LeRoy M. Dorman, Professor 
LeRoy M. Dorman, Professor B.S. Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1960.
M.S. Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1968.
Ph.D. Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969.
By popular demand, the thesis of Nancy Marie Kanjorski (Ph.D. 2003) is now available online. It is a 53+ MByte .pdf file.
Cocos Plate Structure Along The Middle America Subduction Zone Off Oaxaca And Guerrero, Mexico: Influence Of Subducting Plate Morphology On Tectonics and Seismicity, Nancy Marie Kanjorski, Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2003. [Abstract] [ PDF]
For a dynamic user-controlled visualization of several recent 3-D models, click here. These demos uses Java3D, which is available for Win9X and later, Solaris, Linux, SGI and now, at last, Mac OS X. To see a paper in EOS about this, look under Recent Publications below.
Theory of Wave Propagation, SIO 202B
Array Processing, SIO 207D
Introduction to Marine Geophysics, SIO 226
2007 Hawk count 2007 records 2,419 Swainson's, Borrego Sun, 56, 10, p 8 (Photo credit, Light-morph Swainson's Hawk)
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2007 Giant kettle of Swainson's Hawks a major treat for volunteer counters, Borrego Sun, 56, 7, pp 1 and 7 (Photo credits) |
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2006 A reusable implosive seismic source for midwater or seafloor use, LeRoy M. Dorman and Allan W. Sauter, Geophysics, 71, Q19-Q24, PDF. |
2006 Seismogenic Zone Structure along the Middle America Trench, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, from 3D Local Earthquake Tomography using P- and S-Wave Data, Heather R. DeShon, Susan Y. Schwartz, Andrew V. Newman, Victor Gonzalez, Marino Protti, LeRoy M.Dorman, Tim Dixon, Edmundo Norabuena, Ernst Flüh, Geophys. J. Intl., Volume 164 Page 109 - January 2006 doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02809.[PDF]
2005 Correlated Transient Fluid Pulsing and Seismic Tremor in the Costa Rica Subduction Zone, Kevin M. Brown, Michael Tryon, Heather R. Deshon, LeRoy M. Dorman, and Susan Y. Schwartz, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 238,1-2, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.0055. [PDF].
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2004 Geodetic and Seismic Constraints on Some Seismogenic Zone Processes in Costa Rica, Norabuena, E., T. H. Dixon, S. Y. Schwartz, H. R. DeShon, M. Protti, L. Dorman, E. R. Flüh, P. Lundgren, A. Newman, F. Pollitz, and D. Sampson, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B11403, doi:10.1029/2003JB002931[Abstract][PDF]. |
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2003 Seismogenic Zone Structure of the Southern Middle America Trench, Costa Rica, H. R. DeShon, S. Y. Schwartz, S. Bilek, L. M. Dorman, V. Gonzalez,. M. Protti, E. Flüh, T. Dixon, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B10), 2491, doi:10.1029/2002JB002294[Abstract][PDF]. |
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.2003 Seismicity and Tectonics of the South Shetland
Islands and Bransfield Strait from a Regional Broadband Seismograph
Deployment,Stacey D. Robertson-Maurice, Douglas A. Wiens,
Patrick J. Shore, Emilio Vera, LeRoy M. Dorman, J. Geophys. Res.,
108, B10, ESE 4-1 to ESE 4-12, doi:10.1029/2003JB002416, 2003-10-09[Abstract][PDF].(Requires
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2002 Observations of land vehicle activity and other land-based sounds with offshore underwater acoustic arrays,G. L. D'Spain, L. P. Berger, W. A. Kuperman, W. S. Hodgkiss, L. M. Dorman and W. A. Gaines, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., In Press.
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2002 Along-Strike Variability in the Seismogenic
Zone Below Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, A. V. Newman, S. Y.
Schwartz, V. Gonzales, H. R. DeShon, J. M. Protti, L. Dorman, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 10.1029/2002GL015409, 1-4, 25 October, 2002 [Abstract][PDF].(Requires
individual or institutional subscription) |
2002 Visualization of 3-dimensional Models in a Web Browser,
LeRoy M.
Dorman, Douglas D. Gehringer,
EOS, Transactions of the AGU, Vol 83, No 18, 199. full text of
electronic
supplement in html
2001 Seismology Sensors, LeRoy Dorman, Encyclopedia of
Ocean
Sciences, John Steele, Steve Thorpe, Karl Turekian, eds.,
2737-2744.
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2001 A new benthic aqueous flux meter for very low to moderate discharge rates, Michael Tryon, Kevin Brown, LeRoy Dorman, Allan Sauter, Deep Sea Research, Vol 49, No 9, 2121-2146 , 2001. |
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2001 A Complex Pattern of Mantle Flow in the Lau Backarc , Gideon P. Smith, Douglas A. Wiens, Karen M. Fischer, LeRoy M. Dorman, Spahr C. Webb, and John A. Hildebrand, Science , 292, 713-716, abstract , full text in html . Requires subscription to Science. |
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2001 Using refracted shear waves for velocity estimation Pautet, L; Kuperman, WA; Dorman, L. GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING, 2001 MAR, V49 N2:281-286, abstract .full text (requires subscription or institutional license). |
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2001 Upper mantle discontinuity structure in the region of the Tonga Subduction Zone. Gilbert, HJ; Sheehan, AF; Wiens, DA; Dueker, KG, Dorman, LM, Hildebrand, J, Webb, S, Geophys. Res. Letts., 2001, V28 N9:1855-1858, (2000GL012192), [PDF] |
1999 Book Review "Geology of the United States' seafloor: the view from GLORIA", edited by James V. Gardner, Michael E. Field, David C. Twichell , Pure Appl. Geophys., 154, 185-186, 1999.Text in pdf. Requires subscription to PAGEOPH or access from a site with an institutional license; This link returns the text of the entire book review section of the journal)
1998 Book Review "The Sea Floor: An Introduction to Marine
Geology",
3rd edition, by E. Seibold and W. H. Berger, Pure Appl. Geophys
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152, 393-394, 1998, Text
in pdf (Requires subscription to PAGEOPH or access from a site
with
an institutional license; This link returns the text of the entire book
review section of the journal)
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1998 Climate-Ocean Variability and Ecosystem Response in the Northeast Pacific, Science, 281, 210-217. abstract , full text in pdf (requires subscription fo Science Online) |
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1998 Imaging the Deep Seismic Structure Beneath a Mid-Ocean Ridge: the MELT Experiment, Science, 280, 1215-1218, 1998. abstract, full text in pdf |
| 1998 Phase Velocities of Rayleigh Waves in the MELT
Experiment on the East Pacific Rise, Science, 280,
1235-1238, 1998. abstract, full text in pdf |
1998 Recording Teleseisms on the Sea-floor; an Example from the
Juan de
Fuca Plate , Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 88,107-116, 1998. abstract
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Sept 1994 - Jan 1995: LABATTS- Lau Basin - LeRoy Dorman, J. Hildebrand, SIO; D Wiens, Washington U. |
| Depth extent of the Lau back-arc spreading center and its relation to subduction processes, Dapeng Zhao, Yingbao Xu, Douglas Wiens, LeRoy M. Dorman, John Hildebrand, Spahr Webb, Science , 278, 254-257, 1997abstract , full text in pdf (requires subscription to Science Online) | |
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Modeling the Tonga Slab: Can Travel Time Data Resolve a Metastable Olivine Wedge? Keith D. Koper, Douglas A Wiens, LeRoy M. Dorman, John A. Hildebrand, Spahr C. Webb, J. Geophys. Res ., 103,30,079-30,100, 1998 |
| Seismic Attenuation Tomography of the Tonga Fiji Region Using Phase Pair Methods , Erich G. Roth, Douglas A. Wiens, LeRoy M. Dorman, Spahr C. Webb, John A. Hildebrand, J. Geophys. Res ., 104, 4795-4809, 1999 | |
| Constraints on the origin of slab and mantle wedge anomali es in Tonga from the ratio of S to P velocities.Keith D. Koper, Douglas A Wiens, LeRoy M. Dorman, John A. Hildebrand, Spahr C. Webb, J. Geophys. Res., 104,15089-15104, 1999 | |
| Upper mantle discontinuity structure in the region of the Tonga Subduction Zone. Gilbert, HJ; Sheehan, AF; Wiens, DA; Dueker, KG, Dorman, LM, Hildebrand, J, Webb, S, Geophys. Res. Letts ., 2001, V28 N9:1855-1858 |
For a dynamic representation of the compressional velocity structure
on
the Tonga area, click
here. This demo uses Java3D (see above)..
1997 Very low frequency (0.2-10.0) Hz) seismoacoustic noise below the seafloor, Christopher R. Bradley, Ralph A. Steven, LeRoy M. Dorman, John A. Orcutt, J. Geophys. Res, 102, 11703-11718, 1997
1997 Propagation in Marine Sediments, LeRoy M. Dorman, 409-416, Chapter 37, Encyclopedia of Acoustics, M. J. Crocker, ed., John Wiley, 1997
1997 Topography can Affect Linearization in Tomographic Inversions ,Sean M. Wiggins, LeRoy M. Dorman, Bruce D. Curnuelle, Geophysics, 62, 1797-1803, 1997 abstract , Full text in pdf
1997 Investigation of Microearthquake Activity Following an Intraplate Teleseismic Swarm on the West Flank of the Southern East Pacific Rise, Yang Shen, Donald W. Forsyth, James Conder, LeRoy M. Dorman, J. Geophys. Res, 102, 459-475 , 1997
1996 Hess Deep Rift Valley Structure from Seismic Tomography , Sean M. Wiggins, LeRoy M. Dorman, Bruce D. Curnuelle, and John A. Hildebrand, J. Geophys. Res, 101, 22335-22353, 1996
1996 Waveform Analysis of Scholte Modes in Ocean Sediment Layers, Guust Nolet and LeRoy M. Dorman, Geophys. J. Intl., 125, 385-396
1995 Full Waveform Inversion of Seismic Interface Wave Data, L. Dale Bibee, LeRoy M. Dorman, pp 377-382 , in Full Field Inversion Methods in Ocean and Seismo-Acoustics, O. Diachok, A. Caiti, P. Gerstoft, and H. Schmidt eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
1994 Jasper Seamount Structure: Seafloor seismic refraction tomography, Philip T. C. Hammer, LeRoy M. Dorman, John A. Hildebrand, Bruce Cornuelle, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 6731-6752.
1992 A proposed super-thick sedimentary basin, Bay of Bengal, James N. Brune, Joseph Curray, LeRoy Dorman, Russell Raitt, Geophysical Research Letters, 19(6), 565-568.
1991 Ocean-Bottom Seismograph Facilities Available, R. S. Jacobson, L. M. Dorman, G. M. Purdy, A. Schultz, S. C. Solomon, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 72, 506-515.
1990 Coherence lengths of seafloor noise: effect of ocean bottom structure. Anthony E. Schreiner and LeRoy M. Dorman, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88: 1503-1514.
1999 April-May, R/V N. B. PALMER, OBS recovery, South Shetland Islands,
Antarctica
1999 September, F/S SONNE, OBS deployment off Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
under
PAGANINI program
1999 December, F/S SONNE, OBS recovery and redeployment off Nicoya
Peninsula
under PAGANINI
Hector
Mine Quake
2000 February, R/V SPROUL, Implosive source tests ( progress
report )
2000 June, R/V MELVILLE, OBS recovery off Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
and
multibeam surveys off Mexico.
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