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Overview

Rob L. Evans is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their research work spans various subfields including Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Geology. The scientist's focus covers a range of main topics such as earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, geophysical and geoelectrical methods, geological formations and processes, seismic waves and analysis, as well as broader geological and geophysical studies.

Evans frequently publishes in venues like Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, arXiv (Cornell University), The Cambridge Structural Database, and Nature Geoscience.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Offshore Freshened Groundwater in Continental Margins, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Magnetic and Gravity Surface Geometry Inverse Modeling of the TAG Active Mound, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • The coastal transition zone is an underexplored frontier in hydrology and geoscience, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Extinction risks and threats facing the freshwater fishes of Britain, 2023, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Frequent collaborators in their research include Estella A. Atekwana, Eliot A. Atekwana, Kerry Key, Maureen D. Long, and D. Sarah Stamps, indicating ongoing partnerships in several studies and projects.

Best Publications

  • The elusive lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB) beneath cratons

    David W. Eaton;Fiona Darbyshire;Rob L. Evans;Herman Grütter

  • Melt-rich channel observed at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

    S. Naif;K. Key;S. Constable;R. L. Evans

  • Geophysical evidence from the MELT area for compositional controls on oceanic plates

    Rob L. Evans;Greg Hirth;Kiyoshi Baba;Donald W. Forsyth

  • Mantle dynamics beneath the East Pacific Rise at 17°S : insights from the Mantle Electromagnetic and Tomography (MELT) experiment

    Kiyoshi Baba;Kiyoshi Baba;Alan D. Chave;Rob L. Evans;Greg Hirth

  • Asymmetric Electrical Structure in the Mantle Beneath the East Pacific Rise at 17°S

    R. L. Evans;P. Tarits;A. D. Chave;A. White

  • Comparison of continental and oceanic mantle electrical conductivity: Is the Archean lithosphere dry?

    Greg Hirth;Rob L. Evans;Alan D. Chave

  • The electrical structure of the Slave craton

    Alan G. Jones;Pamela Lezaeta;Ian J. Ferguson;Alan D. Chave

  • Electric lithosphere of the Slave craton

    Alan G. Jones;Ian J. Ferguson;Alan D. Chave;Rob L. Evans

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

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

  • The role of paleochannels in groundwater/seawater exchange

    Ann E. Mulligan;Rob L. Evans;Dan Lizarralde

  • Detailed investigation of sorted bedforms, or “rippled scour depressions,” within the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, Massachusetts

    John A Goff;Larry A. Mayer;Peter Traykovski;Ilya Buynevich

  • Origin and Extent of Fresh Paleowaters on the Atlantic Continental Shelf, USA

    Denis Cohen;Mark Person;Peng Wang;Carl W. Gable

  • Velocity-conductivity relationships for mantle mineral assemblages in Archean cratonic lithosphere based on a review of laboratory data and Hashin-Shtrikman extremal bounds

    Alan G. Jones;Rob L. Evans;David W. Eaton

  • 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

  • Water‐rich bending faults at the Middle America Trench

    Samer Naif;Kerry Key;Steven Constable;Rob L. Evans

  • Electrical lithosphere beneath the Kaapvaal craton, southern Africa

    Rob L. Evans;Alan G. Jones;Xavier Garcia;Mark R. Muller

  • Lithospheric structures and Precambrian terrane boundaries in northeastern Botswana revealed through magnetotelluric profiling as part of the Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment

    Marion P. Miensopust;Marion P. Miensopust;Alan G. Jones;Mark R. Muller;Xavier Garcia

  • On the electrical nature of the axial melt zone at 13° N on the East Pacific Rise

    Rob L. Evans;M. C. Sinha;S. C. Constable;M. J. Unsworth

  • High-resolution seismic constraints on flow dynamics in the oceanic asthenosphere.

    Pei Ying Patty Lin;Pei Ying Patty Lin;James B. Gaherty;Ge Jin;John A. Collins

  • Lithospheric structure, evolution and diamond prospectivity of the Rehoboth Terrane and western Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: Constraints from broadband magnetotellurics

    M.R. Muller;A.G. Jones;R.L. Evans;H.S. Grütter

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan G. Jones
Alan G. Jones Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies
Kerry Key
Kerry Key Columbia University
Alan D. Chave
Alan D. Chave Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Daniel Lizarralde
Daniel Lizarralde Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Greg Hirth
Greg Hirth Brown University
Steven Constable
Steven Constable University of California, San Diego
Martyn Unsworth
Martyn Unsworth University of Alberta
Philip E. Wannamaker
Philip E. Wannamaker University of Utah
Jeffrey P. Donnelly
Jeffrey P. Donnelly Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Maureen D. Long
Maureen D. Long Yale University

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