Brad Lipovsky
Research areas
Interests: Environmental geophysics and computation applied to problems in glaciology, seismology and tectonics, and volcanology
Graduate Students in my group:
Steph Olinger, John-Morgan Manos, Parker Sprinkle, Simon Hans Edasi, and Verónica Gaete Elgueta.
Postdocs in my group:
Dominik Gräff, Ash Morris, Ethan Williams (2023 start), and Chris Miele (2023 start).
Current Research:
Brad Lipovsky’s research compares a wide range of Earth phenomena. His current work focuses fracturing processes along tectonic plate boundaries; in glaciers, ice sheets, and ice shelves; at volcanic centers; and on planetary bodies. This research uses a range of models to explain geophysical observations, and involves actively developing both model-based and geophysical methods. A topic of particular interest is the use of fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to make high spatial-resolution measurements of active deformation processes.