Professor, Department of
Earth Sciences
University of Hawaii at
Manoa
1680 East-West Road, POST 813
Honolulu, HI 96822
Email:
brkonter_at_hawaii_dot_edu
CURRICULUM
VITAE
Full
CV (pdf)
Education
~ Ph.D., Earth Science/Geophysics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego,
2005
~ B.S., Major Physics & Astronomy,
Minor Mathematics, Northern Arizona University, magna cum laude, 1999.
Professional
Experience
~
Full Professor, University of Hawaii, Department of Earth Sciences, June
2021
~
Associate Professor, University of Hawaii, Department of Geology
and Geophysics, Aug. 2016 - June 2021
~ Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii,
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Jan. 2014 - Aug. 2016
~ Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Texas at El
Paso, Department of Geological Sciences, Jan. 14 - present
~
Associate Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, Department of
Geological Sciences, Aug. 2012 - Jan. 2014
~ Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso, Department
of Geological Sciences, Jan. 2008- Aug. 2012
~ Postdoctoral Researcher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, 2007
~ Lecturer, University of California, San
Diego, 2005-2006
~ Postdoctoral Scholar, SIO, University
of California, San Diego, 2005-2006
~ Graduate Student Researcher, SIO,
University of California, San Diego, 1999-2005
~ Teaching Assistant, University of
California, San Diego, (The Atmosphere, Geodynamics of Terrestrial
Planets, Intro to Geophysics), 2000-2004
~ Research Assistant, NASA Ames, NASA
Ames Astrobiology Academy, 1999
~ Research Assistant, Stanford
University, Stanford Linear Accelorator Center, 1998
~ Research Assistant, Lowell Observatory,
NASA Space Grant, 1997-1999
Courses
Taught
~ GG 101, Dynamic Earth (Fall 2015; Fall 2019)
~ GG 105, Voyage Through The Solar System (Spring 2016,2015; Fall 2014)
~ GG 451, Earthquakes and Crustal Deformation (Spring 2017, 2019)
~ GG 631, Geophysics: Solid, Fluid, and Wave Mechanics (Fall 2016,
2018)
~ GEOL
5303, MAT Computer Applications in Earth Science, University of Texas at
El Paso, 2012
~ GEOL 4385, MAT Earth Structure, University of Texas at El Paso,
2010
~ GEOL 5215, MAT Computer
Applications in the Earth Sciences , University of Texas at El Paso,
2009-2013
~ GEOP
4385, Introduction to GIS, University of Texas at El Paso, 2009-2011
~ GEOL 5215, Computer Applications
in the Geosciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 2008-2013
~ GEOP 5336, Digital Image
Processing, University of Texas at El Paso, 2008
~ GEOL 1312, Principles of Earth
Science II, University of Texas at El Paso, 2008-2011
~ ERTH 01, The Planets, University of California, San Diego,
2005-2006
~ Earthquakes in Action, High School
Summer Enrichment Course, COSMOS, University of California, San Diego,
2005, 2006
~ SIO 239, Frontiers in Plate Boundary
Deformation, University of California, San Diego , 2005
~ Visualization Course, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography , SIO Visualization Contest Introductory
Course, 2005
Academic
Honors
& Awards
~
2011. University of Texas System Regent's Teaching Award, UT System
~ 2011. College of Sciece
Distinguished Achievment Award for Teaching, University of Texas at El
Paso
~ 2009. UTEP Outstanding Research Award,
University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2008. National Science Foundation Early Career Award
~ 2007. JPL Outstanding
Postdoctoral Research Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
~ 2005. SIO Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of
California, San Diego
~ 2004. Outstanding Student Paper Award,
AGU Fall Meeting, Geodesy
~ 2004. 1st Place, SIO Visualization
Contest, University of California, San Diego
~ 2003. Edward A. Frieman Director's
Prize for Graduate Student Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2003. NASA Earth System Science
Fellowship, University of California, San Diego (2003-2005)
~ 1999. National Science Foundation
Fellowship, University of California, San Diego (1999-2002)
~ 1999. Outstanding Graduating Senior in
the Arts and Sciences, Northern Arizona University
~ 1998. Physics and Astronomy Chair's
Scholar, Northern Arizona University
Academic
Services, Professional Services, & Outreach Activities
~
2019. Co-Director, Earth Sciences on Volcanic Islands REU Program (UHM)
~ 2018. Chair, UHM Department of Earth Sciences Geophysics &
Tectonics Division
~ 2014. Member, UNAVCO Plate Boundary Observatory Working Group
Committee
~ 2014. Member, UHM Geology and Geophysics Grad Studies Committee,
University of Hawaii
~ 2012. Member, UTEP Department of Geological Sciences Personnel
Committee,
University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2012. Member, UTEP College of Science Dean Search Committee,
University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2012. Member, UTEP College of Science MAT Task Force
Committee,
University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2011-2014. Member,
EarthScope Education and Outreach Sub-Committee
~ 2011-2012. Distinguished Lecturer, EarthScope Speaker Series
~ 2010-2011. Chair, Contributor, UTEP Earth Science Week Committee,
University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2010. Contributor, UTEP
Centennial Museum Geology Exhibit, University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2010. Contributor, Pathways to
the Geosciences Program, University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2009. Contributor, Pathways to
the Geosciences Program, University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2009. Contributor, CyberTeam
Earthquake Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2008. Contributor, Pathways to
the Geosciences Program, University of Texas at El Paso
~ 2007. Contributor, SIO
Earthquake Education Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2006. Instructor, Earthquakes in Action, California Summer School in
Mathematics and Science, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
~ 2006. Co-Organizer, SIO Earthquake
Education Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2005. Instructor, Earthquakes in
Action, California Summer School in Mathematics and Science, Univ. of
Calif., San Diego
~ 2005. Contributor, SIO Earthquake
Education Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2005. Contributor, Earthquake! Life on
A Restless Planet Exhibit, Stephen Birch Aquarium, Univ. of Calif., San
Diego
~ 2004. Chair of Student Body,
Students@SIO, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2004. Chair, SIO Outstanding Teaching
Award Committee, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Selected
Publications
~
Ward, L., B. Smith-Konter, X. Xu, X. Tong, and D.T. Sandwell (2019),
Seismic moment dependence on crustal rigidity for the southern San
Andreas Fault System, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.,
doi:10.1029/2019JB018723.
~Cameron, M., B. Smith-Konter, L. Burkhard, G. Collins, D. Patthoff, and
R.T. Pappalardo (2019), Ganymede past and present: How evolving
eccentricity effects tidally-driven Coulomb failure, submitted to EPSL.
~Cameron, M., B. Smith-Konter, G. Collins, D. Patthoff, and R.T.
Pappalardo (2019), Tidal stress modeling of Ganymede: Strike-slip
tectonism and Coulomb failure, Icarus, 319, in press, doi:
10.1016/j.icarus.2018.09.002.
~Xu, X., L. Ward, J. Jiang, B. Smith-Konter, E. Tymofyeyeva, E. O.
Lindsey, A. G. Sylvester and D.T. Sandwell (2018), Surface creep rate of
the Southern San Andreas Fault modulated by stress perturbations from
nearby large events, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press, doi:
10.1029/2018GL080137.
~Sandwell, D.T. and B. Smith-Konter (2018), Maxwell: A
semi-analytic 4-D code for earthquake cycle modeling of transform fault
systems, Computers and Geosciences, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2017.737.
~Cameron, M., B. Smith-Konter, L. Burkhard, G. Collins, and R.T.
Pappalardo (2018), Morphological mapping of Ganymede: Investigating the
role of strike-slip tectonics in the evolution of terrain types, Icarus,
Icarus, 315, doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2018.06.024.
~ Luttrell, K. and B. Smith-Konter (2016), Limits on crustal
differential stress in southern California from topography and
earthquake focal mechanisms, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters,
doi:10.1029/2016GL068429.
~ Howell, S., B. Smith-Konter, N. Frazer, X. Tong, and D.T. Sandwell
(2016), The vertical fingerprint of earthquake-cycle loading in Southern
California, Nature Geosciences, doi: 10.1093/2015-03-04591, in revision.
~ Carrick, T., K. Miller, E. Hagedorn, A. Velasco, and B.
Smith-Konter (2016), Pathways to the Geosciences Summer High School
Program: A ten year evaluation, Journal of Women and Minorities in
Science and Engineering, JWM-10906.
~ Schleicher, D.G., A.N. Bair, S. Sackey, L.A.
Alciatore, R.M. Eby, and B. Smith-Konter (2015), The evolving
photometric lightcurve of Comet 1P/Halley’s coma during the 1985/86
apparition, The Astronomical Journal, 150:79,
doi:10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/79.
~ Tong, X., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2015), An integral
method to estimate the moment accumulation rate on the Creeping Section
of the San Andreas Fault, Geophysical Journal International, doi:
10.1093/gji/gjis140783.
~ Smith-Konter, B., G.M. Thornton, and D.T. Sandwell (2014), Vertical
crustal displacement due to interseismic deformation along the San
Andreas fault: Constraints from tide gauges, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
doi:10.1029/2014GL060091.
~Tong, X., B. Smith-Konter, and D.T. Sandwell (2014), Is
there a discrepancy between geological and geodetic slip rates along the
San Andreas Fault System?, J.
Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2013JB010765.
~ Tong,
X., D.T.
Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter
(2013), High-resolution interseismic velocity data along the San Andreas
Fault System, J.
Geophys. Res.,
118, doi:10.1029/2012JB009442.
~ Del Pardo, C., B. Smith-Konter, C. Kreemer, G. Blewitt, W. Hammond, and
L. Serpa, Interseismic deformation and stress evolution of the Death
Valley Fault Zone, submitted to J.
Geophys. Res., 117, B060404, doi:10.1029/2011JB008552.
~ Smith-Konter, B., D. Sandwell, and P. Shearer (2011), Locking
depths estimated from geodesy and seismology along the San Andreas Fault
System: Implications for seismic moment release, J.
Geophys. Res., 116, B06401, doi:10.1029/2010JB008117.
~ Olgin, J., B. Smith-Konter,
and R.L. Pappalardo, The limits of Enceladus’s ice shell thickness from
tidally driven tiger stripe failure, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 38,
doi:10.1029/2010GL044950..
~ Smith-Konter, B., D. Sandwell, and
M. Wei (2010), Integrating GPS and InSAR to resolve stressing rates of the
SAF System, EarthScope
inSights Newsletter, Summer
2010.
~ Wei, M., D. Sandwell, and
Smith-Konter, B., Optimal combination of InSAR and GPS for measuring
interseismic crustal deformation, J. Adv. in Space Res., doi:
10.1016/j.asr.2010.03.013, 2010.
~ Smith-Konter, B. and D.T. Sandwelll,
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.T.
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
~ 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.
~ Luttrell, K., D.T. Sandwell, B. Smith,
B. Bills, and Y. Bock, Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the Southern
San Andreas fault by lake loading, J.
Geophys.
Res.,112,
doi:10.1029/2006JB004752, 2007.
~ Taesombut, N., X. Wu, A. Chien, A.
Nayak, B. Smith, D. Kilb, T. Im, D. Samilo, G. Kent, and J. Orcutt,
Collaborative data visualization for Earth sciences with the OptIPuter, J.
Future Gen. Computing System, 22,
doi:10.1016/j.future.2006.03.023, 2006.
~ Smith, B., Three dimensional
deformation and stress models: Exploring one thousand years of earthquake
history along the San Andreas Fault System, Ph.D. Thesis, University of
California, San Diego, 2005.
~ 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.
~ Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, Coulomb
stress along the San Andreas Fault System, J.
Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2002JB002136, 2003.
~ Smith, B. and D. Sandwell,
Accuracy and resolution of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 20, doi:10.1029/2002GL016643, 2003.
~ Sandwell, D. L. Sichiox, and B.
Smith, The 1999 Hector Mine earthquake: Vector near-field
displacements from ERS InSAR, Bull.
Seismo. Soc. Am., 92, 1341-1354, 2002.
~ Woodney, L.M., M.F.A’Hearn,
D.G.Schleicher, T.L. Farnham, J.P. McMullin, M.C.H. Wright, J.M. Veal, L.
E. Snyder, I. De Pater, J. R. Forster, P. Palmer, Y. J.Kuan,W. R.
Williams, C. C. Cheung, and B. Smith, Morphology of HCN and CN in Comet
Hale-Bopp (1995 O1), Icarus 157,
193, 2002.
~ Schleicher, D.G., T.L. Farnham,
W.R. Williams, B. Smith, and C.C. Cheung, Modeling the rotational
morphology of gas and dust jets in Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) At
Perihelion, Bull. Am. Astron. Soc.,
31, 1128, 1999.
