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Thuany Costa de Lima


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


Education:

PhD in Seismology, 2018-ongoing
Preliminary PhD thesis title: Deep Earth structure and dynamics using seismic and correlation wavefield
Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Australia

MPhil. 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

Publications:

Tkalčić, H., T. Costa de Lima, T-S Pham, and S. Tanaka. (2022). Inner core anisotropy from antipodal PKIKP travel times. Accepted for publication .

Costa de Lima T., H. Tkalčić and L. Waszek (2022). A new probe into the innermost inner core anisotropy via the global coda-correlation wavefield. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, .

OPEN ACCESS

Conference Abstracts:
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*

*Awarded the conference's most inspiring Early Career Research talk. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yxDTTHUw-s

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

Research Interests:

Global observational seismology
Correlation wavefield and applicaiton to the deep Earth

Skills:

Computer Languages: Python, Shell scripting, and familiar with Fortran.
Seismological tools: ObsPy, SAC, TauP
Languages: English, Spanish, and Portuguese(native)

Employment:

Seismologist in the Community Safety Branch, 2021-ongoing
Geoscience Australia

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