David J. Crossley Professor of Geophysics Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Academic History

• 1963-1966. University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. B.Sc. Physics.

• 1967-1969. University of British Columbia, M.Sc. Geophysics. 

• 1969-1973. University of British Columbia, Ph.D. Geophysics. 

• 1973-1976. Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Associate, Department of Physics, Memorial University of        Newfoundland. 

• 1976-1995. Assistant, Associate and Full Professor of Geophysics, Departments of Mining and Metallurgical    Engineering, McGill University. 

• 1995-2004: Professor of Geophysics and Department Chair, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Saint Louis University. 

• 2004 - now: Professor of Geophysics, Saint Louis University. 

Research

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the following areas:

1. GGP - Global Geodynamics Project - time variations of gravity

2. Global Earth dynamics, including Earth rotation and normal modes

3. Structure and dynamics of the liquid core

4. Structure and dynamics of the inner core

Although I am no longer publishing in the following areas, I maintain a continuing interest in Applied geophysics and Magnetic field reversals

I have several computer programs for geophysics, e.g. PLOTP for tidal processing and display, and several programs written for an applied geophysics lab, e.g. RAYAMP for 2-D refraction profiling. These were developed for MS-DOS and have now been converted to Windows.

Solid Earth Tide program

Publications and Links

A listing of most of my research output can be found at  allpubs

Seismic Refraction Photos slu_sites05.ppt

Links to Individual Papers

Link to Electronic Supplement for 0S0 paper

Link to Test Data for SG Processing

Link to GGOS papers

Teaching

Course EAS-455 Gravity and Magnetics Exploration. Last taught Fall 2004. 

Other Academic Interests

Comments on the Core Curriculum at Saint Louis University - an essay written for the SLU faculty forum, April 2001. Original Version

Family and Personal

I have a wonderful wife, Donna, and two children, Kristian (25) and Anna (24).