Life of Brian
I employ various tools to study active faults: mapping fault excavations, analysis of lidar data, GIS analyses, marsh stratigraphy, and macro- and microfossil analyses. Several of the faults I am working on are unique in that they have very short, but very tall scarps - short rupture length, big displacements. For example, one scarp is about three kilometers long and has 8 meters of throw on it, likely in one event. This type of atypical surface rupture is common here in the Pacific Northwest and on some faults in Japan.
I’ll add more project specific information at a later date.
Brian Sherrod
Research Geologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Univ. of Washington
My Bike: ‘08 Street Glide
Fishing & Hunting
Boulder Creek fault. Whatcom County, Washington:
Saddle Mountain fault zone, Mason County, Washington:
Eastern Washington:
Seattle fault zone:
Southern Whidbey Island fault:
Me at work:
When I’m not at home hanging out with my family, I’m usually out riding my bike (...or working on it). I try to take a few long trips a year (...mostly in the summer) but I ride year round. It’s become my primary mode of transportation.
My oldest son (Joe) and I like to hunt together in the fall or occasionally fish for salmon in the summer. Last year (‘08), the runs were terrible so we didn’t fish much. I also like offshore fishing for tuna, mahi-mahi, and anything else that will bite. In the picture at the top of the page, we are welcoming aboard a 91-lb Big Eye tuna.
Me at play:
