Dr. Vernon Cormier, Professor

Contact:

Department of Physics
University of Connecticut U-3046
Storrs, CT 06269-3046

e-mail: vernon.cormier@uconn.edu
phone: 860-486-3547

Education: PhD. Columbia University, 1976

Research Interests:

Deep earth structure
Seismic wave propagation
Nuclear verification
Strong ground motion

Recent Publications:

Cormier, V.F. (2007) Texture of the Uppermost Inner Core from Forward and Back Scattered Seismic Waves, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 258, 442-453, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.04.003.
Cormier, V.F., and A. Stroujkova, (2005) Waveform search for the innermost inner core, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 236, 96-105, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.05.016.
Stroujkova, A., and V.F. Cormier (2004) Regional variations in the uppermost 100 km of the Earth's inner core, J. Geophys. Res., 109(B10), doi: 10.129/2004JB002976.
Cormier, V.F., and T. S. Anderson, (2004) Efficiency of Lg propagation from SmS ray tracing in three-dimensionally varying crustal waveguides, Pure and Appl. Geophys. ,161(8), 1613-1633, doi:10.1007/s00024-004-2524-3.