Emily Rodriguez

Emily is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geophysics, CAS. She joined the group in 2025 to work on the Horizon Europe project UNDERCOVER and is developing an ambient-noise seismic tomography model of the Kuusamo Schist Belt in northern Finland.

She earned her PhD from the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona, USA in 2023, where she focused on seismic imaging of the South American subduction zone. Her projects included continental-scale teleseismic tomography models of the mantle beneath South America and regional scale models of the northern Andes from teleseismic tomography and the joint inversion of teleseismic, local earthquake, and ambient noise data. After her PhD, she completed a postdoc at Los Alamos National Lab, where she worked with the Los Alamos Seismic Network to model the velocity structure of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico.

Research Interests

• Seismic imaging from ambient noise, local, and teleseismic tomography
• Subduction-zone dynamics and mantle structure
• Crustal seismicity and deformation

Selected Publications

Kiser, E.D., Ward, K., Koch, C., Rodríguez, E.E., Kehoe, H., Dunham, A., and Blake, P., (2025), “Persistent Deep Long-Period Seismicity Near the Lassen Volcanic Center”, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2025GL118945.

Rodríguez, E.E., Beck, S.L., Meltzer, A., Segovia, M., Ruíz, M.C., Hernández, S., Roecker, S., Lynner, C.L., Koch, C.D., Hoskins, M.C., Charvis, P., Agurto-Detzel, H., Rietbrock, A., and León-Ríos, S., (2025), “Catching the Nazca Slab in the Act of Flattening: Seismic Imaging of the Ecuadorian Forearc and Arc from Joint Ambient Noise, Local, and Teleseismic Tomography”, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaf120.

Maier, N., Rodríguez, E.E., Grapenthin, R., Newman, A., Lindsey, E., Donahue, C., Roberts, P., Devine S., (2025), “Limited surface deformation, seismicity, and seismic velocity changes observed in Valles Caldera over decadal timescales”, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2025.108283.

Rodríguez, E.E., Beck, S.L., Ruíz, M., Meltzer, A., Portner, D.E., Hernández, S., Segovia, M., Agurto-Detzel, H., and Charvis, P. (2024), “Seismic imaging of the Northern Andean subduction zone from teleseismic tomography: a torn and fragmented Nazca slab”, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggad421.

Rodríguez, E.E., Portner, D.E., Beck, S.L., Rocha, M.P., Bianchi, M.B., Ruiz, M., Assumpção, M., Condori, C., and Alvarado, P. (2021), “Mantle dynamics of the Andean Subduction Zone from continent-scale teleseismic S-wave tomography” Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggaa536.

Portner, D.E., Rodríguez, E.E., Beck, S., Zandt, G., Scire, A., Rocha, M.P., Bianchi, M.B., Ruiz, M., França, G.S., Condori, C., and Alvarado, P. (2020) “Detailed structure of the subducted Nazca slab into the lower mantle derived from continent-scale teleseismic P-wave tomography”, Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1029/2019JB017884.

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