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1 BRIDGET R. SMITH-KONTER Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso 500 W. University Avenue, El Paso, TX (915) EDUCATION 2005 Ph.D. University of California, San Diego Earth Science, Geophysics 1999 B.S. Northern Arizona University Physics & Astronomy PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE University of Texas at El Paso Assistant Professor, Geophysics Integration of GPS, InSAR, geologic, tide gauge, and paleoseismic data to assess stress evolution and seismic hazards of the San Andreas Fault System Tidally-induced Coulomb failure models of icy fractures on Enceladus and Europa 3D visualization techniques for investigating crustal deformation and seismicity of the Western U.S California Institute of Technology, NASA JPL Postdoctoral Researcher, Planetary Geophysics Development and application of tidally-driven 3-D viscoelastic stress accumulation model for icy fractures on Saturn s moon Enceladus University of California San Diego, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography Postdoctoral Researcher, Geophysics Vertical constraints on plate boundary motion from California coastal tide gauge records 1000-year deformation and stress models of the San Andreas Fault System constrained by geologic, geodetic, and paleoseismic data University of California San Diego, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography Graduate Student Researcher, Geophysics Lithospheric deformation and Coulomb stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System Development, verification, & application of 3-D elastic and viscoelastic body force model Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Data resolution analysis and application

2 COURSES TAUGHT 2011 Spring Introduction to GIS Instructor UTEP 2011 Spring Principles of Earth Science II Instructor UTEP 2010 Fall Computer Apps. Geosciences Instructor UTEP 2010 Spring Earth Structure (MAT) Instructor* UTEP 2009 Fall Computer Apps. Earth Sci. (MAT) Instructor UTEP 2009 Spring Introduction to GIS Instructor UTEP 2009 Spring Principles of Earth Science II Instructor* UTEP 2008 Fall Computer Apps. Geosciences Instructor UTEP 2008 Fall Digital Image Processing Instructor* UTEP 2008 Spring Principles of Earth Science II Instructor UTEP 2006 Summer Earthquakes in Action (COSMOS) Instructor UCSD 2006 Spring The Planets Instructor UCSD 2005 Fall Frontiers in Plate Boundary Def. Instructor UCSD 2005 Summer Earthquakes in Action (COSMOS) Instructor UCSD 2005 Spring The Planets Instructor* UCSD *Co-Instructor for these courses MAT: Masters of Arts in Teaching, a masters program for both pre- and in-service teachers. COSMOS: California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science OUTREACH AND SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES 1. NSF EarthScope Speaker Series invited presenter ( ) 2. Development, construction, and installation of Active Earth Kiosk in UTEP Centennial Museum and Hueco Tanks State Park ( ) 3. Development of UTEP Earth Science Week promotional video and flyer ( ( ) 4. Development and distribution of new earthquake-related teaching tools (K-12 classroom demonstrations, lab exercises, and activity sheets) for UTEP MAT Program, Pathways to Geosciences Program, and SIO Visualization Center Earthquake Education Workshop ( ) 5. Development and implementation of Earthquakes in Action, a high school summer enrichment course on seismology, remote sensing, and Earth science topics ( ) 6. Development of 3-D semi-analytic elastic and viscoelastic fault model, code made freely available for application of earthquake deformation and stress analyses (2001-present) 2

3 AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2011 University of Texas System Regents Outstanding Teaching Award UT System This award recognizes an outstanding commitment to teaching through the delivery of the highest quality undergraduate instruction throughout the entire University of Texas System. Smith-Konter was 1 of 17 tenure-track faculty members from 16 institutions in UT System to receive this award College of Science Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching UTEP 2009 Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Outstanding Research Award UTEP 2007 Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory 2005 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD This award recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching and an outstanding commitment to student learning. Smith-Konter received this award in 2005, competing against over 200 seasoned educators, and was also a finalist for this award in Outstanding Geodesy Student Paper Award American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting st Place, SIO Visualization Contest Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD This prize was awarded for the creation of research-based digital movie, San Andreas: Earthquake Machine E. Frieman Director s Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD This prize is awarded annually to a Scripps graduate student who has published an outstanding research paper, as evaluated by a Scripps faculty committee NASA Earth System Science Fellowship National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1999 Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Arts and Science Northern Arizona University 3

4 GRANTS AND CONTRACTS ACTIVE ($2,101,492) Southern California Earthquake Center ($15,000) 2/1/11-1/31/12; Investigating alongstrike depth variations of seismicity along the San Andreas Fault System to better resolve geodetic locking depths; PI = B. Smith-Konter; Co-PIs = D. Sandwell (UC San Diego), P. Shearer (UC San Diego), Y. Zeng (USGS). NSF MRI ($699,671) 5/1/09-4/30/12: Acquisition of Cyber-ShARE Collaborative Visualization System; PI = R. Romero; Co-PIs = V. Gonzalez, J. Hurtado, J. Konter, B. Smith-Konter. NSF CAREER ($501,048) 6/1/09-5/13/14: CAREER: An integrated geologic, geodetic, and paleoseismic study of plate boundary stress evolution and geoscience education utilizing the EarthScope database; PI = B. Smith-Konter. NSF Tectonics ($230,773) 1/1/09-12/31/11: Integrating geologic, geodetic, and coastal tide gauge observations with 100-year vertical deformation models of California earthquake history; PI = B. Smith-Konter. NASA Outer Planets Research ($268,529) 6/1/08-5/31/11; Three-dimensional semianalytic viscoelastic earthquake modeling as applied to faulting processes on Enceladus and Europa; PI = B. Smith-Konter; Co-PI = R.T. Pappalardo (JPL). NASA EarthScope ($386,471) 1/1/09-12/31/11; Geodetic imaging and modeling of the San Andreas Fault System; PI = D. Sandwell (UC San Diego); Co-PI = B. Smith- Konter. COMPLETED ($56,500) Southern California Earthquake Center ($10,000) 2/1/10-1/31/11; Earthquake-induced vertical deformation modeling constrained by geodetic and geologic observations; PI = B. Hooks; Co-PI = B. Smith-Konter Southern California Earthquake Center ($16,000) 2/1/09-1/31/10; Quantifying stress evolution models the San Andreas Fault System using an improved paleoseismic database spanning the last 2000 years; PI = B. Smith-Konter; Co-PI = D. Sandwell (UC San Diego). Southern California Earthquake Center ($16,900) 2/1/08-1/31/09; Stress uncertainties of the San Andreas Fault System due to variations in slip rates, fault locking depths, & fault rheology; PI = B. Smith-Konter; Co-PI = D. Sandwell (UC San Diego). Southern California Earthquake Center ($13,600) 2/1/07-1/31/08; Modeling secular and time-dependent stress accumulation in Southern California; PI = D. Sandwell (UC San Diego); Co-PI = B. Smith-Konter (formerly at UC San Diego). 4

5 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS B. Smith is now B. Smith-Konter Student authorship denoted with underline Smith-Konter s publications have been cited 111 times with an h-index of 6 [Web of Science, 6/16/11, Researcher ID D ] 1. Del Pardo, C., B. Smith-Konter, C. Kreemer, G. Blewitt, W. Hammond, and L. Serpa (2011 in review), Interseismic deformation and stress evolution of the Death Valley Fault Zone, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., doi: /2011jb Smith-Konter, B., D.T. Sandwell, and P. Shearer (2011), Locking depths estimated from geodesy and seismology along the San Andreas Fault System: Implications for seismic moment release, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B06401, doi: /2010jb Olgin, J., B. Smith-Konter, and R.L. Pappalardo (2011), The limits of Enceladus s ice shell thickness from tidally driven tiger stripe failure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, doi: /2010gl Smith-Konter, B., D.T. Sandwell, and M. Wei (2010), Integrating GPS and InSAR to resolve stressing rates of the SAF System, EarthScope insights, Summer Wei, M., D.T. Sandwell, and Smith-Konter, B. (2010), Optimal combination of InSAR and GPS for measuring interseismic crustal deformation, J. Adv. in Space Res., doi: /j.asr Smith-Konter, B., and D.T. Sandwell (2009), Stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System: Recurrence interval versus locking depth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, doi: /2009gl Smith-Konter, B. and R.T. Pappalardo (2008), Tidally driven stress accumulation and shear failure of Enceladus s tiger stripes, Icarus, 198, doi: /j.icarus Sandwell, D.T., and B. Smith (2007), California Earthquakes, Glimpses of a Changing World: Views of Planet Earth from Space, M. D. King, C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Luttrell, K., D.T. Sandwell, B. Smith-Konter, B. Bills, and Y. Bock (2007), Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the southern San Andreas fault by lake loading, J. Geophys. Res., 112, doi: /2006jb Wdowinski, S., B. Smith-Konter, Y. Bock, and D.T. Sandwell (2007), Spatial characterization of the interseismic velocity field in southern California, Geology, doi: /g2938a Smith, B., and D.T. Sandwell (2006), A model of the earthquake cycle along the San Andreas Fault System for the past 1000 years, J. Geophys. Res., 111, 5

6 doi: /2005jb Taesombut, N., X. Wu, A. Chien, A. Nayak, B. Smith, D. Kilb, T. Im, D. Samilo, G. Kent, and J. Orcutt (2006), Collaborative data visualization for Earth sciences with the OptIPuter, J. Future Generation Comp. Sys., 22, doi: /j.future Smith, B., and D.T. Sandwell (2004), A 3-D semi-analytic viscoelastic model for time-dependent analysis of the earthquake cycle, J. Geophys. Res., doi: /2004jb Smith, B., and D.T. Sandwell (2003), Coulomb stress along the San Andreas Fault System, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B6), doi: /2002jb Smith, B., and D.T. Sandwell (2003), Accuracy and resolution of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (9), doi: /2002gl Sandwell, D.T., L. Sichiox, and B. Smith (2002), The 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, southern California: Vector near-field displacements from ERS InSAR, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, Woodney, L.M., M.F. A Hearn, D.G. Schleicher, T.L. Farnham, J.P. McMullin, M.C.H. Wright, J.M. Veal, L. E. Snyder, I. De Pater, J.R. Forster, P. Palmer, Y. J. Kuan, W. R. Williams, C.C. Cheung, and B. Smith (2002), Morphology of HCN and CN in Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1), Icarus 157, Schleicher, D.G., T.L. Farnham, W.R. Williams, B. Smith, and C.C. Cheung (1999), Modeling the rotational morphology of gas and dust jets in Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) At Perihelion, Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 31, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND ABSTRACTS *Note: B. Smith is now B. Smith-Konter Student authorship denoted with underline; invited talks designated with a * 1. *Smith-Konter, B. (2011), Locked, loaded, and looming? Exploring earthquake cycle stress history of seismically-active faults of the San Andreas Fault System, EarthScope Speaker Series, Smith-Konter, B. and C. Del Pardo (2011), 3D volume visualizations of stress accumulation rates of the San Andreas Fault System, 2011 EarthScope National Meeting. 3. Solis, T. and B. Smith-Konter (2011), Investigating stress drop variations of major San Andreas fault earthquakes over the last 1000 years, 2011 EarthScope National Meeting. 6

7 4. Del Pardo, C., B.P. Hooks, B. Smith-Konter, L.F. Serpa, and T.L. Pavlis (2011), Investigating 3D strain patterns due to thermal intrusions: Death Valley Fault Zone, Death Valley, CA 2011 EarthScope National Meeting. 5. Thornton, G.M. and B. Smith-Konter (2011), Investigating geologic and geodetic vertical motion discrepancies of the Southern San Andreas Fault System, 2011 EarthScope National Meeting. 6. Tong, X., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2011), High resolution interseismic crustal velocity model of the San Andreas Fault System from GPS, InSAR, and a dislocation model, 2011 EarthScope National Meeting. 7. Sandwell, D., M. Wei, and B. Smith-Konter, Integrating GPS and InSAR to Resolve Strain Rates Along the San Andreas Fault System: Contributions from ALOS-1/2 and DESDynI, 2011 IGARRS Meeting. 8. Smith-Konter, B., D. Sandwell, and P. Shearer (2010), Comparison of locking depths estimated from geodesy and seismology along the San Andreas Fault System, Abstract S31C-04 presented at the 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 9. Olgin, J., B. Smith-Konter, and R.T. Pappalardo (2010), Tidally driven Coulomb failure of faults on Enceladus and Europa, Abstract P33B-1578 presented at the 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 10. Smith-Konter, B., D. Sandwell, and P. Shearer (2010), Comparison of locking depths estimated from geodesy and seismology along the San Andreas Fault System, SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA. 11. Solis, T., G. Thornton, and B. Smith-Konter (2010), Integrating new SoSAFE paleoevent chronologies with stress evolution models of the San Andreas Fault System over the last 2000 years, SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA. 12. Del Pardo, C., B.P. Hooks, B. Smith-Konter, T. Pavlis, and L. Serpa (2010), Threedimensional thermo-mechanical modeling of the Death Valley Fault Zone, SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA. 13. Hooks, B.P. and B. Smith-Konter (2010), Numerical modeling of the San Andreas Fault System: Comparison with analytic solutions and geological observations, SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, CA. 14. Houser, P., and B. Smith-Konter (2010), EarthScope Active Earth Kiosk Display Offers a Dynamic Digital Scientific Exhibit for Museums and Educational Centers, 2010 IRIS Workshop, Snowbird, UT. 15. *Hooks, B., Smith-Konter, B. (2010), 3D numerical mechanical modeling of the southern San Andreas Fault System, 2010 Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Crustal Deformation and Earthquake Faulting, Golden, CO. 7

8 16. Hooks, B., Smith-Konter, B. (2010), Preliminary strain results from 3D continuum mechanics models (FLAC3D) of the San Andreas Fault System, 2010 SCEC UCERF3 GPS Workshop, Southern California Earthquake Center, Pomona, CA. 17. *Smith-Konter, B. (2010), Strain rate, stress rate, and moment rate from a timedependent block model, 2010 SCEC UCERF3 GPS Workshop, Southern California Earthquake Center, Pomona, CA. 18. Olgin, J., B. Smith-Konter, and R.T. Pappalardo (2009), Investigating the limits of Enceladus s tidally driven tiger stripe failure scenario: Exploration of ice shell thickness, coefficient of friction, and fault depth, 2009 Lunar and Planetary Science Consortium Annual Meeting. 19. Wei, M., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2009), Relationship between fault creep and shallow stress accumulation rate, EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (54), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract T21D Del Pardo, C., B. Smith-Konter, and L. Serpa (2009), Stress accumulation and interseismic deformation of the Death Valley Fault Zone, EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (54), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract G23B Olgin, J., B. Smith-Konter, and R.T. Pappalardo (2009), Constraining Enceladus s ice shell thickness using tidally driven Coulomb failure models of the tiger stripe fractures, EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (54), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract P51A Olgin, J., B. Smith-Konter, and R.T. Pappalardo (2009), Tidally driven strike-slip fault activity of Enceladus s Tiger Stripes: Comparison of thin and thick ice shell models, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, Houser, P., and B. Smith-Konter (2009), Shaping education with technology: EarthScope Active Earth kiosk creates an interactive medium for exploring dynamic geological settings, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, Smith-Konter, B. and P. Houser (2009), Communicating, visualizing, and publicizing EarthScope data and model products using Active Earth kiosks, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, *Smith-Konter, B., J. Olgin, and R.T. Pappalardo (2009), Tidally-driven Coulomb failure conditions of strike-slip faults on Enceladus and Europa, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 41, No. 7, B. Smith-Konter, T. Solis, and D.T. Sandwell (2009), Quantifying stress evolution models of the San Andreas Fault System using an improved paleoseismic database spanning the last 2000 years, Proceedings from the 2009 SCEC Annual Meeting. 27. Del Pardo, C., B. Smith-Konter, and L. Serpa (2009), Interseismic deformation of the Death Valley Fault Zone, Proceedings from the 2009 SCEC Annual Meeting. 8

9 28. Solis, T., and B. Smith-Konter (2009), Investigating active fault segment locations of the San Andreas Fault System using B4 and GeoEarthScope LIDAR data and the SCEC Community Fault Model, Proceedings from the 2009 SCEC Annual Meeting. 29. D. Sandwell, T. Becker, P. Bird, Y. Fialko, A. Freed, W. Holt, C. Kreemer, J. Loveless, B. Meade, R. McCaffrey, F. Pollitz, B. Smith-Konter, Y. Zeng (2009), Comparison of strain-rate maps of Western North America, Proceedings from the 2009 SCEC Annual Meeting. 30. Smith-Konter, B., D.T. Sandwell, and T. Solis (2009), New locking depth estimates of the San Andreas Fault System derived from the PBO GPS network, Proceedings from the 2009 EarthScope National Meeting. 31. *Smith-Konter, B. (2009), Popularize or perish: Communicating, visualizing, and publicizing EarthScope data and model products for non-specialized audiences, Proceedings from the 2009 EarthScope National Meeting. 32. Sandwell, D.T., P. Bird, A. Freed, C. Kreemer, T. Parsons, B. Smith-Konter, and S. Wdowinski (2009), Comparison of strain-rate maps of Western North America, Proceedings from the 2009 EarthScope National Meeting. 33. Wei, M., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2009), Optimal combination of InSAR and GPS for measuring interseismic crustal deformation, Proceedings from the 2009 EarthScope National Meeting. 34. Smith-Konter, B., J. Olgin, and R.T. Pappalardo (2009), Tidally driven strike-slip fault activity at Encealdus s tiger stripes, EOS Trans. AGU, 90 (22), Jt. Assem. Suppl., P33A Konter, J., and B. Smith-Konter (2008), Vizcano: Student development of 3-D volcanic visualizations, EOS Trans. AGU, 89 (53), Fall Meet. Suppl., ED21C Smith-Konter, B., T. Solis, and D.T. Sandwell (2008), Data-derived stress uncertainties of the San Andreas Fault System, EOS Trans. AGU, 89 (53), Fall Meet. Suppl., U51B *Smith-Konter, B., T. Solis, and D.T. Sandwell (2008), Stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System: Hindcast stress accumulation models and stress rate uncertainties, Proceedings from the 7 th U.S./Japan Natural Resources Panel for Earthquake Research. 38. Smith-Konter, B., T. Solis, and D.T. Sandwell (2008), Stress uncertainties of the San Andreas Fault System, Proceedings from the 2008 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Volume XVIII. 39. Sandwell, D. B. Smith-Konter, and M. Wei (2008), Geodetic imaging of large-scale continental deformation with ALOS InSAR and CGPS, Proceedings from the 2008 GSA Joint Annual Meeting,

10 40. Sandwell, D. and B. Smith-Konter (2008), Imaging crustal deformation along the San Andreas Fault System with ALOS InSAR and GPS, Proceedings from the IGARRS Meeting. 41. Smith-Konter, B. and R.T. Pappalardo (2007), Tidally driven stress accumulation and fault displacements of Enceladus s Tiger Stripes, EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., PFF Smith-Konter, B. and R.T. Pappalardo (2007), Tidally driven stress accumulation and shear failure at Enceladus s Tiger Stripes, Proceedings from the Division of Planetary Science Annual Meeting, Smith-Konter, B. and D.T. Sandwell, Stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System: Dependencies on paleoseismicity, recurrence intervals, and fault locking depths, Proceedings from the 2007 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Volume XVII. 44. Smith-Konter, B., R.T. Pappalardo, and Z. Crawford (2007), Tidally driven fault deformation and stress accumulation at Enceladus s tiger stripes, Workshop on Ices, Oceans, and Fire: Satellites of the Outer Solar System. 45. Smith-Konter, B. and R.T. Pappalardo (2007), Tidally driven stress accumulation and shear failure at Enceladus s tiger stripes, 2007 NASA JPL Postdoc Research Symposium. 46. Smith-Konter, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2006), Are geodetically and geologically constrained vertical deformation models compatible with the 100-tear coastal tide gauge record in California?, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 87(52), G21A Smith-Konter, B., A. Jacobs, K. Lawrence, and D. Kilb (2006), Earthquakes in Action Incorporating multimedia, internet resources, large-scale seismic data, and 3-D visualizations into innovative activities and research projects for today s high school students, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 87(52), ED53C Luttrell, K., D.T. Sandwell, B. Smith-Konter, and Y. Bock (2006), Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the Southern San Andreas fault by lake loading, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., 87(52), G43B Smith-Konter, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2006), 3D Modeling of historical surface deformation and stress accumulation along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California, Proceedings from the 2006 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Volume XVI. 50. Luttrell, K., D.T. Sandwell, B. Smith-Konter, B. Bills, and Y. Bock (2006), Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the Southern San Andreas fault by lake loading, Proceedings from the 2006 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Volume XVI. 10

11 51. Kilb, D., A. Nayak, and B. Smith (2006), Scientific visualization and collaboration tools enhance understanding of seismological data, Seismol. Res. Lett., 77: Wdowinski, S., B. Smith, Y. Bock, and D. Sandwell (2005), Diffuse interseismic deformation across the North America-Pacific Plate Boundary: Observations and modeling results, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., U43B Smith, B., and D.T. Sandwell (2005), Is the elastic half-space dislocation model appropriate for estimating far-field velocity, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., G53A Luttrell, K., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Smith (2005), Slip rate modulation caused by ocean loading on glacial timescales, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., G53A *Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2005), Historical deformation models of the San Andreas Fault System: Integrating 1000 years of earthquake activity with modern deformation measurements, EOS Trans. AGU, 86(18), Spring Meet. Suppl. Jt. Assem. Suppl, G21A Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2004), A 3-D semi-analytic viscoelastic model of the San Andreas Fault System: A 1000-year perspective of the earthquake cycle, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., G14A Luttrell, K., B. Smith, D.T. Sandwell, and Y. Fialko (2004), Models of afterslip and viscoelastic response following the Landers and Hector Mine ruptures, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. SupplG13A Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2004), A 3-D semi-analytic viscoelastic model for time-dependent analyses of the earthquake cycle: A 1000-year perspective of the San Andreas Fault System, Proceedings from the 2004 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Volume XIV. 59. Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2003), Time-dependent Coulomb stress along the San Andreas Fault System, EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., G31B Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2003), A 4-D semi-analytic model of stress evolution along the San Andreas Fault System, Proceedings from the 2003 Southern California Earthquake Center Annual Meeting, Volume XIII. 61. Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2003), Magnitude of deviatoric stress along the San Andreas fault, EOS Trans. AGU, Spring Meet. Suppl., EAE03-A Smith, B., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Bills (2002), Estimating SRTM resolution for applications of fault offset recovery, EOS Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., T71E Sandwell, D.T. and B. Smith (2001), Variations in normal stress along the San 11

12 Andreas fault due to isostatically compensated topography, EOS Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., G52A *Smith, B. and D.T. Sandwell (2001), Variations in Coulomb stress accumulation along the San Andreas Fault System, EOS Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., G52A Sandwell, D.T., L. Sichiox, and B. Smith (2000), Hector Mine Earthquake: Vector coseismic displacement from ERS InSAR, EOS Trans. AGU, 81(48), Fall Meet. Suppl., S61A-02. FIELD EXPERIENCE AND CRUISE PARTICIPATION Geodetic mapping survey of the Ancient Lake Cahuilla shoreline, Salton Trough (PI K. Luttrell, Winter 2006) Geodetic and photographic survey of permanent scatterers in the Coachella Valley (PI S. Lyons, Fall 2002) Geodetic survey of Mexicali Valley, Cerro Prieto fault, and Laguna Salada fault (PI S. Lyons, Spring 2001) Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge Transit, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer (PIs J. Stock & S. Cande, Spring 2001) Rapid-static GPS survey of Imperial Valley geodetic network (PI S. Lyons, Spring 2000) ACADEMIC SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP Chair, UTEP Earth Science Week committee (2010) Contributor, Centennial Museum Geology exhibit (2010) Member, Faculty search committee for tenure-track petroleum geoscientist (2010) Member, UTEP Earth Science Week committee (2009) Contributor, CyberTeam Earthquake Workshop (2009) Member, UTEP Geology Computational Facilities committee (2008-present) Contributor, UTEP Pathways to the Geosciences Summer Program (2008-present) Co-Organizer and Contributor, SIO Earthquake Education Workshop ( ) Contributor, Earthquake! S. Birch Aquarium exhibit (2005) Chair, ( ) Chair, SIO Teaching Award Committee ( ) Vice-Chair, ( ) Geophysics Representative, ( ) Program Staff Manager, NASA Ames Astrobiology Academy (2000) 12

13 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIP Invited presenter, EarthScope Speaker Series ( ) Member, EarthScope Education and Outreach Sub-Committee ( ) Peer Reviewer, NSF EarthScope Program, NSF Geophysics Program, NSF Tectonics Program, NSF Frontiers in Earth Systems Dynamics Program, NASA Outer Planets Research Program (2009- present) Member, Seismological Society of America (2008-present) Member, Geological Society of America (2008-present) Sigma Xi (2008-present) Peer Reviewer, J. Geophys. Res., Geology, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., Geophys. J. Int., Tectonophysics (2007-present) Member, American Geophysical Society (1999-present) Member, Golden Key National Honor Society ( ) Member, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society ( ) COLLABORATORS Bruce Bills (SIO); Geoff Blewitt (UNR); Yehuda Bock (SIO); A. Chien (UCSD); Zane Crawford (JPL); Robert DeGroot (SCEC); Allison Dingler (SIO); Diane Doser (UTEP); Yuri Fialko (SIO); Ann Gates (UTEP); Eric Hagedorn (UTEP); Bill Hammond (UNR); Ben Hooks (UTM); Jose Hurtado (UTEP); Tom Im (SIO); Graham Kent (SIO); Debi Kilb (SIO); Cornee Kreemer (UNR); Kristin Lawrence (SIO); Karen Lutrell (SIO/USGS); Kate Miller (UTEP); Atul Nayak (SIO); John Orcutt (SIO); Robert Pappalardo (JPL); T. Pavlis (UTEP); David Samilo (SIO); David Sandwell (SIO); Laura Serpa (UTEP); Peter Shearer (SIO); Nut Taesombut (UCSD); Xioapeng Tong (SIO); Aaron Velasco (UTEP); Shimon Wdowinski, (UM); Meng Wei (SIO/WOI); X. Wu (UCSD). Graduate Advisor: David Sandwell (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UC San Diego) Postdoctoral Advisors: David Sandwell (Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, UC San Diego) Robert Pappalardo (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal. Inst. Tech.) STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS SUPERVISED Undergraduate students (completed or in progress) Marissa Cameron Perry Houser Slade Jones Teira Solis 13

14 Graduate students (completed or in progress) MS Lennox Thompson: Thesis title: Seismic velocity structure of the Rio Grande Rift (co-advised with A. Velasco, defended July 2010). John Olgin: Thesis title: Numerical modeling of tectonics and fault activity of icy satellites: Enceladus and Europa (defended April 2011). Garrett Thornton: Thesis title: Vertical deformation of the San Andreas fault (in progress). Teira Solis: Thesis title: Paleoseismic stress evolution models of the San Andreas Fault System (in progress). Ph.D. Cecilia Del Prado: Dissertation title: Three-dimensional models of crustal deformation in the Death Valley Fault Zone and evolution of the pull-apart basin (co-advised with L. Serpa, in progress). Postdoctoral Researchers (completed or in progress) Benjamin Hooks: Project title: Numerical modeling of the San Andreas Fault System: Comparison with analytic solutions and geological observations (August 2009-July 2010) Amanda Nahm: Project title: Coulomb stress fault modeling of icy fractures on Enceladus and Europa (will begin position August 2011) 14

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