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A great start to the year! Two of my papers have successfully passed through the peer-review process. Both provide new seismological constraints on the crust underneath Pacific Ocean-islands and across the lithosphere-asthenosphere underneath normal oceanic sea- floor [posted on mantle-plumes.org].  Visit

Today, Monday, March 7, 2016 ( ~ 8 years after graduating) I made a visit to my undergraduate institution in Ife Nigeria. Even more exciting, I got a personal tour of the IFE seismic station, one of the five seismic stations on the Nigerian National

I gave a talk as part of the * IRIS Minority Recruitment Speaker Series  at Howard University on  Jan 27, 2016. The title of the talk was: Ears to the Ground: Seismic Spectrum, Applications and Careers  

Here is a link to the article on this really educational Nova episode on coevolution of the biosphere and geosphere.  You can also watch the episode on this page below. Citation: Showstack, R. (2016), New NOVA TV show explores coevolution of rocks

North Korea is the only country that has continued to test nuclear weapons. The most recent test was conducted on Jan. 6, 2016. This time, they claim its an H-bomb. It turns out that seismology can be used to validate

Today, I got to join Professor Rudnick’s class on a trip to the Smithsonian. I never expected there to be any surprises. It was billed to be a trip to see the rock and meteorite collection. In my graduate school petrology class, I

The commencement activities were really inspiring. I had dinner with my thesis advisers, reconnected with old classmates, witnessed the conferment of honorary degrees to inspiring world class intellectuals, and received my diploma, which was written entirely in Latin.   Video

I gave a talk at Princeton on my research project titled The Composition of the US Continental Crust: A Transdimensional Approach It was great to interact with the entire department.

Some photos from the field with the MAGIC team.  

Here is a throw-back to the research cruise to the Shatsky rise in the  Northwest Pacific. I have not ventured out tot he open sea since then, but I have continued to work on data from stations deployed on the sea-floor bottom and