CV - Highlights

Education

2014-2018: PhD, Imperial College London
2010-2014: MSci, Imperial College London & University of California Berkeley

Experience

2021-Present: Postdoc, LGL-TPE, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1
2018-2021: Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Funding

2021: $40,000CAD – Project funding, West Hudson Bay Architecture and Metallogeny project of the GeoNorth program, Geological Survey of Canada (with co-PI M. V. Liddell).
2016: £1500 – Conference Attendance costs, William Edwards Educational Charity
2017: £600 – Summer School and Research internship sponsorship, Imperial College-MIT Global Fellows Program

Recent Outreach

2019-2020: Deep Earth Explorers exhibit, Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge (Opened Mar. 2020)
- Exhibition content developer - interactive movies to explain seismic wave travel through Earth.

Recent Supervisory Roles

2020: PI - advertised role, interviewed, employed, trained, mentored 3 summer research students
- Students processed arrival-time datasets for Canadian-Alaskan imaging project, undertook independent projects, led methodological and tectonic discussion groups, gave final presentations.

Service and Leadership

2019-Present: 20 Reviewed manuscripts for: JGR, Gcubed, GRL, GJI, NGeo, NComms
2019-2020: Organiser - Cambridge Geophysics Seminar

Seismological Tools

Lead Developer: Absolute Arrival-time Recovery Method (AARM - Boyce et. al., 2017)
- Available here.
Developer: Seismological Methods Utilizing Receiver Functions in Python3 (with PI Cottaar)
- Available here.
Developer: RJ-MCMC Transdimensional inversion of Surface wave dispersion curves with the reversible jump algorithm (with PI Bodin and D. Soergel)
- Available here.
Developer: MTWSPy Python implementation of the Morphological Time Window Selection (MTWS) method for picking seismic arrival times.
- Available here.

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Publications

Seismic Evidence for Craton Formation by Underplating and Development of the MLD

Boyce, A., Bodin, T., Durand, S., Soergel, D., & Debayle, E. (2024). Seismic evidence for craton formation by underplating and development of the MLD. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106170. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106170

Mantle Wavespeed and Discontinuity Structure Below East Africa: Implications for Cenozoic Hotspot Tectonism and the Development of the Turkana Depression

Boyce, A., Kounoudis, R., Bastow, I. D., Cottaar, S., Ebinger, C. J., & Ogden, C. S. (2023). Mantle wavespeed and discontinuity structure below East Africa: Implications for Cenozoic hotspot tectonism and the development of the Turkana Depression. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010775. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010775

Multigenetic origin of the X-discontinuity below continents: Insights from African receiver functions

Pugh, S., Boyce, A., Bastow, I. D., Ebinger, C. J., & Cottaar, S. (2023). Multigenetic origin of the X-discontinuity below continents: Insights from African receiver functions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 24, e2022GC010782. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010782

A new P-wave tomographic model (CAP22) for North America: Implications for the subduction and cratonic metasomatic modification history of western Canada and Alaska.

Boyce, A., Liddell, M. V., Pugh, S., Brown, J., McMurchie, E., Parsons, A., et al. (2023). A new P-wave tomographic model (CAP22) for North America: Implications for the subduction and cratonic metasomatic modification history of western Canada and Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB025745. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025745

Insights into Deep Mantle Thermochemical Contributions to African Magmatism from Converted Seismic Phases

Boyce, A. Cottaar, S. (2021), Insights into Deep Mantle Thermochemical Contributions to African Magmatism from Converted Seismic Phases, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009478.

Global receiver function observations of the X-discontinuity reveal recycled basalt beneath hotspots.

Pugh, S. Jenkins, J. Boyce, A. Cottaar,S. (2021) Global receiver function observations of the X-discontinuity reveal recycled basalt beneath hotspots. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 561, 116813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116813

AFRP20: New P-wavespeed Model for the African Mantle Reveals Two Whole-Mantle Plumes Below East Africa and Neoproterozoic Modification of the Tanzania Craton

Boyce, A. Bastow, I.D. Cottaar, S. Kounoudis, R. Guilloud De Courbeville, J. Caunt, E. Desai, S. (2021), AFRP20: New P-wavespeed Model for the African Mantle Reveals Two Whole-Mantle Plumes Below East Africa and Neoproterozoic Modification of the Tanzania Craton, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009302.

Variable modification of continental lithosphere during the Proterozoic Grenville orogeny: Evidence from teleseismic P-wave tomography

Boyce, A. Bastow, I.D. Golos, E.M. Rondenay, S. Burdick, S. Van der Hilst, R.D. (2019). Variable modification of continental lithosphere during the Proterozoic Grenville orogeny: Evidence from teleseismic P-wave tomography. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 525, 115736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115763

From Relative to Absolute Teleseismic Travel-times: The Absolute Arrival-time Recovery Method (AARM)

Boyce, A. Bastow, I.D. Rondenay, S. Van der Hilst, R.D. (2017), From Relative to Absolute Teleseismic Travel-times: The Absolute Arrival-time Recovery Method (AARM), Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 107 (5), 2511–2520. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170021

Peering beneath the Canadian crust

Gilligan, A., Bastow, I.D. Boyce, A. Petrescu, L. Liddell, M.V. Darbyshire, F.A. Hawthorne, D.A. Lane, V. Daly, D. Simpson, D. Heffler, D. (2016), Peering beneath the Canadian crust, Astronomy & Geophysics, 57 (6), 6.24–6.27. https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atw221

Subduction beneath Laurentia modified the eastern North American cratonic edge: Evidence from P wave and S wave tomography

Boyce, A. Bastow, I.D. Darbyshire, F.A. Ellwood, A.G. Gilligan, A. Levin, V. Menke, W. (2016), Subduction beneath Laurentia modified the eastern North American cratonic edge: Evidence from P wave and S wave tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 121 (7), 5013–5030. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JB012838

Lithospheric deformation in the Canadian Appalachians: evidence from shear wave splitting

Gilligan, A., Bastow, I.D. Watson, E. Darbyshire, F.A. Levin, V. Menke, W. Lane, V. Hawthorn, D. Boyce, A. Liddell, M.V. Petrescu, L. (2016), Lithospheric deformation in the Canadian Appalachians: evidence from shear wave splitting, Geophys. J. Int., 206 (2), 1273–1280. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw207