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Philip E. Wannamaker

Philip E. Wannamaker

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
6566
World Ranking
7099
National Ranking
2457

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Philip E. Wannamaker is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant emphasis on Geophysics. Additional areas of study include Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanics of Materials, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Within these disciplines, Wannamaker's work covers a broad range of scientific topics. Key subjects include:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • NMR spectroscopy and applications

Wannamaker has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Trans-crustal structural control of CO2-rich extensional magmatic systems revealed at Mount Erebus Antarctica (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Play Fairway analysis of geothermal resources across the State of Hawai'i: 4. Updates with new groundwater chemistry, subsurface stress analysis, and focused geophysical surveys (2020, Geothermics)
  • Magmatic, hydrothermal and ore element transfer processes of the southeastern Archean Superior Province implied from electrical resistivity structure (2021, Gondwana Research)
  • Feasibility of source-free DAS logging for next-generation borehole imaging (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Thermal regime and state of hydration of the Antarctic upper mantle from regional-scale electrical properties (2021, Geological Society London Memoirs)

Frequent coauthors in their work are:

  • Graham J. Hill
  • Virginie Maris
  • John A. Stodt
  • M. A. Kordy
  • Eric Roots

Wannamaker has published work in several venues, with multiple publications appearing in:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Nature Communications
  • Geothermics
  • Gondwana Research
  • Scientific Reports

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Magnetotelluric Responses of Three-Dimensional Bodies in Layered Earths

    P.E. Wannamaker;G.W. Hohmann;S. H. Ward

  • A stable finite element solution for two-dimensional magnetotelluric modelling

    Philip E. Wannamaker;John A. Stodt;Luis Rijo

  • Electromagnetic modeling of three‐dimensional bodies in layered earths using integral equations

    Philip E. Wannamaker;Gerald W. Hohmann;William A. SanFilipo

  • Three-dimensional magnetotelluric modeling using difference equations­ Theory and comparisons to integral equation solutions

    Randall L. Mackie;Theodore R. Madden;Philip E. Wannamaker

  • Deep electrical resistivity structure of the northwestern U.S. derived from 3-D inversion of USArray magnetotelluric data

    Naser M. Meqbel;Gary D. Egbert;Philip E. Wannamaker;Anna Kelbert

  • Fluid and deformation regime of an advancing subduction system at Marlborough, New Zealand

    Philip E. Wannamaker;T. Grant Caldwell;George R. Jiracek;Virginie Maris

  • Resistivity cross section through the Juan de Fuca Subduction System and its tectonic implications

    Philip E. Wannamaker;John R. Booker;Alan G. Jones;Alan D. Chave

  • Advances in three-dimensional magnetotelluric modeling using integral equations

    Philip E. Wannamaker

  • Fluid generation and pathways beneath an active compressional orogen, the New Zealand Southern Alps, inferred from magnetotelluric data

    Philip E. Wannamaker;George R. Jiracek;John A. Stodt;T. Grant Caldwell

  • Two-dimensional topographic responses in magnetotellurics modeled using finite elements

    Philip E. Wannamaker;John A. Stodt;Luis Rijo

  • ANISOTROPY VERSUS HETEROGENEITY IN CONTINENTAL SOLID EARTH ELECTROMAGNETIC STUDIES: FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYSICOCHEMICAL STATE

    Philip E. Wannamaker

  • Three-dimensional magnetotelluric characterization of the Coso geothermal field

    Gregory A. Newman;Erika Gasperikova;G. Michael Hoversten;Philip E. Wannamaker

  • Pathway from subducting slab to surface for melt and fluids beneath Mount Rainier

    R. Shane McGary;Rob L. Evans;Philip E. Wannamaker;Jimmy Elsenbeck

  • Lithospheric dismemberment and magmatic processes of the Great Basin–Colorado Plateau transition, Utah, implied from magnetotellurics

    Philip E. Wannamaker;Derrick P. Hasterok;Jeffery M. Johnston;John A. Stodt

  • Comment on “The petrologic case for a dry lower crust” by Bruce W. D. Yardley and John W. Valley

    Philip E. Wannamaker

  • Segmentation of plate coupling, fate of subduction fluids, and modes of arc magmatism in Cascadia, inferred from magnetotelluric resistivity

    Philip E. Wannamaker;Rob L. Evans;Paul A. Bedrosian;Martyn J. Unsworth

  • Preliminary results from a geophysical study across a modern, continent-continent collisional plate boundary — the Southern Alps, New Zealand

    F.J. Davey;T. Henyey;W.S. Holbrook;D. Okaya

  • Calculating the two‐dimensional magnetotelluric Jacobian in finite elements using reciprocity

    Patricia Pastana de Lugão;Philip E. Wannamaker

  • 3-D magnetotelluric inversion including topography using deformed hexahedral edge finite elements and direct solvers parallelized on SMP computers – Part I: forward problem and parameter Jacobians

    M. Kordy;P. Wannamaker;V. Maris;E. Cherkaev

  • Tensor CSAMT survey over the Sulphur Springs thermal area, Valles Caldera, New Mexico, U.S.A., Part I: Implications for structure of the western caldera

    Philip E. Wannamaker

  • Magnetotelluric observations across the Juan de Fuca Subduction System in the EMSLAB Project

    Philip E. Wannamaker;John R. Booker;Jean H. Filloux;Alan G. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald W. Hohmann
Gerald W. Hohmann University of Utah
Gregory A. Newman
Gregory A. Newman Colorado State University
Rob L. Evans
Rob L. Evans Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gary D. Egbert
Gary D. Egbert Oregon State University
Alan D. Chave
Alan D. Chave Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Alan G. Jones
Alan G. Jones Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Martyn Unsworth
Martyn Unsworth University of Alberta
David D. Blackwell
David D. Blackwell Southern Methodist University
Tim Stern
Tim Stern Victoria University of Wellington
Fred Davey
Fred Davey GNS Science

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