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 Peter Bird, Professor of Geophysics and Geology


Peter Bird  
Mailing Address:

Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567

Office:Geology 4656
Telephone:(310) 825-1126
Fax:(310) 825-2779
E-mail:pbird@ess.ucla.edu
Web Site: http://peterbird.name
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 Courses Taught

 
ESS 1 Introduction to Earth Science
ESS 1F Earth Science with Field Work
ESS 8 Earthquakes
ESS 61 Geologic Maps
ESS 119 Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
ESS 133 Historical and Regional Geology
ESS 134 Computing in Earth and Space Sciences
ESS 200A Introduction to Geophysics and Space Physics I: The Solid Earth and Planets
ESS 246 Stress in the Lithosphere

 Current Research Interests

 

Dynamic modeling with finite elements; Tectonophysics of continental collisions; Mechanism of Basin/Range extension; Regional neotectonic models (Alaska, Asia, California, Gibraltar, New Zealand); Global lithosphere models with plates; Inverse or kinematic tectonic models from geologic & paleomag data (western North America); Global seismic hazard forecast from geodesy and plate tectonics..

 Education

 

B.A. in Geological Sciences, Harvard College, 1972
Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976.

 Honors

 

Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Fellow, Geological Society of America

 Selected Publications

 

Bird, P. [2002] Stress-direction history of the western United States and Mexico since 85 Ma, Tectonics, 21(3), doi:10.1029/2001TC001319.

Liu, Z., and P. Bird [2002(a)] Finite element modeling of neotectonics in New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B12), 2328, doi:10.1029/2001JB001075.

Bird, P. [2003] An updated digital model of plate boundaries, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 4(3), 1027, doi:10.1029/2001GC000252.

Bird, P., and Y. Y. Kagan [2004] Plate-tectonic analysis of shallow seismicity: Apparent boundary width, beta, corner magnitude, coupled lithosphere thickness, and coupling in seven tectonic settings, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 94(6), 2380-2399, plus electronic supplement.

Liu, Z., and P. Bird [2006] Two-dimensional and three-dimensional finite element modelling of mantle processes beneath central South Island, New Zealand, Geophys. J. Int., 165, 1003-1028.

Bird, P., Z. Ben-Avraham, G. Schubert, M. Andreoli, and G. Viola [2006] Patterns of stress and strain rate in southern Africa, J. Geophys. Res., 111(B8), B08402, doi:10.1029/2005JB003882.

Bird, P., and Z. Liu [2007] Seismic hazard inferred from tectonics: California, Seismol. Res. Lett., 78(1), 37-48.


 
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