Curriculum Vitae (Feb 2013)
GEOFFREY A. ABERS Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Phone: (845) 365-8539 Fax: (845) 365-8150 61 Rte 9W, Box 1000
e-mail: abers@ldeo.columbia.edu Palisades NY 10964 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
Associate Director for Division of Seismology, Geology, and Tectonophysics 2011-
Lamont Research Professor 2010-
Doherty Senior Research Scientist 2008-2010
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
IRIS Board of Directors (elected) 2013-15
Co-Editor, G-Cubed Theme on exhumation of UHP metamorphic rocks 2012-
GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer 2011-12, 2012-13
Co-organizer, CIDER workshop on mantle attenuation 2013
Amphibious Array Steering Committee (chair starting 2012 2011-
IRIS Planning Committee 2011-12
Co-convener, GeoPRISMS-Earthscope Cascadia Workshop 2012
CIDER (Coop. Inst. Deep Earth Res.), summer lecturer 2011
Chairman, MARGINS Steering Committee and MARGINS Office Director 2006-2010
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
Pacific Geosciences Center, Geol. Surv. Canada, Sidney BC 2/13
Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water
Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones
Fall, 2012 American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco 12/12
Imaging
to understand exhumation of UHP rocks during rifting: the CDPapua seismic experiment
Massachusetts Inst. Technol., Earth Resources Laboratory 11/12
Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water
Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones
Univ. Oklahoma (GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer) 10/12
Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water
Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones
GeoPRISMS SIG, IRIS Workshop, Boise 6/12
Overview of Cascadia facilities and interdisciplinary programs
OBS New Users Workshop, Boise 6/12
A foray into broadband OBS analysis from an onshore perspective
Univ. Arizona (GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer) 4/12
Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water
Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones
Northwest Missouri State Univ. (GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer) 3/12
Public Lecture: How Water Deep in the Earth Controls
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Univ. Colorado Boulder (GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer) 2/12
Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water
Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones
Fort Hays State, KS (GeoPRISMS Distinguished Lecturer) 2/12
Imaging with Geophysics: The Heat and Water
Cycling in Modern Subduction Zones
Public Lecture: How Water Deep in the Earth Controls
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Fall, 2011 American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco (2) 12/11
Relating seismic observables to fluid migration in subduction zones
Imaging
to understand exhumation of UHP rocks during rifting: the 2010-2011 CDPapua seismic experiment
Penn State 11/11
Wet slabs, cold noses and seismic
images of subduction
Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs. Open House 10/11
Led expert panel on great
earthquakes
Rice Univ. 9/11
Wet slabs, cold noses and seismic
images of slab surface
CIDER, Instructor, Berkeley CA 7/11
Seismology (Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth
Research)
ILP Task Force IX workshop, Nature of the Plate Interface in Subduction Zones 7/11
Imaging
with geophysics the heat and water cycles of modern subduction zones
Cornell Univ. 3/11
Wet slabs, cold noses and seismic
images of slab surface
Fall, 2010 American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco 12/10
Variability in P-T paths in subducting mantle and crust, and its
control on the locations of intraslab earthquakes
ILP Task Force, The Subduction Channel, workshop, Paris 11/10
Imaging circum-Pacific
subduction zones with earthquakes: fluid pathways and the origins of volcanic
arcs
Geophysical Hazards in Central America Workshop, Heredia 10/10
Imaging circum-Pacific
subduction zones with earthquakes: fluid pathways and the origins of volcanic
arcs
Princeton Univ. 10/10
Wet slabs, cold noses and seismic
images of slab surface
Experiments in Portable Ocean Bottom Seismometers Workshop, Snowbird 9/10
Subduction Zones
Tohoku Univ., G-COE Symposium: Dynamic Earth and Heterogeneous Structure 7/10
Evidence for and consequences of
a prevalent cold nose in subduction zones
ETH Zurich 5/10
Wet slabs, cold noses and seismic
images of slab surface
University of Papua New Guinea 3/10
Rifting a continent in the Woodlark-D’Entrecasteaux rift, Papua New
Guinea
Fall, 2009 American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco 12/09
What is the slab surface? Evidence from seismology
University of Minnesota Twin Cities 10/09
Wet Slabs and Cold
Noses: From seismogenic zone to the roots of arc volcanoes
University of Papua New Guinea 8/09
Extension and
exhumation in the Woodlark-D’Entrecasteaux Rift System
GNS New Zealand, Wellington 4/09
Seismic imaging the
subduction zone water cycle: importance of plate coupling depth
Tohoku Univ. Global COE Conf. on Circum-Pacific Subduction (2 talks) 2/09
Imaging the
metamorphism of subducted crust with scattered waves
The Subduction Factory
in Central America
Earth2Class Teacher Education Program (at LDEO) 1/09
Subduction and the
long-term fate of H2O on Earth
College of New Jersey, Physics Department 11/08
Imaging the
subduction zone water cycle
University of Washington 9/08
Imaging the
subduction zone water cycle
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
Field Experience
Western
Washington: Cascadia
ship-to-shore wide-angle reflection array 2012
SE Papua New
Guinea: CDPapua
broadband seismic deployment 2011
SE Papua New
Guinea: CDPapua
broadband seismic deployment 2010
Western
Washington: Cascadia Arrays For
EarthScope (CAFE) 2006-8
Southern Alaska: MOOS broadband PASSCAL deployment 2006-9
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, J. Garroway, J. Li, Z. Eilon, H. Janiszewski
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
Syracuse, E.M., The Global Systematics of
Subduction Zones, PhD Thesis, 2008
Post-Doc’s Sponsored
Lamont: J. Calkins, YH. Kim, M. Obrebski
PhD Advisors:
R. McCaffrey and P. Molnar
Post-Doctoral Advisor:
K. Jacob
Courses Taught
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
EESC G9945, Topics in Global and Regional Seismology (seminar each semester)
EESC G4949, Introduction to Seismology
EESC G4947, Plate Tectonics (graduate- and upper-level undergraduate)
Boston University (not including ES699)
ES 101, The Dynamic Earth (fulfills distribution requirements )
ES 140, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Natural Disasters (fulfills distribution requirements )
ES 303, Field Methods (required for majors; co-taught with 7 others )
ES 360, Geodynamics I (required for majors )
ES505, Plate Tectonics and Kinematics
ES581, Solid Earth Geophysics
ES 781, Seismology (grad-level courses)
ES 833, Advanced Topics in Geophysics and Seismology : Quantitative Data Analysis
University of Kansas
GEOL 101, Introduction to Geology (fulfills distribution requirements )
GEOL 571: Earthquakes and Natural Disasters ( no Geology prerequisites)
GEOL 573: Physics of the Earth ( for Geophysics majors and senior elective)
GEOL 573: Geodynamics and Plate Tectonics (Geology major requirement )
GEOL 773: Seismology (Graduate/ advanced undergraduate course)
GEOL 771: Seminar in Advanced Geophysics, various topics
City College of New York: Geophysics.