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BABCOCK, JEFFREY

Associate Project Scientist

Academic Administrator

Degrees:

• B.S., University of California, San Diego
• Ph.D., UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

• Marine Seismology
• Tectonics
• Oceanic Crustal Structure
• Continental Margins
• Geophysical Instrumentation

Mentoring:

• Johnstone, Elizabeth (Graduate; 2006-2009)
• Fenwick, Rebecca (Graduate; 2005-2009)
• Brothers, Daniel (Graduate; 2004-2009)
• Hogarth, Leah (Graduate; 2004-2009)
• Dingler, Jeff (Graduate; 2002-2008)

Babcock, J. M., B. A. Kirkendall, and J. A. Orcutt. Relationships between ocean bottom noise and the environment, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 85: 1991-2007, 1994.

Babcock, J. M., A. J. Harding, G. M. Kent, and J. A. Orcutt. An examination of along-axis variation of magma chamber width and crustal structure on the East Pacific Rise between 12°20'N and 13°30'N, J. Geophys. Res., 103: 30451-30467, 1998.

Kent, G.M., J.M. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, A.J. Harding, G.G. Seitz,, J.A. Dingler, J.V. Gardner, C.R. Goldman, A.C. Heyvaert, R. Karlin, L.A. Mayer, C.W. Morgan, R.C. Richards, P.T. Gayes and L..A. Owen. A 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe, Geology, 33, 365-368, 2005.

Crocket, J., C. Nittrouer, A. Ogston, R. Sternberg, N. Driscoll, J. Babcock, J. Milliman, R. Slingerland, D. Naar, B. Donahue, J. Walsh, W. Dietrich, G. Parker, M. Bera, H. Davies, P. Harris, M. Goni, R. Aller, J. Aller. Where rivers and oceans collide. EOS, 86(3): 25-32, 2005.

Nedimovic, M.R., S.M. Carbotte, A.J. Harding, R.S. Detrick, J.P. Canales, J.B. Diebold, G.M. Kent, M. Tischer, and J.M. Babcock, Frozen magma lenses below oceanic crust, Nature, 436: 1149-1152, 2005.

Canales, J.P., R.S. Detrick, S.M. Carbotte, G.M. Kent, J.B. Diebold, A. Harding, J. Babcock, M. Nedimovic, E. van Ark, Upper Crustal Structure and Axial Topography at Intermediate-Spreading Ridges: Seismic Constraints from the Southern Juan de Fuca Ridge, J. Geophys. Res., 110: B12104 (27 pages), 2005.

Carbotte, S. M., R.S. Detrick, A. Harding, J.P. Canales, J. Babcock, G. Kent, E. Van Ark, M. Nedimovic, J. Diebold. Rift topography linked to magmatism at the intermediate spreading Juan de Fuca Ridge, Geology, 33: 209-212, 2006.

Simons, F.J., G. Nolet, J.M. Babcock, R.E. Davis, J.A. Orcutt. A future for drifting Seismic Networks, EOS, 87(31): 305-307, 2006.

Canales, J.P., S.C. Singh, R.S. Detrick, S.M. Carbotte, A. Harding, G.M. Kent, J.B. Diebold, J. Babcock, M.R. Nedimovic, Seismic evidence for variations in axial magma chamber properties along the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 246, 353-366, 2006.

Van Ark, E.M., R.S. Detrick, J.P. Canales, S.M. Carbotte, A.J. Harding, G.M. Kent, M.R. Nedimovic, W.S.D. Wilcock, J.B. Diebold, J.M. Babcock, Seismic structure of the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Correlations with seismicity and hydrothermal activity, J. Geophys. Res., 112: B02401, 2007.

Hogarth, L.J., J. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, N. Le Dantec, J.K. Haas, D.L. Inman, and P.M. Masters, Long-term tectonic control on Holocene shelf sedimentation offshore La Jolla, California. Geology, 35: 275-278, 2007.

Kent, G.M., J.M. Babcock, N.W. Driscoll, A.J. Harding, G.G. Seitz,, J.A. Dingler, and R. Karlin,. A 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe – Geology Online Form, e115-116, doi:10.1130/G23127Y.1, Geology, 2006.

Dartnell, P. Normark, W.R., Driscoll, N.W., Babcock, J., Gardner, J.V., Kvitek, R.G., and Iampietro, P.J. Multibeam Bathymetry and Selected Perspective Views Offshore San Diego, California. USGS Scientific Investigations Map 2959, Sheets 1 & 2, 2007. NEW

Brothers, D.S., G.M. Kent, N.W. Driscoll, S.B. Smith, G.G. Seitz, J.A. Dingler, R. Karlin, A. J. Harding, J.M. Babcock. Late Pleistocene-Holocene earthquake history and slip-rate estimates for the West Tahoe-Dollar Point Fault, Lake Tahoe Basin, California. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., accepted July, 2008. NEW - ACCEPTED