Curriculum Vitae

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  Boston University, Boston, MA                                                                                                   

                    Associate Chairman, Department of Earth Sciences                                                                2000-

                    Professor of Earth Sciences                                                                                                              2004-

                    Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences                                                        1999-2004

 

                    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 Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY                           

                    Adjunct Associate Research Scientist                                                                                     1994-

                    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

NSF MARGINS Steering Committee                                                                                     2003-

Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth                            1995-98, 2003-

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 Talks and Invited Conferences, last 5 years                                                     

 

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

Fall 2002 AGU Meeting, invited talk, Special Session on Volatiles in the Mantle, 12/02

Harvard Unversity, 10/02

               Metamorphism of subducted slabs beneath volcanic arcs: imaging and earthquakes

Syracuse University,  9/02

               Extreme faulting and mantle compensation of the Woodlark-D'Entrecasteaux Rift, PNG

NSF-IFREE MARGINS Workshop On The Izu-Bonin-Mariana Subduction System, HI, 9/02

               Seismicity and Structure of Subducting Slabs (Overview)

LGIT, Univ. Joseph Fourier, Grenoble France, 7/02

               Metamorphism of subducting plates:  seismic structure, intraslab earthquakes,  dehydration

Boston Bay Group, 1/02

               Earthquakes and structure of subducting slabs beneath volcanic arcs

EarthScope Workshop, Making and Breaking a Continent, 10/01

Central American MARGINS workshop, Costa Rica, 7/01

SUNY Stony Brook, 5/01

               Imaging metamorphism of subducted slabs beneath volcanic arcs

Pennsylvania State University,  4/01

               Seismic observations of metamorphism deep within subducting slabs

Juan de Fuca Earthquake Science and Hazards Appraisal Workshop,  3/01

               Global investigations of slab seismicity and wavespeed structure

N.E. Assoc. Engineering Geologists, 2/01

 

Field Experience

Costa Rica, Nicaragua: TUCAN, Broadband deployment                                         2004,2005

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

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

 

Undergraduate Theses Supervised

                    Kansas:  M. Schlichting, A. Ferris

                    Boston:  C. Rychert, S. Pozgay

  

PhD Advisors:  

                   R. McCaffrey and P. Molnar

 

Post-Doctoral Advisor: 

                   K. Jacob