Dr. Hersh Gilbert

Assistant Professor

E-mail: hersh@purdue.edu

Curriculum Vita

Education

BA - Washington University in St. Louis, 1996

Ph.D. - Geophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001

Research Interests

Subduction, mountain building, upper mantle structure, seismology, crustal deformation, continental growth, Sierra Nevada evolution

Professional Experience

  • 2006 - Present Purdue University
    Assistant Professor

  • 2002-2006 University of Arizona
    Postdoctoral Research Associate

  • 2001-2002 University of Colorado at Boulder, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Selected Publications

  • Gilbert, H. , S. Beck, and G. Zandt, Lithospheric and upper mantle structure of central Chile and Argentina, Geophys. J. Int., 165, 383-398, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02867, 2006.

  • Frassetto, A., H. Gilbert, G. Zandt , S. Beck , and Matthew J. Fouch, Support of high elevation in the southern Basin and Range based on the composition and architecture of the crust in the Basin and Range and Colorado Plateau, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, In Press, 2006.

  • Calkins, J. A., G. Zandt, H. J. Gilbert, and S. L. Beck, Crustal images from San Juan, Argentina, obtained using high frequency local
    event receiver functions, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L07309,
    doi:10.1029/2005GL025516, 2006.

  • Zandt, G., H. Gilbert, T. J. Owens, M. Ducea, J. Saleeby, and C. H.
    Jones, Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California, Nature, 431, 41-46, 2004.

  • Gilbert, H. J., and A. F. Sheehan, Images of crustal variations in the intermountain west, J. Geophys. Res., 109,B03306, doi:10.1029/2003JB002730, 2004.

  • Gilbert, H. J., A. F. Sheehan, K. G. Dueker, and P. Molnar, Receiver functions in the western United States, with implications for upper mantle structure and dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B5), 2229, doi:10.1029/2001JB001194, 2003.

  • Gilbert, H. J., et al., Upper mantle discontinuity structure in the region of the Tonga Subductuon Zone, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1855-1858, 2001.