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BERGER, JONATHAN

Research Geophysicist/

Senior Lecturer

Degrees:

• B.S., Dalhousie University, Canada
• M.S., Dalhousie University, Canada
• M.S., University of California, San Diego
• Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Research Interests:

• Design and operation of a worldwide network of very broadband seismometers for the study of earthquake source mechanisms, Earth structure
• Design and development of data acquisition and communication systems
• Design and development of infrasonic sensors
• Development of satellite telemetry for global seismic data transmission
• Application of seismological techniques to the monitoring of nuclear weapons test limitation treaties

1964, Seismic crustal studies on the east coast of Canada; the edge of the continental shelf, Eos Trans. AGU, 45, 72

1964, The nature of the seismic velocity gradient in the earths crust and upper mantle under Nova Scotia, Bull. Can. Assoc. Phys., 20, 13

1964, The possibility of observing reflections from the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Eos Trans. AGU, 45, 95-96

1965, Geophysical observations on the sediments and basement structure underlaying Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 49, 959-965

1969, A laser earth strain meter, Rev. Sci. Inst., 40, 1569-1575

1970, Earth strain measurements with a laser interferometer, Science, 170, 296-303

1971, Some observation of the San Fernando, California, earthquake with a laser strainmeter, Geological Survey Professional Paper, 733, 150-152

1972, A year of strain measurements in Southern California, Nature, 238, 93-94

1973, Some observations of Earth strain tides in California, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A., 274, 267-277

1974, Earthquake prediction: Modification of the earth tide tilts and strains by dilatancy, Geophys. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., 39, 111-121

1974, The spectrum of earth strain noise for 10-8 Hz to 102 Hz, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 1210-1214

1975, A note on thermoelastic strains and tilts, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 274-277

1975, An analysis of tidal strain observations form the United States of America: I. The laterally homogeneous tide, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 65, 1613-1629

1976, An analysis of tidal strain observations from the United States of America: II. The inhomogeneous tide, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 66, 18221-1846

1976, International Deployment of Accelerometers - Network for Very Long Period Seismology, Transactions-American Geophysical Union, 57, 4, 180-188

1978, Comments on Transfer functions for the Seismic Research Observatory seismograph system, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 68, 1537-1538

1978, Observations from the IDA network of the moment tensor of the Oaxaca earthquake, November 29, 1978, Geofisica Internacional, 17, 281-286

1978, Vertical seismic noise at very low frequencies, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 5420-5424

1979, Comments on Use of a bubble tiltmeter as a seismometer by Miller et al., (1978), Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 59, 411-413

1979, Observations from the Ida Network of Attenuation and Splitting During a Recent Earthquake, Nature, 277, 5695, 358-362

1979, Seismic system calibration: 1. Parametric models, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 69, 251-270

1979, Seismic system calibration: 2. Cross-spectral calibration using random binary signals, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 69, 271-288

1979, Use of a Bubble Tiltmeter as a Horizontal Seismometer - Comment, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 59, 2, 411-413

1980, Investigations of Tilt Measurements Using Shallow Borehole Tiltmeters, Journal of Geophysical Research, 85, NB8, 4351-4362

1980, Stacking for the Frequencies and Qs of 0s0 and 1s0, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 62, 2, 457-471

1982, The Optical Anchor - a Geophysical Strainmeter, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 72, 5, 1707-1715

1983, Seismic data bases: The use of computers in geophysical data management, Eos Trans. AGU, 64, 658

1984, A seismological data base management system, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 74, 1849-1862

1984, The Anza Array - a High-Dynamic-Range, Broad-Band, Digitally Radiotelemetered Seismic Array, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 74, 4, 1469-1481

1986, Low stress-drop earthquakes in the light of new data from the Anza, California telemetered digital array, Earthquake Source Mechanics, Geophysical Monograph 37, Am. Geophys. Union

1986, Project IDA: a decade in review, EOS Trans. AGU, 67, 203-212

1986, Rupture Characteristics and Tomographic Source Imaging of Ml Approximately 3 Earthquakes near Anza, Southern-California, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 91, B12, 2633-2650

1987, A new U.S.-U.S.S.R. seismological program, Eos Trans. AGU, 68, 105-111

1987, The Digital Array at Anza, California - Processing and Initial Interpretation of Source Parameters, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 92, B1, 369-382

1988, Attenuation near Anza, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 78, 2, 672-691

1988, Studies of High-Frequency Seismic Noise in Eastern Kazakhstan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 78, 5, 1744-1758

1989, Regional seismic event location with a sparse network: Application to eastern Kazakhstan, USSR, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 17767-17780

1990, Analysis of High-Frequency Seismic Noise in the Western United-States and Eastern Kazakhstan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 80, 4, 951-970

1990, High-Frequency Seismic Observations in Eastern Kazakhstan, USSR, with Emphasis on Chemical Explosion Experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 95, B1, 295-307

1990, Quantitative Measurements of Shear-Wave Polarizations at the Anza Seismic Network, Southern California - Implications for Shear-Wave Splitting and Earthquake Prediction, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 95, B8, 12449-12473

1991, Comment on Quantitative Measurements of Shear-Wave Polarizations at the Anza Seismic Network, Southern California - Implications for Shear-Wave Splitting and Earthquake Prediction by Aster,Richard,C., Shearer,Peter,M., Berger,Jon - Reply, Journal of

1991, Soviet-American Study of Seismological Control of Nuclear Explosions, Academy of Sciences USSR, Institute Physics of the Earth, Moscow "Nauka"

1992, Pecularities of Surface-Wave propagation across Central Eurasia, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 82, 2464-2493

1994, Parametric Analysis and Calibration of the Sts-1 Seismometer of the Iris/Ida Seismographic Network, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 84, 5, 1580-1592

1995, Broadband Seismic Characterization of the Arabian Shield, Proceedings - 17 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 17, 329-338

1996, Earthquake activity near Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean, as seen by a combined seismic/hydrophone array, Geothermics, 25, 4-5, 507-&

1996, Initial Results from the Deployment of Broadband Seismometers in the Saudi Arabian Shield, Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 18, 108-117

1997, The IDA Near Realtime System, Seismological Research Letters, 68, 223-227

1998, Surveying Infrasonic Noise on Oceanic Islands, Proceedings - 20 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 20, 586-595

1999, Seismic characteristics of RAYN/GSN Station, Saudi Arabia, J. King Saud Univ., 11, 81-92

1999, Surveying Infrasonic Noise on Oceanic Islands, Proceedings - 21 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 21, II, 141-150

2002, An optical fiber infrasound sensor: a new lower limit on atmospheric pressure noise between 1 Hz and 10 Hz, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 2474-2479

2002, High Seas ROADNet: Internet at Sea for Oceanographic research, Sea Technology, May 2002, 10-18

2002, Surveying infrasonic noise on oceanic islands, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159, 5, 1127-1152

2004, Resolving quadrature fringes in real time, Applied Optics, 43, 4, 771-775