JAMES CONDER
Professor, Geology Program and Graduate Coordinator

Office: 101C Parkinson Lab
Phone: 618-453-7352
E-mail: conder@geo.siu.edu
Research Interests:
1) Mantle geodynamics and melt generation
My primary research interests address questions regarding processes of mantle flow and melt generation and migration at mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones. This often entails combining geodynamic models and seismic observations or other methods of geophysical imaging of the upper mantle.
2) Active Tectonics
I am also interested in addressing questions of active deformation of the Earth’s surface. This includes deformation at both plate boundary regions, such as the East African Rift and the Lau Basin between Fiji and Tonga, and in plate interiors, such as the intraplate Wabash Fault System in central North America.
Selected Recent Publications:
Zanjani, A., Zhu, L., Herrmann, R., Liu, L., Gu, Z., Conder, J.A. Crustal structure beneath the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone from the joint inversion of receiver functions and surface-wave dispersion: Implications for continental rifts and intraplate seismicity. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2019
Idoko, C., Conder, J.A., Ferre, E., Filiberto, J. The potential contribution to long wavelength magnetic anomalies from the lithospheric mantle. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 292, 21-28, 2019
Conder, J.A., and C.A. Arciniegas, Conjugate faulting in the Wabash Valley Fault Zone exhibited by the Nov 20 2012 mb3.6 earthquake, a Mt Carmel late aftershock, Seismological Research Letters, 88, 1203-1209, doi: 10.1785/0220170021, 2017
Brazitis, D., and J.A. Conder, Microseismicity of the intraplate northern Wabash Fault System and La Salle Anticlinorium, Illinois Basin, U.S.A., Seismological Research Letters, 87, 6, doi: 10.1785/0220160119, 2016
Wei, S.S., D.A. Wiens, Y. Zha, T. Plank, S.C. Webb, D.K. Blackman, R.A. Dunn, and J.A. Conder, Seismic evidence of effects of water on melt transport in the Lau back-arc mantle, Nature, 518, 395-398, doi:10.1038/nature14113, 2015
Barklage, M., D.A. Wiens, and J.A. Conder, P and S velocity tomography of the Mariana subduction system from a combined land-sea seismic deployment, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16, doi: 10.1002/2014GC005627, 2015
Conder, J.A., Fitting multiple bell curves stably and accurately to a time series as applied to Hubbert cycles or other phenomena, Mathematical Geosciences, DOI: 10.1007/s11004-014-9557-7, 2014
Harris, R.N., J.A. Conder, and A. Heuret, The thermal structure of the subduction thrust within accretionary and erosive margins, Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.07.009, 2014
Teaching:
GEOL 121 Natural Hazards and Catastrophes
GEOL 435 Solid-Earth Geophysics GEOL 466 Tectonics GEOL 535 Numerical Methods in the Earth Sciences GEOL 536 Earthquake Seismology