General Interests I am a second year graduate student in Geophysics at U.C. Berkeley. My primary interest is global seismology as a tool for learning more about the inaccessible regions of our planet. In particular, I am working with Prof. Barbara Romanowicz toward developing a new model of the distribution of seismic attenuation in the upper mantle. Combining such a model with existing models of elastic mantle structure will provide new insights into the thermal and chemical mantle structure. I am also interested in the internal structures of other planetary bodies, and am currently, with Prof. Michael Manga, thinking about what seismic observations would be necessary for us to be able to characterize the internal structure of Jupiter's moon Europa.

Vedran Lekic Graduate Student, Seismological Laboratory, Dept. Earth & Planetary Science, University of California Berkeley. Phone: 510.642.6994 Office: 225 McCone Hall E-mail: lekic@seismo.berkeley.edu