Curriculum Vitae (June 2008)
GEOFFREY A. ABERS Earth Sciences, 685 Commonwealth Av.
Phone: (617) 353-2616 Fax: (617) 353-3290 Boston University
e-mail: abers@bu.edu Boston, MA 02215 USA
Research Processes of lithospheric deformation; active collisions and rifts; earthquake sources;
Interests subduction mechanics and structure; crustal structure.
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1984-1989
Ph.D., Geophysics. "Seismicity and Active Tectonics of New Guinea"
Brown University, Providence, RI 1979-1983
Sc.B. degree magna cum laude in Geology-Physics/Mathematics.
Indiana University Summer 1982
Geology Summer Field School in Cardwell, MT.
Experience
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY
Doherty Senior Research Scientist 2008-
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth & Environ. Sci., Columbia Univ 2008-
Boston University, Boston, MA
Adjunct Professor of Department of Earth Sciences 2008-
Professor of Earth Sciences 2004-2008
Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences 1999-2004
Associate Chairman, Department of Earth Sciences 2000-2006
Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble France summer 2002
Visiting Research Professor, LGIT
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology 1994-1999
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist 1994-2002
Associate Research Scientist 1991-1994
Post Doctoral Research Scientist in Seismology 1989-1991
City College, City Univ. of New York, New York, NY 1992
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1984-1989
Graduate Research Assistant in Geophysics.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 1983-1984
Research Assistant, gravity group.
Honors and Professional Service
Chairman, MARGINS Steering Committee and MARGINS Office Director 2006-
Phys. Earth Planet. Int. “Top-50 Most Cited Articles 2004-7” (Abers, 2005) 2008
NSF MARGINS Initiative Steering Committee 2003-6
Co-convener, MARGINS Workshop “Interpreting Mantle Images”, May 2006 2005-6
Marine Geophysics Data Management System oversight committee 2004-7
Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth 1995-98, 2003-6
Panelist, National Science Foundation 2005
Visiting Research Scientist, LGIT, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble France Summer 2002
Working Group Chair, Rocky Mountains USArray, 14th Annual IRIS Workshop 2002
Regional Advisory Committee, Advanced National Seismic System – Northeast 2001-
Fellow, Geological Society of America elected 2000
Standing Committee, PASSCAL Program, IRIS (Inc. Res. Inst. Seismology) 2000-02
Planning Committee, Subduction Factory MARGINS Theoretical Institute 2000
Board of Directors/Institutional Rep. (representing B.U.), IRIS 1999-
Technical Program Committee, Seismological Society of America meeting 1998
Data Management System Standing Commmittee, IRIS 1993-95
Panelist, U.S. Geological Survey NEHRP 1994- 1996
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow 1984-1987
Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, William Gaston Prize in Geological Science, Brown Univ. 1983
Member:
American Geophysical Union
Seismological Society of America
Geological Society of America (Fellow)
Invited Seminars and Invited Conferences, last 5 years
WHOI Geodynamics Seminar 5/08
Imaging
the subduction zone water cycle
University of California Santa Barbara 4/08
Imaging
the subduction zone water cycle
University of Oregon 2/08
Imaging
the subduction zone water cycle
Imaging
and Tremor in Cascadia: The CAFE experiment
Workshop: The Izu-Bonin-Marianas Subduction System 11/07
The
Subduction Factory in Central America
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 7/07
Imaging
the subduction zone water cycle
University of Maine, Orono 4/07
Subduction
of very thick crust: images, dehydration and geodynamics
University of Texas Austin, Institute for Geophysics 1/07
Imaging
the Subduction Factory: the TUCAN Broadband Seismic Imaging Project
GEOMAR-IFM Workshop SFB574, Kiel Germany 9/06
The
TUCAN Broadband Seismic Imaging Project
Boston College 9/06
Subduction
of very thick crust: images, dehydration and geodynamics
Washington University of St. Louis 8/06
Subduction
of very thick crust: images, dehydration and geodynamics
MARGINS Workshop: Baja/Cortez Rifting Continental Lithosphere, Ensenada 1/06
The
Woodlark Rift System, Papua New Guinea
MIT, Dept. Earth Atmos. Planet. Sci., Geophysics Series 12/05
Subduction
of very thick crust: images, dehydration and geodynamics
Dept. Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Inst. Washington, 11/05
Subduction
of very thick crust: images, dehydration and geodynamics
Institute for Geosciences & GEOMAR, Kiel Germany, 8/05
Subduction
of very thick crust beneath Alaska: images, dehydration and geodynamics
TUCAN:
Imaging the Central America Subduction Factory
Univ. Michigan, Geophysics group seminar, 10/04
The unBEAARable lightness of crust: imaging subduction
OVSICORI, Univ. Nat. Auton., Costa Rica, 7/04
The TUCAN broadband imaging experiment in Central America
Spring Amer. Geophys. Union, Session on mantle water, Montreal, 5/04
Seismic
attenuation constraints on temperature and water content of the mantle wedge
WHOI Geology and Geophysics Seminar, 4/04
The unBEAARable lightness of crust
IRIS 2003 Workshop, Yosemite , 6/03
Keynote Lecture: The Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone
GERM 03, Lyon France, 5/03
Keynote Lecture: Seismic constraints on dehydration in subduction zones
University of Connecticut, 4/03
Metamorphism of subducted slabs beneath volcanic arcs: imaging and earthquakes
Field Experience
Western Washington: Cascadia Arrays For EarthScope (CAFE) 2006-8
Southern Alaska: MOOS broadband PASSCAL deployment 2006-7
Costa Rica, Nicaragua: TUCAN broadband PASSCAL deployment 2004-2006
Costa Rica, Nicaragua: seismological site survey 2003
Papua New Guinea: Woodlark Rift, PASSCAL deployment 1999,2000
Alaska Range: BEAAR, PASSCAL deployment 1999,2000
Alaska Range: seismological site survey 1998
Kansas River: exploratory paleoseismology 1997-8
Central Kansas: broad-band seismograph deployments 1996-1998
Greater Caucasus, Russia: seismic network 1993
Shumagin Islands, Alaska: Strong motion array 1993
Alaska Peninsula Region: Seismic network and broad-band station maintenance 1991
Greater Caucasus, USSR: PASSCAL aftershock survey 1991
Southern California: STRC GPS experiment 1991
Alaska Peninsula Region: seismic network maintenance 1990
Papua New Guinea: microseismic and gravity survey
1988
Central Arizona: PACE crustal refraction experiment 1987
Southeast Pacific: Marine geophysical survey, R/V Conrad 1985
Panamint Valley, California: Regional geophysical survey 1985
Southwest Montana: Field Geology Course 1982
Graduate Students
Supervised
Lamont: E. Triep, X. Hu
Kansas: G. Sarker, Z. Yu, B. Schlotterbeck, A. Ferris
Boston: A. Ferris, J. Stachnik, G. Rossi, L. Auger, E. Syracuse, Z. Zhang
Ferris, A., Moho topography beneath active metamorphic core complexes: D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea, MA Thesis, 79 pp., 2002
Stachnik, J.C., Seismic Attenuation in Central Alaska, MA Thesis, 122 pp., 2002
Rossi, G., Measuring the Mantle Wedge Poisson’s
Ratio and Slab Depth: Central Alaska, 121 pp., 2004
Ferris, A.,
Seismic Imaging of Active
Continental Breakup in the Woodlark Rift System of Papua New Guinea, PhD
Thesis, 2007
MacKenzie, L., A Receiver Function
Study of the Central America and Cascadia Subduction Zone Systems, PhD Thesis,
2008
PhD Advisors:
R. McCaffrey and P. Molnar
Post-Doctoral Advisor:
K. Jacob