Teaching:
- Earth
Science Applications of Space Based Geodesy
- Time
Series Analysis in Geophysics
- Geodynamics
- Intro to Seismology
Research Overview:
My research focuses on the
investigation of
physical processes and properties of the Earths crust, lithosphere, and
upper mantle using measurements, modeling and interpretation of active
deformations occurring over seismic to geologic time scales. I use both
traditional and high-rate GPS geodetic data and seismology to measure
motions associated with earthquakes, intra- and inter-plate
deformations associated with the earthquake cycle and its integration
into orogeny, postseismic deformation, plate tectonics, and crustal and
isostatic responses to variations in crustal loading.
Current and Recent Research
Projects
- Geodetic
and Geodynamic Studies of Post Glacial Rebound in Patagonia, NASA.
- Collaborative
Research: Deformation Processes in the central Andaman Islands, Co-I,
NSF.
- Precise constraints
for tectonic models of New Madrid earthquakes, Co-I, USGS.
- Collaborative
Research: IPY: POLENET-Antarctica: Investigating links between
geodynamics and ice sheets, NSF.
- Mid-America
Earthquake Center: Strain in Mid-America, NSF.
- Tectonics of the
Andaman Plate: Postseismic response to the M9 Northern Sumatra
earthquake of 2004, NSF.
- Reducing earthquake
losses in the Central US through incorporation of strain rate data from
GPS in hazard estimation, USGS
- Collaborative
Research: West Antarctic Geodynamics: A GPS program for the measurement
of motions in the bedrock of the ice sheet, NSF.
- Collaborative
Research: Integrated geodetic, seismological and geodynamic studies of
deformation in the central and southern Andes, NSF.
- Collaborative
Research: Characterising continental deformation in the Andean foreland
at multiple timescales using GPS geodesy and the geologic record, NSF.
- Collaborative
Research: The Scotia arc GPS project, NSF.
- Central Andes GPS
project, NSF
- Continuous GPS in
New Madrid, USGS.
- Cooperative New
Madrid seismic network, USGS.
- Southern Appalachian
Cooperative seismic network, USGS.
Current and Recent Grad
Students
- James Davis, Ph.D. candidate
- James Davis, MS, 2006
- Marcelo Santillan, 2003
- Minchu Mo, 1998
- Cristina Reta, 1993
Selected Publications
- Smalley, R., Jr., I. W. D. Dalziel, M. G. Bevis, E. Kendrick, D. S. Stamps, E. C. King, F. W. Taylor, E. Laurķa, A. Zakrajsek, and H. Parra, Scotia arc kinematics from GPS geodesy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21308, doi:10.1029/2007GL031699, 2007. PDF
- Paul, J., A.R. Lowry, R. Bilham, S. Sen, and R. Smalley,
Jr.,
Postseismic deformation of the Andaman Islands following the 26
December, 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
34, L19309, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031024, 2007. PDF
- Wang, K., Y. Hu, M. Bevis, E. Kendrick, R. Smalley, Jr., R.
B. Vargas, and E. Lauría, Crustal motion in the zone of the 1960
Chile earthquake: Detangling earthquake-cycle deformation and
forearc-sliver translation, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8, Q10010,
doi:10.1029/2007GC001721, 2007. PDF
- Kendrick, E., B.A. Brooks, M. Bevis, R. Smalley, Jr., E.
Lauria, M.
Araujo, and H. Parra, Active orogeny of the south-central Andes studied
with GPS geodesy, Argentina, Revista de la Asociación
Geológica
Argentina, 61, (4), 555-566, 2006.PDF
- Costa, C.H., R. Smalley, Jr., D.P. Schwartz, H.D. Stenner,
M. Ellis,
E.A. Ahumada, and M.S. Velasco, Paleoseismic observations of an onshore
transform boundary: the Magallanes-Fagnano fault, Tierra del Fuego,
Argentina, Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina,
61, (4), 647-657, 2006. PDF
- Stamps, D. Sarah, Robert Smalley, Jr., Strings and Things
for Locating
Earthquakes, Seimological Research Letters, 77, 6, 677-683, 2006. PDF
- Smalley, R., M.A. Ellis, J. Paul, and R.B. VanArdsale,
Reply to Calais et al., doi: 10.1038/nature04429/, E10,2005.
- Smalley, R., M.A. Ellis, J. Paul, and R.B. VanArdsale,
Space geodetic
evidence for rapid strain rates in the New Madrid seismic zone of
central USA, Nature, 453, 23, doi:10.1038/nature03642, 1088-1090,2005. PDF
- Allmendinger, R., R. Smalley, Jr., M. Bevis, H. Caprio, B.
Brooks,
Oroclinal Bending in Real-Time in the Central Andes, Geology, 33, 11,
905-908, 2005. PDF
- Bevis, M., D. Alsdorf, E. Kendrick, L.P. fortes, B.
Forsberg, R.
Smalley, Jr., J. Becker, Seasonal Fluctuations in the Mass of the
Amazon River System and Earths Elastic Response, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
32, L16308, doi:10.1029/2005GL023491, 2005. PDF
- Michael Bevis, Eric Kendrick, Americo Cser, and Robert
Smalley,
Geodetic measurement of the local elastic response to the changing mass
of water in Lago Laja, Chile, Phys. Earth and Planet Int., 141,
71-78, 2004. PDF
- Brooks, B. A., M. Bevis, R. Smalley Jr., E. Kendrick, R.
Manceda, E.
Lauría, R. Maturana, and M. Araujo, Crustal motion in the
Southern
Andes (26°-36°S): Do the Andes behave like a microplate?,
Geochem.
Geophys. Geosyst., 4(1), 1085, doi:10.1029/2003GC000505, 2003. PDF
- Smalley, R., Jr., E. Kendrick, M. G. Bevis, I. W. D.
Dalziel, F.
Taylor, E. Lauría, R. Barriga, G. Casassa, E. Olivero, and E.
Piana,
Geodetic determination of relative plate motion and crustal deformation
across the Scotia-South America plate boundary in eastern Tierra del
Fuego, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4(9), 1070,
doi:10.1029/2002GC000446, 2003. PDF
- Kendrick, Eric, Michael Bevis, Robert Smalley Jr., Benjamin
Brooks,
Rodrigo Barriga Vargas, Eduardo Lauría and Luiz Paulo Souto
Fortes, The
Nazca - South America Euler Vector and its Rate of Change, Jour. South
American Earth Sci, 16,125-131, 2003. PDF
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