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- Postdoc. 2004-2006 Harry O. Wood Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
- Ph.D., Geophysics, 2004 California Insitute of Technology
- M.A., Geophysics, 2000 California Insitute of Technology
- B.A., Geophysics, 1998 University of California, Berkeley
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My primary topic of research includes determining complex seismic velocity structures within the solid earth, primarily the crust and upper mantle. This is accomplished through seismic waveform modeling in 1, 2 and 3-D and the utilization of a number of programs which compute synthetic seismograms. Of particular interest are highly complex and unusual seismic signals resulting from exotic sources and/or complex seismic wave propagation. Computation of synthetics seismograms, especially in 3D, takes place in massively parallel computers housed within the department and at super computing centers around the world.
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- Low Velocity Zones at the base of the Lithosphere
- 3D Velocity and Attenuation of the Tonga-Fiji Subduction Zone
- Crust and Mantle Structure of the Gulf of California
- Global Attenuation Tomography Validation
- Tibet Creation and Destruction
- Upper Mantle Velocity Structure of the Sierra Nevada
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| Courses: |
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- GEO 110 - The Ocean Planet(Solar System, Solid Earth, and the Oceans)
- Introduction to Geophysics
- Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Floods
- Geophysical Methods
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- NSF MARGINS - Rupturing of the Continental Lithosphere (RCL) - Collaborative Research: 3-D tomography of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Gulf Extensional Province and Baja California; Collaboration with Don Forsyth at Brown University
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- Silver, Paul G., Mark D. Behn, Katherine Kelley, Mark Schmitz and Brian Savage. Understanding Cratonic Flood Basalts, Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 245(1):190-201. 15 May 2006.
- Savage, B., and D. V. Helmberger, Site response from incident PnL waves, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 357-362, February 2004.
- Savage, B., and D. V. Helmberger, Complex Rayleigh waves resulting from deep sedimentary basins, Earth. Plane. Sci. Lett., Vol. 218, Issues 1-2, 30, January 229-239 2004.
- Savage, B., C. Ji, and D. V. Helmberger, Velocity variations in the uppermost mantle beneath the southern Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane, Jour. Geophys. Res., 108 (B7), ESE 2, 2003.
- Lohman, R., M. Simons, and B. Savage, Location and mechanism of the little skull mountain earthquake as constrained by satellite radar interferometry and seismic waveform modeling, Jour. Geophys. Res., 107 (B6), ETG 7, 2002.
- Savage, B., and D. V. Helmberger, Kursk explosion, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 91 , 753 759, 2001.
- Helmberger, D., J. Chen, and B. Savage, Adaptive techniques for estimating and locating small events using regional waveform data, in 22nd Annual DoD/DoE Seismic Research Symposium, pp. 161 169, 2000.
- Savage, B., Y. Tan, and D. Helmberger, Regional location and identification using sparse stations, in 23nd Annual DoD/DOE Seismic Research Symposium, 2001.
- Dreger, D., and B. Savage, Aftershocks of the 1952 Kern County, California earthquake sequence, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 89, 1084 1108, 1999.
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| Professional Organizations: |
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- American Geophysical Union
- Seismological Society of America
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