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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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EAST93: Geophysical traverse from the Transantarctic Mountains to the Wilkes Basin, East Antarctica

The East Antarctic Seismic Traverse (EAST93) was a geophysical traverse designed to image the bedrock under the East Antarctic ice cap. The traverse started 10 km west of the Taylor Dome drill site and 25 km west of the exposed bedrock of the Transantarctic Mountains at Lashly Mt. and ended 323 km west of the drill site over the Wilkes subglacial basin (Fig. 1). The traverse was located subparalle
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Three-dimensional modeling of pull-apart basins: implications for the tectonics of the Dead Sea Basin

We model the three-dimensional (3-D) crustal deformation in a deep pull-apart basin as a result of relative plate motion along a transform system and compare the results to the tectonics of the Dead Sea Basin. The brittle upper crust is modeled by a boundary element technique as an elastic block, broken by two en echelon semi-infinite vertical faults. The deformation is caused by a horizontal disp
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Morpholoy and stratal geometry of the Anarctic continental shelf: insights from models

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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Glacial morphology and depositional sequences of the Antarctic Continental Shelf

Proposes a simple model for the unusual depositional sequences and morphology of the Antarctic continental shelf. It considers the regional stratal geometry and the reversed morphology to be principally the results of time-integrated effects of glacial erosion and sedimentation related to the location of the ice grounding line. The model offers several guidelines for stratigraphic interpretation o

Glacial processes affecting the stratigraphy of the Antarctic Continental Shelf: Results from modeling

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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Tectonic subsidence and the stratigraphy of the Antarctic continental margins and intracontinental basins

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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Seismic investigation of the boundary between East and West Antarctica

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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Ocean bottom seismometers operation during the seismic survey of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Autumn 1992

Modelling the bathymetry of the Antarctic continental shelf

Continental shelves are typically covered by relatively shallow waters (
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Mobility of radioisotopes in marine surface sediments

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Geophysical investigations of the tectonic boundary between East and West Antarctica

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM), which separate the West Antarctic rift system from the stable shield of East Antarctica, are the largest mountains developed adjacent to a rift. The cause of uplift of mountains bordering rifts is poorly understood. One notion based on observations of troughs next to many uplifted blocks is that isostatic rebound produces a coeval uplift and subsidence. The resu
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Numerical modelling of uplift and subsidence adjacent to the Transantarctic Mount front

The Transantarctic Mountains form one of the largest rift shoulder uplifts in the world. Uplift of the mountains, and coeval subsidence in the Ross Embayment, are modelled with both elastic flexure equations and with the viscoelastic finite element method. Most of the geological constraints are adequately satisfied by the elastic flexure equations. Uplife of the Transantarctic Mountains requires a
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Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

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.

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*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