Rob McCaffrey Professor Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz 1981 B.S., Boston College 1976 Earth and Environmental Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Address: 110 8th St, Troy, NY 12180 Office: Science Center Room 1W08 Phone: (518) 276-8521 Fax: (518) 276-2012 E-mail: mccafr@rpi.edu

I am a geophysicist with interests in plate motions, crustal deformation, and seismology. With students and other geophysicists, I am involved in several research projects globally. I also teach geophysics related classes (see below). While you're here look at our movie of plate tectonics in a teapot.

What's New

• I am currently on leave of absence, working for GNS Science in Wellington, New Zealand.
• NPR story
• Story on AGU presentation in the Honolulu Star Bulletin
• Article on earthquake research at RPI
• Paper on crustal rotations in subduction zones (read PDF)
  (highlighted in Nature Research Highlights Tectonics section).
• Paper on New Zealand crustal rotations (read PDF)
  (Winner of 2004 New Zealand Geophysics Prize)
• Sumatra magnitude 9 earthquake
• Earthquake research
• Article on Indonesia research

Research

• Pacific Northwest GPS
• New Zealand
• Indonesia GPS
• Toba Tomography
• Biak Earthquake
• GPS Analysis of Olympia WA quake
• My CV
• Publications

Teaching

• Planet Earth I
• Introduction to Geophysics
• Solid Earth Geophysics
• GIS in Science
• Groundwater Contaminant Transport

Software

• DEFNODE
• MT5

Other personal links

• Trip to New Zealand
• Family pictures
• Over 40 Soccer
• Capital District Over 40 Soccer
• Under-6 Soccer Pictures
• Sports Reform