KRISTINE PANKOW

Dr. Pankow has over 20 years of experience in monitoring and analyzing seismicity and seismotectonics in the eastern Great Basin. She has a well-established research program studying seismic sequences (natural, triggered, and induced). Recent papers have focused on the 2020 Magna Utah Earthquake and other Utah seismic sequences, seismic monitoring at the Utah Frontier Observatory for Research In Geothermal Energy (FORGE), and new methods to detect and characterize seismic sources. She and her research group are currently integrating artificial intelligence models to extend detection thresholds for microseismicity, exploring algorithms to determine source properties of small earthquakes, and are performing detailed analyses of swarm and triggered seismic sequences to better understand the physical processes that lead to these types of sequences.