{"id":198,"date":"2023-03-28T11:55:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:06:21","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ray Russo, geophysics professor at the University of Florida, works on upper mantle flow, seismic anisotropy and attenuation, structure of the Earth&#8217;s crust and mantle, large-magnitude earthquakes, viscosity of the upper mantle, and seismotectonics.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Russo has taught undergraduate and graduate classes in physical geology, structural geology, geophysics, tectonophysics, terrestrial gravity and magnetism, seismology, oceanography, and climate change.\u00a0 He also developed and taught a course aimed at examining connections between physical sciences and the arts, called <em>Science and\u00a0Art in the Western World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-198","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rrusso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}