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Eric Daniel Kiser

  • Associate Professor, Geosciences
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
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  • (520) 621-6000
  • Gould-Simpson, Rm. 208
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • ekiser@arizona.edu
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2025-26 Courses

  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 436 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Spring 2025)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2025)
  • Advanced Seismology
    GEOS 568 (Fall 2024)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2024)

2023-24 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2024)
  • Geosciences
    GEOS 596H (Spring 2024)
  • Physics Of The Earth
    GEOS 519 (Spring 2024)
  • Physics of the Earth
    GEOS 419 (Spring 2024)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2024)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2023)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2023)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2023)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Explor Seismology
    GEOS 434A (Fall 2022)
  • Intro Explor Seismology
    GEOS 534A (Fall 2022)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Fall 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2022)
  • Teaching Geosciences
    GEOS 397A (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Summer I 2022)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2022)
  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 436 (Spring 2022)
  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 536 (Spring 2022)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2022)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2021)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Fall 2021)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2021)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2021)
  • Geophysics
    GEOS 596F (Spring 2021)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Spring 2021)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2021)
  • Advanced Seismology
    GEOS 568 (Fall 2020)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Fall 2020)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2020)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Spring 2020)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2020)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Spring 2020)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2020)
  • Teaching Geosciences
    GEOS 397A (Spring 2020)
  • Dissertation
    GEOS 920 (Fall 2019)
  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 436 (Fall 2019)
  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 536 (Fall 2019)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 499 (Fall 2019)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Fall 2019)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Master's Report
    GEOS 909 (Summer I 2019)
  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Spring 2019)
  • Independent Study
    GEOS 599 (Spring 2019)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Spring 2019)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Spring 2019)
  • Teaching Geosciences
    GEOS 397A (Spring 2019)
  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 436 (Fall 2018)
  • Earthquakes & Volcanic Systems
    GEOS 536 (Fall 2018)
  • Research
    GEOS 900 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 492 (Spring 2018)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Spring 2018)
  • Teaching Geosciences
    GEOS 397A (Spring 2018)
  • Geophysics
    GEOS 596F (Fall 2017)

2016-17 Courses

  • Directed Research
    GEOS 392 (Spring 2017)
  • Intro To Geophysics
    GEOS 322 (Spring 2017)
  • Topics in Geosciences
    GEOS 595A (Spring 2017)
  • Topics in Geosciences
    GEOS 595A (Fall 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

  • DeCelles, P. G., Hughes, A., Shugar, D. H., Watson, C. S., Haritashya, U. K., Kargel, J. S., Kiser, E., & Dunham, A. M. (2022). Topographic Control on Ground Motions and Landslides From the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(10). doi:10.1029/2022gl098582
  • Hughes, A., Chen, M., Kehoe, H., & Kiser, E. (2021). Lower Mantle Seismicity Following the 2015 Mw 7.9 Bonin Islands Deep‐Focus Earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(13). doi:10.1029/2021gl093111
  • Kiser, E., Levander, A., Zelt, C., Schmandt, B., & Hansen, S. (2018). Focusing of melt near the top of the Mount St. Helens (USA) magma reservoir and its relationship to major volcanic eruptions. GEOLOGY, 46(9), 775-778.
  • Kiser, E. D. (2017). Imaging Magma Under Mount St. Helens with Geophysical and Petrologic Methods. GeoPRISMS Newsletter.
  • Kiser, E. D., & Ishii, M. (2017). Back-projection imaging of earthquakes. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 45, 271-299. doi:doi:10.1146/annurev-ear-063016-015801
  • Hansen, S. M., Schmandt, B., Levander, A., Kiser, E., Vidale, J. E., Abers, G. A., & Creager, K. C. (2016). Seismic evidence for a cold serpentinized mantle wedge beneath Mount St Helens. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7.
  • Kiser, E., Palomeras, I., Levander, A., Zelt, C., Harder, S., Schmandt, B., Hansen, S., Creager, K., & Ulberg, C. (2016). Magma reservoirs from the upper crust to the Moho inferred from high-resolution Vp and Vs models beneath Mount St. Helens, Washington State, USA. GEOLOGY, 44(6), 411-414.

Proceedings Publications

  • Hughes, A. N., Chen, M., Kehoe, H., & Kiser, E. D. (2020). Conjugate Faulting, Lower Mantle Seismicity and Slab Settling Associated with the 2015 Bonin Islands Deep-Focus Earthquake. In American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, S035-0003.

Presentations

  • Kiser, E. D. (2017, April). THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY MODELS FROM THE IMUSH ACTIVE-SOURCE SEISMIC EXPERIMENT. SSA Annual Meeting.
  • Kiser, E. D. (2016, Sep.-Oct.). The SZO at the local scale. The Subduction Zone Observatory Workshop. Boise, ID: IRIS.

Poster Presentations

  • Kiser, E. D. (2017, December). Three-dimensional velocity models of the Mount St. Helens magmatic system using the iMUSH active-source data set. AGU Fall Meeting.
  • Kiser, E. D. (2016, Sep./Oct.). Preliminary 3D Vp results from the iMUSH active-source seismic experiment. Subduction Zone Observatory Workshop. Boise, ID: IRIS.

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