Dr Tom Merry

Research Associate

I am working on using data from the sea-floor SEA-SEIS seismic network in the North Atlantic to better understand the upper mantle and dynamics of the Iceland plume. My focus is on orienting the horizontal components of the seismometers, calculating receiver functions to elucidate the structure and temperature of the mantle transition zone, and examining shear-wave splitting to understand upper mantle deformation.

Biography

2024-Present: Research Associate, Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

2023-2024: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

2018-2022: PhD, Imperial College London

2013-2017: MSci Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences), Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Research

Mantle transition zone
Ocean bottom seismology
Seismic anisotropy
Seismicity

Publications

Key publications:

Merry, T. A. J., and C. M. Eakin (2024), Insights on the African upper mantle from Quasi‐Love wave scattering, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(4), e2023GC011385, doi:10.1029/2023GC011385

Merry, T. A. J., I. D. Bastow, R. Kounoudis, C. S. Ogden, R. E. Bell, and L. Jones (2021), The influence of the North Anatolian Fault and a fragmenting slab architecture on upper mantle seismic anisotropy in the eastern Mediterranean, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(9), e2021GC009896, doi:10.1029/2021GC009896