Bridget Smith-Konter, Ph.D
Assistant Professor

Department of Geological Sciences
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas 79968-0555

Phone:  (915) 747-6118
Email:  brkonter_at_utep_dot_edu
Office: Geological Sciences 305a-b

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Current Funding
  • NSF CAREER: An integrated geologic, geodetic, and paleoseismic study of plate boundary stress evolution and geoscience education utilizing the EarthScope database (PI Smith-Konter).
  • NSF Tectonics/Geophysics:  Integrating geologic, geodetic, and coastal tide gauge observations with 100-year vertical deformation models of California earthquake history (PI Smith-Konter).
  • NASA Outer Planets Research:  Three-dimensional semi-analytic viscoelastic earthquake modeling as applied to faulting processes on Enceladus and Europa (PI Smith-Konter, Co-PI R.T. Pappalardo).
  • NASA EarthScope:  Geodetic imaging and modeling of the San Andreas Fault System (PI D. Sandwell, Co-PI Smith-Konter).
  • Southern California Earthquake Center (NSF): Quantifying stress evolution models of the San Andreas Fault System using an improved paleoseismic database spanning the last 2000 years (PI Smith-Konter).

Selected Publications
  • Smith-Konter, B., and D.T. Sandwell, Stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System: Recurrence interval versus locking depth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36,
    doi:10.1029/2009GL037235, 2009.
  • Smith-Konter, B. and R.L. Pappalardo, Tidally driven stress accumulation and shear failure of Enceladus's tiger stripes, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.005, 2008.
  • Sandwell, D. T. and B. Smith, contributors to California Earthquakes, Our Changing Planet: A View from Space, editors, King, Partington and Williams, 2007. (link)
  • Wdowinski, S., B. Smith, Y. Bock, and D. T. Sandwell, Spatial characterization of the interseismic velocity field in southern California, Geology, doi:10.1130/G22938A.1., 2007. (link)
  • Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, A model of the earthquake cycle along the San Andreas Fault System over the past 1000 years, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JB003703, 2006. (pdf)
  • Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, A 3-D semi-analytic viscoelastic model for time-dependent analyses of the earthquake cycle, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JB003185, 2004. (pdf)
  • Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, Coulomb stress along the San Andreas Fault System, J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2002JB002136, 2003. (pdf)
  • Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, Accuracy and resolution of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, doi:10.1029/2002GL016643, 2003. (pdf)
  • My Thesis: Smith, B., Three dimensional deformation and stress models: Exploring one thousand years of earthquake history along the San Andreas Fault System, University of California, San Diego, 2005. (pdf, 6.5M)

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