Maureen Long holds a B.S. degree in geology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in geophysics from MIT. She joined the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in October 2006 as a postdoc. In her research, she brings a variety of tools to bear on the problems of how deformation is accommodated in the mantle and how constraints on mantle dynamics can be gleaned from seismological observations, particularly seismic anisotropy. Much of her research on mantle anisotropy focuses on subduction zones, with the goal of characterizing the mantle flow field in these regions. Another major focus of her work is the integration of seismological observations with constraints from other disciplines, such as geodynamics and mineral physics. She will join the Geology & Geophysics department at Yale in January 2009 as an assistant professor.