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 2C01A Phone: (518) 276-3369 Fax: (518) 276-2012 E-mail: mccafr@rpi.edu

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

What's New

• National Public Radio story on great earthquakes
• Story on AGU presentation in the Honolulu Star Bulletin
• Paper on crustal rotations in subduction zones highlighted in Nature Research Highlights (Tectonics section).
• 2004 New Zealand Geophysics Prize: Paper on New Zealand crustal rotations (PDF)
  
• Study of Sumatra magnitude 9 earthquake
• Earthquake research
• Article on Indonesia research
• Recent meeting abstracts
  
  • Inverting geodetic time series for regional block kinematics and transient deformation sources EarthScope National meeting
  • Rotation, Crustal Deformation, and Right-lateral Shear in the Snake River Plain and Northern Basin and Range Province EarthScope National meeting
  • Vertical axis rotations observed in geodetic and paleomagnetic data AGU Fall
    
  • Recurring slow slip on the Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand AGU Fall
    
  • Inverting geodetic time series for secular and transient deformation sources: Application to slow-slip at subduction zones AGU Fall
    
  • What constitutes unrest at Taupo caldera, New Zealand? AGU Fall
    
  • Accommodation of Right-lateral Shear Along the Northwest Boundary of the Snake River Plain, Idaho AGU Fall
    
  • Geodetic Observations of an Earthquake Cycle at the Sumatra Subduction Zone: The Role of Interseismic Strain Segmentation AGU Fall
    
  • Estimates of Permanent Strain Rates In the Western US GSA
    
  • Crustal Rotation and Deformation In the Snake River Plain and Northern Basin and Range Province GSA
  • The Impact of Slow-slip Events on Seismic Moment Release in Subduction Zones AGU Spring

Other affiliations

• RPI's Inverse Problems center
• EarthScope
  • Thematic Working Groups
• UNAVCO

Research

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

Teaching

• Natural Disasters
• Geodynamics
• Solid Earth Geophysics
• GIS in Science

Software

• DEFNODE
• MT5

Other personal links

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