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John Vidale, Professor of Geophysics |
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| 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 1712 |
| Telephone: | (310) 206-3935 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | vidale@ucla.edu |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 8
ESS 204
ESS 222
ESS 295C
ESS 296X |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Seismology applied to the study of earth structure, earthquakes, and the hazards of strong shaking. |
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Education |
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| | B.S., 1981, Yale University
Ph.D., 1987, California Institute of Technology |
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Honors |
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| | - Gilbert Fellow of USGS, 1995
- AGU Fellow, 1994
- Macelwane Medal, 1994
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Editorial Duties |
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| | - Associate Editor, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 1993-1998
- Editor,
Loma Prieta Earthquake Professional Paper, Geologic Setting and Crustal Structure
Chapter, with R. Wells
- Seismology Section Chairman, Fall AGU meeting,
1992 & 1993
- Associate Editor, JGR, 1997-2000
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Panel Duties |
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| | - Member, Committee on Seismology, NRC/NAS, chaired by T. Jordan,
1996-1999
- Member, Executive Committee, IRIS, 1998-2000
- IGPP/LLNL
Geophysics proposal evaluation committee, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995
- Quinquennial
Review Committee of UC systemwide IGPP, 1997
- USGS external review panel,
LA region, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998
- Regional networks USGS external review
panel, 1994
- Earthquake Hazards USGS internal review panel, 1993
- Co-chair,
The Interior of the Earth, Gordon conference, July 1998
- Chair, The Interior
of the Earth, Gordon conference, July 2001
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Selected Publications |
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E. Vidale, and H.M. Benz, 1992. Upper mantle seismic discontinuities
and the thermal structure of subduction zones, Nature, 356, 678-683. | | | J.E.
Vidale and H.M. Benz, 1992. A sharp and flat section of the core-mantle
boundary, Nature, 359, 627-629. | | | J.E. Vidale
and H.B. Benz, 1993. Seismological mapping of fine structure near the base of
the Earth's mantle, Nature, 361, 529-532. | | | J.E.
Vidale and H. Houston, 1993. The depth dependence of earthquake
duration and implications for rupture mechanisms, Nature, 365, 45-47. | | | H.M.
Benz and J.E. Vidale, 1993. The sharpness of upper mantle discontinuities
determined from high-frequency P'P' precursors, Nature, 365, 147-150.
| | | J.E. Vidale, W.L. Ellsworth, A. Cole,
and C. Marone, 1994. Variations in rupture process with recurrence interval in
a repeated small earthquake, Nature, 368, 624-626. | | | H.
Houston and J.E. Vidale, 1994. The temporal envelope of short-period
radiation during deep earthquake rupture, Science, 265, 771-774. |
| | Y.-G. Li, J.E. Vidale, K. Aki, F. Xu, T. Burdette,
1998, Evidence of shallow fault zone strengthening after the 1992 M7.5 Landers,
California, earthquake, Science, 279, 217-219. |
| | J.E. Vidale, M.A.H. Hedlin, 1998. Evidence
for partial melt at the core-mantle boundary north of Tonga from the strong scattering
of seismic waves, Nature, 391, 682-685. |
| | F. Xu, J.E. Vidale, P.S. Earle, H.M. Benz, 1998.
Mantle discontinuities under southern Africa from precursors to P'P' df, GRL,
25, 571-574. | | | J.E. Vidale,
D.C. Agnew, M.J.S. Johnston, and D.H. Oppenheimer, 1998. Absence of earthquake
correlation with Earth tides: An indication of high preseismic fautl stress rate,
in press, JGR. |
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Graduate Students |
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| | Elizabeth Cochran
cochran@moho.ess.ucla.edu
http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~ecochran/ |
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