Jon Berger

Researcher

Room: Revelle Lab 2113

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA.

Telephone: (858) 534-2889

Email: jberger@ucsd.edu

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Research Interests:

• Design and operation of a worldwide network of very broadband seismometers for the study of earthquake source mechanisms, Earth structure
• Design and development of data acquisition and communication systems
• Design and development of infrasonic sensors
• Development of satellite telemetry for global seismic data transmission
• Application of seismological techniques to the monitoring of nuclear weapons test limitation treaties

Recent publications: ^†

• 2004, Resolving quadrature fringes in real time, Applied Optics, 43, 4, 771-775
• 2002, Surveying infrasonic noise on oceanic islands, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159, 5, 1127-1152
• 2002, High Seas ROADNet: Internet at Sea for Oceanographic research, Sea Technology, May 2002, 10-18
• 2002, An optical fiber infrasound sensor: a new lower limit on atmospheric pressure noise between 1 Hz and 10 Hz, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 2474-2479
• 1999, Surveying Infrasonic Noise on Oceanic Islands, Proceedings - 21 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 21, II, 141-150
• 1999, Seismic characteristics of RAYN/GSN Station, Saudi Arabia, J. King Saud Univ., 11, 81-92
• 1998, Surveying Infrasonic Noise on Oceanic Islands, Proceedings - 20 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 20, 586-595
• 1997, The IDA Near Realtime System, Seismological Research Letters, 68, 223-227
• 1996, Initial Results from the Deployment of Broadband Seismometers in the Saudi Arabian Shield, Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 18, 108-117
• 1996, Earthquake activity near Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean, as seen by a combined seismic/hydrophone array, Geothermics, 25, 4-5, 507-&
• 1995, Broadband Seismic Characterization of the Arabian Shield, Proceedings - 17 Annual Seismic Research Symposium, 17, 329-338
• 1994, Parametric Analysis and Calibration of the Sts-1 Seismometer of the Iris/Ida Seismographic Network, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 84, 5, 1580-1592
• 1992, Pecularities of Surface-Wave propagation across Central Eurasia, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 82, 2464-2493
• 1991, Soviet-American Study of Seismological Control of Nuclear Explosions, Academy of Sciences USSR, Institute Physics of the Earth, Moscow "Nauka"
• 1991, Comment on Quantitative Measurements of Shear-Wave Polarizations at the Anza Seismic Network, Southern California - Implications for Shear-Wave Splitting and Earthquake Prediction by Aster,Richard,C., Shearer,Peter,M., Berger,Jon - Reply, Journal of
• 1990, Quantitative Measurements of Shear-Wave Polarizations at the Anza Seismic Network, Southern California - Implications for Shear-Wave Splitting and Earthquake Prediction, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 95, B8, 12449-12473
• 1990, High-Frequency Seismic Observations in Eastern Kazakhstan, USSR, with Emphasis on Chemical Explosion Experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 95, B1, 295-307
• 1990, Analysis of High-Frequency Seismic Noise in the Western United-States and Eastern Kazakhstan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 80, 4, 951-970
• 1989, Regional seismic event location with a sparse network: Application to eastern Kazakhstan, USSR, J. Geophys. Res., 94, 17767-17780
• 1988, Studies of High-Frequency Seismic Noise in Eastern Kazakhstan, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 78, 5, 1744-1758
• 1988, Attenuation near Anza, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 78, 2, 672-691
• 1987, The Digital Array at Anza, California - Processing and Initial Interpretation of Source Parameters, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 92, B1, 369-382
• 1987, A new U.S.-U.S.S.R. seismological program, Eos Trans. AGU, 68, 105-111
• 1986, Rupture Characteristics and Tomographic Source Imaging of Ml Approximately 3 Earthquakes near Anza, Southern-California, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth and Planets, 91, B12, 2633-2650
• 1986, Project IDA: a decade in review, EOS Trans. AGU, 67, 203-212
• 1986, Low stress-drop earthquakes in the light of new data from the Anza, California telemetered digital array, Earthquake Source Mechanics, Geophysical Monograph 37, Am. Geophys. Union
• 1984, The Anza Array - a High-Dynamic-Range, Broad-Band, Digitally Radiotelemetered Seismic Array, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 74, 4, 1469-1481
• 1984, A seismological data base management system, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 74, 1849-1862
• 1983, Seismic data bases: The use of computers in geophysical data management, Eos Trans. AGU, 64, 658
• 1982, The Optical Anchor - a Geophysical Strainmeter, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 72, 5, 1707-1715
• 1980, Stacking for the Frequencies and Qs of 0s0 and 1s0, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 62, 2, 457-471
• 1980, Investigations of Tilt Measurements Using Shallow Borehole Tiltmeters, Journal of Geophysical Research, 85, NB8, 4351-4362
• 1979, Use of a Bubble Tiltmeter as a Horizontal Seismometer - Comment, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 59, 2, 411-413
• 1979, Seismic system calibration: 2. Cross-spectral calibration using random binary signals, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 69, 271-288
• 1979, Seismic system calibration: 1. Parametric models, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 69, 251-270
• 1979, Observations from the Ida Network of Attenuation and Splitting During a Recent Earthquake, Nature, 277, 5695, 358-362
• 1979, Comments on Use of a bubble tiltmeter as a seismometer by Miller et al., (1978), Geophys. J. Roy. Astron. Soc., 59, 411-413
• 1978, Vertical seismic noise at very low frequencies, J. Geophys. Res., 83, 5420-5424
• 1978, Observations from the IDA network of the moment tensor of the Oaxaca earthquake, November 29, 1978, Geofisica Internacional, 17, 281-286
• 1978, Comments on Transfer functions for the Seismic Research Observatory seismograph system, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 68, 1537-1538
• 1976, International Deployment of Accelerometers - Network for Very Long Period Seismology, Transactions-American Geophysical Union, 57, 4, 180-188
• 1976, An analysis of tidal strain observations from the United States of America: II. The inhomogeneous tide, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 66, 18221-1846
• 1975, An analysis of tidal strain observations form the United States of America: I. The laterally homogeneous tide, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 65, 1613-1629
• 1975, A note on thermoelastic strains and tilts, J. Geophys. Res., 80, 274-277
• 1974, The spectrum of earth strain noise for 10-8 Hz to 102 Hz, J. Geophys. Res., 79, 1210-1214
• 1974, Earthquake prediction: Modification of the earth tide tilts and strains by dilatancy, Geophys. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., 39, 111-121
• 1973, Some observations of Earth strain tides in California, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A., 274, 267-277
• 1972, A year of strain measurements in Southern California, Nature, 238, 93-94
• 1971, Some observation of the San Fernando, California, earthquake with a laser strainmeter, Geological Survey Professional Paper, 733, 150-152
• 1970, Earth strain measurements with a laser interferometer, Science, 170, 296-303
• 1969, A laser earth strain meter, Rev. Sci. Inst., 40, 1569-1575
• 1965, Geophysical observations on the sediments and basement structure underlaying Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 49, 959-965
• 1964, The possibility of observing reflections from the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, Eos Trans. AGU, 45, 95-96
• 1964, The nature of the seismic velocity gradient in the earths crust and upper mantle under Nova Scotia, Bull. Can. Assoc. Phys., 20, 13
• 1964, Seismic crustal studies on the east coast of Canada; the edge of the continental shelf, Eos Trans. AGU, 45, 72