Faculty · Former faculty
This is an archived profile of a former SES faculty member.
Dr. Joseph Byrnes was an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Earth and Sustainability at Northern Arizona University from 2023 to 2026. A seismologist, he used recordings of seismic waves to image the Earth’s interior, with a focus on the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system.
His work at NAU spanned attenuation tomography of the conterminous United States and the Tonga-Lau subduction system, seismic anisotropy of the Pacific upper mantle, the architecture of the Wyoming craton, volatiles and melting along the East African Rift, and transdimensional Bayesian methods for imaging the crust and upper mantle. He also contributed to the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) and to earthquake hazard studies in the western United States.
Dr. Byrnes left NAU in May 2026. His publications from his time in SES remain in the publication database, and his current work is listed on his Google Scholar profile.
Joseph H. Phillips, James B. Gaherty, Joshua B. Russell, Zachary C. Eilon, Donald W. Forsyth, Joseph S. Byrnes
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth · 2026 · 5 citations
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Yurong Riley Zhang, S. Shawn Wei, Joseph S. Byrnes, Dongdong Tian, Fan Wang, Maximiliano Bezada
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth · 2026 · 2 citations
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Valerie J. Sahakian, Andrew J. Meigs, Andy Clifford, Shannon Fasola, Diego Melgar, Amanda M. Thomas, Pieter-Ewald Share, Harold Tobin, Tim Melbourne, Jill Elizabeth, Rasheed Ajala, Loïc Bachelot, Brian Boston, Mike Brudzinski, Joseph S. Byrnes, Sammy Castonguay, Brendan Crowell, Jonathan Delph, Lori Dengler, Benchun Duan, Tina Dura, Brittany Erickson, Rebecca Fildes, Alice A. Gabriel, Hazel Greene, Julia B. Grossman, Andrea Hawkes, Bin He, Scott Jackson, Holly Keedy, Harvey Kelsey, Zoe Krauss, Anna M. Ledeczi, Ben Leshchinsky, Madeleine C. Lucas, William Marfo, Brett Maurer, Michael Olsen, Richard Parra, Emily Roland, Alice Ryan, Brandon Shuck, Ashley Streig, Richard Styron, Daniel T. Trugman, Emrah Yenier
Seismological Research Letters · 2026 · 1 citation
Faculty Joseph Byrnes
Hanlin Liu, Qingju Wu, Maximiliano Bezada, Shunping Pei, Joseph S. Byrnes, Wei Liu
Geophysical Research Letters · 2026
Faculty Joseph Byrnes
G Del Piccolo, J S Byrnes, J B Gaherty, B P VanderBeek, M Faccenda, A Morelli
Geophysical Journal International · 2026
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