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McGarr, A., B. Bekins, N. Burkardt, J. Dewey, P. Earle, W. Ellsworth, S. Ge, S. Hickman, A. Holland, E. Majer, J. Rubinstein, and A. Sheehan, Coping with earthquakes induced by fluid injection, Science 20 February 2015: 347 (6224), 830-831. [DOI:10.1126/science.aaa0494].
Sheehan, A. F., A. R. Gusman, and K. Satake (2019), Improving forecast accuracy with tsunami data assimilation: The 2009 Dusky Sound, New Zealand, tsunami, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016575.
Murray, K., M. Murray, and A. Sheehan (2018), Active deformation near the Rio Grande Rift and Colorado Plateau as measured by continuous GPS, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016626.
Zietlow, D.W., A. F. Sheehan, and M. V. Bernardino (2018), Teleseismic S-wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle. Geosphere ; 14 (3): 1343–1364. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01591.1, 2018.
Feucht, D. W., A. F. Sheehan, and P. A. Bedrosian (2017), Magnetotelluric imaging of lower crustal melt and lithospheric hydration in the Rocky Mountain Front transition zone, Colorado, USA, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014474.
Brown M. R. M., S. Ge, A. F. Sheehan, and J. S. Nakai (2017), Evaluating the Effectiveness of Induced Seismicity Mitigation: Numerical Modeling of Wastewater Injection near Greeley, Colorado, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2017JB014456.
Nakai, J. S., A. F. Sheehan, and S. L. Bilek (2017), Seismicity of the Rocky Mountains and Rio Grande Rift from the EarthScope Transportable Array and CREST temporary seismic networks, 2008–2010, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JB013389.
Gusman, A. R., I. E. Mulia, K. Satake, S. Watada, M. Heidarzadeh, and A. F. Sheehan (2016), Estimate of tsunami source using optimized unit sources and including dispersion effects during tsunami propagation: The 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 9819–9828, doi:10.1002/2016GL070140.
Yeck, W. L., A. F. Sheehan, H. M. Benz, M Weingarten, J Nakai, Rapid response, monitoring, and mitigation of induced seismicity near Greeley, Colorado, Seismological Research Letters, v. 86, no. 5, Sept/Oct 2016, doi:10.1785/0220150275.
Zietlow, D. W., P. H. Molnar, and A. F. Sheehan (2016), Teleseismic P wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle: Evidence of subduction of Pacific lithosphere since 45 Ma, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 4427–4445, doi:10.1002/2015JB012624.
O’Rourke, C. T., G. E. Baker, and A. F. Sheehan (2016), Using P/S Amplitude Ratios for Seismic Discrimination at Local Distances, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 106, no. 4, doi:10.1785/0120160035.
Ball, J. S., A. F. Sheehan, J. C. Stachnik, F.-C. Lin, W. L. Yeck, and J. A. Collins (2016), Lithospheric shear velocity structure of South Island, New Zealand, from amphibious Rayleigh wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 3686–3702, doi:10.1002/2015JB012726.
Harris, R., Laura Wallace, Spahr Webb, Yoshihiro Ito, Kimihiro Mochizuki, Hiroshi Ichihara, Stuart Henrys, Anne Tréhu, Susan Schwartz, Anne Sheehan, Demian Saffer, and Rachel Lauer (2016), Investigations of shallow slow slip offshore of New Zealand, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO048945. Published on 28 March 2016.
Worthington, L. L., K. C. Miller, E. A. Erslev, M. L. Anderson, K. R. Chamberlain, A. F. Sheehan, W. L. Yeck, S. H. Harder, and C. S. Siddoway (2015), Crustal structure of the Bighorn Mountains region: Precambrian influence on Laramide shortening and uplift in north-central Wyoming, Tectonics, 34, doi:10.1002/2015TC003840.
Sheehan, A. F., Gusman, A. R., Heidarzadeh, M., and Satake, K. (2015). Array observations of the 2012 Haida Gwaii tsunami using Cascadia Initiative absolute and differential seafloor pressure gauges, Seismol. Res. Lett. 86, no. 5, doi: 10.1785/0220150108.
Karalliyadda, S. C., M. K. Savage, A. Sheehan, J. Collins, D. Zietlow, and A. Shelley (2015), S-wave splitting in the offshore South Island, New Zealand: Insights into plate-boundary deformation, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 16, doi:10.1002/2015GC005882.
Ball, J. S., A. F. Sheehan, J. C. Stachnik, F.-C. Lin, and J. A. Collins (2014), A joint Monte Carlo analysis of seafloor compliance, Rayleigh wave dispersion and receiver functions atocean bottom seismic stations offshore New Zealand, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 15, 5051–5068, doi:10.1002/2014GC005412.
Yeck, W. L., A. F. Sheehan, M. Anderson, E. A. Erslev, K. C. Miller, C. S. Siddoway (2014), Structure of the Bighorn Mountain region from teleseismic receiver function analysis: Implications for the mechanics of Laramide shortening, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010769.
Godin, O. A., N. A. Zabotin, A. F. Sheehan, and J. A. Collins, Interferometry of infragravity waves off New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JC009395, 2014.
Sheehan, A. F., T. L. de la Torre, G. Monsalve, G. A. Abers, and B. R. Hacker, Physical state of Himalayan crust and uppermost mantle: Constraints from seismic attenuation and velocity tomography, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth,119, doi:10.1002/2013JB010601, 2014.
Zietlow, D. W., A. F. Sheehan, P. H. Molnar, M. K. Savage, G. Hirth, J. A. Collins, and B. H. Hager, Upper mantle seismic anisotropy at a strike slip boundary: South Island, New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JB010676. 2014.
O'Rourke, C., A. Sheehan, E. Erslev, and K. Miller, Estimating Basin Thickness using a High Density Passive Source Geophone Array, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.035, 2013.
Yeck, W., L., A. F. Sheehan, and V. Schulte-Pelkum, Sequential H-K Stacking to obtain accurate crustal thicknesses beneath sedimentary basins, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 103, no. 3, p. 2142-2150, doi:10.1785/0120120290, 2013.
Godin, O. A., N. A. Zabotin, A. F. Sheehan, Z. Yang, and J. A. Collins, Power spectra of infragravity waves in a deep ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, V. 40, no. 10, p. 2159-2165, doi:10.1002/grl.50418, 2013.
Wech, A.G., A. F. Sheehan, C. M. Boese, J. Townend, and T. A. Stern, Tectonic tremor recorded at ocean bottom seismometers, Seismological Research Letters, 84(5), September-October, doi:10.1785/0220120184, 2013.
Yang, Z., A. F. Sheehan, J. A. Collins, G. Laske, The character of seafloor ambient noise recorded offshore New Zealand: Results from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., Vol. 13, Q1001, doi:10.1029/2012GC004201, 2012.
Stachnik, J. C., A. F. Sheehan, D. W. Zietlow, Z. Yang, J. Collins, and A. Ferris, Determination of ocean bottom seismometer orientation via Rayleigh wave polarization, Seismol. Res. Lett., 83(4), 704-713, 2012.
Berglund, H. T., A. F. Sheehan, M. H. Murray, M. Roy, A. R. Lowry, S. Nerem, and F. Blume, Distributed deformation across the Rio Grande Rift, Great Plains, and Colorado Plateau, Geology, 40, 23-36, doi:10.1130/G32418.1, 2012.
Yang, Z., A. F. Sheehan, W. L. Yeck, K. C. Miller, E. A. Erslev, L. L. Worthington, and S. H. Harder (2012), Imaging basin structure with teleseismic virtual source reflection profiles, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L02303, doi:10.1029/2011GL050035.
Schulte-Pelkum, V., G. Biasi, A. Sheehan, and C. Jones, "Differential motion between upper crust and lithospheric mantle in the central Basin and Range, Nature Geoscience, v. 4, 619-623, doi:10.1038/NGEO1229, 2011.
Befus, K.M., A. F. Sheehan, M. Leopold, S. P. Anderson, and R. S. Anderson, Seismic constraints on critical zone architecture, Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado, Vadose Zone J., 10:915-927, doi:10.2136/vzj2010.0108, 2011.
Monsalve, M., P. J. McGovern, and A. Sheehan, Mantle fault zones beneath the Himalayan Collision: Flexure of the continental lithosphere, Tectonophysics, 477, 66-76,10.1016/j.tecto.2008.12.014, 2009.
Huang, G. C., F. T. Wu, S. W. Roecker, and A. F. Sheehan, Lithospheric structure of the central Himalaya from 3-D tomographic imaging, Tectonophysics, 475, 524-543, 2009.
Monsalve, G., A. Sheehan, C. Rowe, S. Rajaure, Seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Himalayas: Evidence for eclogitizaton of lower crustal rocks in the Indian Plate, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 113, B8, B08315, doi: 10.1029/2007JB005424, 2008.
Sheehan, A. F., T. de la Torre, G. Monsalve, V. Schulte-Pelkum, R. Bilham, F. Blume, R. Bendick, F. Wu, M. R. Pandey, S. Sapkota, and S. Rajaure, Earthquakes and crustal structure of the Himalaya from the Himalayan Nepal Tibet Seismic Experiment (HIMNT), Journal of the Nepal Geological Society, V. 28, p. 1-8, Dec.
2008 Special Issue, Proceedings of International Workshop on Seismology, Seismotectonics, and Seismic Hazard in Nepal Himalaya, 28-29, November 2006 and 5th Nepal Geological Congress 26-27 Nov. 2007, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Monsalve, G., C. Viviano, and A. Sheehan, An assessment of Colorado seismicity from a statewide temporary seismic station network, Seismological Research Letters, v. 79, n. 5, p. 645-652, 2008.
Boyd, O. S., M. K. Savage, A. F. Sheehan, and C. H. Jones, Illuminating the plate interface structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, B06310, doi:10.1029/2006JB004552, 2007.
Monsalve, G., A. Sheehan, V. Schulte-Pelkum, S. Rajaure, M. R. Pandey, and F. Wu, Seismicity and one-dimenstional velocity structure of the Himalayan collision zone: Earthquakes in the crust and upper mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, B10301, doi:10.1029/2005JB004062, 2006.
Sheehan, A. F., V. Schulte-Pelkum, O. Boyd, and C. Wilson, Passive source seismology of the Rocky Mountain region, in The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154, 10.1029/154GM23, p.309-315, 2005.
Boyd, O. S., and A. F. Sheehan, Attenuation tomography beneath the Rocky Mountain Front: Implications for the physical state of the upper mantle, in The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154, 10.1029/154GM27, p. 361-377, 2005.
Fox, O. C., and A. F. Sheehan, Upper mantle anisotropy beneath Precambrian Province boundaries, Southern Rocky Mountains, in The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154, 10.1029/154GM26, p.347-360, 2005.
Lastowka, L. A., and A. F. Sheehan, CDROM interstation Pn study across the Rio Grande Rift, in The Rocky Mountain Region: An Evolving Lithosphere, Geophysical Monograph Series 154, 10.1029/154GM28, p. 379-384, 2005.
De la Torre, T. L., and A. F. Sheehan, Broadband seismic noise analysis of the Himalayan Nepal Tibet Seismic Experiment, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., v. 95, 1202-1208, June 2005, doi:10.1785/0120040098.
Wilson, C. K., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, P. Molnar, and O. Boyd, Distributed deformation in the lower crust and upper mantle beneath a continental strike-slip fault zone: Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand, Geology, 32, 837-840, 2004.
Boyd, O., C. H. Jones, A. F. Sheehan, Foundering Lithosphere Imaged Beneath the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, Science, 305, 660-662, 2004.
Gilbert, H. J., and A. F. Sheehan, Images of crustal variations in the intermountain west, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, B03306, doi:10.1029/2003JB002730, 2004.
Blume, F., and A. F. Sheehan, Quantifying seismic hazard in the Southern Rocky Mountains through GPS measurements of crustal deformation, in Engineering Geology in Colorado: Contributions, Trends, and Case Histories, edited by D. Boyer, P. Santi, and W. Rogers, Association of Engineering Geologists Special Publication No. 15, Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication 55, 2003.
Sheehan, A. F., J. D. Godchaux, and N. Hughes, Colorado Front Range Seismicity and Seismic Hazard, in Engineering Geology in Colorado: Contributions, Trends, and Case Histories, edited by D. Boyer, P. Santi, and W. Rogers, Association of Engineering Geologists Special Publication No. 15, Colorado Geological Survey Special Publication 55, 2003.
Gilbert, Hersh J.; Sheehan, Anne F.; Dueker, Kenneth G.; Molnar, Peter, Receiver functions in the western United States, with implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics, J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 108 No. B5, 10.1029/2001JB001194, 2003.
Karlstrom, K. E., et al., Structure and evolution of the lithosphere beneath the Rocky Mountains: Initial results from the CD-ROM experiment, GSA Today, v. 12, no. 3, p. 4-10, March 2002.
Gilbert, Hersh., A. F. Sheehan, D. A. Wiens, K. G. Dueker, L. M. Dorman, J. Hildebrand, and S. Webb, Upper mantle discontinuity structure in the region of the Tonga Subduction Zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1855-1858, 2001.
Lastowka, L. A., A. F. Sheehan, and J. M. Schneider, Seismic evidence for partial delamination model for Colorado Plateau uplift, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1319-1322, 2001.
Hazler, S. E., A. Sheehan, D. McNamara, and W. Walter, One-dimensional shear velocity structure of northern Africa from Rayleigh wave group velocity dispersion, Pure Appl. Geophys., 158, 1475-1493, 2001.
Smith, K.D., J. N Brune, D. dePolo, M. K. Savage, R. Anooshehpoor, and A. F.Sheehan, The 1992 Little Skull Mountain earthquake sequence, Southern Nevada Test Site, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 91, 1595-1606, 2001.
Wannamaker, P.E., J.M. Bartley, A.F. Sheehan, C.H. Jones, A.R. Lowry, T.A. Dimitru, T.A. Ehlers, W.S. Holbrook, G.L. Farmer, M.J. Unsworth, D.B. Hall, D.S. Chapman, D.A. Okaya, B.E. John, and J.A. Wolfe, The Great Basin-Colorado Plateau transition in central Utah: An interface between active extension and stable interior, in The Geological Transition: Colorado Plateau to Basin and Range, Erskine, M.C., J.E. Faulds, J.M. Bartley, and P. Rowley (Eds.), UGA/AAPG Guideb. 30/GB78, 1-38, 2001.
Sheehan, A. F., P. M. Shearer, H. Gilbert, and K. G. Dueker, Seismic migration processing of P-SV converted phases for mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Snake River Plain, western United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 19055-19065, 2000.
Sheehan, A. F., Microearthquake study of the Colorado Front Range: Combining research and teaching in seismology, Seismol. Res. Lett., 71, 175-179, 2000.
Savage, M. K., and A. F. Sheehan, Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow from the Great Basin to the Great Plains, western United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13715-13734, 2000.
Bhattacharyya, J., A. F. Sheehan, K. Tiampo, and J. Rundle, Using genetic algorithms to model broadband regional waveforms for crustal structure in the western United States, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 89, 202-214, 1999.
Bump, H., and, A. F. Sheehan, Crustal thickness variations across the Northern Tien Shan mountains from teleseismic receiver functions,Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 1055-1058, 1998.
Dueker, K. G., and A. F. Sheehan, Mantle discontinuity structure beneath the Colorado Rocky Mountains and High Plains, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 7153-7169, 1998.
Forsyth, D. W., D. S. Scheirer, S. C. Webb, L. M. Dorman, J. A. Orcutt, A. J. Harding, D. K. Blackman, J. Phipps Morgan, R. S. Detrick, Y. Shen, C. J. Wolfe, P. Canales, D. R. Toomey, A. F. Sheehan, S. C. Solomon, and W. S. D. Wilcock, Imaging the deep structure beneath a mid-ocean ridge: Overview of the seismological component of the MELT experiment, Science, 280, 1215-1218, 1998.
Shen, Y., A. Sheehan, K. Dueker, C. de Groot-Hedlin, and H. Gilbert, Mantle discontinuity structure beneath the southern East Pacific Rise (MELT experiment region) from P-to-S converted phases, Science, 280, 1232-1235, 1998.
Keller, G. R., C. M. Snelson, A. F. Sheehan, and K. G. Dueker, Geophysical studies of crustal structure in the Rocky Mountain region: A review, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 217-228, 1998.
Lerner-Lam, A., A. Sheehan, and E. Humphreys, Mantle structure at the edge of a craton: Seismological studies of the crust and upper mantle at the transition between the southern Rockies and the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 199-216, 1998.
Dueker, K. G., and A. F. Sheehan, Mantle discontinuity structure from mid-point stacks of converted P to S waves across the Yellowstone hotspot track, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 8313-8327, 1997.
Ozalaybey, S., M. K. Savage, A. F. Sheehan, J. N. Louie, and J. N. Brune, Shear wave velocity structure in the northern Basin and Range province from the combined analysis of receiver functions and surface waves, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 87, 183-199, 1997.
Sheehan, A. F., C. H. Jones, M. K. Savage, S. Ozalaybey, and J. M. Schneider, Contrasting lithospheric structure beneath the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin: Initial results from Colorado Plateau - Great Basin PASSCAL experiment,Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 2609-2612, 1997.
Sheehan, A. F., G. A. Abers, A. L. Lerner-Lam, and C. H. Jones, Crustal thickness variations across the Colorado Rocky Mountains from teleseismic receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 20,391-20,404, 1995.
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Dr. Sheehan teaches courses in the Department of Geological Sciences and courses that are co-listed with the interdepartmental Geophysics Program. Dr. Sheehan teaches introductory physical geology to undergraduate geology majors and nonmajors, a junior/senior level geophysics course, a colisted senior/grad level field geophysics course, and seismology and geophysical inverse theory at the graduate level. Current course web pages are on Desire2Learn, available to enrolled students.
My research involves the use of geophysical methods, primarily seismology, but also including geodesy and electromagnetic methods, to understand mountain belts, subduction zones, and earthquakes.
Near-surface geophysics, applications of electromagnetic geophysics, Western U.S.

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