nicholas Harmon has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Nature
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Harmon include:

  • FAIR data sharing: The roles of common data elements and harmonization, 2020, Journal of Biomedical Informatics
  • The Nature of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, 2020, Nature
  • Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 Mw 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Catherine A. Rychert
  • J. M. Kendall
  • Jenny Collier
  • Andreas Rietbrock
  • Saskia Goes

Best Publications

  • Global P, PP, and PKP wave microseisms observed from distant storms

    Peter Gerstoft;Peter M. Shearer;Nick Harmon;Jian Zhang

  • Distribution of noise sources for seismic interferometry

    Nicholas Harmon;Catherine Rychert;Peter Gerstoft

  • Volcanism in the Afar Rift sustained by decompression melting with minimal plume influence

    Catherine A. Rychert;James O. S. Hammond;Nicholas Harmon;J. Michael Kendall

  • The Nature of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

    Catherine A. Rychert;Nicholas Harmon;Steven Constable;Shunguo Wang

  • Using Ambient Seismic Noise to Determine Short-Period Phase Velocities and Shallow Shear Velocities in Young Oceanic Lithosphere

    Nicholas Harmon;Donald Forsyth;Spahr Webb

  • Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc

    George F Cooper;George F Cooper;Colin G Macpherson;Jon D Blundy;Benjamin Maunder

  • Phase velocities from seismic noise using beamforming and cross correlation in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

    Nicholas Harmon;Peter Gerstoft;Catherine A. Rychert;Geoffrey A. Abers

  • Seismic imaging of melt in a displaced Hawaiian plume

    Catherine A. Rychert;Gabi Laske;Nicholas Harmon;Peter M. Shearer

  • Thickening of young Pacific lithosphere from high-resolution Rayleigh wave tomography: A test of the conductive cooling model

    Nicholas Harmon;Donald W. Forsyth;Dayanthie S. Weeraratne

  • Back-propagating supershear rupture in the 2016 M w 7.1 Romanche transform fault earthquake

    Stephen P. Hicks;Stephen P. Hicks;Ryo Okuwaki;Ryo Okuwaki;Andreas Steinberg;Andreas Steinberg;Catherine A. Rychert

  • Low seismic velocities below mid‐ocean ridges: Attenuation versus melt retention

    Saskia Goes;John Armitage;Nick Harmon;Hannah Smith

  • Upper mantle temperature and the onset of extension and break-up in Afar, Africa

    John J. Armitage;John J. Armitage;David J. Ferguson;Saskia Goes;James O.S. Hammond

  • Non-hotspot volcano chains produced by migration of shear-driven upwelling toward the East Pacific Rise

    Maxim D. Ballmer;Clinton P. Conrad;Eugene I. Smith;Nicholas Harmon

  • Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction.

    Benedikt Braszus;Saskia Goes;Rob Allen;Andreas Rietbrock

  • Scattered wave imaging of the oceanic plate in Cascadia

    Catherine A. Rychert;Nicholas Harmon;Saikiran Tharimena

  • The initiation of segmented buoyancy-driven melting during continental breakup.

    Ryan J. Gallacher;Derek Keir;Derek Keir;Nicholas Harmon;Graham Stuart

  • A unified continental thickness from seismology and diamonds suggests a melt-defined plate

    Saikiran Tharimena;Catherine Rychert;Nicholas Harmon

  • Imaging lithospheric discontinuities beneath the Northern East African Rift using S -to-P receiver functions

    Aude Lavayssière;Catherine Rychert;Nicholas Harmon;Derek Keir

  • Using Ambient Noise to Image the Northern East African Rift

    Emma L. Chambers;Nicholas Harmon;Derek Keir;Derek Keir;Catherine A. Rychert

  • Seismic imaging of a mid-lithospheric discontinuity beneath Ontong Java Plateau

    Saikiran Tharimena;Catherine A. Rychert;Nicholas Harmon

  • The Pacific lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary: Seismic imaging and anisotropic constraints from SS waveforms

    Catherine A. Rychert;Nicholas Schmerr;Nicholas Harmon

  • Mantle heterogeneity and off axis volcanism on young Pacific lithosphere

    Nicholas Harmon;Donald W. Forsyth;Dayanthie S. Weeraratne;Yingjie Yang

  • Global P, PP, and PKP wave microseisms observed from distant storms

    P. Gerstoft;P. Shearer;N. Harmon;J. Zhang

  • Using ambient seismic noise to determine short period phase velocities and shallow shear velocities in young oceanic lithosphere

    D. W. Forsyth;N. Harmon;S. C. Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

J-M Kendall
J-M Kendall University of Oxford
Andreas Rietbrock
Andreas Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Derek Keir
Derek Keir University of Florence
Saskia Goes
Saskia Goes Imperial College London
Jenny S. Collier
Jenny S. Collier Imperial College London
Timothy J. Henstock
Timothy J. Henstock University of Southampton
Donald W. Forsyth
Donald W. Forsyth Brown University
Jamie J. Wilkinson
Jamie J. Wilkinson Imperial College London
Steven Constable
Steven Constable University of California, San Diego
James O.S. Hammond
James O.S. Hammond Birkbeck, University of London

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