Sean R Ford
L-046
Atmospheric, Earth & Energy Division (PLS-AEED) - 9851
Physical and Life Sciences Directorate
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Phone: 925-424-6998
Email: sean@llnl.gov
Education:
University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, attended from 08/2005 to 12/2008, PhD, 12/2008.
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, attended from 09/2003 to 07/2005, MS, 12/2005.
University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, attended from 08/1995 to 05/1999, BA, 05/1999.
Work History:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Post-doc, from 01/2009 to Present.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Lawrence Scholar, from 06/2008 to 12/2008.
Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Research Assistant, from 09/2005 to 05/2008.
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Research Assistant, from 08/2003 to 08/2005.
Department of Defense, Vandenberg AFB, CA, United States, Mission Planner, from 06/1999 to 07/2003.
Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles:
Ford, S.R.;
Uhrhammer, R.A.; Hellweg, M.. "Local Magnitude Tomography in
California", "Local Magnitude Tomography in California", submitted to
B. Seismol. Soc. Am.
,
Submitted
, (2010).
Ford, SR; Walter, WR. "Aftershock Characteristics as a Means of Discriminating Explosions from Earthquakes",
B. Seismol. Soc. Am.
,
100
, 364-376, (2010), DOI: 10.1785/0120080349.
Ford, SR; Dreger, DS; Walter, WR. "Source analysis of the Memorial Day explosion, Kimchaek, North Korea",
Geophys. Res. Lett.
,
36
, (2009).
Cannata, A; Hellweg, M; Di Grazia, G,
et al
. "Long
period and very long period events at Mt. Etna volcano: Characteristics,
variability and causality, and implications for their sources",
J. Volcanol. Geoth. Res.
,
187
, 227-, (2009).
Dreger,
D.S.; Ford, S.R.; Ryder, I.. "Finite-source study of the Wells, Nevada
Earthquake", "Finite-source study of the Wells, Nevada Earthquake", in
press
Accepted
, (2009).
Ford, S.R.,
Dreger, D.S., Walter W.R.. "Network Sensitivity Solutions for Regional
Moment Tensor Inversions", "Network Sensitivity Solutions for Regional
Moment Tensor Inversions", in press
B. Seismol. Soc. Am.
,
Accepted
, (2009).
Ford S.R.,
W.S. Phillips, W.R. Walter, M.E. Pasyanos, K. Mayeda, D.S. Dreger.
"Attenuation tomography of the Yellow Sea / Korean Peninsula from
coda-source normalized and direct Lg amplitudes",
Pure Appl. Geophys.
, (2009).
Ford, SR; Dreger, DS; Walter, WR. "Identifying isotropic events using a regional moment tensor inversion",
J. Geophys. Res.-Sol. Ea.
,
114
, (2009), DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005743.
Ford, SR;
Dreger, DS; Walter, WR. "Source characterization of the 6 August 2007
Crandall Canyon mine seismic event in central Utah",
Seismol. Res. Lett.
,
79
, 637-644, (2008), DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.79.5.637.
Ford, SR; Dreger, DS; Mayeda, K,
et al
. "Regional attenuation in Northern California: A comparison of five 1D Q methods",
B. Seismol. Soc. Am.
,
98
, 2033-2046, (2008), DOI: 10.1785/0120070218.
Dreger, DS; Ford, SR; Walter, WR. "Source analysis of the Crandall Canyon, Utah, mine collapse",
Science
,
321
, 217-217, (2008), DOI: 10.1126/science.1157392.
Ford, S.R.,
E.J. Garnero, and A.K. McNamara. "A strong lateral shear velocity
gradient and anisotropy heterogeneity in the lowermost mantle beneath
the southern Pacific",
J. Geophys. Res.-Sol. Ea.
,
111
, (2006).
Presentations:
Invited Talks:
"Regional moment tensor inversion for source-type identification", Pacific Tsunamic Warning Center, 06/2010.
"Aftershock
Characteristics as a Means of Discriminating Explosions from
Earthquakes", University of California, Santa Cruz, 03/2010.
"Regional moment tensor inversion for source-type identification", US Geological Survey, 03/2009.
"Regional moment tensor inversion for source-type identification", Southern Methodist University, 02/2009.
Other Presentations:
"Source
Analysis of the Memorial Day Explosion, Kimchaek, North Korea", Poster,
European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria, United States,
05/02/2010-05/07/2010.
"Joint
Inversion of InSAR and Seismic Waveform Data for the Finite-fault
Solution of the Wells Earthquake", Poster, Seismological Society of
America, Portland, OR, United States, 04/20/2010-04/23/2010.
"Toward an
Empirically-based Parametric Explosion Spectral Model", Poster,
Seismological Society of America, Portland, OR, United States,
04/20/2010-04/23/2010.
"Source
Analysis of the Memorial Day Explosion, Kimchaek, North Korea", Poster,
Seismological Society of America, Portland, OR, United States,
04/20/2010-04/23/2010.
"Network
Sensitivity Solutions for Regional Moment Tensor Inversions", Poster,
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United
States, 12/12/2009-12/15/2009.
"Toward an
Empirically-based Parametric Explosion Spectral Model", Poster,
Monitoring Research Review, Tucson, AZ, United States,
09/21/2009-09/23/2009.
"Aftershock
Characteristics of Explosions Relative to Earthquake Sequences", Poster,
International Seismic Symposium, Vienna, Austria,
06/05/2009-06/12/2009.
"Aftershock
Characteristics as a Means of Discriminating Explosions from
Earthquakes", Oral Presentation, Seismological Society of America,
Monterey, CA, United States, 04/08/2009-04/08/2009.
"Regional
Seismic Amplitude Modeling and Tomography for Earthquake-Explosion
Discrimination", Oral Presentation, American Geophysical Union, Fall
Meeting 2008, San Francisco, CA, United States, 12/12/2008-12/15/2008.
Professional Leadership and Service:
Conferences/Workshops Organized:
Fall AGU:
Non-double-couple Seismic Sources: Determination, Resolution, and
Uncertainty, San Francisco, CA, United States, 12/10/2009, Session
Chair.
Other:
LLNL AEED Postdoc Seminar Series, Co-organizer, from 2010 to 2010.