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2016 Publications

Abers, G. A., Z. Eilon, J. B. Gaherty, G. Jin, YH. Kim, M. Obrebski, and C. Dieck (2016). Southeast Papuan crustal tectonics: Imaging extension and buoyancy of an active rift, Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, 951-971, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012621.

Audet, P. (2016). Receiver functions using OBS data: Promises and limitations from numerical modelling and examples from the Cascadia Initiative, Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw111.

Ball, J. S., A. F. Sheehan, J. C. Stachnik, F.-C. Lin, W. L. Yeck, and J. A. Collins (2016). Lithospheric shear velocity structure of South Island, New Zealand from amphibious Rayleigh wave tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012726.

Berger, J., G. Laske, J. Babcock, and J. Orcutt (2016). An ocean bottom seismic observatory with near real-time telemetry, Earth and Space Science, 3, doi:10.1002/2015EA000137.

Bowden, D. C., M. D. Kohler, V. C. Tsai, and D. S. Weeraratne (2016). Offshore Southern California Lithospheric Velocity Structure from Noise Cross Correlation Functions, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB012919.

Chakravorty, A. (2016). Small-scale factors influence mantle flow under the seafloor, Earth Magazine, 16.

Chen, X., and J. J. McGuire (2016). Measuring earthquake source parameters in the Mendocino triple juction region using a dense OBS array: Implications for fault strength variations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 453, 276-287, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.022.

Chen, Z., P. Gerstoft, and P. D. Bromirski (2016). Microseism source direction from noise cross-correlation, Geophysical Journal International, 205, 810-818, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw055.

Flores, C. H., U. S. ten Brink, J. J. McGuire, and J. A. Collins (2016), Observations of seismicity and ground motion in the northeast U.S. Atlantic Margin from ocean-bottom seismometer data, Seismol. Res. Lett., 87, doi: 10.1785/0220160079.

Gardner, A. T., and J. A. Collins (2016). A second look at chip scale atomic clocks for long term precision timing: four years in the field, IEEE Oceans.

Gusman, A. R., A. F. Sheehan, K. Satake, M. Heidarzadeh, I. E. Mulia, and T. Maeda (2016), Tsunami data assimilation of Cascadia seafloor pressure gauge records from the 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068368.

Harris, R., L. Wallace, S. Webb, Y. Ito, K. Mochizuki, H. Ichihara, S. Henrys, A. Tréhu, S. Schwartz, A. Sheehan, D. Saffer, and R. Lauer (2016). Investigations of shallow slow slip offshore of New Zealand, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO048945.

Hawley, W. B., R. M. Allen, and M. A. Richards (2016). Tomography reveals buoyant asthenosphere accumulating beneath the Juan de Fuca plate, Science, 353, 1406-1408.

Horning, G., J. P. Canales, S. M. Carbotte, S. Han, H. Carton, and M. R. Nedimović (2016), A 2-D Tomographic Model of the Juan de Fuca Plate from Accretion at Axial Seamount to Subduction at the Cascadia Margin from an Active Source OBS survey, J. Geophys. Res., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB013228.

Johnson, C. W., and R. Bürgmann (2016). Delayed dynamic triggering: Local seismicity leading up to three remote M≥ 6 aftershocks of the 11 April 2012 M8.6 Indian Ocean earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121, 134-151, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012243.

Lin, P.-Y. P., J. B. Gaherty, G. Jin, J. A. Collins, D. Lizarralde, R. L. Evans, and G. Hirth (2016), High-resolution seismic constraints on flow dynamics in the oceanic asthenosphere, Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature18012.

Morgan, J., M. Warner, G. Arnoux, E. Hooft, D. Toomey, B. VanderBeek, and W. Wilcock (2016). Next-generation seismic experiments–II: wide-angle, multi-azimuth, 3-D, full-waveform inversion of sparse field data, Geophysical Journal International, 204, 1342-1363, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv513.

Peureux, C., and F. Ardhuin (2016). Ocean bottom pressure records from the Cascadia array and short surface gravity waves, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, doi: 10.1002/2015JC011580.

Sahakian, V., A. Kell, A. Harding, N. Driscoll, and G. Kent (2016). Geophysical evidence for a San Andreas subparallel transtensional fault along the northeastern shore of the Salton Sea, BSSA, 106, doi: 10.1785/0120150350.

Sapkota, B. (2016). Source parameterization of earthquakes along Juan de Fuca transform boundaries, Master's Thesis, Oregon State University.

Shillington, D.J., J. B. Gaherty, C. J. Ebinger, C. A. Scholz, K. Selway, A. A. Nyblade, P. A. Bedrosian, C. Class, S. L. Nooner, M. E. Pritchard, J. Elliott, P. R. N. Chindandali, G. Mbogoni, R. Wambura Ferdinand, N. Boniface, S. Manya, G. Kamihanda, E. Saria, G. Mulibo, J. Salima, A. Mruma, L. Kalindekafe, N. J. Accardo, D. Ntambila, M. Kachingwe, G. T. Mesko, T. McCartney, M. Maquay, J. P. O’Donnell, G. Tepp, K. Mtelela, P. Trinhammer, D. Wood, E. Aaron, M. Gibaud, M. Rapa, C. Pfeifer, F. Mphepo, D. Gondwe, G. Arroyo, C. Eddy, B. Kamoga, M. Moshi (2016). Acquisition of a Unique Onshore/Offshore Geophysical and Geochemical Dataset in the Northern Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, Seismo. Res. Lett. DOI: 10.1785/0220160112.

Soule, D., W. S. D. Wilcock, D. R. Toomey, E. E. E. Hooft, and R. T. Weekly (2016), Near-axis crustal structure and thickness of the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 5688-5695, doi: 10.1002/2016GL068182.

Stanley, S. (2016). Streamlining rapid tsunami forecasting, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO052675.

Tréhu, A. M. (2016). Measuring slow slip offshore, Science, 352, 654-655, doi: 10.1126/science.aaf6534.

VanderBeek, B. P., D. R. Toomey, E. E. E. Hooft, and W. S. D. Wilcock (2016). Segmentation of mid-ocean ridges attributed to oblique mantle divergence, Nature Geoscience, 636-642, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2745.

Wallace, L. M., S. C. Webb, Y. Ito, K. Mochizuki, R. Hino, S. Henrys, S. Y. Schwartz, A. F. Sheehan (2016). Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, Science, 352, 701-704, doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2349.

Wang, K., and A. M. Tréhu (2016). Invited review paper: Some outstanding issues in the study of great megathrust earthquakes—The Cascadia example,  Journal of Geodynamics, doi: 10.1016/j.jog.2016.03.010.

Wei, S. S., Y. Zha, W. Shen, D. A. Wiens, J. A. Conder, and S. C. Webb (2016). Upper mantle structure of the Tonga-Lau-Fiji region from Rayleigh wave tomography, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4705-4724, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006656.

Wendel, J. (2016). Undersea data tie slow fault slip to tsunami-causing quakes, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO051993.

Zietlow, D. W., P. H. Molnar, and A. F. Sheehan (2016). Teleseismic P-wave tomography of South Island, New Zealand upper mantle: Evidence of subduction of Pacific lithosphere since 45 Ma. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 120, doi: 10.1002/2015JB012624.