Maureen D. Long is an assistant professor in the Geology & Geophysics department at Yale University. She was as a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism from 2006-2008 and has worked on the High Lava Plains project since 2007. She is working on measurements of shear wave splitting for the HLP stations and their interpretation in terms of upper mantle flow processes and the origin and evolution of the HLP. She collaborates with Kelsey Druken and Chris Kincaid on predicting shear wave splitting patterns from laboratory flow models.