Title: Assistant Research Professor
Institution: Boise State University
Address: 1910 University Dr, 1535 Geosciences, Boise, Idaho 83725-1535
Email: jacobanderson152@boisestate.edu
Phone: (919) 259-3386
Research Interests: Infrasound, environmental monitoring, hazard monitoring, geoscience instrumentation, volcano geophysics, geophysical sensor array analysis
Biographical Sketch:
I am a research faculty member at Boise State. Current projects include developing a joint infrasound-seismic sensing-logging system, developing soil probes for CO2 and methane, relating river infrasound to discharge and stream geomorphology, exploring infrasound as a wildland fire monitoring tool, and improving infrasound array-analysis resolution through arrays with many sensors ("large-N"). Past research includes volcano geophysical studies, thunder modeling, and earthquake infrasound. I have created and published several software packages on CRAN and PyPI, routinely program in Python, C++, R, and bash, have experience programming in Matlab, Perl, and Fortran, and use version control and automated tests in my software packages. Relevant skills and qualifications include electronic design and economical small-batch manufacturing, recording data in remote settings, Wilderness First Responder certification, and fluency in Spanish.
Education:
Ph.D. in Geophysics from Boise State University (Boise, ID), granted 2018
M.S. in Geophysics from New Mexico Tech (Socorro, NM), granted 2013
B.S. in Geology and Math from University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC), granted 2009
Other Research:
- Mechanisms of Fire-Induced Carbonate Formation in a Cold Desert Ecosystem.
- Development of a user-friendly, low-cost, low-power, low-noise, lightweight, self-contained infrasound logging system.
- Mapping Wildland Fire lnfrasound Sources
- Seismo-acoustic radiation from a local earthquake aftershock sequence: how, when, and why seismic waves cross the ground-atmosphere interface.