Tanner Acquisto

Tanner Acquisto is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), part of the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on marine geophysical data analysis to study oceanic plate structure and evolution, particularly at earthquake-prone subduction zones.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Marine Geophysics from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• M.Res. in Exploration Geophysics from Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
• B.S. in Geophysics from Texas A&M University

Dr. Acquisto specializes in processing multichannel seismic (MCS) and ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) data through advanced techniques including travel-time tomography, full-waveform inversion (FWI), and differential effective medium modeling to extract properties like water content. His work bridges plate boundary dynamics, fault mechanics, and hydrogeological processes in marine environments.

He is affiliated with UTIG at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus, which partners with the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and other geoscience units at UT Austin.