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Geodynamics

Alina Valop

Alina Valop is a final-year PhD candidate at Virginia Tech. Her background includes constraining the crust with receiver functions. Her current research focuses on core-mantle boundary topography and its use to constrain lower-mantle processes.

I’M BRINGING KERNELS BACK

I’M BRINGING KERNELS BACK

Computational geodynamic models are powerful tools for understanding Earth’s deep interior, but how do we know they are producing realistic results? In this week’s News & Views, Alina Valop, a PhD candidate from Virginia Tech, unpacks the world of geodynamic kernels and shows how these sensitivity functions provide a computationally efficient way to benchmark mantle flow models, te ...[Read More]