Congrats to professor James Gaherty and associate professor Ryan Porter of Northern Arizona University’s School of Earth and Sustainability who were recently awarded $473,000 by the National Science Foundation for a study of the Cocos oceanic plate beneath Central America. NAU is collaborating on a large project led by Samer Naif of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gaherty and Porter will lead the seismology portions of the expedition, while Naif will lead an effort to conduct electromagnetic imaging.
Read more about the planned research expeditions and what the team hopes they will uncover.