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Ravi Kanda
4th Year Grad Student in Geophysics
B. Tech, 1994, Mech. Eng. Indian Inst. of Technololgy
Bombay, India
M.S., 1997, Engg., University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio
M.S., 2003, Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
M.S., 2005, Geophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA.
California Institute of Technology
Seismological Laboratory
1200 E. California Blvd., MS 252-21
So. Mudd Building, Rm 358
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: (626) 395-6971
Fax: (626) 564-0715
Email: rkanda@gps.caltech.edu
web page:http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~rkanda
ResearchI am interested in modeling crustal deformation and mantle dynamics in subduction zones. I am currently working with Prof. Mark Simons and Mike Gurnis, working with Finite Element Models to understand the evolution of subduction zones from the "bottom-up": How events occurring on a subducting plate interface with along-strike rheological and geometrical heterogeneities can, over the time-scale of several earthquake cycles, lead to the development of long-term topographic features in the forearc. I am also interested in core-mantle interactions. I am also interested in the dynamics of core-mantle interactions. I have published a paper with Prof. David Stevenson this year (GRL, January 2006), where we propose a suction mechanism for entraining liquid iron from the outer core into the lowermost mantle at the Core-Mantle Boundary (CMB).
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