Abdolreza Ghods

Position: Associate Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, Iran

Contact Information:

Department of Physics,
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences
Gava Zang, P.O.Box: 45195-159
Zanjan, Iran

e-mail: aghods@iasbs.ac.ir

Education:

• Ph.D. in Geophysics ( 1994-1999) McGill University, Montreal, Canada

• M.Sc. in Geophysics ( 1992-1994) McGill University, Montreal, Canada

• B.Sc. in Geology (1985-1989) Kerman University, Iran

Research interests

• Two phase flow, melt migration within upper mantle
• Effect of melt migration on the dynamics of upwelling plumes
• Melt focusing beneath mid-ocean ridges and above subducting plate
• Compilation of seismicity of Iran (irsc.ut.ac.ir)

Publications:

Ghods, A. and K. Motaghi, Attenuation of Ground Motion Spectral Amplitudes and Its Variations across the Central Alborz Mountains, accepted in BSSA, 2012.

Ghods, A., Rezapour, E. Bergman, G. Mortezanejad, and M. Talebian, Relocation of the 2006 Mw 6.1 Silakhour, Iran, Earthquake Sequence: Details of Fault Segmentation on the Main Recent Fault, BSSA, 102, 398-416, 2012.

Arkani-Hamed, J and A. Ghods, Could giant impacts cripple core dynamos of small terrestrial planets?, Icarus, 212, 920-934, (pdf), 2011.

Askari, R., A. Ghods, and F. Sobouti, Calibration of an Ml scale in the Alborz region, northern Iran, Bull. Seismological Society of Am., 99, 268-276, (pdf) 2009.

Gholamy S.A., A. Javaherian and A. Ghods, Automatic detection of interfering seismic wavelets using fractal methods, J. Geophys. Eng., 5 338-347 doi: 10.1088/1742-2132/5/3/009, (pdf) 2008.

Ghods A. and J. Arkani-Hamed, Large Impact-induced convection as the main mechanism for formation of mare basalts, 112,E03005,doi:10.1029/2006JE002709, J. Geophysical Research, (pdf) 2007.

Nahal A., J. Mostafavi-Amjad, A. Ghods, M.R.H. Khajehpour, S.N.S. Reihani, and M. R. Kolahchi, Laser-induced dendritic micro-structures on the surface of Ag⁺-doped glass, Journal of Applied Physics, (pdf) 2006.

Ghods A. and J. Arkani-Hamed, Impact-induced convection and melt production in the Lunar mantle: Source of Mare Basalt, Int. Lunar Conf. Proc. , 2005.

Ghods A. and F. Sobouti, "Quality assessment of seismic recording: Tehran seismic telemetry network", Asian Journal of Earth Sciences, 25, 687-694, (pdf) 2005.

Ghods A., Is small scale convection responsible for the formation thick igneous crust along volcanic passive margins?, Geophysical Research Letters, 10.1029/2001GL014408,( pdf )2002.

Ghods A., and J. Arkani-Hamed, Effect of melt migration on the dynamics and melt generation of diapirs ascending through asthenosphere, J. Geophysical Res.,107, No1 , 2002 (pdf )

Sobouti F., A. Ghods and J. Arkani-Hamed, A New Numerical Method for the Advection of Material Interfaces in Geodynamic Problems, J. Geodynamics, 31,459-480, 2001. ( pdf )

Ghods A., and J. Arkani-Hamed, Melt migration beneath mid-ocean ridges, Geophys. J. Inter. , 2000. ( pdf )

Ghods A., F. Sobouti, and J. Arkani-Hamed, An improved second moment method for solution of pure advection problems, Int. J. Numer. methods fluids , 32(8),959-977, 2000. (pdf )

Ghods A., and J. Arkani-Hamed, Interpretation of the satellite magnetic anomaly of the Nova Scotia marginal basin, Can. J. Earth Sci. ,35, 162-174, 1998.

Dyment, J., J. Arkani-Hamed, and A. Ghods, Contribution of serpentinized ultramafics to marine magnetic anomalies at slow and intermediate spreading centers: insights from the shape of the anomalies, Geophys. J. Int., 129 , 691-701, 1997.

Teaching Experiences:

Geodynamics Seismology	Computational Physics Gravity and magnetic methods

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Last updated on 16 Feb. 2012.