Education Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Geophysics
B.Sc., 1979 University
of California, San
Diego
Geophysics
Ph.D., 1986 Positions
Held Post-doc, University of California,
San
Diego
1986-87
Post-doc, University of Nevada,
Reno
1987-88
Visiting Scholar, Inst, Geol. & Nuclear
Sci., New
Zealand
Winter, 2002
Visiting Scholar, Ist. Naz. di Geofisica e
Vulc.,
Italy
Spring, 2002
Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey,
Golden, CO
1988-1994 Research
Geophysicist, US Geological
Survey,
Memphis,TN
1994-2006 Adjunct
Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Memphis,,
Memphis,TN
1994-2006 Research
Geophysicist, U.S. Geological Survey,
Seattle,
WA
2006-present Affiliate
Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Washington, Seattle,
WA2006-present
Recent/Current
Research Fault Slip
Modes: from Slow Seismic and Aseismic Slip
to Earthquakes. Earthquake
Triggering.
Seismicity. Submarine
and Terrestrial Landslides and Volcanoes. Earthquake Early Warning.
Earthquake Scaling.
Editorial Service 2002 - 2014:
Assoc. Editor - Journal of Geophysical
Research. 2004-2005:
Co-Editor - Journal of Geophysical Research Special Vol., Stress Transfer,
Earthquake Triggering, and Time-dependent
Seismic Hazard 2008 - 2010: Co-Editor - Journal of Geophysical Research Special Vol., Aseismic Slip, Non-volcanic
Tremor, and Earthquakes Professional Organization Activities
American Geophysical Union Member, Fellow 1979 -
present
Seismological Society of America
Member
1986 -
present SSA/IRIS
Distinguished Lecturer Selection
Standing Comm.
Member 2004 - 2010 Board of
Directors Member
2003 - 2006 Vice
President
2004 -
2006 Board of
Dir. Nominating Comm.Chair 2006
Earthquake
Engineering Research Institutions 2012 - present
Assoc. of Women in Geoscience
Member 1987 - 2005
IRIS PASSCAL Standing Comm. Member
2001 -
2004
Council of Natl. Seismic Sys. Board
Member 1997 -
2001
Cascadia Regional Earthquake Working Group 2006
- present
CPARM
2006 - present City of
Seattle Unreinforced Masonry Building 2008 -
2013
Retrofit project Technical and Policy
Committees
2005 -
Central Region Geologic Hazards Team 2006 -
Panel Chair, Central Region Geologic
Hazards Team 2007 -
Earthquake Hazards Team 2008,
2014-2016 - Panel
Chair, Earthquake Hazards Team
Scientific Workshops (Invited
Participant)
April, 2002 -
Inst. of Geol. and Nuclear Sci.
"Microzoning" - Ground-classing Wkshp, Lower Hutt,
New Zealand. October, -
2002 IRIS AllComm Wkshp, College
Park, Maryland. January, 2006
-
Fourth Internatl. Wkshp on Statistical
Seismol., Inst. of Statistical Math. of
Japan, Zushi, Japan
March, 2007-
S. Calif. Earthquake Ctr. Working Group on
Calif. Earthquake Probabilities Wkshp, Lake
Arrowhead, California
February, 2008 - USGS, Earthscope, UNAVCO,
Geol. Surv. of Canada, Workshop on
"Aseismic Slip, Nonvolcanic Tremor, and
Earthquakes", Sidney, British Columbia
March, 2008 - UNAVCO Science Workshop,
Boulder, Colorado
September 2008 -
Writing Team, NSF Long Range Science Plan
for Seismology Workshop, Lakewood,
Colorado
October, 2008 -
European Science Foundation Conf. on New
Challenges in Earthquake Dynamics,
Obergurgl, Austria
October, 2008 -
7th U.S. Japan Natural Resources meeting,
Seattle, Washington
July, 2009 - NSF Cascadia
Margins/Earthscope Workshop, Palisades,
New York
October, 2009 - NSF
Earthscope Science Workshop, Snowbird,
Utah
October, 2010 - Earthscope
Institute: The Spectrum Of Fault Slip Behaviors,
Portland, Oregon
October, 2010 -
NSF-Cascadia Offshore Experiment Planning
Workshop, Portland Oregon
September,
2011 -
European Science Foundation Conf. on New
Challenges in Earthquake Dynamics,
Obergurgl, Austria
August 17-22, 2014 - Gordon Conference
on Evolving Rock Structure: From Grain-Scale
to Planet-Scale, Andover, New Hampshire
November 2014- International School on Earthquakes:
Nucleation, triggering, and the relationship
with aseismic processes, Cargèse,
Corsica, France.
April
2015 - International Ocean
Drilling Project Workshop on
Investigating Cascadia Subduction Zone
Geodynamics through Scientific Ocean
Drilling,
Seattle, Washington
October 2015 - GeoPRISMS Theoretical and
Experimental Institute on Subduction
Cycles, Redondo Beach, California
October 2016 - NSF Subduction Zone
Observatory Workshop, Boise, Idaho
November 2016 - National Academies of
Sciences meeting "The Cascadia
Subduction Zone: Science, Impacts, and
Response, Washington, D.C.
April, 2017 - Moore
Foundation Offshore Geophysical
Monitoring of Cascadia for Early Warning
and Hazards Research workshop, Seattle,
Washington.
Review Panels
January, 2004
-
National Res. Council Comm. meeting to
evaluate the economic benefits of improved
seismic monitoring, St. Louis, MO. February,
2005 -
USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program, Reston, Virginia
July, 2006 -
USGS NEHRP Ext. Grants Program, CEUS Panel
Leader, San Antonio, Texas July,
2006 - USGS
NEHRP External Grants Program, Pacific
Northwest Panel Member, San Antonio, Texas July, 2009 -
USGS NEHRP External Grants Program,
Central and Eastern US Panel Member,
Reston, Virginia October,
2012 - USGS Presidential Early Career Awards
in Science and Engineering, Panel Member August, 2013
-
USGS NEHRP External Grants
Program, Pacific Northwest
Panel Chair, Seattle,
Washington
September, 2013 -
Tectonics Journal Senior Editor Selection
Committee Member
June, 2014 - American
Geophysical Union Keiti Aki Young
Scientist Award, Selection
Panel Member May,
2015 -
American Geophysical Union Keiti
Aki Young Scientist Award, Selection
Panel Member June,
2016 - Seismological Society of America Board
of Directors, Selection Panel Member
April, 2017 –
American Geophysical Union Honors
Canvassing
Committee, Committee
Member
Conference,
Workshop Planning
2007-2008 -
April 2008 National Earthquake Conference
Planning & Steering Committee Member
2007-2008 - Feb. 2008
USGS/Earthscope/GSC/UNAVCO Workshop on
Aseismic Slip, NonVolcanic Tremor and
Earthquakes, Planning Committe Chair
2008-2009 - March, 2009 Workshop on
Cascadia 2007 and Beyond Slow Slip and
Tremor
2010 - October, 2010 Earthscope Institute:
The Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors,
Scientific Planning Committee Member
2011-2012 - January, 2012 ShakeCast for
Pacific Northwest Public and
Private Sectors Workshop, Planning
Committee Chair 2012-2013 -
Februrary, 2013 Earthquake Research
Institutions Annual Meeting, Planning
Committee Member
2012-2013 -
Februrary, 2013 Christchurch Earthquakes
Workshop, Planning Committee Member 2013-2014
- November, 2014 International School on
Earthquakes: Nucleation, triggering, and the
relationship with aseismic processes (Corsica,
France),Planning
Committee Member
2015 - May, Advancing USGS Integrated
Subduction Zone Science, Planning
Committee Chair
2015-2016,
October, 2016 NSF Subduction Zone Observatory
Workshop,
Planning
Committee Member
2016-
present 2017 International
School on Earthquakes: Nucleation, triggering,
and the relationship with aseismic processes
(Corsica, France), Planning
Committee Member
Honors
2013 American Geophysical Union
Fellow 2015
Association for Women Geoscientists Excellence
Award
USGS Awards
1991 Branch of
Geologic Risk Assess. Best Pub. Award 1993
Gilbert Fellowship (Dynamic Strains and
Earthquake Triggering) 1997 On the
Spot award for organizing workshop
on U.S. seismic networks and the national
seismic system 1998
Staraward for
leadership in responding to the M4.9, southern
Alabama earthquake. 1999
Star
award for liaison activities with the
Mid-America Earthquake Center. 2000 Star
award for leadership in the Central and
Eastern U.S. Hazards program 2001 Star award for leadership in the
Central and Eastern U.S. Hazards program 2003 Central
Region Geologic Hazards Team Senior Scientist
in Residence Award 2004Star
award
for leadership in the
Central and Eastern U.S. Hazards program
Star award for service to the
Earthquake Hazards Program
Venture Capital
Fund Award, A
Multi-facility Approach to Solving
Problems in Earthquake Hazards Venture Capital
Fund Award, A GIS Based
Decision Support System for Earthquake
Risk Mitigation
2007 Star award
for leadership in activities related to
episodic tremor and slip. 2008 Star award
for leadership in activities related to
episodic tremor and slip. 2009 Mendenhall
Fellowship Award (mentor) Crustal
structure, faulting, and earthquake effects
in the Cascadia region 2012
Mendenhall Fellowship Award (mentor) Building
New Holistic Earthquake Monitoring 2013 Mendenhall Fellowship Award
(mentor) Exploring Fault
Slip Modes in Alaska and the Aleutian Arc 2016 Star
award for leadership in subduction zone
science coordination. 2016 Star award
for participation in Society of Environmental
Journalists conference.
Gomberg, J.
(2017), Cascadia Onshore-Offshore
Site-Response, Submarine Sediment
Mobilization, and Earthquake Recurrence: Journal of Geophysical Research, in
preparation.
Johnson,
H. P., J. S. Gomberg, S. L. Hautala,
and M. S. Salmi (2017), Sediment gravity
flows triggered by remotely generated
earthquake waves, J. Geophys. Res. Solid
Earth, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JB013689. Download
McBrearty, I., J. Gomberg, A. Delorey, and
P. Johnson (2017),Northern
Chile seismicity rate changes and
ripe-fault triggering: Bulletin of the
Seismological Society of America, in
preparation.
2016
Crowell, B.W., D.A. Schmidt, P. Bodin, J.E.
Vidale, J. Gomberg, J. R. Hartog, V.C. Kress,
T.I. Melbourne, M. Santillan, S.E. Minson, and
D.G. Jamison (2016). Demonstration of the
Cascadia G-FAST Geodetic Earthquake Early
Warning System for the Nisqually, Washington
Earthquake: Seismological Research Letters, v.
87, no. 4., July-August, doi:
10.1785/0220150255.
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Gomberg,
J., P. Bodin, J. Bourgeois, S. Cashman, D.
Cowan, K. Creager, B. Crowell, A. Duvall, A.
Frankel, F. Gonzalez, H. Houston, P. Johnson, H.
Kelsey, U. Miller, E. Roland, D. Schmidt, L.
Staisch, J. Vidale, W. Wilcock, E. Wirth (2016),
Planning for a Subduction Zone Observatory, EOS
Transactions of the American Geophysical Union,
v. 97, 11 p., doi: 10.1029/2016EO052635. Download
Gomberg, J., A. Wech, K. Creager, K. Obara, D.
Agnew, (2016), Reconsidering earthquake scaling:
Geophysical Research Letters, v. 43, 9 p., doi:
10.1002/2016GL069967. Download
Gomberg, J., D. Agnew, and S. Schwartz (2016),
Alternative models of very low frequency
earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, v.
121, p. 6722–6740, doi:10.1002/2016JB013001. Download
2015
Gomberg,
J., Atwater, N. Beeler, P.
Bodin, E. Davis, A.
Frankel, G. Hayes, V.
McConnell, T. Melbourne,
D. Oppenheimer, J.
Parrish, E. Roeloffs, G.
Rogers, B. Sherrod, J.
Vidale, T. Walsh, C.
Weaver, and P. Whitmore
(2015), Earthquake
forewarning in the
Cascadia region, US
Geological Survey
Open-File Report, US
Geological Survey Open-File Report,
2015–1151, 8 p.,
http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151151. Download Hotovec-Ellis,
A. J., J. E. Vidale, J.
Gomberg, W. Thelen and S. C.
Moran (2015), Changes in
seismic velocity during the
2004-2008 eruption of Mount
St. Helens, Washington,
Journal of Geophysical
Research, Journal
of Geophysical Research, v. 120,
doi:10.1002/2013JB01074. Download Marsan,
D., J. Gomberg,and M. Bouchon (2015),
Exploring earthquakes, slow slip
and triggering: EOS Transactions
of the American Geophysical
Union, v. 96,
doi:10.1029/2015EO025955.
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C., R. Guyer, D. Shelly, D.
Trugman, W. Frank, J. Gomberg andP.
Johnson (2015), Spatial-temporal
variation of low-frequency
earthquake bursts near
Parkfield, California: Geophysical Journal International,
v. 202, p. 914-919, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv194. Download
2014
Gomberg,
J., and B. Sherrod (2014), Crustal earthquake
triggering by modern great earthquakes on
subduction zone thrusts, J. Geophys. Res. Solid
Earth, 119, 1235 - 1250,
doi:10.1002/2012JB009826. Download
Hotovec-Ellis, A. J., J.
Gomberg, J. E. Vidale, and K. C. Creager (2014),
A continuous record of inter-eruption velocity
change at Mount St. Helens from coda wave
interferometry, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth,
119,doi:10.1002/2013JB010742. Download
Minson, S.E., J.R. Murray,
J.O. Langbein and J.S. Gomberg (2014), Real-time
inversions for finite fault slip models and
rupture geometry based on high-rate GPS data:
Journal of Geophysical Research, 119, 3201-3231,
doi:10.1002/2013JB010622. Download
Sherrod, B., and J.
Gomberg (2014), Crustal earthquake triggering by
prehistoric great earthquakes on subduction zone
thrusts, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, 1273-1294,
doi:10.1002/2013JB010635. Download
Wu, C., J. Gomberg, E.
Ben-Naim, and P. Johnson (2014), Triggering of
repeating earthquakes in central California,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 41,
doi:10.1002/2013GL059051. Download
2013
Brown, J. R., S. G. Prejean, G. C.
Beroza, J. S. Gomberg, and P. J. Haeussler, Deep
low-frequency earthquakes in tectonic tremor
along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone:
Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1079-1090,
doi:10.1029/2012JB009459. Download
Gomberg, J., Permanently
Enhanced Dynamic Triggering Probabilities
as Evidenced by Two M>7.5 Earthquakes:
Geophysical Research Letters, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50933.
Gomberg, J. and A. Jakobitz, A
collaborative, user-produced, assessment of
earthquake response products: USGS Open File
Report 2013-1103, 17 p. Download
Gomberg, J. and S. Prejean, Tremor sweet spots
in Alaska: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.
118, p. 6,203-6,218, doi:10.1002/2013JB010273,
v. 343, p. 119. Download
Hotovec, A.J., S. G. Prejean, J. E. Vidale, J.
Gomberg, 2011, Strongly Gliding Harmonic Tremor
During the 2009 Eruption of Redoubt Volcano:
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research,
v. 259, 89-99. Download
Wu, C., D. Shelly, J. Gomberg, Z. Peng,
and P. Johnson (2013), Long-term changes of
earthquake inter-event times and low-frequency
earthquake recurrence in central
California,Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 144-150,
doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.007.
Gomberg, J., A practical guide to Pacific
Northwest earthquakes, USGS Technology
Enabled Learning course, online.
2012
Gomberg, J. K. Creager, J. Sweet, J.
Vidale, A Ghosh, and A. Hotovec, Earthquake
spectra and near-source attenuation in the
Cascadia subduction zone, Journal of Geophysical
Research, 117, B5, doi:10.1029/2011JB009055. Download
Gomberg, J., S. Prejean, and N. Ruppert,
Afterslip, tremor and the Denali Fault
earthquake: Bulletin of the Seismological Society
of America, v. 102, p. 892-899. Download
Gomberg, J., B. Sherrod, M. Trautman, E.
Burns and D. Snyder, Contemporary seismicity in
and around the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt in
eastern Washington: Bulletin of the Seismological
Society of America,
v. 201, p. 309-320 . Download
Wicks, C., W. Thelen, J. Gomberg, C.
Weaver and A. Rohay, InSAR observations of
aseismic slip associated with an earthquake swarm
in the Columbia River Basalt:
Journal of Geophysical Research, 116,
B12304, 8 p., doi:10.1029/2011JB008433 . Download
2011
Gomberg, J. and K. Felzer, Reply to
Comment on A model of earthquake triggering
probabilities and application to dynamic
deformations constrained by ground motion
observations by Ross Stein: Journal of
Geophysical Research, 116, B03313,
doi:10.1029/2010JB008094. Download
Gomberg,
J., W. Schulz, P. Bodin, and J. Kean, Seismic
and geodetic signatures of fault slip at the
Slumgullion landslide natural laboratory:
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 116, B09404,
doi:10.1029/2011JB008304. Download
Vidale, J. E., A. J. Hotovec, A. Ghosh,
K. C. Creager, and J. Gomberg, Tiny intraplate
earthquakes triggered by nearby episodic tremor
and slip in Cascadia: Geochem. Geophys.
Geosyst., v. 12, Q06005,
doi:10.1029/2011GC003559. Download
2010
Gomberg,
J., Lessons from (Triggered) Tremor:
Journal of Geophysical Research, 47 p., v. 115, B10302,
doi:10.1029/2009JB007011. Download
Gomberg, J.,
2010, Introduction to special section on
Phenomenology, Underlying Processes, and Hazard
Implications of Aseismic Slip and Nonvolcanic
Tremor: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.115,
doi:10.1029/2010JB008052. Gomberg, J. and The
Cascadia 2007 and Beyond Working Group, Slow
Slip Phenomena in Cascadia from 2007 and Beyond:
A Review: Geological Society of America
Bulletin, online March 29, 2010, p. 963-978,
doi:10.1130/B30287.1. Download