Bernard Minster

Professor/Researcher/Director

Room: Revelle Lab 2210

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

Telephone: (858) 534-5650

Email: jbminster@ucsd.edu

Research Interests:

• Precise airborne and spaceborne laser altimetry and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR)
• Intermediate-term earthquake prediction
• Mass balance of polar ice sheets
• Nuclear monitoring by geoohysical means
• Applications of space geodesy to the study of plate motions and deformation
• Propagation and attenuation of seismic waves
• Numerical modeling of Earthquakes and their effects in a grid framework

Courses Taught:

• CSE298 (Independent Study)
• ERTH130 (Geodynamic/Terrestrial Planets)
• SIO227A (Introduction to Seismology)
• SIO227C (Advanced Seismology II)
• SIO239 (Special Topics in Geophysics)
• SIO299 (Research)

Recent publications: ^†

• Zwally, H. J., B. Schutz, W. Abdalati, J. Abshire, C. Bentley, A. Brenner, J. Bufton, J. Dezio, D. Hancock, D. Harding, T. Herring, B. Minster, K. Quinn, S. Palm, J. Spinhirne, R. Thomas, ICESat's laser measurements of polar ice, atmosphere, ocean, and land, J. Geodynamics, 34, 405-445, 2002.
• Yi, D., J.-B. Minster, C. R. Bentley, The effect of ocean tidal loading on satellite altimetry over Antarctica, Antarctic Science 12, 119-124, 2000.
• Xu, Heming, Steven M. Day, and Jean-Bernard Minster, Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Rocks at Intermediate Strains, Proceedings 12th Eng. Mech. Conf. ASCE, 506-509, 1998.
• Xu, H., S. M. Day, J.-B. Minster, Two-dimensional Linear and Nonlinear Wave Propagation in a Half-Space, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer,, 89, 903-917, 1999. Ware, R.H., D.W. Fulker, S.A. Stein, D.N. Anderson, S.K.Avery, R.D. Clark, K.K. Droegemeier, J.P. Kuettner, J. B. Minster, and S. Sorooshian, Suominet: A Real-time National GPS Network for Atmospheric Research and Education, Bull. Atm. Met. Soc., 81, 677-694, 2000.
• Xu, H., S. M. Day, J.-B. Minster, Hysteresis and two-dimensional nonlinear wave propagation in Berea sandstone, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 6163-6175, 2000.
• Xu, H., S. M. Day, and J.B. Minster, Model for nonlinear wave propagation derived from rock hysteresis measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 29915-29929, 1998. Review of NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers, (7 Panel reports and Committee analysis) Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, National Research Council, 1998.
• Ware, R.H., D.W. Fulker, S.A. Stein, D.N. Anderson, S.K. Avery, R.D. Clark, K. K. Droegemeier, J. P. Kuettner, J.B. Minster, S. Sorooshian, Real-time national GPS networks for atmospheric sensing, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Physics, 63, 1315-1330, 2001.
• Ware, R. H., D. W. Fulker, S. A. Stein, D. N. Anderson, S. K. Avery, R. D. Clark, K. K. Droegemeier, J. P. Kuettner, J. Minster, and S. Sorooshian, Real-time national GPS Networks: Opportunities for atmospheric sensing, Earth Planets Space, 52, 901-905, 2000.
• Solomon, S., V. Baker, J. Bloxham,J. Booth, A. Donnellan,C. Elachi, D. Evans, E. Rignot, B. Chao, A. Chave, A. Gillespie,T. Herring, R. Jeanloz, J. LaBrecque,B. Minster,W. Pitman III, M. Simons, D. Turcotte, M.L. Zoback, A Plan for Living on a Restless Planet, EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 84, 485-500, 2003.
• Sandwell, D. T., L. Sichoix, D. Agnew, Y. Bock, and J.-B. Minster, Near real-time radar interferometry of the Mw 7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3101-3104, 2000.
• Rundle, J.B., T. Henyey, J.B. Minster, and G. Fox, General Earthquake Models, APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 ACES workshop proceedings, 281-287, 1999.
• Ragona, Daniel, Bernard Minster, Thomas Rockwell, and Jouni Jussila, Field imaging spectroscopy: A new methodology to assist the description, interpretation, and archiving of paleoseismological information from faulted exposures, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B10309-2006, doi:10.1029/2006JB004267, 2006
• Olsen, K.B., S.M. Day, J.B. Minster, Y. Cui, A. Chourasia, M. Faerman, R. Moore, P. Maechling and T.Jordan, Strong shaking in Los Angeles expected from southern San Andreas earthquake, Geophys, Res. Lett., 33, L07305, doi:10.1029/2005GL025472, 2006
• Olsen, K. B., S. M. Day, J. B. Minster, Y. Cui, A. Chourasia, D. Okaya, P. Maechling, and T. Jordan, TeraShake2: Simulation of Mw7.7 earthquakes on the southern San Andreas fault with spontaneous rupture description, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, doi:10.1785/0120070148, pp. 1162 -1185, 2008
• Minster, J.B., and T. Sagiya, Inversion and Assimilation of Geodetic Data, APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 ACES workshop proceedings, 395-398, 1999.
• Minster, J.B., and N. P. Williams, Systematic Global Testing of Intermediate-term Earthquake Prediction Algorithms, APEC Cooperation for Earthquake Simulation, 1999 ACES workshop proceedings, 491-496, 1999.
• Hudnut, K. W., A. Borsa, C. Glennie, and J.-B. Minster, High-Resolution Topography along surface rupture of the 16 October 1999 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake (Mw 7.1) from Airborne Laser Swath Mapping, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 1570-1576, 2002.
• Hofton, M. A., J.-B. Minster, J. R. Ridgway, N. P. Williams, J. B. Blair, D. L. Rabine, and J. L. Bufton, Using Airborne laser Altimetry to Detect Topographic Change at Long Valley Caldera, California, AGU Monograph: Remote Sensing of Volcanoes, Ed. P. Mouginis-Mark, 249-264, 2000.
• Hofton, M. A., J. B. Blair, J.-B. Minster, J. R. Ridgway, N. P. Williams, J. L. Bufton and D. L. Rabine, An airborne scanning laser altimetry survey of Long Valley Caldera, California, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 21, 2413-2437, 2000.
• Heuze, F., R. Archuleta, F. Bonilla, S. Day, M. Doroudian, A. Elgamal, S. Gonzales, M. Hoehler,T. Lai, D. Lavallee, B. Lawrence, P-C. Liu, A. Martin, L. Matesic, B. Minster, R. Mellors,D. Oglesby, S. Park, M. Riemer, J.Steidl, F. Vernon, M. Vucetic, J. Wagoner, Z. Yang, Estimating Site-specific strong Earthquake Motions, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 21 pp, in press, 2003.
• Gurrola, H. and J.-B. Minster, Thickness estimates of the upper mantle transition zone from bootstrapped velocity spectrum stacks of receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 133, 31-43, 1998.
• Gurrola H., and J.B. Minster, Evidence for local variations in the depth to the 410 km discontinuity beneath Albuquerque, New Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 10,847-10,856, 2000. Hofton, M.A., J.-B. Minster, and J.B. Blair, Decomposition of Laser Altimeter Waveforms, IEE Trans. Geosc. and Rem. Sensing, 38, 1989-1996, 2000.
• George P. Woollard Award Presented to Thomas H. Jordan, Citation, GSA Today, March 1999, pp 24-25.
• Fricker, H.A., N.W. Young, R. Coleman, J.N. Bassis and J.B. Minster, Multi-year monitoring of Rift Propagation on Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L02502, doi:10.1029/2004GL021036, 2005.
• Fricker, H.A., J. Bassis, J.B. Minster, and D.R. Macayeal, ICESat’s new perspective on iceshelf rifts: The vertical dimension, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23S08, doi:10.1029/2005GL025070, 2005.
• Fricker, H.A., A. Borsa, B. Minster, C. Carabajal, K. Quinn, and B.Bills, Assessment of ICESat performance at the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L21S06, doi:10.1029/2005GL023423, 2005.
• Field, E. H. and the SCEC Phase III Working Group, Accounting for site effects in probabilistic seismic hazard analyses of southern California: Overview of the SCEC Phase III Report, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 90, S1-S31, 2000.
• Fialko, Y., D. Sandwell, D. Agnew, M. Simons, P.Shearer, B. Minster, Deformation on Nearby Faults Induced by the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake, Science, 297, 1858-1862, 2002.
• Faerman, Marcio, Reagan Moore, Yifeng Cui,Yuanfang Hu, Jing Zhu, Bernard Minster, and Philip Maechling, ManagingLarge Scale Data for Earthquake Simulations, J. Grid Computing, doi:10.1007/s10723-007-9072-x, 2007
• Ely, Geoffrey P. Steve M. Day and Jean-Bernard Minster, A support-operator method for viscoelastic wave modeling in 3-D heterogeneous media, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.111/j.1365-246X.2007.03633.x, 2007
• Cui, Y., Moore, R., Olsen, K., Chourasia, A., Maechling, P., Minster, B., Day S., Hu, Y., Zhu J., Majumdar, A. and Jordan, T., 'Enabling Very-Large Scale Earthquake Simulations on Parallel Machines ', Advancing Science and Society through Computation:Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, Springer, (2007): pp. 46-53. 2008
• Cui Yifeng, Reagan Moore, Kim Olsen, Amit Chourasia, Philip Maechling, Bernard Minster, Steven Day, Yuanfang Hu, Jing Zhu and Thomas Jordan, Toward Petascale Earthquake Simulations, Acta Geotechnica, doi: 10.1007/s11440-008-0055-2, 2008
• Clark, D., B. Minster, and E.A. Kihn, The Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) and the World Data Center System, Russian Journal of Earth Sciences, 10, ES2007, doi”10.2205/2007ES000294, 2008
• Chourasia, Amit, Steve Cutchin, Yifeng Cui, Reagan Moore, Kim Olsen, Steve M. Day, J. Bernard Minster, Philip Maechling, and Thomas H. Jordan, Visual Insights into High-Resolution Earthquake Simulations, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 27, 5, 28-34, 2007
• Calais, E., J. S. Haase, J. B. Minster, Detection of ionospheric perturbations using SCIGN GPS array, Southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 30, 1628-1631, 2003.
• Calais, E and J.-B. Minster, GPS, earthquakes, the ionosphere, and the Space Shuttle, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 105, 167-181, 1998.
• Borsa, Adrian, Cruce, G. Bills, and Jean-Bernard Minster, Modeling the topography of the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, as an equipotential surface of Earth’s gravity field, J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res., 113, B10408, doi:10.1029/2007JB005445, 2008.
• Borsa, Adrian M., Jean-Bernard Minster, Bruce G. Bills and Helen A. Fricker, Modeling long-period noise in kinematic GPS applications, , J. Geodesy, 81, 157-170, doi:10.1007/s00190-006-0097-x, 2007
• Borsa, Adrian A., Helen A. Fricker, Bruce G. Bills, Jean-Bernard Minster, Claudia C. Carabajal, and Katherine J. Quinn, Topography of the salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, from kinematic GPS, Geophys.J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03604.x, 2007
• Bassis, Jeremy, Helen A. Fricker, Richard Coleman, and Jean-Bernard Minster, An Investigation Into the Forces that Drive Ice Shelf Rift Propagation on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, J. of Glaciology, 54, 184, 2008
• Bassis, J.N., R. Coleman, H.A. Fricker, and J.B. Minster, Episodic propagation of a rift on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L06502, doi:10.1029/2004GL022048, 2005