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Joan
Gomberg Research Physicist, U.S.G.S. Affiliate Professor, UW ESS Office : ATG-224 (ESS mail address) Phone : 206-616-5581 Fax : 206-543-0489 (shared) email : gomberg@ usgs.gov web-page : http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/gomberg |
| Areas of Interest : Earthquake hazard assessment, earthquake interactions, wave propagation, source scaling. |
Related links : USGS Pacific Northwest Website Pacific Northwest Seismic Network |
Education : Ph.D. : Geophysics, University of California, San Diego, 1986 B.Sc. : Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979 |
Positions Held : Post-doc, University of California, San Diego 1986-87 Post-doc, University of Nevada, Reno 1987-88 Visiting Scholar, Inst, Geol. & Nuclear Sci., New Zealand Winter, 2002 Visiting Scholar, Ist. Naz. di Geofisica e Vulc., Italy Spring, 2002 Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey, Golden, CO 1988-1994 Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey, Memphis,TN 1994-2006 Adjunct Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Memphis,, Memphis,TN 1994-2006 Research Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey, Seattle, WA 2006-present Affiliate Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 2006-present |
Current Research : NonVolcanic Tremor, Aseismic Slip, and Earthquakes Observational study of dynamically triggered tremor and earthquakes in Cascadia, most recently in the region of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. With Ken Creager,Honn Kao, Garry Rogers, Justin Rubinstein, John Vidale. Observational study of dynamically triggered tremor in California. With Paul Bodin, Ken Creager,Zhigang Peng, Justin Rubinstein, John Vidale Search for tremor associated with aseismic slip events in California. With Roland Burgmann, Elizabeth Cochran, Justin Rubinstein, John Vidale Earthquake Triggering Probability and Ground-motion Scaling. With Karen Felzer. Dynamic NonLinearity and Earthquake Triggering Laboratory acoustic loading experiments. With Matt Knuth, Paul Johnson, Chris Marone, Heather Savage Modeling constrained by in situ and laboratory data. With Xiaoping Jia, Paul Johnson Pacific Northwest ShakeMap Development Testing of extrapolation of NGA attenuation relations to PNW motions Comparison of PNW ground motions and intensities Working group coordination for ShakeMap PNW validation and enhancement. With Paul Bodin, Renate Hartog, Steve Malone, Tom Pratt, Bill Steele, David Wald, Craig Weaver, John Vidale and partners Ivan Wong, Doug Bausch Development of 'SeisSim' Numerical Earthquake Simulator. With Sandy Steacy, John McClosky Mount Rainier Characterization of 2006 M4.5 Cowlitz Chimneys earthquake sequence. With Renate Hartog, Karen Meagher, Seth Moran Dynamic triggering observations. With Renate Hartog, John Vidale, Maise In Situ Non-linear Ground Motion Measurement using NEES Vibrator Trucks. With Paul Bodin, Xiaoping Jia, Farn-Yu Meng, Paul Johnson, Zack Lawrence, Fred Pearce |
Selected Publications : 2008 Gomberg, J., J.L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K.C. Creager, J.E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, 2008, Widespread Triggering of Non-volcanic Tremor in California, Gomberg, J., J.L. Rubinstein, Z. Peng, K.C. Creager, J.E. Vidale, and P. Bodin, 2008, Widespread Triggering of Non-volcanic Tremor in California, Science, v. 319, p. 173. Download Johnson, P.A., Savage, H., Knuth, M., Gomberg, J. and Marone, C., 2008. Effects of acoustic waves on stick–slip in granular media and implications for earthquakes, v. 451|3 January 2008| doi:10.1038/nature06440 , p. 57-60. Download 2007 Rubinstein, J., J. Vidale, J. Gomberg, P. Bodin, K. Creager, and S. Malone, 2007, Non-volcanic tremor driven by large transient shear stresses: Nature, v. 448, p. 579-582, doi:10.1038/nature06017. Download 2006 Cramer, C., J.S. Gomberg, E.S. Schweig, B.A. Waldron, and K. Tucker, 2006, First USGS urban hazard maps predict the effects of soils: Seism. Res. Letts., v. 77, p. 23-29. Gomberg, J.. L. Wald, R. Dart, E.S. Schweig, 2006, Urban Seismic Hazard Mapping for Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee: USGS Fact Sheet 05-3142, 4 p. Full CV Link : http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/gomberg |
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