Dr. Elodie Sophie Kendall

Consultant
Dr. Elodie Sophie Kendall
Building A 42, Room 204 (Büro)
Albert-Einstein-Straße 42-46
14473 Potsdam

Function and Responsibilities:

Scientific Coordinator: Space Physics and Space Weather
  • Coordination of the ESA-funded FLAG project - hiring, budget, meeting organisation, reporting, outreach, website
  • Section hiring
  • Management of the section budget
  • Section and research meeting organisation and coordination of efforts
  • Reporting for third-party projects 
  • Section Website Management
  • Editing publications, proposals and presentations
  • Drafting other administrative documents
  • Interactions with stakeholders within Germany and EU Commission
  • Writing scientific proposals and coordinating multi-campus science projects

Research Interests:

  • Space Weather and Space Physics
  • The interactions and feedback between surface processes and plate tectonics
  • Seismic anisotropy observations and modeling
  • The evolution of mantle plumes

Career:

2015-2019:     PhD in Seismology (University College London), supervisors: Ana Ferreira, Manuele Faccenda

2019-2020:     Teaching Fellow (University College London)

2020-2023:     Postdoc in Geodynamics (GeoForschungsZentrum), supervisors: Stephan Sobolev, Sascha Brune

2024-present: Scientific Coordinator (GeoForschungsZentrum), Yuri Shprits

 

Google scholar (Publication list):

1. Kendall, E., Faccenda, M., Ferreira, A.M.G., Chang., S-J., (2022). On the relationship between oceanic plate speed, tectonic stress and seismic anisotropy. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL097795. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL097795

2. Kendall, E., Ferreira, A. M. G., Chang, S.-J., Witek, M., & Peter, D. (2021). Constraints on the upper mantle structure beneath the Pacific from 3-D anisotropic waveform modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126, e2020JB020003. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB020003

3. Kendall, E., Faccenda, M. and Ferreira, A.M.G. (2021). Anisotropy and melt from plume-lithosphere interactions beneath the Pacific. In prep for Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

4. Chang, S.‐J., Kendall, E., Davaille, A., & Ferreira, A. M. G. (2020). The evolution of mantle plumes in East Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125, e2020JB019929. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019929

5. Steinberger, B., Rathnayake, S., Kendall, E., (2021). The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass. Tectonophysics, 817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2021.229037

6. Cornwell, D.G., Rost, S., Thompson, Houseman, G.A., Millar, L.A., Kendall, E.,..(2021). Variations in lithospheric anisotropy across the North Anatolian Fault revealed by teleseismic shear wave splitting (in review at GRL).

7. Turner, A. R., Ferreira, A. M. G., Berbellini, A., Brantut, N., Faccenda, M., & Kendall, E. (2022). Across-slab propagation and low stress drops of deep earthquakes in the Kuril subduction zone. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098402. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098402

8. Download our 3-D shear-wave isotropic and radially anisotropic shear wave speed model of the Pacific upper mantle from 3-D anisotropic waveform modelling named SPacific-rani here: http://ds.iris.edu/ds/products/emc-spacific-rani/

9. Kendall, E (2019). Waveform modelling of global seismic anisotropy and geodynamical implications. PhD Thesis. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10094069/

 

Education:

2011-2014:     Bachelor of Physics (University of Warwick)

2014-2015:     MSc Geophysics (University College London), supervisor: Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

Projects:

  • PhD in the London NERC DTP
  • Postdoc in the ERC Synergy Project MEET
  • Scientific coordinator for ESA project, FLAG

Videos/Blogs/Outreach:

1. GFZ Section seminar: "Towards realistic models of plate tectonic evolution"

2. Magnetic Mosaic outreach video: Ten female scientists will unravel some key pieces connected by the Earth’s magnetic field. 

3. I wrote a blog on "The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass.

4. Check out by blog on why seismic images vary beneath different ocean floors?

5. I wrote a blog on the use of seismic data to constrain mantle convection.

Awards:

2021: Computational time (1212kNPL) on HLRN (Northern German Computing Alliance) for GFZ geodynamic modelling section 

2019: CINECA, Italy Padova Computational time: 100,000 core hours 

​2019: Short-term Scientific mission (STSM) grant  €900 

​2018: Royal Astronomical Grant £443 to present PhD results at European Geosciences Union 

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