Dr. Ray Russo, geophysics professor at the University of Florida, works on upper mantle flow, seismic anisotropy and attenuation, structure of the Earth’s crust and mantle, large-magnitude earthquakes, viscosity of the upper mantle, and seismotectonics. He uses temporary field deployments of seismometers and GPS receivers (currently in southern Chile), freely-distributed seismic data, and computer modeling of large-scale tectonics. Russo has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in physical geology, structural geology, geophysics, tectonophysics, terrestrial gravity and magnetism, seismology, oceanography, and climate change. He also developed and taught a course aimed at examining connections between physical sciences and the arts, called Science and Art in the Western World.