Hans-Peter Plag, Research Professor

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology / MS 178
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557-0088, USA

Office location: Scrugham Engineering/ Mines, Room 317

Phone: 1 (775) 682-8779
Fax: 1 (775) 784-1709

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Areas of expertise


• Solid Earth geophysics
• Global geodynamics
• Rheology of the Earth's mantle and continuums mechanics
• Deformation of the solid Earth
• Earth system dynamics
• Time series analyses
• Space geodesy and geodetic reference frames
  
  Research topics addressed
  
  
• Rheology of the Earth mantle;
• Geophysical phenomena and geodetic observations related to global geodetic reference frames;
  
• Monitoring, analyzing variations, and modeling physical parameters of the Earth system from global to local spatial scales and temporal scales from minutes to millenia, including, but not limited to earth rotation, displacements of the Earth surface, fluxes in the global water cycle, sea level, atmospheric water content, air pressure, temperature, wind, ...
• Sea level fluctuations and global climate change;
• Earth Rotation Studies and integration of the solid Earth into Earth system models;
  
• Deformations of the Earth due to exogenic forcing, particularly postglacial rebound and atmospheric, oceanic, hydrological and cryospheric loading;
• General approach to studies of the Earth system;