Current Research
I have wide-ranging research interests on the neotectonics, tectonics, and earthquake hazards of Alaska and surrounding regions.
I am currently funded on three projects: Alaska earthquake hazards, Western Alaska Range, and Coastal Hazards.
Alaska Earthquake Hazards
I am the Alaska Coordinator for the Earthquake Hazards Program of the USGS. I provide input to the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Coordinator on Alaska issues, and participate on the Earthquake Hazards Program Council. I am also the Alaska coordinator for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) external grants program. Feel free to contact with me to discuss various proposal ideas.
I am also project chief of the Alaska earthquake hazards project. There are several tasks on the project to address the paleoseismology and slip rate of the Denali fault system (Peter Haeussler, David Schwartz, Tony Crone, Steve Personius), defining and delineating seismic sources (Peter Haeussler), paleoearthquake and paleotsunami studies of the eastern Aleutians (Rich Briggs and Alan Nelson), and understanding tremor along the Aleutian arc (Stephanie Prejean).
My interests are in understanding the Denali fault system, in finding active structures, and in understanding the neotectonics of Alaska.
Western Alaska Range Project (WARP)
I am the project chief of this new (in FY2010) minerals program project to better define the tectonic, magmatic, and metallogenic framework of the western Alaska Range. Taks leaders on the project are Dwight Bradley (geologic mapping and geochronlogy), Robert Ayuso (igneous petrogenesis), and Rich Goldfárb (economic geology).
My interests are in understanding the geologic history and tectonics of the region, understanding the exhumation history, and the neotectonics.
Coastal Hazards – submarine landslides and tsunamis
I am on a coastal and marine geology program project to better understand submarine mass failures in fjords in southern Alaska. Earthquake-induced submarine landslides were the main killer in the 1964 M9.2 earthquake, thus these need to be better understood. We (Homa Lee, Holly Ryan, Keith Labay and I) have been working to better understand the nature and extent of submarine landslides at Port Valdez and Resurrection Bay in the 1964 earthquake. I also am working with Lee Liberty (Boise State University) on better delineating megathrust splay faults in southern Prince William Sound.
Anchorage Daily News | Earth mover - Front page Anchorage Daily News article ( 11/17/02 ) on the Denali fault earthquake.
Anchorage Daily News | Researchers share less... - Anchorage Daily News article on November 3, 2002 Denali fault earthquake
Anchorage Daily News | Geologists stumble upo... - Anchorage Daily News article on discovery of Susitna Glacier thrust fault in November of 2002
Anchorage Daily News | Hidden faults - Anchorage Daily News article on the paleoseismology of the Castle Mountain fault
Anchorage Daily News | Powerful lesson - Associated Press story on the first anniversary of the November 3, 2002 , Denali fault earthquake
Anchorage Daily News | 2002 quake a bonanza f... - Associated Press story on the November 3, 2002 Denali fault earthquake
Earthquakes in Alaska | USGS Open-File Report... - Poster on earthquake hazards in Alaska
Rupture in South-Central Alaska-The Denali Fa... - USGS Fact Sheet on the November 3, 2002, Denali fault earthquake
AEIC - Are you prepared for the next big eart... - 2004 earthquake awareness pamphlet
The Next Big Earthquake in Alaska May Come So... - Web version of 1994 earthquake awareness pamphlet
Earthquake Hazards Program: NEIC Earthquake S... - search for earthquakes
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program-Home - Denali fault earthquake photos on USGS server
USGS National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project ... - probabilistic seismic hazard maps
UAF Seismology Laboratory Home Page - Alaska Earthquake Information Center homepage
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center - Ewa Beach, H... - NOAA Tsunami warning center web site
GIS Coverages of the Castle Mountain Fault, S... - USGS Web site with maps and GIS files of the Castle Mountain fault
3 November 2002 M7.9 Earthquake, Alaska - slip distribution table and photographs from the November 3, 2002 , Denali fault earthquake
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