Publications


Blackman, D. K., Talavera-Soza, S., Hung, R.-J., Collins, J. A., & Laske, G. (2024). Pacific seafloor in the 40–52 Myr old portion of the Molokai to Murray corridor. Marine Geology, 469, 107246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107246
Mir, R. R., Parvez, I. A., Laske, G., & Gaur, V. K. (2022). Sensor orientation and noise analysis of the Kashmir-Zanskar seismic network: an appraisal from 2014 to 2020. Journal of Seismology, 18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-022-10090-z
Frazer, W. D., Doran, A. K., & Laske, G. (2022). Benchmarking automated Rayleigh-wave arrival angle measurements for USArray seismograms. Seismological Research Letters, 93(2A), 763–776. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210189.
Ringler, A. T., Mason, D. B., Laske, G., Storm, T., & Templeton, M. (2021). Why do my squiggles look funny? A gallery of compromised seismic signals. Seismological Research Letters, 92(6), 3873–3886. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210094
Laske, G. (2021). Observations of Earth’s normal modes on broadband ocean bottom seismometers. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.679958
Doran, A. K., & Laske, G. (2021). Melt-affected ocean crust and uppermost mantle near Hawaii-clues from ambient-noise phase velocity and seafloor compliance. Geophysical Journal International, 224(2), 843–857. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa470
Pachhai, S., Masters, G., & Laske, G. (2020). Probabilistic estimation of structure coefficients and their uncertainties, for inner-core sensitive modes, using matrix autoregression. Geophysical Journal International, 221(2), 1366–1383. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa077
Lindner, F., Walter, F., Laske, G., & Gimbert, F. (2020). Glaciohydraulic seismic tremors on an Alpine glacier. Cryosphere, 14(1), 287–308. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-287-2020
Doran, A. K., Rapa, M., Laske, G., Babcock, J., & McPeak, S. (2019). Calibration of differential pressure gauges through in situ testing. Earth and Space Science. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019ea000783
Lindner, F., Laske, G., Walter, F., & Doran, A. K. (2019). Crevasse-induced Rayleigh-wave azimuthal anisotropy on Glacier de la Plaine Morte, Switzerland. Annals of Glaciology, 60(79), 96–111. https://doi.org/10.1017/aog.2018.25
Doran, A. K., & Laske, G. (2019). Seismic structure of marine sediments and upper oceanic crust surrounding Hawaii. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 124(2), 2038–2056. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jb016548
Blackman, D. K., Boyce, D. E., Castelnau, O., Dawson, P. R., & Laske, G. (2017). Effects of crystal preferred orientation on upper-mantle flow near plate boundaries: rheologic feedbacks and seismic anisotropy. Geophysical Journal International, 210(3), 1481–1493. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx251
Agius, M. R., Rychert, C. A., Harmon, N., & Laske, G. (2017). Mapping the mantle transition zone beneath Hawaii from Ps receiver functions: Evidence for a hot plume and cold mantle downwellings. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474, 226–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.033
Doran, A. K., & Laske, G. (2017). Ocean-bottom seismometer instrument orientations via automated Rayleigh-wave arrival-angle measurements. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(2), 691–708. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120160165
Berger, J., Laske, G., Babcock, J., & Orcutt, J. (2016). An ocean bottom seismic observatory with near real-time telemetry. Earth and Space Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015EA000137
Doran, A. K., & Laske, G. (2016). Infragravity waves and horizontal seafloor compliance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(1), 260–278. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012511
Thomas, C., & Laske, G. (2015). D’’ observations in the Pacific from PLUME ocean bottom seismometer recordings. Geophysical Journal International, 200(2), 849–860. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu441
Ma, Z. T., Masters, G., Laske, G., & Pasyanos, M. (2014). A comprehensive dispersion model of surface wave phase and group velocity for the globe. Geophysical Journal International, 199(1), 113–135. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu246
Pasyanos, M. E., Masters, T. G., Laske, G., & Ma, Z. T. (2014). LITHO1.0: An updated crust and lithospheric model of the Earth. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 119(3), 2153–2173. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013jb010626
Brown, P. G., Assink, J. D., Astiz, L., Blaauw, R., Boslough, M. B., Borovicka, J., Brachet, N., Brown, D., Campbell-Brown, M., Ceranna, L., Cooke, W., de Groot-Hedlin, C., Drob, D. P., Edwards, W., Evers, L. G., Garces, M., Gill, J., Hedlin, M., Kingery, A., … Krzeminski, Z. (2013). A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors. Nature, 503(7475), 238–241. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12741
Rychert, C. A., Laske, G., Harmon, N., & Shearer, P. M. (2013). Seismic imaging of melt in a displaced Hawaiian plume. Nature Geoscience, 6(8), 657–660. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1878
Yang, Z. H., Sheehan, A. F., Collins, J. A., & Laske, G. (2012). The character of seafloor ambient noise recorded offshore New Zealand: Results from the MOANA ocean bottom seismic experiment. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012GC004201
Collins, J. A., Wolfe, C. J., & Laske, G. (2012). Shear wave splitting at the Hawaiian hot spot from the PLUME land and ocean bottom seismometer deployments. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 13. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011gc003881
Laske, G., Markee, A., Orcutt, J. A., Wolfe, C. J., Collins, J. A., Solomon, S. C., Detrick, R. S., Bercovici, D., & Hauri, E. H. (2011). Asymmetric shallow mantle structure beneath the Hawaiian Swell-evidence from Rayleigh waves recorded by the PLUME network. Geophysical Journal International, 187(3), 1725–1742. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05238.x
Anchieta, M. C., Wolfe, C. J., Pavlis, G. L., Vernon, F. L., Eakins, J. A., Solomon, S. C., Laske, G., & Collins, J. A. (2011). Seismicity around the Hawaiian Islands Recorded by the PLUME Seismometer Networks: Insight into Faulting near Maui, Molokai, and Oahu. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 101(4), 1742–1758. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120100271
Wolfe, C. J., Solomon, S. C., Laske, G., Collins, J. A., Detrick, R. S., Orcutt, J. A., Bercovici, D., & Hauri, E. H. (2011). Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 303(3–4), 267–280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.01.004
Tian, Y., Zhou, Y., Sigloch, K., Nolet, G., & Laske, G. (2011). Structure of North American mantle constrained by simultaneous inversion of multiple-frequency SH, SS, and Love waves. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010jb007704
Leahy, G. M., Collins, J. A., Wolfe, C. J., Laske, G., & Solomon, S. C. (2010). Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell: evidence from teleseismic receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International, 183(1), 313–329. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04720.x
Wolfe, C. J., Solomon, S. C., Laske, G., Collins, J. A., Detrick, R. S., Orcutt, J. A., Bercovici, D., & Hauri, E. H. (2009). Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot. Science, 326(5958), 1388–1390. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1180165
Grad, M., Tiira, T., & E. S. C. Working Group. (2009). The Moho depth map of the European Plate. Geophysical Journal International, 176(1), 279–292. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03919.x
Houser, C., Masters, G., Shearer, P., & Laske, G. (2008). Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms. Geophysical Journal International, 174(1), 195–212. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03763.x
Laske, G., Weber, M., & Desert Working, G. (2008). Lithosphere structure across the Dead Sea Transform as constrained by Rayleigh waves observed during the DESERT experiment. Geophysical Journal International, 173(2), 593–610. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03749.x
Laske, G., Phipps Morgan, J., & Orcutt, J. A. (2007). The Hawaiian SWELL pilot experiment; evidence for lithosphere rejuvenation from ocean bottom surface wave data. GSA Special Paper, 430, 209–233. https://doi.org/10.1130/2007.2430(11)
Laske, G., & Widmer-Schnirig, R. (2007). Normal Mode & Surface Wave Observations. In T. Herring, B. Romanowicz, & G. Schubert (Eds.), Treatise on geophysics. 1, Seismology and structure of the earth (1., pp. 67–125). Elsevier.
Zhou, Y., Nolet, G., Dahlen, F. A., & Laske, G. (2006). Global upper-mantle structure from finite-frequency surface-wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 111(B4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2005jb003677
Zhou, Y., Dahlen, F. A., Nolet, G., & Laske, G. (2005). Finite-frequency effects in global surface-wave tomography. Geophysical Journal International, 163(3), 1087–1111. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02780.x
Park, J., Song, T.-R. A., Tromp, J., Okal, E., Stein, S., Roult, G., Clevede, E., Laske, G., Kanamori, H., Davis, P., Berger, J., Braitenberg, C., van Camp, M., Lei, X., Sun, H., Xu, H., & Rosat, S. (2005). Earth’s free oscillations excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. Science, 308, 1139–1144. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1112305
Butler, R., Lay, T., Creager, K., Earl, P., Fischer, K., Gaherty, J., Laske, G., Leith, B., Park, J., Ritzwoller, M., Tromp, J., & Wen, L. (2004). The global seismographic network surpasses its design goal. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 85(23).
Laske, G., & Masters, G. (2003). The Earth’s free oscillations and the differential rotation of the inner core. In V. Dehant (Ed.), Earth’s core : dynamics, structure, rotation ; [The origin of this work derives from a union session that we organized at the Fall 2000 AGU meeting in San Francisco: “Core dynamics, structure, and rotation”] Geodynamics Series (pp. 5–21). American Geophysical Union.
Cotte, N., & Laske, G. (2002). Testing group velocity maps for Eurasia. Geophysical Journal International, 150(3), 639–650. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2002.01719.x
Weber, M., Abu-Ayyash, K., Abueladas, A., Agnon, A., Alasonati-Tasarov, Z., Al-Zubi, H., Babeyko, A., Bartov, Y., Bauer, K., Becken, M., Bedrosian, P. A., Ben-Avraham, Z., Bock, G., Bohnhoff, M., Bribach, J., Dulski, P., Ebbing, J., El-Kelani, R., Foerster, A., … Wylegalla, K. (2002). Anatomy of the Dead Sea Transform from lithospheric to microscopic scale. Reviews of Geophysics, 47(2), 1–44. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008rg000264
Laske, G., & Cotte, N. (2001). Surface wave waveform anomalies at the Saudi Seismic Network. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(23), 4383–4386. https://doi.org/10.1029/2001gl013364
Masters, G., Laske, G., & Gilbert, F. (2000). Matrix autoregressive analysis of free-oscillation coupling and splitting. Geophysical Journal International, 143(2), 478–489. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.01261.x
Zurn, W., Laske, G., Widmer-Schnidrig, R., & Gilbert, F. (2000). Observation of Coriolis coupled modes below 1 mHz. Geophysical Journal International, 143(1), 113–118. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00220.x
Masters, G., Laske, G., & Gilbert, F. (2000). Autoregressive estimation of the splitting matrix of free-oscillation multiplets. Geophysical Journal International, 141(1), 25–42. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00058.x
Masters, G., Laske, G., Bolton, H., & Dziewonski, A. M. (2000). The relative behavior of shear velocity, bulk sound speed, and compressional velocity in the mantle: implications for chemical and thermal structure. In S. Karato, A. Forte, R. Liebermann, G. Masters, & L. Stixrude (Eds.), Earth’s deep interior : mineral physics and tomography from the atomic to the global scale. Geophysical monograph, (pp. 63–87). American Geophysical Union.
Masters, G., Laske, G., & Gilbert, F. (2000). Large-scale Earth structure from analyses of free-oscillation coupling and splitting. In E. Boschi, G. Ekström, & A. Morelli (Eds.), Problems in geophysics for the new millennium : a collection of papers in honor of Adam M. Dziewonski (pp. 255–288). Compositori ; Istituto nazionale di geofisica e vulcanologia.
Laske, G., Morgan, J. P., & Orcutt, J. A. (1999). First results from the Hawaiian SWELL pilot experiment. Geophysical Research Letters, 26(22), 3397–3400. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999gl005401
Laske, G., & Masters, G. (1999). Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth’s free oscillations. Nature, 402(6757), 66–69. https://doi.org/10.1038/47011
Laske, G., & Masters, G. (1998). Surface-wave polarization data and global anisotropic structure. Geophysical Journal International, 132(3), 508–520. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00450.x