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• Global Navigational Satellite System Seismic Monitoring
  Timothy I. Melbourne, Walter M. Szeliga, Victor Marcelo Santillan and Craig W. Scrivner
  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Volume XX Number XX – 2021
  doi: 10.1785/0120200356


• Geodetic Time Series Analysis in Earth Sciences
  Jean-Philippe Montillet et al., 2020
  Springer Geophysics


• Toward Near‐Field Tsunami Forecasting Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone
  Using Rapid GNSS Source Models
  Amy L. Williamson, Diego Melgar, Brendan W. Crowell, Diego Arcas, Timothy I. Melbourne, Yong Wei, and Kevin Kwong
  10.1029/2020JB019636


• Noise Characteristics of Operational Real‐Time High‐Rate GNSS Positions
  in a Large Aperture Network
  Diego Melgar, Brendan W. Crowell, Timothy I. Melbourne, Walter Szeliga, Marcelo Santillan, and Craig Scrivner
  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
  doi: 10.1029/2019JB019197


• 25-Second Determination of
  2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Coseismic Deformation
  Timothy I. Melbourne, Walter M. Szeliga, V. Marcelo Santillan, and Craig W. Scrivner
  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Volume 110, Number 4 – 2020
  doi: 10.1785/0120200084





Seismic Sensors in Orbit
Timothy I. Melbourne, Diego Melgar, Brendan W. Crowell, and Walter M. Szeliga
Earth & Science Space News, Volume 101, Number 1, 2020




• Real-Time High-Rate GNSS Displacements:
  Performance Demonstration during the 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquakes
  Diego Melgar, Timothy I. Melbourne, Brendan W. Crowell, Jianghui Geng, Walter Szeliga, Craig Scrivner, Marcelo Santillan, and Dara E. Goldberg
  Seismological Research Letters Volume XX, Number XX – 2020
  doi: 10.1785/0220190223


• Regional Global Navigation Satellite System Networks for Crustal Deformation Monitoring
  Jessica R. Murray, Noel Bartlow, Yehuda Bock, Benjamin A. Brooks, James Foster, Jeffrey Freymueller, William C. Hammond, Kathleen Hodgkinson, Ingrid Johanson, Alberto López-Venegas, Dörte Mann, Glen S. Mattioli, Timothy Melbourne, David Mencin, Emily Montgomery- Brown, Mark H. Murray, Robert Smalley, and Valerie Thomas
  Seismological Research Letters Volume 91, Number 2A – March 2019
  doi: 10.1785/0220190113


• Estimation of the Vertical Land Motion from GNSS Time Series and Application
  in Quantifying Sea-Level Rise
  J.-P. Montillet, M.S. Bos, T.I. Melbourne, S. D. P. Williams, R. M. Fernandes, W.M. Szeliga
  Springer Geophysics
  doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21718-1_11


• Development of a Geodetic Component for the
  U.S. West Coast Earthquake Early Warning System
  J. R. Murray, B. W. Crowell, R. Grapenthin, K. Hodgkinson, J. O. Langbein, T. Melbourne, D. Melgar, S. E. Minson, and D. A. Schmidt
  Seismological Research Letters Volume 89, Number 6
  doi: 10.1785/0220180162


• GPS Vertical Land Motion Corrections to Sea-Level Rise Estimates in the Pacific Northwest
  J.P. Montillet, T.I. Melbourne and W.M. Szeliga
  Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans
  doi: 10.1002/2017JC013257


• Plate Boundary Observatory and related networks:
  GPS data analysis methods and geodetic products
  Thomas A. Herring, Timothy I. Melbourne, Mark H. Murray, Michael A. Floyd, Walter M. Szeliga, Robert W. King, David A. Phillips, Christine M. Puskas, Marcelo Santillan, and Lei Wang
  AGU, Review of Geophysics
  doi: 10.1002/2016RG000529


• Demonstration of the Cascadia G-FAST Geodetic Earthquake Early Warning System for the Nisqually, Washington, Earthquake
  Brendan W. Crowell, David A. Schmidt, Paul Bodin, John E. Vidale, Joan Gomberg, J. Renate Hartog, Victor C. Kress, Timothy I. Melbourne, Marcelo Santillan, Sarah E. Minson, and Dylan G. Jamison
  Seismological Research Letters Volume 87, Number 4 July/August 2016
  doi: 10.1785/0220150255


• Critical Infrastructure Monitoring with Global Navigation Satellite Systems
  Jean-Philippe Montillet, Walter M. Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, Rex M. Flake, and Gavin Schrock
  Journal of Survey Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers
  doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)SU.1943-5428.0000181


• GPS constraints on interplate locking within the Makran subduction zone
  E. Frohling and W. Szeliga
  Geophys. J. Int. (2016) 205, 67–76
  doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw001


• Real-time Monitoring of Tectonic Displacements in the Pacific Northwest through an Array of GPS Receivers
  Răzvan Popovici, Răzvan Andonie, Walter M. Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, Craig W. Scrivner
  International Journal of Computers Communications & Control
  ISSN 1841-9836, 10(1):78-88, February, 2015


• Clustering and Visualization of Geodetic Array Data Streams using Self-Organizing Maps
  Răzvan Popovici, Răzvan Andonie, Walter M. Szeliga, Timothy I. Melbourne, Craig W. Scrivner
  Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing (CIMSIVP)
  2014 IEEE Symposium on December 9-12, doi:10.1109/CIMSIVP.2014.7013290


• Science News: Quakes in Slo-Mo
  ETS Discussion featuring PANGA photos and research
  Science News, March 23, 2013


• 2012 Haida Gwaii Quake: Insight Into Cascadia’s Subduction Extent
  Walter Szeliga
  EOS, TRANSACTIONS, AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, Vol. 94, No. 9, 26 February 2013


• Interseismic Deformation and Earthquake Hazard along the
  Southernmost Longitudinal Valley Fault, Eastern Taiwan
  Ray Y. Chuang*, M. Meghan Miller, Yue-Gau Chen, Horng-Yue Chen, J. Bruce H. Shyu, Shui-Beih Yu, Charles M. Rubin, Kerry Sieh, and Ling-Ho Chung
  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 1569-1582, August 2012, doi: 10.1785/0120110262


• Interseismic strain accumulation along the western boundary of the Indian subcontinent
  Walter Szeliga, Roger Bilham, Din Mohammad Kakar and Sarosh H. Lodi
  Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 117, B08404, doi:10.1029/2011JB008822, 2012


• Slow-slip phenomena in Cascadia from 2007 and beyond: A review
  Gomberg, J., and the Cascadia 2007 and Beyond Work Group
  Geological Society of America Bulletin, July/August 2010
  March 29, doi10.1130/B30287.1, 2010



Chapman and Melbourne Paper Featured on GRL Cover:
Future Cascadia megathrust rupture delineated by episodic tremor and slip
Chapman, J., T. Melbourne
Geophysical Research Letters, vol.36, L22301, doi:101029/2009GL040465, 2009

• Applying geodesy and modeling to test the role of climate controlled erosion
  in shaping Himalayan morphology and evolution
  Pratt-Situala, B., et. al
  Himalayan Geology, VOL. 30 (2), pp.123-131, 2009


• Moment release rate of Cascadia tremor constrained by GPS
  Aguiar, A., T. Melbourne, C. Scrivner
  Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 114, B00A05, doi:10.1029/2008JB005909, 2009


• Seismic and geodetic constraints on Cascadia slow slip
  Wech, A., K. Creager, T. Melbourne
  Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 114, B10316, doi:10.1029/2008JB006090, 2009


• GPS constraints on 34 slow slip events within the Cascadia subduction zone, 1997 - 2005
  Szeliga, W., Melbourne, T., Santillian, V., Miller, M.
  Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 113, B04404, doi:10.1029/2007JB004948, 2008


• Episodic Tremor and Slip in the Pacific Northwest
  Creager, K. and Melbourne, T.
  EarthScope OnSite, Winter/Spring 2007


• Extent and duration of the 2003 Cascadia slow earthquake
  Melbourne,T.,Szeliga,W.,Miller,M.,Santillian,V. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L04301, doi:10.1029/2004GL021790, 2005


• Southern Cascadia Episodic Slow Earthquakes
  Szeliga,W.,Melbourne,T.,Miller,M.,Santillian,V. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L16602, doi:10.1029/2004GL020824, 2004


• Detection of Arbitrarily Large Dynamic Ground Motions with a Dense High-Rate GPS Network
  Bock,Y., Prawirodirdjo, L. and Melbourne, T. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L06604, doi:10.1029/2003GL019150, 2004


• Slow but Not Quite Silent
  Melbourne, T. and F. Webb. Science, 300, pp 1896-1897, 2003


• Preseismic transient slip during the 2001 Mw=8.4 Peru earthquake sequence
  from continuous GPS
  Melbourne, T. and F. Webb. Geophysical Research Letters, 29(21), 2032, doi:10.1029/2002GL015533, 2002


• Rapid Postseismic Transients in Subduction Zones from Continuous GPS
  Melbourne, T., F. Webb, J. Stock and C. Reigber Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(10), 2241, doi:10.1029/2001JB000555 22 October 2002.


• Periodic Slow Earthquakes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone
  Miller, M., T. Melbourne, D. Johnson, and William Q. Sumner, Science, v. 295, no. 5564, p. 2423, 2002


• Whole mantle shear structure beneath the East Pacific Rise
  Timothy I. Melbourne and Donald V. Helmberger Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, no. b9, p. 2204, doi:10.1029/2001JB000332, 2002


• Mantle Control of Plate Boundary Deformation
  Melbourne, T. and D. Helmberger Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 4003-4006, 2001.


• GPS-determination of along-strike variation in Cascadia margin kinematics: Implications for relative plate motion, subduction zone coupling, and permanent deformation
  M. M. Miller, D. J. Johnson, C. M. Rubin, H. Dragert, K. Wang, A. Qamar, and C. Goldfinger, Tectonics, v. 20, no. 2, p. 161-176, 2001


• Refined kinematics of the Eastern California shear zone from GPS observations, 1993-1998
  M. Meghan Miller, Daniel J. Johnson, Timothy H.Dixon, and Roy K. Dokka, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, p. 2245-2264, 2001.


• Reconciling disparate estimates for slip rate on the Owens Valley fault, California
  M. Meghan Miller, Jeffrey Lee, and Timothy H. Dixon, GSA 2000 poster


• Structural Evolution of the Bayabache-Kare Too-Naryn Series of Anticlines and Shortening Across the Intermontane Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan
  M. Meghan Miller, J. Kim McLean, Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov, Ray J. Weldon II, and Stephen C. Thompson, GSA 2000 poster


• GPS determination of current Pacific-North America plate motion
  Kyle Antonelis, Daniel J. Johnson, M. Meghan Miller, and Randy Palmer, Geology, V. 27, p. 299-302, 1999.


• Fine structure of the 410-km discontinuity
  Timothy I. Melbourne and Donald V. Helmberger Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 103, no. B5, p.10091-10102, 1998.


• Precise Measurements Help Gauge Pacific Northwest's Earthquake Potential.
  M. Meghan Miller, Herb Dragert, Elliot Endo, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Chris Goldfinger, Harvey M. Kelsey, Eugene D. Humphreys, Daniel J. Johnson, Robert McCaffrey, John S. Oldow, Anthony Qamar, and Charles M. Rubin, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 79, no. 23, p. 269-275, 1998.


• The Geodetic Signature of the Oct. 9, 1995 M8.0 Jalisco Subduction Earthquake
  Melbourne, T., Carmichael, I., DeMets, C., Hudnut, K., Sanchez, O., Stock, J., Suarez, G., Webb, F. Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 715-718, 1997

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