Thomas Shoberg (Former Employee)
Science and Products
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Supply chain infrastructure restoration calculator software tool—Developer guide and user manual
This report describes a software tool that calculates costs associated with the reconstruction of supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure in the advent of a catastrophic failure by either outside forces (extreme events) or internal forces (fatigue). This tool fills a gap between search and recover strategies of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or FEMA) and...
Authors
Akhilesh Ojha, Bhanu Kanwar, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Steven Corns
Modeling and simulation of emergent behavior in transportation infrastructure restoration
The objective of this chapter is to create a methodology to model the emergent behavior during a disruption in the transportation system and that calculates economic losses due to such a disruption, and to understand how an extreme event affects the road transportation network. The chapter discusses a system dynamics approach which is used to model the transportation road infrastructure...
Authors
Akhilesh Ojha, Steven Corns, Thomas G. Shoberg, Ruwen Qin, Suzanna K. Long
Elevation Difference and Bouguer Anomaly Analysis Tool (EDBAAT) User's Guide
This report describes a software tool that imports gravity anomaly point data from the Gravity Database of the United States (GDUS) of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and University of Texas at El Paso along with elevation data from The National Map (TNM) of the U.S. Geological Survey that lie within a user-specified geographic area of interest. Further, the tool integrates...
Authors
Aaron M. Smittle, Thomas G. Shoberg
Infrastructure system restoration planning using evolutionary algorithms
This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm to address restoration issues for supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure. Rapid restoration of infrastructure after a large-scale disaster is necessary to sustaining a nation's economy and security, but such long-term restoration has not been investigated as thoroughly as initial rescue and recovery efforts. A model of the...
Authors
Steven Corns, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg
Post-disaster supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure system restoration: A review of data necessary and available for modeling
The majority of restoration strategies in the wake of large-scale disasters have focused on short-term emergency response solutions. Few consider medium- to long-term restoration strategies to reconnect urban areas to national supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure systems (SCICI). These SCICI promote the effective flow of goods, services, and information vital to the...
Authors
Varun Ramachandran, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Steven Corns, Hector J. Carlo
Defining resilience: A preliminary integrative literature review
The term “resilience” is ubiquitous in technical literature; it appears in numerous forms, such as resilience, resiliency, or resilient, and each use may have a different definition depending on the interpretation of the writer. This creates difficulties in understanding what is meant by ‘resilience’ in any given use case, especially in discussions of interdisciplinary research. To...
Authors
Bonnie Wilt, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg
Conflation and integration of archived geologic maps and associated uncertainties
Old, archived geologic maps are often available with little or no associated metadata. This creates special problems in terms of extracting their data to use with a modern database. This research focuses on some problems and uncertainties associated with conflating older geologic maps in regions where modern geologic maps are, as yet, non-existent as well as vertically integrating the...
Authors
Thomas G. Shoberg
Framework for modeling urban restoration resilience time in the aftermath of an extreme event
The impacts of extreme events continue long after the emergency response has terminated. Effective reconstruction of supply-chain strategic infrastructure (SCSI) elements is essential for postevent recovery and the reconnectivity of a region with the outside. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop a comprehensive framework to model resilience time. The framework is...
Authors
Varun Ramachandran, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Steven Corns, Héctor Carlo
A Systems Thinking approach to post-disaster restoration of maritime transportation systems
A Systems Thinking approach is used to examine elements of a maritime transportation system that are most likely to be impacted by an extreme event. The majority of the literature uses a high-level view that can fail to capture the damage at the sub-system elements. This work uses a system dynamics simulation for a better view and understanding of the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as a...
Authors
Lizzette Pérez Lespier, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg
Integrating complexity into data-driven multi-hazard supply chain network strategies
Major strategies in the wake of a large-scale disaster have focused on short-term emergency response solutions. Few consider medium-to-long-term restoration strategies that reconnect urban areas to the national supply chain networks (SCN) and their supporting infrastructure. To re-establish this connectivity, the relationships within the SCN must be defined and formulated as a model of a...
Authors
Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Varun Ramachandran, Steven M. Corns, Hector J. Carlo
Integrating stations from the North America Gravity Database into a local GPS-based land gravity survey
The ability to augment local gravity surveys with additional gravity stations from easily accessible national databases can greatly increase the areal coverage and spatial resolution of a survey. It is, however, necessary to integrate such data seamlessly with the local survey. One challenge to overcome in integrating data from national databases is that these data are typically of...
Authors
Thomas G. Shoberg, Paul R. Stoddard
Rejuvenating Pre-GPS era geophysical surveys using The National Map
Old geophysical surveys [pre–Global Positioning System (GPS)] stand as valuable, largely untapped sources of scientific data. If data from these surveys were in a format that had reasonable accuracy, availability, and ease of access, they could be more widely used. In this paper, a pre-GPS survey is integrated into a modern geographic database, in this case, The National Map (TNM). The...
Authors
Michael P. Finn, Thomas G. Shoberg, Paul Stoddard
Non-USGS Publications**
Atwater et al., 1996. The Earth’s Fractured Surface, in The National Geographic Atlas of the World, 6th edition, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Shoberg, T., and C.R. Bina, Some effects of remanent anisotropy on velocity contrasts between subducting lithosphere and overriding mantle at convergent margins, Geophysical Research Letters, 21, 1951-1954, DOI: 10.1029/94GL01613, 1994.
Shoberg, T., and S. Stein, Investigation of spreading center evolution by joint inversion of seafloor magnetic anomaly and tectonic fabric data, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 122, 195-206, DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90060-4, 1994.
Shoberg, T., C.A. Stein, and S. Stein, Constraints on lithospheric thermal structure for the Indian Ocean from depth and heat flow data, Geophysical Research Letters, 20, 1095-1098, DOI: 10.1029/93GL00985, 1993.
Bryan, P.C., T. Shoberg, R.G. Gordon, K.E. Petronotis, and D.D. Bergersen, Paleomagnetic pole and age estimates for Lo-En guyot, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in The Mesozoic Pacific: Geology, Tectonics, and Volcanism, Volume Eds, M.S. Pringle, W.W. Sager, W.V. Sliter, and S. Stein, AGU Monograph Series, V. 77, 387-400, DOI: 10.1029/GM077, 1993.
Wysession, M.E., K.E. Petronotis, G.D. Acton, T. Shoberg, E.A. Okal, and R.G. Gordon, Data Synthesis on Rejuvenescent Mid-Plate Volcanism in the Pacific Basin, Volume IV: Geophysics of the Pacific Basin, Volume Editor, T. Shoberg, JOI/USSAC, Washington, D. C., 224 pp., 1992.
Kappes, B.A., J.M. Lincoln, T. Shoberg, and K.E. Petronotis, Data Synthesis on Rejuvenescent Mid-Plate Volcanism in the Pacific Basin, Volume III: Petrology of Intraplate Volcanism, Volume Editor, B.A. Kappes, JOI/USSAC, Washington, D.C., 265 pp., 1992.
Shoberg, T., S.A. Stein, and J. Kartsen, Constraints on rift propagation history at the Cobb Offset, Juan de Fuca Ridge, from numerical modeling of tectonic fabric, Tectonophysics, 197, 295-308, DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(91)90047-V, 1991.
Castagna, J.P., S.M. Zucker, and T.G. Shoberg, Permeability indication with conventional sonic waveforms, SPWLA Twenty-eighth Annual Logging Symposium, Paper MM, 1987.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 13
Supply chain infrastructure restoration calculator software tool—Developer guide and user manual
This report describes a software tool that calculates costs associated with the reconstruction of supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure in the advent of a catastrophic failure by either outside forces (extreme events) or internal forces (fatigue). This tool fills a gap between search and recover strategies of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or FEMA) and...
Authors
Akhilesh Ojha, Bhanu Kanwar, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Steven Corns
Modeling and simulation of emergent behavior in transportation infrastructure restoration
The objective of this chapter is to create a methodology to model the emergent behavior during a disruption in the transportation system and that calculates economic losses due to such a disruption, and to understand how an extreme event affects the road transportation network. The chapter discusses a system dynamics approach which is used to model the transportation road infrastructure...
Authors
Akhilesh Ojha, Steven Corns, Thomas G. Shoberg, Ruwen Qin, Suzanna K. Long
Elevation Difference and Bouguer Anomaly Analysis Tool (EDBAAT) User's Guide
This report describes a software tool that imports gravity anomaly point data from the Gravity Database of the United States (GDUS) of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and University of Texas at El Paso along with elevation data from The National Map (TNM) of the U.S. Geological Survey that lie within a user-specified geographic area of interest. Further, the tool integrates...
Authors
Aaron M. Smittle, Thomas G. Shoberg
Infrastructure system restoration planning using evolutionary algorithms
This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm to address restoration issues for supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure. Rapid restoration of infrastructure after a large-scale disaster is necessary to sustaining a nation's economy and security, but such long-term restoration has not been investigated as thoroughly as initial rescue and recovery efforts. A model of the...
Authors
Steven Corns, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg
Post-disaster supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure system restoration: A review of data necessary and available for modeling
The majority of restoration strategies in the wake of large-scale disasters have focused on short-term emergency response solutions. Few consider medium- to long-term restoration strategies to reconnect urban areas to national supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure systems (SCICI). These SCICI promote the effective flow of goods, services, and information vital to the...
Authors
Varun Ramachandran, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Steven Corns, Hector J. Carlo
Defining resilience: A preliminary integrative literature review
The term “resilience” is ubiquitous in technical literature; it appears in numerous forms, such as resilience, resiliency, or resilient, and each use may have a different definition depending on the interpretation of the writer. This creates difficulties in understanding what is meant by ‘resilience’ in any given use case, especially in discussions of interdisciplinary research. To...
Authors
Bonnie Wilt, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg
Conflation and integration of archived geologic maps and associated uncertainties
Old, archived geologic maps are often available with little or no associated metadata. This creates special problems in terms of extracting their data to use with a modern database. This research focuses on some problems and uncertainties associated with conflating older geologic maps in regions where modern geologic maps are, as yet, non-existent as well as vertically integrating the...
Authors
Thomas G. Shoberg
Framework for modeling urban restoration resilience time in the aftermath of an extreme event
The impacts of extreme events continue long after the emergency response has terminated. Effective reconstruction of supply-chain strategic infrastructure (SCSI) elements is essential for postevent recovery and the reconnectivity of a region with the outside. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to develop a comprehensive framework to model resilience time. The framework is...
Authors
Varun Ramachandran, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Steven Corns, Héctor Carlo
A Systems Thinking approach to post-disaster restoration of maritime transportation systems
A Systems Thinking approach is used to examine elements of a maritime transportation system that are most likely to be impacted by an extreme event. The majority of the literature uses a high-level view that can fail to capture the damage at the sub-system elements. This work uses a system dynamics simulation for a better view and understanding of the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as a...
Authors
Lizzette Pérez Lespier, Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg
Integrating complexity into data-driven multi-hazard supply chain network strategies
Major strategies in the wake of a large-scale disaster have focused on short-term emergency response solutions. Few consider medium-to-long-term restoration strategies that reconnect urban areas to the national supply chain networks (SCN) and their supporting infrastructure. To re-establish this connectivity, the relationships within the SCN must be defined and formulated as a model of a...
Authors
Suzanna K. Long, Thomas G. Shoberg, Varun Ramachandran, Steven M. Corns, Hector J. Carlo
Integrating stations from the North America Gravity Database into a local GPS-based land gravity survey
The ability to augment local gravity surveys with additional gravity stations from easily accessible national databases can greatly increase the areal coverage and spatial resolution of a survey. It is, however, necessary to integrate such data seamlessly with the local survey. One challenge to overcome in integrating data from national databases is that these data are typically of...
Authors
Thomas G. Shoberg, Paul R. Stoddard
Rejuvenating Pre-GPS era geophysical surveys using The National Map
Old geophysical surveys [pre–Global Positioning System (GPS)] stand as valuable, largely untapped sources of scientific data. If data from these surveys were in a format that had reasonable accuracy, availability, and ease of access, they could be more widely used. In this paper, a pre-GPS survey is integrated into a modern geographic database, in this case, The National Map (TNM). The...
Authors
Michael P. Finn, Thomas G. Shoberg, Paul Stoddard
Non-USGS Publications**
Atwater et al., 1996. The Earth’s Fractured Surface, in The National Geographic Atlas of the World, 6th edition, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Shoberg, T., and C.R. Bina, Some effects of remanent anisotropy on velocity contrasts between subducting lithosphere and overriding mantle at convergent margins, Geophysical Research Letters, 21, 1951-1954, DOI: 10.1029/94GL01613, 1994.
Shoberg, T., and S. Stein, Investigation of spreading center evolution by joint inversion of seafloor magnetic anomaly and tectonic fabric data, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 122, 195-206, DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(94)90060-4, 1994.
Shoberg, T., C.A. Stein, and S. Stein, Constraints on lithospheric thermal structure for the Indian Ocean from depth and heat flow data, Geophysical Research Letters, 20, 1095-1098, DOI: 10.1029/93GL00985, 1993.
Bryan, P.C., T. Shoberg, R.G. Gordon, K.E. Petronotis, and D.D. Bergersen, Paleomagnetic pole and age estimates for Lo-En guyot, Republic of the Marshall Islands, in The Mesozoic Pacific: Geology, Tectonics, and Volcanism, Volume Eds, M.S. Pringle, W.W. Sager, W.V. Sliter, and S. Stein, AGU Monograph Series, V. 77, 387-400, DOI: 10.1029/GM077, 1993.
Wysession, M.E., K.E. Petronotis, G.D. Acton, T. Shoberg, E.A. Okal, and R.G. Gordon, Data Synthesis on Rejuvenescent Mid-Plate Volcanism in the Pacific Basin, Volume IV: Geophysics of the Pacific Basin, Volume Editor, T. Shoberg, JOI/USSAC, Washington, D. C., 224 pp., 1992.
Kappes, B.A., J.M. Lincoln, T. Shoberg, and K.E. Petronotis, Data Synthesis on Rejuvenescent Mid-Plate Volcanism in the Pacific Basin, Volume III: Petrology of Intraplate Volcanism, Volume Editor, B.A. Kappes, JOI/USSAC, Washington, D.C., 265 pp., 1992.
Shoberg, T., S.A. Stein, and J. Kartsen, Constraints on rift propagation history at the Cobb Offset, Juan de Fuca Ridge, from numerical modeling of tectonic fabric, Tectonophysics, 197, 295-308, DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(91)90047-V, 1991.
Castagna, J.P., S.M. Zucker, and T.G. Shoberg, Permeability indication with conventional sonic waveforms, SPWLA Twenty-eighth Annual Logging Symposium, Paper MM, 1987.
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.