Selected Publications
Richard C. Aster, Professor of Geophysics

Aster, R. and R. Meyer, Three-dimensional velocity structure and hypocenter distribution in the Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy, Tectonophysics, 149, 195-218, 1988.

Aster, R., P. Shearer, and J. Berger, Quantitative measurements of shear-wave polarizations at the Anza seismic network, southern California--Implications for shear-wave splitting and earthquake prediction, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 12449-12474, 1990.

Aster, R. and P. Shearer, Initial shear-wave particle motions and stress constraints at the Anza seismic network, Geophys. J. Int., 108, 740-748, 1992.

Aster, R. and J. Scott, Comprehensive identification of similar earthquakes in microearthquake data sets, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., v. 83, 1307-1314, 1993.

Hartse, H., Fehler, M., Aster, R., Scott, J., Vernon, F., Small-Scale stress heterogeneity in the Anza seismic gap, southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 6801-6818, 1994.

Haase, J., Shearer, P., Aster, R., Constraints on temporal variations in velocity near Anza California, from analysis of similar event pairs, Bull Seism. Soc. Am., 85, 194-206, 1995.

Aster, R., Slad, G., Henton, J., Antolik, M., Differential analysis of coda Q using similar microearthquakes in seismic gaps. Part 1: Techniques and application to seismograms recorded in the Anza seismic gap, southern California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 86, 868-889, 1996.

Antolik, M., Nadeau, R.M., Aster, R., McEvilly, T.V., Differential analysis of coda Q using similar microearthquakes in seismic gaps. Part 2: Application to seismograms recorded by the Parkfield High Resolution Seismic Network, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 86, 890-910, 1996.

Schlue, J., Aster, R., Meyer, R. A lower-crustal extension to a mid-crustal magma body in the Rio Grande rift, New Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 25,283-25,291, 1996.

Rowe, C., Aster, R., Kyle, P., Schlue, J., Dibble, R., Broadband recording of Strombolian explosions and associated very-long-period seismic signals on Mount Erebus volcano, Ross Island, Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2297-2300, 1998.

Aster, R., Rowe, C., Automatic phase pick refinement and similar event association in large seismic datasets, in: Thurber, C., Kissling, E, Rabinowicz, N., eds., Advances in Seismic Event Location 18, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000.

Rowe, C.A., Aster, R., Phillips, W.S., Jones, R., Borchers, B., Fehler, M., Relocation of Induced Microearthquakes at the Soultz Geothermal Reservoir Using Automated, High-Precision Repicking, Pure Appl. Geophys., 159, 563-596, 2002.

Johnson, J., Lees, M., Ruiz, M., McChesney, P., Aster, R., Kyle, P., Interpretation and utility of infrasonic records from erupting volcanoes, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 121, 15-63, 2003.

Gok, R., Ni, J., West, M., Sandvol, E., Wilson, D., Aster, R., Baldridge, Grand, S., Gao, W., Tilmann, F., Semken, S., Shear wave splitting and mantle flow beneath LA RISTRA, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2002GL016616, 2003.

Koper, K., Wallace, T., Aster, R., Seismic Recordings of the Carlsbad, New Mexico, Pipeline Explosion of 19 August, 2000, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93, 1427-1432, 2003.

Aster, R., Mah, S.Y., Kyle, P., McIntosh, W.., Dunbar, N., Johnson, J., Ruiz, M., McNamara, S., Very long period oscillations of Mount Erebus Volcano, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B11), 2522, doi:10.1029/2003JB002743, 2003.

Aster, R., McIntosh, W., Kyle, P., Esser, R., Bartel, B., Dunbar, N., Johns, B., Johnson, J., Karstens, R., Kurnik, C., McGowan, M., McNamara, S., Meertens, C., Pauly, B., Richmond, M., Ruiz, M., New instrumentation delivers multidisciplinary real-time data from Mount Erebus, Antarctica, EOS trans. AGU., 85, no. 10, 9 March, 2004.

Gao, W., Grand, S., Baldridge, S., Wilson, D., West, M., Ni, J., Aster, R., Upper mantle convection beneath the central Rio Grande rift imaged by P and S wave tomography , J. Geophys. Res., 109 (B3), B03305, doi:10.1029/2003JB002743, 2004.

Johnson, J., Aster, R., Kyle, P., Volcanic eruptions observed with infrasound, Geop. Res. Lett., 31, L14604, doi:10.1029/2004GL020020, 2004.

Aster, R., Borchers, B., Thurber, C., Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems, 301 pp, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004.

Park, J., Anderson, K., Aster, R., Butler, R., Lay, T., Simpson, D., Global seismographic network records the great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake, EOS trans. AGU, 86, 8 February, 2005.

Wilson, D., Aster, R., West, M., Ni, J., Grand, S., Gao, W., Baldridge, W.S., Semken, S., Lithospheric Structure of the Rio Grande Rift, Nature, 433, doi:10.1038/nature03297, 2005. Associated article in the Albuquerque Journal.

Aster, R., Beaudoin, B., Hole, J., Fouch, M., Fowler, J., James, D., and the PASSCAL Staff and Standing Committee, IRIS PASSCAL program marks 20 years of scientific discovery, EOS trans. AGU, 86, 26 April, 2005.

Lay, T., Kanamori, H., Ammon, C., Nettles, M., Ward, S., Aster, R., Beck, S., Bilek, S., Brudzinski, M., Butler, R., DeShon, H., Ekström, G., Satake, K., Sipkin, S., The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of December 26, 2004, Science, 308, 1127-1133, doi:10.1126/science.1112250, 2005.

Wilson, D., Aster, R., Seismic imaging of the crust and uppermantle using regularized joint receiver functions,frequency.wave number filtering, and multimode Kirchhoff migration, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B05305, doi:10.1029/2004JB003430, 2005.

Wilson, D., Aster, R., Ni, J., Grand, S., West, M., Gao, W., Baldridge, W.S., Semken, S., Imaging the seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle beneath the Great Plains, Rio Grande Rift, and Colorado Plateau using receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B05306, doi:10.1029/2004JB003492, 2005.

Park, J., Butler, R., Anderson, K., Berger, J., Benz, H., Davis P., Hutt, R., McCreery, C., Ahern, T., Ekstrom, G., Aster, R., Performance review of the Global Seismographic Network for the Sumatra-Andaman megathrust earthquake, Seism. Res. Lett, 76, 3, 2005.

Hubenthal, M. (Guest Editor), et al., The 2004 Sumatra Earthquake, The Earth Scientist, National Earth Science Teacher's Association, Volume XXI, Issue 2, Spring, 2005.

Johnson, J., Aster, R., Relative partitioning of acoustic and seismic energy during Strombolian eruptions, J. Volcan. Geotherm. Res., 148, 334–354, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.05.002, 2005.

Lay, T., Kanamori, H., Ammon, C., Nettles, M., Ward, S., Aster, R., Beck, S., Bilek, S., Brudzinski, M., Butler, R., DeShon, H., Ekström, G., Satake, K., Sipkin, S., Reply to Technical Comment on “The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004” by S. Neetu, I. Suresh, R. Shankar, D. Shankar, S.S.C. Shenoi, S. R. Shetye, D. Sundar, and B. Nagaraja, Science, 310, 1431b, 2005.

MacAyeal, D., Okal, E., Aster, R., Basis, J., Brunt, K., Cathles, L. Mac. Drucker, R., Kim, Y-J., Martin, S., Okal, M., Sergienko, O., Sponsler, M., Thom, J., Transoceanic wave propagation links iceberg calving margins of Antarctica with storms in tropics and northern hemisphere, Geop. Res. Lett., 33, L17502, doi:10.1029/2006GL027235, 2006.

Stankova, J., Bilek, S., Rowe, C., Aster, R., Characteristics of the October 2005 microearthquake swarm and reactivation of similar event seismic swarms over decadal time periods near Socorro, New Mexico, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, 93-105, doi:10.1785/0120070108, 2008.

Aster, R., McNamara, D., Bromirski, P., Multi-decadal climate-induced variability in microseisms, Seismological Research Letters 79, doi: 10.1785/gssrl.79.2.194, 2008.

Sine, C., Wilson, D., Gao, W., Grand, S., Aster, R., Ni, J., Baldridge, W.S., Mantle structure beneath the western edge of the Colorado Plateau, Geop. Res. Lett., 35, L10303, doi:10.1029/2008GL033391, 2008.

MacAyeal, D. R., Okal, E., Aster, R., Bassis, J., Seismic and hydroacoustic tremor generated by colliding icebergs, J. Geophys. Res., 113, F03011, doi:10.1029/2008JF001005, 2008.

Aster, R., Zandomeneghi, D., Mah, S., McNamara, Henderson, D.B., Yarbrough, H., Jones, K., Moment tensor inversion of very long period seismic signals from Strombolian eruptions of Erebus Volcano, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.08.013, 2008.

Jones K., Johnson J.B., Aster R., Kyle P., McIntosh, W., Infrasonic tracking of large bubble bursts and ash venting at Erebus volcano, Antarctica. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.02.001, 2008

Johnson J.B., Aster R., Jones K., Kyle P., McIntosh W., Acoustic Source Characterization of Impulsive Strombolian Eruptions from the Mount Erebus Lava Lake. J. Volc. Geotherm. Res., doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.06.028, 2008.

Lay, T. (ed.), Aster, R., Forsyth, D., Romanowicz, B., et al. Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems , Report to the National Science Foundation, IRIS Consortium, 2009.

Aster, R., MacCarthy, J., Heizler, M., Kelley, S., Karlstrom, K., Crossey, L., Dueker, K., and the CREST Team, CREST probes the roots and geologic history of the Colorado Rockies, Outcrop, Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, 58, January 2009.

MacAyeal, D., Okal, E., Aster, R., Bassis, J., Seismic Observations of Glaciogenic Ocean Waves (Micro-Tsunamis) on Icebergs and Ice Shelves, J. Glaciology, 55, 193-206, 2009.

Condie, K., O'Neill, C., Aster, R., Evidence and implications for a widespread magmatic shutdown for 250 My on Earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 282, 294–298, 2009.

Papers in prep or review, or preparation

Forsyth, D., Lay, T., Aster, R., Romanowicz, B., Grand Challenges for Seismology, EOS trans AGU, submitted., 2009.

Zandomeneghi, D., Kyle, P., Miller, P., Snelson, C., Aster, R., Seismic tomography of Erebus Volcano, Antarctica, EOS trans AGU, submitted., 2009.

Martin, S., Drucker, R., Aster, R., Davey, F.,, Okal, E., Kim, Y.-J., Scambos, T., MacAyeal, D., Kinematic and Seismic Analysis of Giant Tabular Iceberg Breakup in the Coastal Regime of Antarctica, submitted., 2009.

van Wijk, J., Baldridge, W., van Hunen, J., Goes, S., , Aster, R., Coblentz, D., Grand, S., Ni, J, Small scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for differntial topography, evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere, and Neogene magmatism, in prep., 2009.

McNamara, D., Aster, R., Bromirski, P., Seismological evidence for increasing storm frequency, in prep., 2009.

Aster, R., MacAyeal, D., Okal, E., O'Brien, G., Bean, C., Seismological Observations of Iceberg Tremor, in prep., 2009.

Comprehensive list of Publications

Comprehensive list of Abstracts