David James is a staff scientist in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and is co-PI with Matthew Fouch for the broadband seismology component of the High Lava Plains project. He has devoted most of his professional career to studying the structure, formation and evolution of continental crust and lithospheric mantle. For the past two decades his work has focused primarily on portable broadband array seismic imaging to investigate the processes that form continents and how they have changed over geologic time.