Chairs: Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States and Jiuhua Chen, Florida International University, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Miami, United States
Primary Convener: Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners: Jiuhua Chen, Florida International University, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Miami, United States, Elizabeth Day, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Elizabeth A Day, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
Using Seismic Discontinuities to Image Melt and Dynamics in the Sub-Continental Upper Mantle (14073)
Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States, Anna M. Bishop Courtier, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, Whitewater, WI, United States, Saswata Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom and Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
Effects of topography on upper mantle discontinuities for array detections of PP precursors (15320)
Stephan Lessing, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany, Christine Thomas, University of Münster, Institut of Geophysics, Münster, Germany, Sebastian Rost, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Elizabeth A Vanacore, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, United States and Nicholas C Schmerr, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
In Situ Measurements of the Post-Spinel and Post-Garnet Phase Boundaries in Pyrolite at 17-32 GPa and 1500-2400 K (9529)
Yu Ye, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Chen Gu, Tsinghua University, Department of Civil Engineering, Beijing, China, Sang-Heon Dan Shim, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Vitali B Prakapenka, The University of Chicago, GeoSoilEnviroCARS, Chicago, United States and Yue Meng, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Evidence from P-wave receiver functions for lower mantle plumes and mantle transition zone water beneath West Antarctica (18587)
Erica Emry, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Andrew Nyblade, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Jordi Julià, UFRN Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Geofísica, Natal, Brazil, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States, Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, United States, Douglas A Wiens, Washington University in St Louis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, MO, United States, Audrey D Huerta, Central Washington University, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Ellensburg, United States and Terry J Wilson, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
Transition Zone Structures beneath Hawaii Imaged with SS precursors (14176)
Chunquan Yu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Robert D van der Hilst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Elizabeth A Day, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Maarten V De Hoop, Rice University, Houston, United States
Mantle transition zone structure beneath the western Gulf of Mexico and central southern US from triplicated P waveforms (12520)
Hobin Lim, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea, Younghee Kim, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Junkee Rhie, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
Upper-mantle seismic structure beneath a region northeast of Japan based on Hi-net array triplication data (14069)
Sunyoung Park, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States, Ahmet Okeler, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Miaki Ishii, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Seismic Constraints on the Japan Subduction Zone from Waveform Inversions of SS precursors (28556)
Ramin Dokht, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Yu Jeffrey Gu, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Mauricio D Sacchi, University of Alberta, Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada
A Receiver Function Study of Mantle Transition Zone Discontinuities beneath Egypt and Saudi Arabia (16455)
Kelly Hong Liu1, Abdelnasser A Mohamed2,3, Stephen S Gao1, Ahmed A Elsheikh3, Youqiang Yu3 and Elshafey Raafat E Fat-Helbary2, (1)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geology and Geophysics Program, Rolla, MO, United States, (2)National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Egypt, (3)Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, United States
Investigating Transition Zone Thickness Variation under the Arabian Plate: Evidence Lacking for Deep Mantle Upwellings (21741)
Jordi Julià, UFRN Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Departamento de Geofísica, Natal, Brazil, Zheng Tang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Paul Martin Mai, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia and Hani M. Zahran, Saudi Geological Survey, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Hydrous upwelling across the mantle transition zone beneath the Afar Triple Junction (30610)
J Michael Kendall, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, David A Thompson, University of Leeds, COMET, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, James O S Hammond, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Graham William Stuart, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, George R Helffrich, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Derek Keir, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton, United Kingdom, Atalay Ayele Wondem, Addis Ababa University, Institute of Geophysics, Space Science, and Astronomy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Berhe Goitom, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom
