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Research School of Earth Sciences
The Australian National University
Jaeger Building 2
Room #238
Mills Road Acton
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia
e-mail: Thuany.CostadeLima@anu.edu.au
PhD in Seismology, 2018-2024
Thesis topic: Structure of the Earth's deep interior from seismic and correlation wavefields.
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia
M.Sc. in Geophysics, 2013-2016
Thesis topic: Geophysical expression and geodynamical implications of the Transbrasiliano Lineament in the East-Central portion of the Parnaiba Basin, northeastern Brazil.
Departamento de Geofisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
B.Sc. in Geophysics, 2009-2012
Thesis topic: Characterization of geological faults in the southeastern region of the Parnaiba Basin via joint modelling of magnetic and gravity geophysical data.
Departamento de Geofisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Costa de Lima T.,T-S Phạm, X. Ma, and H.
Tkalčić. An estimate of absolute shear-wave speed in the Earths inner core.
Nature Communications, 2023. Tkalčić, H., T. Costa de
Lima, T-S Phạm, and S. Tanaka. Inner core anisotropy from antipodal PKIKP travel times. Core-Mantle Evolution: A Multidisciplinary approach (AGU Books), accepted for publication on 28th February, 2022. Costa de Lima T., H.
Tkalčić and L. Waszek. A new probe into the innermost inner core anisotropy via the global coda-correlation wavefield. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022.
*Awarded the conference's most inspiring Early Career Research talk. You can watch it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yxDTTHUw-s
Conference participation
Costa de Lima T., L.
Waszek, H. Tkalčić, B. Tauzin, M. Ballmer (2022), Search for Regional Seismic Discontinuities in the Earth s Upper Mantle using SS- and PP- precursors. Study of the Earth s Deep Interior, Zurich, Switzerland. Poster presentation.
Costa de Lima T., H. Tkalčić and L. Waszek (2022), Seismological observation of innermost inner core anisotropy from the Earth s correlation wavefield. Study of the Earth s Deep Interior, Zurich, Switzerland. Poster presentation.
Costa de Lima T., H. Tkalčić and L. Waszek (2022), Evidence for Distinct Anisotropy in the Innermost Inner Core from Coda-correlation. European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria. Talk. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3339
Costa de Lima T., L. Waszek, H. Tkalčić, B. Tauzin, M. Ballmer (2021), Global Constraints of Earth s Uppermost Mantle Regional Discontinuities: Insights on Temperature, Composition, and Geodynamics. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, United States. Poster
presentation.
Costa de Lima T., L. Waszek, H. Tkalčić, B. Tauzin (2021), Seismic Constraints of Uppermost Mantle Discontinuities in the Australian Region, AuScope Conference, Australia. Talk*
Costa de Lima T., H. Tkalčić and L. Waszek (2020), Probing the Inner Core Anisotropic Structure Using Global Coda-correlation Wavefield. American
Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Online poster.
Costa de Lima T., H.
Tkalčić and L. Waszek (2019), Insights on Inner-Core Anisotropy Obtained from the Earth s Correlation Wavefield. 2019 AGU Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, United States. Poster presentation.
Costa de Lima T., H. Tkalčić, S. Kim, J. Julia (2017), Bayesian Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Wave Dispersion Data in the Brazilian Northeast. 15th International Congress of the Brazilian Geophysical Society, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Poster presentation. https://doi.org/10.1190/sbgf2017-313
Activities and awards
2024 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Travel Grant
2024 IUGG Latin America Seismological Comission ECR Travel Grant
2024 Reviewer for The Seismic Record
2023 Reviewer for Geophysical Research Letters
2022 Mervyn and Paterson Travel Grant Fellowship, RSES
2022 Co-chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access Committe (IDEA), RSES
2018 - 2022 ANU International PhD Scholarship
Research interests
Global observational seismology; correlation wavefield; array seismology; numerical simulation;
Seismic structure of the Earth s inner core, upper mantle, and crust
Skills
Computer Languages: Python, Bash scripting, familiar with Fortran.
Tools: ObsPy, SAC, TauP, GMT, LaTeX, SeisComp
Languages: Portuguese (native), English and Spanish.
Employment
Seismologist for Geoscience Australia (since Nov 2021)
You can also find me at:
SeismoBunji.com
EarthSciences@ANU/tcosta-de-lima
LinkedIn/tcosta-de-lima
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