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MINSTER, JEAN-BERNARD

Professor of Geophysics

Degrees:

• Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
• D.Sc., Universite de Paris VII, France

Research Interests:

• Propagation and attenuation of seismic waves
• Nuclear monitoring by geoohysical means
• Applications of space geodesy to the study of plate motions and deformation
• Mass balance of polar ice sheets
• Intermediate-term earthquake prediction
• Precise airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
• Numerical modeling of Earthquakes and their effects in a grid framework

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 110: Intro GIS & GPS for Scientists
• SIO110: Intro GIS & GPS for Scientists

Honors and Awards:

• Fulbright travel grant to U.S., 1979-1983
• Cecil and Ida Green Scholar, 1987-1988
• Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1990
• Nominator and Citationist, AGU 1993 Edward A. Flinn III Award, 1993
• William Nordberg Memorial Lecturer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 1996
• Bowie lecture, American Geophysical Union, 1997
• Citationist, Geological Society of America 1998 George P. Woollard Medal, 1998
• Keynote Address speaker, Army Research Conference, 2000
• Lifetime National Associate National Academy of Sciences, 2002
• NASA Public Service Medal, 2003

Mentoring:

• McQuinn, Emmett (Masters; 2008-2008)
• Swift, Troy (Masters; 2002-2004)
• Ragona, Daniel (Graduate; 2001-2007)
• Bassis, Jeremy (Graduate; 2000-2007)
• Ely, Geoffrey (Graduate; 2000-2008)
• Borsa, Adrian (Graduate; 1998-2005)
• Xu, Heming (Graduate; 1994-1998)
• Yu, Lois (Masters; 1993-1995)
• Otero, Valerie (Masters; 1992-1995)
• Baker, Eli (Graduate; 1989-1996)
• Gurrola, Harold (Graduate; 1987-1995)
• Genrich, Joachim (Graduate; 1986-1992)
• Hedlin, Michael (Graduate; 1986-1991)
• Fricker, Helen (Post Doc; -)
• Mellors, Robert (Post Doc; -)

Calais, E and J.-B. Minster, GPS, earthquakes, the ionosphere, and the Space Shuttle, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 105, 167-181, 1998.

Xu, H., S. M. Day, and J.B. Minster, Model for nonlinear wave propagation derived from rock hysteresis measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 29915-29929, 1998. Review of NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers, (7 Panel reports and Committee analysis) Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, National Research Council, 1998.

Xu, Heming, Steven M. Day, and Jean-Bernard Minster, Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Rocks at Intermediate Strains, Proceedings 12th Eng. Mech. Conf. ASCE, 506-509, 1998.

Gurrola, H. and J.-B. Minster, Thickness estimates of the upper mantle transition zone from bootstrapped velocity spectrum stacks of receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 133, 31-43, 1998.

George P. Woollard Award Presented to Thomas H. Jordan, Citation, GSA Today, March 1999, pp 24-25.

Rundle, J.B., T. Henyey, J.B. Minster, and G. Fox, General Earthquake Models, APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 ACES workshop proceedings, 281-287, 1999.

Minster, J.B., and T. Sagiya, Inversion and Assimilation of Geodetic Data, APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 ACES workshop proceedings, 395-398, 1999.

Minster, J.B., and N. P. Williams, Systematic Global Testing of Intermediate-term Earthquake Prediction Algorithms, APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 ACES workshop proceedings, 491-496, 1999.

Xu, H., S. M. Day, J.-B. Minster, Two-dimensional Linear and Nonlinear Wave Propagation in a Half-Space, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer,, 89, 903-917, 1999. Ware, R.H., D.W. Fulker, S.A. Stein, D.N. Anderson, S.K.Avery, R.D. Clark, K.K. Droegemeier, J.P. Kuettner, J. B. Minster, and S. Sorooshian, Suominet: A Real-time National GPS Network for Atmospheric Research and Education, Bull. Atm. Met. Soc., 81, 677-694, 2000.

Xu, H., S. M. Day, J.-B. Minster, Hysteresis and two-dimensional nonlinear wave propagation in Berea sandstone, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6163-6175, 2000.

Yi, D., J.-B. Minster, C. R. Bentley, The effect of ocean tidal loading on satellite altimetry over Antarctica, Antarctic Science 12, 119-124, 2000.

Hofton, M. A., J. B. Blair, J.-B. Minster, J. R. Ridgway, N. P. Williams, J. L. Bufton and D. L. Rabine, An airborne scanning laser altimetry survey of Long Valley Caldera, California, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 21, 2413-2437, 2000.

Hofton, M. A., J.-B. Minster, J. R. Ridgway, N. P. Williams, J. B. Blair, D. L. Rabine, and J. L. Bufton, Using Airborne laser Altimetry to Detect Topographic Change at Long Valley Caldera, California, AGU Monograph: Remote Sensing of Volcanoes, Ed. P. Mouginis-Mark, 249-264, 2000.

Gurrola H., and J.B. Minster, Evidence for local variations in the depth to the 410 km discontinuity beneath Albuquerque, New Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 10,847-10,856, 2000. Hofton, M.A., J.-B. Minster, and J.B. Blair, Decomposition of Laser Altimeter Waveforms, IEE Trans. Geosc. and Rem. Sensing, 38, 1989-1996, 2000.

Ware, R. H., D. W. Fulker, S. A. Stein, D. N. Anderson, S. K. Avery, R. D. Clark, K. K. Droegemeier, J. P. Kuettner, J. Minster, and S. Sorooshian, Real-time national GPS Networks: Opportunities for atmospheric sensing, Earth Planets Space, 52, 901-905, 2000.

Sandwell, D. T., L. Sichoix, D. Agnew, Y. Bock, and J.-B. Minster, Near real-time radar interferometry of the Mw 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3101-3104, 2000.

Field, E. H. and the SCEC Phase III Working Group, Accounting for site effects in probabilistic seismic hazard analyses of southern California: Overview of the SCEC Phase III Report, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 90, S1-S31, 2000.

Hudnut, K. W., A. Borsa, C. Glennie, and J.-B. Minster, High-Resolution Topography along surface rupture of the 16 October 1999 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake (Mw 7.1) from Airborne Laser Swath Mapping, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1570-1576, 2002.

Ware, R.H., D.W. Fulker, S.A. Stein, D.N. Anderson, S.K. Avery, R.D. Clark, K. K. Droegemeier, J. P. Kuettner, J.B. Minster, S. Sorooshian, Real-time national GPS networks for atmospheric sensing, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Physics, 63, 1315-1330, 2001.

Fialko, Y., D. Sandwell, D. Agnew, M. Simons, P.Shearer, B. Minster, Deformation on Nearby Faults Induced by the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake, Science, 297, 1858-1862, 2002.

Zwally, H. J., B. Schutz, W. Abdalati, J. Abshire, C. Bentley, A. Brenner, J. Bufton, J. Dezio, D. Hancock, D. Harding, T. Herring, B. Minster, K. Quinn, S. Palm, J. Spinhirne, R. Thomas, ICESat's laser measurements of polar ice, atmosphere, ocean, and land, J. Geodynamics, 34, 405-445, 2002.

Calais, E., J. S. Haase, J. B. Minster, Detection of ionospheric perturbations using SCIGN GPS array, Southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 30, 1628-1631, 2003.

Heuze, F., R. Archuleta, F. Bonilla, S. Day, M. Doroudian, A. Elgamal, S. Gonzales, M. Hoehler,T. Lai, D. Lavallee, B. Lawrence, P-C. Liu, A. Martin, L. Matesic, B. Minster, R. Mellors,D. Oglesby, S. Park, M. Riemer, J.Steidl, F. Vernon, M. Vucetic, J. Wagoner, Z. Yang, Estimating Site-specific strong Earthquake Motions, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 21 pp, in press, 2003.

Solomon, S., V. Baker, J. Bloxham,J. Booth, A. Donnellan,C. Elachi, D. Evans, E. Rignot, B. Chao, A. Chave, A. Gillespie,T. Herring, R. Jeanloz, J. LaBrecque,B. Minster,W. Pitman III, M. Simons, D. Turcotte, M.L. Zoback, A Plan for Living on a Restless Planet, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 84, 485-500, 2003.

Fricker, H.A., N.W. Young, R. Coleman, J.N. Bassis and J.B. Minster, Multi-year monitoring of Rift Propagation on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L02502, doi:10.1029/2004GL021036, 2005.

Bassis, J.N., R. Coleman, H.A. Fricker, and J.B. Minster, Episodic propagation of a rift on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L06502, doi:10.1029/2004GL022048, 2005

Fricker, H.A., A. Borsa, B. Minster, C. Carabajal, K. Quinn, and B.Bills, Assessment of ICESat performance at the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L21S06, doi:10.1029/2005GL023423, 2005.

Fricker, H.A., J. Bassis, J.B. Minster, and D.R. Macayeal, ICESat’s new perspective on iceshelf rifts: The vertical dimension, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23S08, doi:10.1029/2005GL025070, 2005.

Ragona, Daniel, Bernard Minster, Thomas Rockwell, and Jouni Jussila, Field imaging spectroscopy: A new methodology to assist the description, interpretation, and archiving of paleoseismological information from faulted exposures, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B10309-2006, doi:10.1029/2006JB004267, 2006

Olsen, K.B., S.M. Day, J.B. Minster, Y. Cui, A. Chourasia, M. Faerman, R. Moore, P. Maechling and T.Jordan, Strong shaking in Los Angeles expected from southern San Andreas earthquake, Geophys, Res. Lett., 33, L07305, doi:10.1029/2005GL025472, 2006

Faerman, Marcio, Reagan Moore, Yifeng Cui,Yuanfang Hu, Jing Zhu, Bernard Minster, and Philip Maechling, ManagingLarge Scale Data for Earthquake Simulations, J. Grid Computing, doi:10.1007/s10723-007-9072-x, 2007

Borsa, Adrian M., Jean-Bernard Minster, Bruce G. Bills and Helen A. Fricker, Modeling long-period noise in kinematic GPS applications, , J. Geodesy, 81, 157-170, doi:10.1007/s00190-006-0097-x, 2007

Chourasia, Amit, Steve Cutchin, Yifeng Cui, Reagan Moore, Kim Olsen, Steve M. Day, J. Bernard Minster, Philip Maechling, and Thomas H. Jordan, Visual Insights into High-Resolution Earthquake Simulations, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 27, 5, 28-34, 2007

Ely, Geoffrey P. Steve M. Day and Jean-Bernard Minster, A support-operator method for viscoelastic wave modeling in 3-D heterogeneous media, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.111/j.1365-246X.2007.03633.x, 2007

Borsa, Adrian A., Helen A. Fricker, Bruce G. Bills, Jean-Bernard Minster, Claudia C. Carabajal, and Katherine J. Quinn, Topography of the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, from kinematic GPS, Geophys.J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03604.x, 2007

Bassis, Jeremy, Helen A. Fricker, Richard Coleman, and Jean-Bernard Minster, An Investigation Into the Forces that Drive Ice Shelf Rift Propagation on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, J. of Glaciology, 54, 184, 2008

Cui, Y., Moore, R., Olsen, K., Chourasia, A., Maechling, P., Minster, B., Day S., Hu, Y., Zhu J., Majumdar, A. and Jordan, T., 'Enabling Very-Large Scale Earthquake Simulations on Parallel Machines ', Advancing Science and Society through Computation:Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer, (2007): pp. 46-53. 2008

Clark, D., B. Minster, and E.A. Kihn, The Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) and the World Data Center System, Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 10, ES2007, doi”10.2205/2007ES000294, 2008

Cui Yifeng, Reagan Moore, Kim Olsen, Amit Chourasia, Philip Maechling, Bernard Minster, Steven Day, Yuanfang Hu, Jing Zhu and Thomas Jordan, Toward Petascale Earthquake Simulations, Acta Geotechnica, doi: 10.1007/s11440-008-0055-2, 2008

Borsa, Adrian, Cruce, G. Bills, and Jean-Bernard Minster, Modeling the topography of the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, as an equipotential surface of Earth’s gravity field, J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10408, doi:10.1029/2007JB005445, 2008.

Olsen, K. B., S. M. Day, J. B. Minster, Y. Cui, A. Chourasia, D. Okaya, P. Maechling, and T. Jordan, TeraShake2: Simulation of Mw7.7 earthquakes on the southern San Andreas fault with spontaneous rupture description, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, doi:10.1785/0120070148, pp. 1162 -1185, 2008