Research Interests

• Event Discrimination and Nuclear Explosion Monitoring
• Seismic Amplitude Estimation
• Array Analysis
• Ambient Seismic Noise
• Earth Structure

Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 2009

A.M., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, 2005

B.S., Geophysics, Saint Louis University, 2002

Pyle, M. L., and W. R. Walter (2019).  Investigating the Effectiveness of P/S Amplitude Ratios for Local Distance Event Discrimination, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., in press, doi:10.1785/0120180256.

Pyle, M. L., W. R. Walter, M. E. Pasyanos (2017).  High-Resolution 2D Lg and Pg Attenuation Models in the Basin and Range Region with Implications for Frequency-Dependent Q, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 107 (6) 2846-2858, doi:10.1785/0120170172.

Pyle, M. L., K. D. Koper, G. G. Euler, and R. Burlacu (2015).  Location of High-Frequency P-wave Microseismic Noise in the Pacific Ocean Using Multiple Small Aperture Arrays, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 2700–2708, doi:10.1002/2015GL063530.

Pyle, M. L., S. C. Myers, W. R. Walter, and K. D. Smith (2015).  Accurate Local Event Locations in Rock Valley, Nevada, Using a Bayesian Multiple Event Method, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 105 (2A) 706-718, doi:10.1785/0120140251.

Pyle, M. L., D. A. Wiens, A. Nyblade, and S. Anandakrishnan (2010).  Crustal Structure of the Transantarctic Mountains Near the Ross Sea from Ambient Seismic Noise Tomography, J. Geophy. Res., 115, B11310, doi:10.1029/2009JB007081.

Pyle, M. L., D.A. Wiens, D. Weerartne, P. J. Shore, H. Shiobara, and H. Sugioka (2010).  Shear Velocity Structure of the Mariana Mantle Wedge from Rayleigh Wave Phase Velocities, J. Geophy. Res., 115, B11304, doi:10.1029/2009JB006976.

Hansen, S. E., J. Julià, A. A. Nyblade, M. L. Pyle, D. A. Wiens, and S. Anandakrishnan (2009).  Using S Wave Receiver Functions to Estimate Crustal Structure Beneath Ice Sheets: An Application to the Transantarctic Mountains and East Antarctic Craton, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q08014, doi:10.1029/2009GC002576.

Koper, K. D. and M. L. Pyle (2004).  Observations of PKiKP/PcP Amplitude Ratios and Implications for Earth Structure at the Boundaries of the Liquid Core, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B03301, doi:10.1029/2003JB002750.

Koper, K, D., M. L. Pyle, and J. M. Franks (2003).  Constraints on Aspherical Core Structure from PKiKP-PcP Differential Travel Times, J. Geophy. Res., 108, B3, 2618, doi:10.1029/2002JB001995.