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LAST MODIFIED: 20 September 2011 (publications updated)
Work Address: Gabi Laske
              IGPP-0225
              U.C. San Diego
              La Jolla, Ca 92093-0225

Office phone: (858) 534-8774 
Fax:          (858) 534-5332 
Email:        glaske@ucsd.edu

Office: SIO, IGPP Munk Lab room 324 
(directions)
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Projects:

The Hawaiian PLUME Experiment

The centerpiece of this project is a two-phase OBS deployment to image the Hawaiian mantle plume and its plumbing system.
The phases operated between January 2005 and June 2007. First results for evidence of a deep-reaching mantle plume have been published in December 2009.
This work is funded by the OCE section of NSF. Matching funds are provided by the SIO director's office.

Reference Earth Model Web Site

The time has come to revisit the question of spherically-symmetric reference Earth models and to begin the process of developing reference 3D models and datasets.
This Web site will be maintained to collect and distribute data, models and computer code from and to participants of the REM initiative.
This work is funded by the CSEDI section of NSF.

A Global Crustal Model at 2x2 degrees (March 2000)

 This model is an update of CRUST 5.1 and takes advantage of our digital 1deg sediment map (see below) and our ongoing effort to compile crustal thickness on a 1deg grid.
This work is funded by NSF and a IGPP-mini grant with LLNL.

A global digital map of sediment thickness

This work has not been published (yet) but the sediment model is available to download (and widely used). Please provide feedback. This work was done in our spare time and funded by NSF.

The Scripps 3D mantle models

This page points you to our collection of 3D mantle models (old and new).
This work is a continuing effort to burn our spare time and, yes, funded by NSF.

Normal Modes and the Rotation of the Inner Core (July 2002)

 This page summarizes a contribution to an AGU Monograph on the Inner Core. This work was presented at the SEDI meeting July 2002, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA and AGU meetings.
This research was funded by NSF.

Project SWELL

 Seismic Wave Exploration of the Lower Lithosphere beneath the Hawaiian Swell.
We do have a model of 3D shear velocity structure beneath the pilot array.

This work is funded by the MG&G section of OCE-NSF.

CRUST 5.1: A new global crustal model

 In collaboration with Walter D. Mooney (USGS, Menlo Park)

Global Maps of Long-Period Surface Wave Dispersion

Polarization of Long-Period Surface Waves/Station Misalignment

Publications

Directions to my office

Geophysics at Karlsruhe, the place I come from.

Black Forest Observatory, the quietest site on Earth

Publications:

 Definitive versions of GJI papers are also available at www.blackwell-synergy.com.

Laske, G., Markee, A., Orcutt, J.A. Wolfe, C.J., Collins, J.A., Solomon, S.C., Detrick, R.S., , Bercovici, D. and Hauri, E.H., Asymmetric Shallow Mantle Structure beneath the Hawaiian Swell - Evidence from Rayleigh Waves Recorded by the PLUME network. Geophys. J. Int., in press, 2011. download preprint (incl supplement)

Anchieta, M.C., Wolfe, C.J., Pavlis, G.L., Vernon, F.L., Eakins, J.A., Solomon, S.C., Laske, G. and Collins, J.A., Seismicity around the Hawaiian Islands Recorded by the PLUME Seismometer Networks: Insight into Faulting near Maui, Molokai, and Oahu. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 101, 1742-1758, 2011. Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Tian, Y., Zhou, Y., Sigloch, K., Nolet, G. and Laske, G., Structure of North American mantle constrained by simlutaneous inversion of multiple-frequency $SH, SS$ and Love waves. J. Geophys. Res., 116, B02307, doi:10.1029/2010JB007704, 2011. Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Wolfe, C.J., Solomon, S.C., Laske, G., Collins, J.A., Detrick, R.S., Orcutt, J.A., Bercovici, D. and Hauri, E.H., Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot. Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 303, 267-280, 2011. Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Leahy, G.M., Collins, J.A., Wolfe, C.J., Laske, G. and Solomon, S.C., Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell: evidence from teleseismic receiver functions. Geophys. J. Int., 183, 313-329, 2010. pdf

Wolfe, C.J., Solomon, S.C., Laske, G., Collins, J.A., Detrick, R.S., Orcutt, J.A., Bercovici, D. and Hauri, E.H., Mantle Shear-wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot. Science, 326, 1388-1390, 2009. Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Laske, G., Collins, J.A., Wolfe, C.J., Solomon, S.C., Detrick, R.S., Orcutt, J.A., Bercovici, D. and Hauri, E.H., 2009. Probing The Hawaiian Hot Spot With New Ocean Bottom Instruments, EOS Trans. AGU, 90, 362-363. complete pdf (incl. supplement)

Weber, M. and the DESERT Working Group (68 authors), Anatomy of the Dead Sea Transform from Lithospheric to Microscopic Scale. Rev. Geophys., 47, RG2002, 2009. Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Grad, M., Tiira, T. and ESC Working Group (62 authors), The Moho depth map of the European Plate, Geophys. J. Int., 176, 279-292, 2009. Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Houser, C., Masters, G., Shearer, P. and Laske, G., Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms. Geophys. J. Int., 174, 195-212, 2008. pdf

Laske, G., Weber, M. and the DESERT Working Group, Lithosphere Structure Across the Dead Sea Transform as Constrained by Rayleigh Waves Observed During the DESERT Experiment. Geophys. J. Int., 173, 593-610, 2008. pdf

Laske, G., Phipps Morgan, J. and Orcutt, J.A., The Hawaiian SWELL Pilot Experiment - Evidence for Lithosphere Rejuvenation from OCean Bottom Surface Wave Data. GSA Special Paper 430, doi: 10.1130/2007.2430(11), 2007.pdf preprint
NB: the GSA reprint available at GSA does not include the supplements that are available online at GSA.

Laske, G. and Widmer-Schnidrig, R., Normal Mode & Surface Wave Observations. in: "Treatise on Geophysics, Volume 1: Seismology and Structure of the Earth", Vol. 1, 67-125, 2007. pdf preprint
NB: author order in the print version/book is reverse and wrong.

Zhou, Y., Nolet, G., Dahlen, F.A. and Laske, G., Global upper mantle structure from finite-frequency surface-wave tomography. J. Geophys. Res., 111, B04304, doi:10.1029/2005/JB003677, 2006. pdf

Zhou, Y., Dahlen, F.A., Nolet, G. and Laske, G., Finite-frequency effects in global surface-wave tomography. Geophys. J. Int., 163, 1087-1111, 2005. pdf

Park, J., Song, T.A., Tromp, J., Okal, E., Stein, S., Roult, G., Clevede, E., Laske, G., Kanamori, H., Davis, P., Berger, J., Braitenberg, C., Vam Camp, M., Lei, X., Sun, H., Xu, H. and Rosat, S. Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake. Science, 308, 1139-1144, 2005. pdf

Butler, R., Lay, T., Creager, K., Earle, P., Fischer, K., Gaherty, J., Laske, G., Leith, B., Park, J., Ritzwoller, M., Tromp, J. and Wen, L., The Global Seismographic Network Surpasses Its Design Goal. EOS Trans. AGU, 85, 225-229, 2004. pdf

Laske, G. and Masters, G., The Earth's Free Oscillations and the Differential Rotation of the Inner Core. AGU Geodynamics series, "Earth's Core; Dynamics, Structure, Rotation", Vol. 31, 5-21, 2003.
pdf preprint
Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Cotte, N. and Laske, G., Testing group velocity maps for Eurasia Geophys. J. Int., 150, 639-650, 2002. pdf

Laske, G. and Cotte, N., Surface Wave Waveform Anomalies at the Saudi Seismic Network, Geophys. Res. Let., 28, 4383-4386, 2001. pdf

Masters, G., Laske, G. and Gilbert, F., Large-scale Earth Structure from Analyses of Free-Oscillation Splitting and Coupling, In: E. Boschi, G. Ekstroem and A. Morelli (eds.) "Problems in Geophysics for the New Millenium", Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy, 255-288, 2000.
pdf preprint of appendix

Masters, G., Laske, G. and Gilbert, F., Matrix autoregressive analysis of free-oscillation coupling and splitting. Geophys. J. Int. (Knopoff Festschrift), 143, 478-489, 2000. pdf

Zürn, W., Laske, G., Widmer-Schnidrig, R. and Gilbert, F., Observation of Coriolis coupled modes below 1 mHz, Geophys. J. Int., 143, 113-118, 2000. pdf

Masters, G., Laske, G. and F. Gilbert, Autoregressive Estimation of the Splitting Matrix of Free-Oscillation Multiplets. Geophys. J. Int., 141, 25-42, 2000. pdf

Masters, G., Laske, G. Bolton, H. and A. Dziewonski, The relative behavior of shear velocity, bulk sound speed, and compressional velocity in the mantle: implications for chemical and thermal structure. AGU Monograph series, "Seismology and Mineral Physics", Vol. 117, 63-87, 2000. pdf.

Laske, G. and G. Masters, Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations. Nature, 402, 66-68, 1999. pdf

Laske, G., Phipps Morgan J. and J.A. Orcutt, First results from the Hawaiian SWELL Pilot Experiment. Geophys. Res. Let., 26, 3397-3400, 1999. pdf

Laske, G. and G. Masters, Surface wave polarization data and global anisotropic structure. Geophys. J. Int., 132, 508-520, 1998. pdf

Mooney, W.D., G. Laske and G. Masters, CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5 x 5 degrees. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 727-747, 1998.
Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Laske, G. and G. Masters, Constraints on global phase velocity maps by long-period polarization data. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 16,059-16,075, 1996.
Reprint upon request to glaske@ucsd.edu

Masters, G., S. Johnson, G. Laske and H. Bolton, A shear-velocity model of the mantle. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London A, 354, 1285-1411, 1996.

Laske, G., Global observation of off-great circle propagation of long-period surface waves. Geophys. J. Int., 123, 245-259, 1995. pdf

Laske G., G. Masters and W. Zürn, Frequency-dependent polarization measurements of long period surface waves and their implications for global phase velocity maps. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 84, 111-137, 1994. pdf

Laske G., Frequency-dependent polarization measurements of long period surface waves and their implications for global phase velocity maps. Doctoral Thesis, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1993.

Zürn W., H.-G. Wenzel and G. Laske, High quality data drom LaCoste-Romberg gravimeters with electrostatic feedback: A challenge for superconducting gravimeters. Bull. d'Informations Marees Terrestres, 110, 7940-7952, 1991.

Koptschalitsch, G., Die Anwendung der zeitvariablen Filterung bei der Eigenschwingungsanalyse, Diploma Thesis, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany, 1987.

Mechie, J., C. Prodehl and G. Koptschalitsch, Ray path interpretation of the crustal structure beneath Saudi Arabia. Tectonophysics, 131, 333-352, 1986.

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Directions to my office (Munk Lab #324):

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From I5 (southbound), go west on La Jolla Village Dr., ~1.25 Miles left on La Jolla Shores Dr., in ~.75 miles, near the bottom of the hill the road makes a sharp left turn. Just after this bend turn Right onto Biological Grade (watch for bikers). This road makes a sharp left in about 100 yards follow it through a parking lot etc. until you come to a redwood building on your right and a redwood staircase on your left. The building on the right is where I work, the Munk lab. I'm on the main floor in office 324.

From I5 (northbound), go west on La Jolla Parkway, down the hill. Turn right at second traffic light (Hotel La Jolla on the right). Continue for ~1.5 Miles. You will pass the IGPP bridge. After that bridge, turn left onto Biological Grade. From there, see above.

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