Anne Sheehan is a geologist known for her research using seismometer data to examine changes in the Earth's crust and mantle.
[1] In 2014 Sheehan was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for developing methods to image the Earth using seismometer arrays, to explain deformation processes of mountains, oceanic, and continental plates.
"[3] Sheehan's research centers on the Earth's crust and mantle with a focus on formation of the lithosphere and the impact of Induced seismicity.
She uses field data collected from seismic instruments deployed in a variety of locations including oceanic lithosphere near the Bermuda Rise[4] and the East Pacific Rise,[5] the subduction zone near New Zealand,[6] and the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.
[7] Her research on the impact of induced seismicity describes the process by which earthquakes occur following fluid injection.