Amanda Lough started as an assistant professor in the Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science at Drexel University in 2016. She came to BEES from her post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegies Institution for Science in Washington D.C. Prior to her post-doc at DTM, she earned her doctorate and masters from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her Bachelor of Science, Summa Cum Laude, with departmental honors from the University of Missouri-Columbia. While at the University of Missouri she was invited to join the Phi Beta Kappa honors fraternity as one of the top ten juniors in the college of arts and science

I like to describe myself as a traditional seismologist working in non-traditional settings. I started out as a classically trained geologist with an interest in earthquakes and volcanoes. I decided to focus on earthquakes and spent the majority of my graduate career identifying and studying earthquakes local to Antarctica. In the course of that project I found a group of earthquakes associated with a subglacial volcanic complex which brought me back to my interest in volcanoes. My current focus of research is looking into the seismic events associated with volcanoes, both those in eruptive cycles and those in quiescence. In particular, I am looking at a type of event called a DLP (deep long period seismic event) that has been recognized at a (limited) number of volcanoes but not fully understood.