Selected Publications

Ward, L., J.H. Foster, B.R. Smith-Konter, N. Frazer (2024), A century of deformation and stress change on Kīlauea's décollement, submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research, Jan. 2024 (2024JB028714).

Guns, K., D.T. Sandwell, X. Xu, Y. Bock, L. Ward, and B. Smith-Konter (2024), Uncertainties in calculating seismic moment accumulation rate from geodesy, in revision Journal of Geophysical Research, Nov. 2023 (2023JB027939).

Burkhard, L., E.S. Costello, B. Smith-Konter, M.E. Cameron, G.C. Collins, and R.L.Pappalardo (2023), Uncovering Ganymede’s past: Tectonics at Nippur/Philus Sulci, Icarus, 2023.115823.

Ward, L., Guns, K., B. Smith-Konter, X. Xu, Y. Bock, and D.T. Sandwell (2022), Vertical postseismic deformation of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake sequence, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2021JB023331.

Burkhard, L., B. Smith-Konter, M.E. Cameron, S. Fagents, G. Collins, and R.L Pappalardo, Strike-slip faulting on Titan? (2021); Modeling shear failure conditions due to pore fluid interactions, Icarus

Ward, L., B. Smith-Konter, X. Xu, X. Tong, and D.T. Sandwell (2021), Seismic moment dependence on crustal rigidity for the southern San Andreas Fault System, Journal of Geophysical Research, https://doi. org/10.1029/2020JB021208.

Xu, X., D.T. Sandwell, L. Ward, C. Milliner, B. Smith-Konter, P. Feng, and Y. Bock (2020), Surface deformation associated with fractures near the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, Science, 370, https://doi:10.1126/science.abd1690.

Xu, X., D.T. Sandwell, and B. Smith-Konter (2019), Co-seismic displacements and surface fractures from Sentinel-1 InSAR: 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquakes, Seismol. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1785/0220190275.

Cameron, M., B. Smith-Konter, L. Burkhard, G. Collins, D. Patthoff, and R.T. Pappalardo (2020), Ganymede past and present:  How evolving eccentricity effects tidally-driven Coulomb failure, J Geophys. Res. Planets. doi:10.1029/2019JE005995

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,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., 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, 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, Geophys. J. Int. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggx301.

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.

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.

Tong, X., B. Smith-Konter, and D.T. Sandwell (2014), A new viscoelastic earthquake cycle model may explain discrepancies in San Andreas fault slip, EOS AGU Research Spotlight, v. 95, no. 34.

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 (2012), Interseismic deformation and stress evolution of the Death Valley Fault Zone, 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. Sandwell (2009), Stress evolution of the San Andreas Fault System: Recurrence interval versus locking depth, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36,
doi:10.1029/2009GL037235.

Smith-Konter, B. and R.L. Pappalardo (2008), Tidally driven stress accumulation and shear failure of Enceladus's tiger stripes, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.005.

Sandwell, D. T. and B. Smith, contributors to California Earthquakes, Our Changing Planet: A View from Space, editors, King, Partington and Williams, 2007.

Luttrell, K., D.T. Sandwell, B. Smith-Konter, B. Bills, and Y. Bock (2007), Modulation of the earthquake cycle at the southern San Andreas fault by lake loading, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, doi:10.1029/2006JB004752.

Wdowinski, S., B. Smith-Konter, Y. Bock, and D.T. Sandwell (2007), Diffuse interseismic deformation across the Pacific-North America plate boundary, Geology, doi:10.1130/G2938A.1.

Smith, B. and D. Sandwell (2006), 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.

Smith, B. and D. Sandwell (2004), A 3-D semi-analytic viscoelastic model for time-dependent analyses of the earthquake cycle, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JB003185. 

Smith, B. and D. Sandwell (2003), Coulomb stress along the San Andreas Fault System, J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2002JB002136. 

Smith, B. and D. Sandwell (2003), Accuracy and resolution of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, doi:10.1029/2002GL016643.

My Thesis: Smith, B. (2005), Three dimensional deformation and stress models: Exploring one thousand years of earthquake history along the San Andreas Fault System, University of California, San Diego. (pdf, 6.5M)