Research in progress:

The PLUME Experiment to study upper mantle structure at Hawaii.




PLUME web site created by Gabi Laske
Nature news story on PLUME

Studies of Hawaiian earthquakes

Some past work

Iceland Ocean Bottom Seismology Pictures

The MELT Experiment Women Faculty in Geosciences

A broadband seismic experiment along the Hawaiian Island Chain: Hawaii, Maui, Molokai, and Kauai (in collaboration with Sean Solomon and Paul Silver. Also shown are seismometers (squares) run by Raymond Russo and Emile Okal of Northwestern University). PELENET

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Publications (updated 10/2009):



• G. Laske, J. A. Collins, C. J. Wolfe, S. C. Solomon, R. S. Detrick, J. A. Orcutt, D. Bercovici, E. H. Hauri, Probing the Hawaiian hotspot with new broadband ocean bottom instruments, Eos, 90 , 362-363, 2009.
  
  
• P.G. Okubo and C.J. Wolfe, Swarms of similar long-period earthquakes in the mantle beneath Mauna Loa Volcano, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res. , 178, 787-794, 2008.
  
  
• B. A. Brooks, J. Foster, D. Sandwell, C. J. Wolfe, P. Okubo, M. Poland, and D. Myer, Magmatically triggered slow slip at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, Science, 321 , 1177, 2008.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., B. A. Brooks, J. H. Foster, and P. G. Okubo, Microearthquake streaks and seismicity triggered by slow earthquakes on the mobile south flank of Kilauea, Hawai'i, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34 , doi:10.1029/2007GL031625, 2007.
  
  
• Pritchard, M. E., A. M. Rubin, C. J. Wolfe, Do flexural stresses explain the mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea volcano?, Geophys. J. Int., 168 , 419-430 2007.
  
  
• Brownstein, J. S., C. J. Wolfe, and K. D. Mandl, Empirical evidence for the effect of airline travel on inter-regional influenza spread in the United States, PLoS Medicine, 3, e401, 2006.
  
  
• Brooks, B. A., J. H. Foster, M. Bevis, L. N. Frazer, C. J. Wolfe, and M. Behn, Periodic slow earthquakes on the flank of Kilauea volcano, Hawai'i, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 246 , 207-216, 2006.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., On the properties of predominant period estimators for earthquake early warning, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 96, 1961-1965, 2006.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., I. S. Kohane, and A. J. Butte, Systematic survey reveals general applicability of "guilt-by-association" within gene coexpression networks, BMC Bioinformatics, 6:227, 2005.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., P. K. Okubo, G. Ekstrom, M. Nettles, and P. M. Shearer, Characteristics of deep (> 13 km) Hawaiian earthquakes and Hawaiian earthquakes west of 155.55W, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., 5, 10.1029/2003GC000618, 2004.
  
  
• Shen, Y., Wolfe, C. J., and S. C. Solomon, Seismological evidence for a mid-mantle discontinuity beneath Hawaii and Iceland, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 214, 143-151, 2003.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., P. K. Okubo, and P. M. Shearer, Mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, Science, 300, 478-480, 2003. (Click here for supporting online material.)
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., On the mathematics of using difference operators to relocate earthquakes, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 92, 2879-2892, 2002.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., I. Th. Bjarnason, J. C. VanDecar, and S. C. Solomon, Assessing the depth resolution of tomographic models of upper mantle structure beneath Iceland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2001GL013657, 2002.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., S. C. Solomon, P. G. Silver, R. M. Russo, and J. C. VanDecar, Inversion of body wave delay times for mantle structure beneath the Hawaiian islands: Results from the PELENET experiment, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 198, 129-145, 2002.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., Mid-ocean ridge structures, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 257-259, 1999.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., F. L. Vernon, and A. Al-Amri, Shear-wave splitting across western Saudi Arabia: The pattern of mantle anisotropy at a Proterozoic shield, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 779-782, 1999.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J. Numbers of women faculty in the geosciences increasing, but slowly, feature article Eos Trans. AGU, 80, 133, 136, 1999.
  
  
• Ito, G., Y. Shen, G. Hirth, and C. J. Wolfe, Mantle flow, melting, and dehydration of the Iceland mantle plume, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 165, 81-96, 1999.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., Prospecting for hot spots (News and Views piece), Nature, 396, 212-213, 1998.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., and S. C. Solomon, Upper mantle anisotropy beneath the MELT region of the East Pacific Rise: Shear-wave splitting measurements and implications for mantle flow, Science, 280, 1230-1232, 1998.
  
  
• Shen, Y., S. C. Solomon, I. Th. Bjarnason, and C. J. Wolfe, Seismic evidence for a lower mantle origin of the Iceland plume, Nature, 395, 62-65, 1998.
  
  
• The MELT Seismic Team, Imaging the deep seismic structure beneath a mid-ocean ridge: The MELT experiment, Science, 280, 1215-1218, 1998.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., and F. L. Vernon III, Shear-wave splitting at central Tien Shan: Evidence for rapid variation of anisotropic patterns, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1217-1220, 1998.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., and P. G. Silver, Seismic anisotropy of oceanic upper mantle: Shear-wave splitting methodologies and observations, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 749-771, 1998; correction J. Geophys. Res., 103, 2791, 1998.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., I. Th. Bjarnason, J. C. VanDecar, and S. C. Solomon, Seismic structure of the Iceland mantle plume, Nature, 385, 245-247, 1997.
  
  
• Bjarnason, I. Th., C. J. Wolfe, S. C. Solomon, and Gunnar Gudmundson Initial results from the ICEMELT experiment: Body-wave delay times and shear-wave splitting across Iceland, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 459-462 1996; correction Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 903 1996.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., G. M. Purdy, D. R. Toomey, and S. C. Solomon, Microearthquake characteristics and crustal velocity structure at 29N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: The architecture of a slow-spreading segment, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24,449-24,472, 1995.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., M. K. McNutt, and R. S. Detrick, The Marquesas archipelagic apron: seismic stratigraphy and implications for volcano growth, mass wasting, and crustal underplating, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 13,591-13,608, 1994
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., E. A. Bergman, and S. C. Solomon, Oceanic transform earthquakes with unusual mechanisms or locations: Relation to state of stress in the adjacent lithosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 16,187-16,211, 1993.
  
  
• Filmer, P.E., M.K. McNutt, and C.J. Wolfe, Elastic thickness of the lithosphere in the Marquesas and Society islands, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 19,565-19,577, 1993.
  
  
• Winterer, E.L., R.A. Duncan, M.K. McNutt, J.H. Natland, I.P. Silva, W.W. Sager, W.V. Sliter, R.V. Waasbergen, and C.J. Wolfe, Cretaceous guyots in the northwest Pacific: an overview of their geology and geophysics, Geophysical Monograph, 77, 307-334, 1993.
  
  
• Wolfe, C. J., and M. K. McNutt, Compensation of Cretaceous seamounts of the Darwin Rise, northwest Pacific ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 96, 2363-2374, 1991.

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