Michael E. Wysession

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Earth Sciences

#652

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#1054

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#244

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Geophysics

#115

World Rank

#138

Historical Rank

#45

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According to Wikipedia, Michael E. Wysession is a professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and author of numerous science textbooks published by Pearson Education, Prentice Hall and the Savvas Learning Corporation. Wysession has made many contributions to geoscience education and literacy, including chairing the inclusion of Earth and space science in the U.S. National Academy of Science report A Framework for K-12 Science Education and the U.S. K-12 Next Generation Science Standards

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Michael E. Wysession's Published Works

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Published Works

An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure (2002) (992)
Shear wave splitting, continental keels, and patterns of mantle flow (2000) (254)
The structure of the core‐mantle boundary from diffracted waves (1992) (107)
The D″ Discontinuity and its Implications (2013) (89)
Intraplate seismicity of the Pacific Basin, 1913–1988 (1991) (86)
Multimodal function optimization with a niching genetic algorithm: A seismological example (1999) (81)
Large-scale structure at the core–mantle boundary from diffracted waves (1996) (80)
Mantle discontinuities and temperature under the North American continental keel (1998) (80)
Crust and upper mantle discontinuity structure beneath eastern North America (2002) (69)
Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume (2001) (63)
Mapping the lowermost mantle using core‐reflected shear waves (1994) (60)
Lateral heterogeneity and azimuthal anisotropy in the North Atlantic determined from SS‐S differential travel times (1987) (49)
QLM9: A new radial quality factor (Qμ) model for the lower mantle (2006) (43)
Developing and Applying a Set of Earth Science Literacy Principles (2012) (43)
Insights from North America's failed Midcontinent Rift into the evolution of continental rifts and passive continental margins (2018) (42)
Shear velocity structure of the crust and upper mantle of Madagascar derived from surface wave tomography (2017) (41)
Seismic Evidence for Subduction‐Transported Water in the Lower Mantle (2013) (39)
Imaging Cold Rock at the Base of the Mantle: The Sometimes Fate of Slabs? (2013) (38)
Seasonal and Diurnal Variations in Long‐Period Noise at SPREE Stations: The Influence of Soil Characteristics on Shallow Stations’ Performance (2015) (38)
Small‐scale lateral variations in D″ attenuation and velocity structure (2003) (35)
Regional analysis of D″ velocities from the ray parameters of diffracted P profiles (1989) (35)
Seismic Wave Anisotropy in the D″ Region and Its Implications (2013) (35)
Crustal structure beneath the Florida‐to‐Edmonton broadband seismometer array (2009) (33)
Distinct crustal structure of the North American Midcontinent Rift from P wave receiver functions (2016) (28)
Investigating the base of the mantle using differential travel times (1995) (27)
QLg Distribution in the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States (2006) (27)
Intraplate seismicity in the Atlantic Ocean Basin: a teleseismic catalog (1995) (26)
Intraplate earthquakes in the southwest Pacific Ocean Basin and the seismotectonics of the southern Tasman Sea (1993) (26)
The structure of the crust and uppermost mantle beneath Madagascar (2017) (25)
Using MOMA Broadband Array ScS‐S data to image smaller‐scale structures at the base of the mantle (2001) (25)
Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth’s Dynamic Systems (2008) (25)
Learning from failure: The spree mid-continent rift experiment (2011) (23)
Performance Characteristics of a Rotational Seismometer for Near-Field and Engineering Applications (2009) (22)
Aftershock sequences of moderate‐sized intermediate and deep earthquakes in the Tonga Subduction Zone (1997) (20)
Slicing into the earth (1996) (17)
RECENT OCEANIC INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKE IN BALLENY SEA WAS LARGEST EVER DETECTED (1998) (17)
New insights into North America’s Midcontinent Rift (2016) (15)
Continents of the core (1996) (15)
The Next Generation Science Standards and the Earth and Space Sciences (2013) (14)
How well do we utilize global seismicity? (1996) (13)
Crustal Radial Anisotropy and Linkage to Geodynamic Processes: A Study Based on Seismic Ambient Noise in Southern Madagascar (2018) (13)
Visualization of whole mantle propagation of seismic shear energy using normal mode summation (1994) (13)
Correction to “Mapping the lowermost mantle using core‐reflected shear waves” by M.E. Wysession, L. Bartkó, and J.B. Wilson (1995) (12)
Implications for Earth and space in new K–12 science standards (2012) (11)
P Wave Teleseismic Traveltime Tomography of the North American Midcontinent (2019) (11)
Geographic variations in lowermost mantle structure from the ray parameters and decay constants of core‐diffracted waves (2017) (10)
Complex seismic anisotropy in Madagascar revealed by shear-wave splitting measurements (2018) (10)
The Next Generation Science Standards: A potential revolution for geoscience education (2014) (10)
Anisotropic Zonation in the Lithosphere of Central North America: Influence of a Strong Cratonic Lithosphere on the Mid-Continent Rift (2016) (9)
Illuminating the base of the Mantle with Diffracted Waves (2013) (8)
Source Characterization of Nevada Test Site Explosions and Western U.S. Earthquakes using Lg Waves: Implications for Regional Source Discrimination (2001) (8)
Evidence for Lateral Heterogeneity at the Core‐Mantle Boundary from the Slowness of Diffracted S Profiles (2013) (6)
Characterization of Seismic Sources from Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT): Examples from Baghdad (2016) (6)
Lateral variations at the base of the mantle from profiles of digital S diff data (2000) (6)
Geoscience serving public policy (2013) (6)
Constraints on the Temperature and Composition of the Base of the Mantle (2013) (5)
Seismicity and seismotectonics of Madagascar revealed by the 2011–2013 deployment of the island-wide MACOMO broadband seismic array (2020) (5)
Next Generation Science Standards: Preparing students for careers in energy-related fields (2015) (5)
Mapping global D″ P velocities from ISC PcP-P differential travel times (1997) (5)
The important features of Earth and space science standards for elementary , middle , and high school levels (2013) (4)
Pacific intraplate seismicity reexamined (1991) (4)
An Educational Animation of the Propagation of Earthquake-Generated Seismic Shear Waves Across the Mantle (2002) (3)
Prentice Hall physical science concepts in action with earth and space science (2004) (3)
Geophysics: Double-crossed again (2005) (3)
Prentice Hall Physical Science: Concepts in Action (2003) (3)
Investigating Mantle Structure with Broadband Seismic Arrays in Madagascar and Mozambique (2012) (3)
Velocities in the mantle (1993) (3)
Small Scale Seismic Attenuation within D (2001) (2)
Polytype Distribution in (2002) (2)
Assessing Microseismicity of the Northern Mid-Continent Rift Zone and Surrounding Regions (2014) (2)
KIDS ARE SCIENTISTS, TOO. (2015) (2)
What on Earth is D (2000) (2)
Crustal Structure and Mantle Anisotropy from Florida to Edmonton (2003) (1)
DISTINCT CRUSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MID-CONTINENT RIFT FROM P WAVE RECEIVER FUNCTIONS (2016) (1)
Erratum to “Lowermost mantle anisotropy beneath the Pacific: Imaging the source of the Hawaiian plume”: [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 190 (2001) 167–180] (2002) (1)
UNINTENTIONAL COMEDY - ERRORS IN MOVIES AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL - AS A TEACHING TOOL (2017) (1)
A window to the core (1993) (1)
Teaching the “Geo” in Geography with the Next Generation Science Standards (2016) (1)
Imaging the East Asian lower mantle water anomaly (2005) (1)
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES AND THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS (2012) (1)
Virtual cohorts and face-to-face recruitment: Strategies for cultivating the next generation of the IRIS Community (2009) (1)
From Diffracted Waves (2007) (1)
Seismic Images of the Core-Mantle Boundary (1995) (1)
One billion year-old Mid-continent Rift leaves virtually no clues in the mantle (2017) (1)
Distribution in the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States (2006) (1)
Seismic velocity and anisotropy of the uppermost mantle beneath Madagascar from Pn tomography (2020) (1)
QLM9: A new radial quality factor (Q) model for the mantle (2004) (1)
Combined teleseismic surface wave and receiver function analysis of the crust and upper mantle of Madagascar (2014) (1)
Rayleigh Wave Tomography of Mid-Continent Rift (MCR) using Earthquake and Ambient Noise Data (2015) (1)
Undergraduate Reseach in Earth Science Classes: Engaging Students in the First Two Years Posters (2014) (1)
Thank You to Our 2021 Reviewers (2021) (0)
The Seismic Structure of the Crust of Madagascar (2015) (0)
Response of Robust Torsion Balances to Teleseismic Events (2009) (0)
Wysession begins term as Eos Section Editor for Seismology (1998) (0)
THE IMPORTANCE OF PRE-SERVICE TRAINING FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE NGSS (2017) (0)
Lithosphere structure in Madagascar as revealed from receiver functions and surface waves analysis. (2017) (0)
Infrasound and Seismic Recordings of a US Airstrike on an ISIS Car Bomb Factory on June 3, 2015 (2015) (0)
Mantle Flow Implications across Easter and Southern Africa from Shear Wave Splitting Measurements (2015) (0)
Conceptualizing ¬the Abstractions of Earthquakes Through an Instructional Sequence Using SeisMac and the Rapid Earthquake Viewer (2007) (0)
Geoscience Challenges of a State-by-state Adoption or Adaptation of the NGSS (2016) (0)
Geoscientists, Who Have Documented the Rapid and Accelerating Climate Crisis for Decades, Are Now Pleading for Immediate Collective Action (2021) (0)
Erratum (1996) (0)
Differential Response Functions: A ScS-S Case Study (2003) (0)
CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPING K-8 SCIENCE PROGRAMS ALIGNED WITH THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS (2017) (0)
NGSS: THE 2016 ELECTION HAS GONE STATE BY STATE, AND THE WINNER IS… (2016) (0)
The structure of the lithosphere and asthenosphere beneath Mozambique and Madagascar from combined surface wave and ambient noise tomography (2013) (0)
A Survey of Earth's Lowermost Mantle Utilizing Core-Diffracted Waves (2009) (0)
The Very Long Reach of Very Large Earthquakes (2005) (0)
Seismic Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure of Iraq and Surrounding Regions Inferred from Regional Waveform Inversions (2016) (0)
On the Cutting Edge Professional Development Program - An effective model built from years of experience (2015) (0)
T122. On the Cutting Edge: Fifteen Years of Impacts on Geoscience Education (2017) (0)
“Seismology” by Hugh Doyle (1997) (0)
Velocity Structure of the Lowermost Mantle Beneath the Northeast Pacific From Core-Diffracted P and S Waves (2010) (0)
A New Scope and Aims for Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists (2023) (0)
THE MIDCONTINENT RIFT: A RIFT-LIP HYBRID (2017) (0)
Traces of extension in continental lithosphere: Towards a seismic image of the Mid-Continent Rift (2012) (0)
A COMPREHENSIVE SEISMIC INVESTIGATION OF THE MID-CONTINENT RIFT FROM USARRAY AND SPREE (2016) (0)
Teleseismic Body Wave Analysis of the Madagascan Asthenosphere, and the Relationship to Intraplate Volcanism (2015) (0)
Prepared by the Seismological Grand Challenges Writing Group (2008) (0)
How the core and mantle may produce mantle plumes (1993) (0)
Geophysical Research Letters: New Policies Improve Top‐Cited Geosciences Journal (2010) (0)
Expanding the Geoscience Pipeline: Innovative Strategies to Support K-12 Education Posters (2016) (0)
Mapping the base of the mantle with global digital Sdiff waves. (2001) (0)
Crustal Structure in the area of the North American Mid-Continent Rift System from P-wave Receiver Functions (2015) (0)
Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers (2021) (0)
Regional Crustal Velocity Models for Northern Arabian Platform and Turkish-Iranian Plateau (2008) (0)
Implementing K-12 Geoscience with the Next-Generation Science Standards I Posters (2015) (0)
Attenuation Tomography of Western North America Using USArray Body Waves (2007) (0)
Fossil imprints of the Pan-African collision process revealed by seismic anisotropy in southern Madagasca (2017) (0)
PROMOTING K-12 GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH AN EMPHASIS ON GEOSCIENCE PRACTICES AND CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS (2017) (0)
Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards: Impacts on Geoscience Education (2014) (0)
Opportunities for Improving K-12 Geoscience Education (2015) (0)
ON THE CUTTING EDGE: DEVELOPMENT OF A GEOSCIENCES COMMUNITY-GENERATED, PEER-REVIEWED TEACHING ACTIVITY COLLECTION (2017) (0)
The Challenge of Getting Earth and Space Science Into U.S. High Schools (2022) (0)
Shear Wave Splitting Across Eastern, Western and Southern Africa (2014) (0)
North Pacific Transition Zone Thickness From SS-Precursors (2005) (0)
New Directions for Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists (2022) (0)
On the Cutting Edge: Face-to-Face and Virtual Professional Development for Current and Future Geoscience Faculty (2011) (0)
Telling the Stories Behind the Science (2021) (0)
Developing New Earth and Space National Science Standards (2011) (0)
Portrayal of the Geosciences in the New York Times (2017) (0)
On the Cutting Edge: Workshops, Online Resources, and Community Development (2014) (0)
Using SeisMac to Turn Your Laptop into a Seismograph for Teaching (2008) (0)
ON THE CUTTING EDGE EMERGING THEME WORKSHOPS: A PATHWAY FOR GEOEDUCATION INNOVATION (2017) (0)
Insights into Rift Initiation, Evolution, and Failure from North America's Midcontinent Rift (2017) (0)
The Crust and Mantle Structure of the Mid-Continent Rift System from Ambient Noise and Earthquake Surface Wave Analysis (2014) (0)
Seismic Structure of the Lowermost Mantle from Core-Diffracted Waves (2013) (0)
Determination of absolute arrival times for secondary phases from combined waveform cross-correlation and differential t* measurement: Application to USArray data (2009) (0)
The 2009 Earth Science Literacy Principles (2009) (0)
Volcanic Java and Climate Change (2016) (0)
The Effect of Recent Volcanic Activity on the Seismic Structure of Madagascar (2014) (0)
Using Grand Challenges For Innovative Teaching in Structural Geology, Geophysics, and Tectonics (2012) (0)
Receiver function analysis and preliminary body wave tomography of the MACOMO network in Madagascar (2013) (0)
HONORING ELDRIDGE MOORES’ GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION CONTRIBUTIONS (2016) (0)
Using a Web Site to Support a Seismology Course Textbook (2004) (0)
ON THE CUTTING EDGE: ENDURING LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR GEOSCIENCE FACULTY (2017) (0)
Thank you to our 2022 reviewers (2022) (0)
Appreciation of peer reviewers for 2015 (2016) (0)

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