Uri ten Brink, PhD
My research focuses on quantifying tectonic and morphological processes and their impacts on the assessments of tsunami, landslide, and earthquake hazards. I am also interested in bridging gaps between disciplines in earth sciences. I am the Project Chief of the USGS Marine Geohazards Sources and Probability Project and in charge of the USGS Ocean Bottom Seismometers.
FIELD EXPERIENCE
41 cruises (26 as chief scientist)
3 over-ice land traverses, Antarctica (co-chief scientist)
4 Airborne magnetic, land gravity, and land seismic surveys (co-chief scientist)
Professional Experience
1991-present Research geophysicist, USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
2015-2019 Editor in Chief, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth
1999-present Adjunct Scientist, The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2013-2016 Professor and Chairman, Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
2016-present Affiliate Professor, University of Haifa
Education and Certifications
1981-1986 Ph.D. Geological Sciences Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
1977-1980 B.Sc. Geology and Physics, The Hebrew University, Israel
1991-1996 Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University
1987-1991 Post-doctoral scholar, Stanford University
1986-1987 Post-doctoral scholar, Tel Aviv University
Affiliations and Memberships*
Chairman, U.S.-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation panel for Earth and Atmospheric sciences, 2015
Member - Netherlands Science Foundation panel on Caribbean natural and social sciences, 2014
Member, ITU-WMO-UNESCO/IOC Joint Task Force on Submarine Cables for Tsunami Warnings and Scientific Research, 2013
Co-convenor, Workshop on landslide tsunami probability, 2011
Member, NSF panel evaluating the management structure of the ocean bottom seismometer facilities, 2011
Guest editor- Marine Geology "Assessment of tsunami hazards to the U.S. Atlantic coast", 2009
Honors and Awards
2016 – Fellow, American Geophysical Union
2010 – Senior Scientist (ST), Federal government
2007/8 – Distinguished Lecturer – Seismological Society of America/ IRIS
1996 - Fellow, Geological Society of America
1990 - Royal Society of New Zealand annual prize for Geophysics
Science and Products
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Project PROBE Leg II: Final report and archive of swath bathymetric sonar, CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 03008 (NOAA Cruise RB0303) Puerto Rico Trench 18 February - 7 March, 2003 Project PROBE Leg II: Final report and archive of swath bathymetric sonar, CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 03008 (NOAA Cruise RB0303) Puerto Rico Trench 18 February - 7 March, 2003
No abstract available.
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Christopher Polloni, Castle Parker, Toshihiko Uozumi, Glynn Williams
Project PROBE Leg I - Report and archive of multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter , CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 02051 (NOAA Cruise RB0208) Puerto Rico Trench September 24, 2002 to September 30, 2002 Project PROBE Leg I - Report and archive of multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter , CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 02051 (NOAA Cruise RB0208) Puerto Rico Trench September 24, 2002 to September 30, 2002
On September 24-30, 2002, six days of scientific surveying to map a section of the Puerto Rico Trench (PRT) took place aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Ron Brown. The cruise was funded by NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration. Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data were collected over an area of about 25,000 sq. km of the Puerto Rico trench...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, Charles Worley, Shep Smith, Thomas Stepka, Glynn Williams
Crustal structure and earthquake hazards of the subduction zone in southwestern British Columbia and western Washington Crustal structure and earthquake hazards of the subduction zone in southwestern British Columbia and western Washington
No abstract available.
Authors
Michael Fisher, Roy Hyndman, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Brocher, Robert Crosson, Ray E. Wells, Andrew J. Calvert, Uri S. ten Brink
Crustal structure of the Cascadia fore arc of Washington Crustal structure of the Cascadia fore arc of Washington
No abstract available.
Authors
Tom Parsons, Richard Blakely, Thomas Brocher, Nikolas Christensen, Michael Fisher, Ernst Flueh, Fiona Kilbride, James Luetgert, Kate Miller, Uri S. ten Brink, Anne Trehu, Ray E. Wells
Vertical motions of the Puerto Rico Trench and Puerto Rico and their cause Vertical motions of the Puerto Rico Trench and Puerto Rico and their cause
The Puerto Rico trench exhibits great water depth, an extremely low gravity anomaly, and a tilted carbonate platform between (reconstructed) elevations of +1300 m and -4000 m. I argue that these features are manifestations of large vertical movements of a segment of the Puerto Rico trench, its forearc, and the island of Puerto Rico that took place 3.3 m.y. ago over a time period as short...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink
New seafloor map of the Puerto Rico Trench helps assess earthquake and tsunami hazards New seafloor map of the Puerto Rico Trench helps assess earthquake and tsunami hazards
The Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, is located where the North American (NOAM) plate is subducting under the Caribbean plate (Figure l). The trench region may pose significant seismic and tsunami hazards to Puerto Rico and the U.S.Virgin Islands, where 4 million U.S. citizens reside. Widespread damage in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola from an earthquake in 1787...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Christopher Polloni, Brian D. Andrews, Pilar Llanes Estrada, Shepard Smith, Eugene Parker, Toshihiko Uozumi
RayGUI 2.0: a graphical user interface for interactive forward and inversion ray-tracing RayGUI 2.0: a graphical user interface for interactive forward and inversion ray-tracing
No abstract available.
Authors
Jian-Li Song, Uri S. ten Brink
Stress interaction between subduction earthquakes and forearc strike-slip faults: Modeling and application to the northern Caribbean plate boundary Stress interaction between subduction earthquakes and forearc strike-slip faults: Modeling and application to the northern Caribbean plate boundary
Strike-slip faults in the forearc region of a subduction zone often present significant seismic hazard because of their proximity to population centers. We explore the interaction between thrust events on the subduction interface and strike-slip faults within the forearc region using three-dimensional models of static Coulomb stress change. Model results reveal that subduction...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, J. Lin
Archive of datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS cruise K-1-95-PS Puget Sound, State of Washington, 1995 Archive of datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS cruise K-1-95-PS Puget Sound, State of Washington, 1995
No abstract available.
Authors
Christopher Lyon, Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Robert Kayen
The Hula Valley subsurface structure inferred from gravity data The Hula Valley subsurface structure inferred from gravity data
We use the 3-D gravity inversion technique to model the shape of the Hula basin, a pull-apart basin along the Dead Sea Transform. The interpretation was constrained using the Notera-3-well density logs and current geological knowledge. The model obtained by inversion shows a rhomb-shaped graben filled with approximately 4 km of young sediments in the deepest part of the basin. The...
Authors
M. Rybakov, L. Fleischer, Uri S. ten Brink
Real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean Real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean
A moored-buoy system for collecting real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean has been developed and will be deployed for its initial field trial in the fall of 2003. The key component in this moored system is an ultra-stretchy mooring hose that provides compliance for waves and currents and protects the electrical conductors connecting an Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) to a surface...
Authors
D. Frye, Uri S. ten Brink, W. Paul, K. Peal, K. Von Der Heydt
Non-USGS Publications**
**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: 149
Project PROBE Leg II: Final report and archive of swath bathymetric sonar, CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 03008 (NOAA Cruise RB0303) Puerto Rico Trench 18 February - 7 March, 2003 Project PROBE Leg II: Final report and archive of swath bathymetric sonar, CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 03008 (NOAA Cruise RB0303) Puerto Rico Trench 18 February - 7 March, 2003
No abstract available.
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Christopher Polloni, Castle Parker, Toshihiko Uozumi, Glynn Williams
Project PROBE Leg I - Report and archive of multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter , CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 02051 (NOAA Cruise RB0208) Puerto Rico Trench September 24, 2002 to September 30, 2002 Project PROBE Leg I - Report and archive of multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter , CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 02051 (NOAA Cruise RB0208) Puerto Rico Trench September 24, 2002 to September 30, 2002
On September 24-30, 2002, six days of scientific surveying to map a section of the Puerto Rico Trench (PRT) took place aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Ron Brown. The cruise was funded by NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration. Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data were collected over an area of about 25,000 sq. km of the Puerto Rico trench...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, Charles Worley, Shep Smith, Thomas Stepka, Glynn Williams
Crustal structure and earthquake hazards of the subduction zone in southwestern British Columbia and western Washington Crustal structure and earthquake hazards of the subduction zone in southwestern British Columbia and western Washington
No abstract available.
Authors
Michael Fisher, Roy Hyndman, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Brocher, Robert Crosson, Ray E. Wells, Andrew J. Calvert, Uri S. ten Brink
Crustal structure of the Cascadia fore arc of Washington Crustal structure of the Cascadia fore arc of Washington
No abstract available.
Authors
Tom Parsons, Richard Blakely, Thomas Brocher, Nikolas Christensen, Michael Fisher, Ernst Flueh, Fiona Kilbride, James Luetgert, Kate Miller, Uri S. ten Brink, Anne Trehu, Ray E. Wells
Vertical motions of the Puerto Rico Trench and Puerto Rico and their cause Vertical motions of the Puerto Rico Trench and Puerto Rico and their cause
The Puerto Rico trench exhibits great water depth, an extremely low gravity anomaly, and a tilted carbonate platform between (reconstructed) elevations of +1300 m and -4000 m. I argue that these features are manifestations of large vertical movements of a segment of the Puerto Rico trench, its forearc, and the island of Puerto Rico that took place 3.3 m.y. ago over a time period as short...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink
New seafloor map of the Puerto Rico Trench helps assess earthquake and tsunami hazards New seafloor map of the Puerto Rico Trench helps assess earthquake and tsunami hazards
The Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, is located where the North American (NOAM) plate is subducting under the Caribbean plate (Figure l). The trench region may pose significant seismic and tsunami hazards to Puerto Rico and the U.S.Virgin Islands, where 4 million U.S. citizens reside. Widespread damage in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola from an earthquake in 1787...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Christopher Polloni, Brian D. Andrews, Pilar Llanes Estrada, Shepard Smith, Eugene Parker, Toshihiko Uozumi
RayGUI 2.0: a graphical user interface for interactive forward and inversion ray-tracing RayGUI 2.0: a graphical user interface for interactive forward and inversion ray-tracing
No abstract available.
Authors
Jian-Li Song, Uri S. ten Brink
Stress interaction between subduction earthquakes and forearc strike-slip faults: Modeling and application to the northern Caribbean plate boundary Stress interaction between subduction earthquakes and forearc strike-slip faults: Modeling and application to the northern Caribbean plate boundary
Strike-slip faults in the forearc region of a subduction zone often present significant seismic hazard because of their proximity to population centers. We explore the interaction between thrust events on the subduction interface and strike-slip faults within the forearc region using three-dimensional models of static Coulomb stress change. Model results reveal that subduction...
Authors
Uri S. ten Brink, J. Lin
Archive of datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS cruise K-1-95-PS Puget Sound, State of Washington, 1995 Archive of datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS cruise K-1-95-PS Puget Sound, State of Washington, 1995
No abstract available.
Authors
Christopher Lyon, Uri S. ten Brink, William Danforth, Robert Kayen
The Hula Valley subsurface structure inferred from gravity data The Hula Valley subsurface structure inferred from gravity data
We use the 3-D gravity inversion technique to model the shape of the Hula basin, a pull-apart basin along the Dead Sea Transform. The interpretation was constrained using the Notera-3-well density logs and current geological knowledge. The model obtained by inversion shows a rhomb-shaped graben filled with approximately 4 km of young sediments in the deepest part of the basin. The...
Authors
M. Rybakov, L. Fleischer, Uri S. ten Brink
Real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean Real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean
A moored-buoy system for collecting real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean has been developed and will be deployed for its initial field trial in the fall of 2003. The key component in this moored system is an ultra-stretchy mooring hose that provides compliance for waves and currents and protects the electrical conductors connecting an Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) to a surface...
Authors
D. Frye, Uri S. ten Brink, W. Paul, K. Peal, K. Von Der Heydt
Non-USGS Publications**
**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.
*Disclaimer: Listing outside positions with professional scientific organizations on this Staff Profile are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of those professional scientific organizations or their activities by the USGS, Department of the Interior, or U.S. Government