Kasper Van WijkKasper van Wijk is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department and Director of the Physical Acoustics Laboratory at the University of Auckland. He studied geophysics at the University of Utrecht from 1991 to 1996, where he specialized in inversetheory. After teaching outdoor education in the mountains of Colorado, Van Wijk obtained his PhD in geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines and taught at Boise State University. His research interests center around elastic-wave propagation in disordered media, with applications ranging from medical imaging to global seismology. Van Wijk has (co-)organized and taught geophysical field camps in Colorado, Oregon, and Thailand. His worldwide outreach efforts, as part of Seismometers in Schools, have exposed diverse audiences to the dynamic processes of our Earth. Read More Read Less