Eugene D. Humphreys
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 91403
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June, 1985
M.S. in Geophysics University of California, Riverside, June, 1978
B.S. in Geophysics University of California, Riverside, June, 1975
EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Sept. 1997 - present
Associate Professor, Sept. 1991 - Sept. 1997
Assistant Professor, Sept. 1985 - Sept. 1991
AWARDS
The Milton and Francis Clauser Doctoral Prize (outstanding Caltech Ph.D. thesis of 1985)
Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing (JGR Red)
Fellow, Geological Society of America
Crosby Professor, MIT (10/99-3/00)
Fellow, American Geophysical Union
COMMITTEES
Canadian Earth Science Program Review (7/03)
Steering Committees: USArray and Plate Boundary Observatory (initiation to 2003)
IRIS Executive Committee (1/97-7/00)
GSA Bulletin Associate Editor (11/96-1/00)
GSA Geophysics Division Head (11/97-11/98)
NSF Review Panels: Seismology/Geophysics (3/92-9/94), Active Tectonics (4/96, 4/97, 3/98)
Earthscope (10/03)
USGS Review Panel
Planning Committees: Active Tectonics (1995), ILIAD (1994), IRIS Workshops (1996, 1999),
Earthscope Seismic Imaging (2003), Pacific Northwest Earthscope Workshop (2003)
PASSCAL Standing Committee (6/92-6/95)
SOME INVITED TALKS (* indicates multiple visits).
AGU*, Arizona State*, Brigham Young, Caltech*, Carnegie Inst., Columbia*, Colorado
School of Mines, GSA*, Harvard, Humbolt, IRIS*, Lithoprobe, MIT*, Purdue, Rice*, SUNY
Stony Brook, Univ Arizona*, UCLA*, UC Riverside*, UC Berkeley*, Univ British Columbia,
UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara, Univ Colorado, Univ Nevada Reno*, Univ
Nevada Las Vegas, Univ New Mexico*, USC, UTAusten, UT El Paso, Univ Utah*, Univ
Wisconson, USGS Menlo Park*. Local: Boise State, Central Washington, Humbolt State,
Idaho State, Oregon State*, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Southern Oregon, Univ Idaho, Univ
Washington*, Washington State, Western Washington, Whitman.
SUPERVISED STUDENTS (share for co-advised student)
John Rasmussen, MS, 1989, National Park Service, Crater Lake, Oregon
Alberto Patino-Douce, PhD, 1990 share Professor (U Georgia)
Peter Puster , MS, 1990, PhD MIT, Finance, Chicago, Illinois
Francois Saucier, PhD, 1991, Oceanography Research Director (Mont-Joli, Canada)
Glenn Biasi, PhD, 1994, share Research Associate (U Nevada, Reno)
Kenneth Dueker, PhD, 1994, Professor (U Wyoming)
Xiaohua Peng, PhD, 1996, Programmer, Portland, Oregon
Erin Hessler, MS, 1997, Water Analyst, Illinois Water District
Randy Palmer, PhD, 1997, Back country Outfitter, Colorado
Rebecca Saltzer, MS, 1997, PhD MIT, Seismologist (Arco Petroleum)
Elizabeth Hearn, PhD, 1998, Professor (U British Columbia)
Mark Hemphill-Haley, PhD, 1999 share Professor (Humbolt State, California)
William Hammond, PhD, 2000, share Post Doc, USGS Menlo Park, California
Derek Schutt, PhD, 2000, Post Doc, Carnagie Inst., D.C.
Jason Crosswhitem, MS, 2001
Jason Crosswhite, PhD in progress
David Adams, PhD in progress
Noah Fay, PhD in progress
External Ph.D. Committee Member
Jonathan Lees, University of Washington, 1994. Professor (Yale and Duke)
Stephan Rondeney, UBC 2002. Professor (MIT)
PUBLICATIONS (* indicates work of a student under my supervision)
Hales*, T.C., Abt*, D., Humphreys, E.D., and Roering, J., Columbia River basalt eruptions and
uplift of the Willowa Mountains, Science, ***Submitted*** Sept. 2004.
Coblentz, D., and Humphreys, E.D., North American dynamics and western U.S. tectonics, J.
Geophys. Res., ***Submitted*** Oct. 2004.
Fay*, N., and Humphreys, E.D., Fault slip rates, effects of sediments and strength of the lower
crust in the Salton Trough region, southern California, J. Geophys. Res., ***Submitted***
Oct. 2004.
Schutt*, D.L., and Humphreys, E.D., P and S wave velocity and Vp/Vs in the wake of the
Yellowstone hotspot, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.129/2003JB002442, 2004.
Humphreys, E., E. Hessler*, K. Dueker, E. Erslev, G.L. Farmer, and T. Atwater, How
Laramide-age hydration of North America by the Farallon slab controlled subsequent activity
in the western U.S., The George A. Thompson volume, International Book Series, 7, S.L.
Klemperer and W.G. Ernst, editors, 524-544, Geol. Soc. Am., Boulder, Colorado, 2003, and
Int. Geology Rev., 45, 575-595, 2003.
Crosswhite*, J.A., and Humphreys, E.D., Imaging the Mountainless Root of the 1.8 Ga
Cheyenne Belt Suture and Clues to its Tectonic Stability, Geology, 31, 669-672, 2003.
Karlstrom, K.E., Bowring, S.A., Chamberlain, K.R., and others, Structure and evolution of the
lithosphere beneath the Rocky Mountains: initial results from the CD-ROM experiment,
GSA Today, 12, 1-5, 2002.
Schutt*, D.L., and Humphreys, E.D., Evidence for a deep asthenosphere beneath North
America from western United States SKS splits, Geology, 29, 291-294, 2001.
Humphreys, E.D., D.L. Schutt*, K.G. Dueker and R.B. Smith, Beneath Yellowstone:
Evaluating plume and non-plume models using teleseismic data, GSA Today, 10, 2000.
Hammond*, W.C., and E.D. Humphreys, Upper mantle seismic wave velocity: The effect of
realistic partial melt geometries, J. Geophys Res., 105, 10,975-10,999, 2000.
Hammond*, W.C., and E.D. Humphreys, Upper mantle seismic wave attenuation: The effect of
realistic partial melt distribution, J. Geophys Res., 105, 10,987, 2000.
Levander, A., E.D. Humphreys, G. Ekstrom, A.S. Meltzer, P.M. Shearer, Continental
Assembly, Stability, and Instability: USArray: An Earth sciences tool for investigating North
America, EOS, 80, 245-251, 1999.
Hearn*, E.H., and E.D. Humphreys, Kinematics of the southern Walker Lane Belt and motion
of the Sierra Nevada, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 27,034-27,049, 1998.
Karlstrom, K.E., and E.D. Humphreys, Persistent influence of Proterozoic accretionary
boundaries in the tectonic evolution of southwestern North America: Interaction of cratonic
grain and mantle modification events, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 161-179, 1998.
Lerner-Lam, A., A. Sheehan, S. Grand, E. Humphreys, and others, Deep structure beneath the
Southern Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain Geology, 33, 199-216, 1998.
Henstock, T., and the Deep Probe Working Group (includes myself), Probing the Archean and
Proterozoic Lithosphere of western North America, GSA Today, 8, 1-5, 1998.
Schutt*, D., E. Humphreys, and K. Dueker, Anisotropy of the Yellowstone hot spot wake,
eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho, Pure appl. geophys., 151, 443-462, 1998.
Ekstrom, G., E.D. Humphreys, and A. Levander, USArray - a tool for probing the continent,
IRIS Newsletter, 1998.
Peng*, X., and E.D. Humphreys, Crustal velocity structure of the eastern Snake River Plain
and the Yellowstone swell, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 7171-7186, 1998.
Hearn*, E.H., E.D. Humphreys, Mu Chi, and J.M. Brown, The effect of anisotropy on oceanic
upper mantle temperatures, structure, and dynamics, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 11,943-11,956,
1997.
Peng*, X., and E.D. Humphreys, Crustal velocity structure of northwestern Nevada from
teleseismic receiver function analysis, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87, 745-754, 1997.
Saltzer*, R.L., and E.D. Humphreys, Upper mantle P-wave structure of the eastern Snake
River Plain and its relationship to geodynamic models of the region, J. Geophys. Res., 102,
11,829-11,841, 1997.
Zhao, D., H. Kanamori, and E. Humphreys, Simultaneous inversion of local and teleseismic
data for the crust and upper mantle structure of southern California, Physics of the Earth and
Planetary Interiors, 93, 191-214, 1996 (my name included without consent).
Humphreys, E.D., Post-Laramide removal of the Farallon slab, western United States,
Geology, 23, 987-990, 1995.
Palmer*, R., R.J. Weldon, E. Humphreys, and F. Saucier*, Earthquake recurrence on the
southern San Andreas modulated by fault-normal stress, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 535-538,
1995.
Humphreys, E.D., and R.J. Weldon, Deformation across the western United States: A local
estimate of Pacific-North America transform deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 19,97520,010, 1994.
Humphreys, E.D. and K.G. Dueker*, Western U.S. upper mantle structure, J. Geophys. Res.,
99, 9615-9634, 1994.
Humphreys, E.D. and K.G. Dueker*, Physical state of the western U.S. upper mantle, J.
Geophys. Res., 99, 9635-9650, 1994.
Saucier*, F. and E. Humphreys, Horizontal crustal deformation in southern California from
joint models of geologic and very long baseline interferometry measurements, Contributions
of Space Geodesy to Geodynamics, edited by D. E. Smith and D. L. Turcotte, Am. Geophys.
Union Geodynamics Series, v. 23, pp. 139-176, Am. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C.,
1993.
Dueker*, K., E. Humphreys, and G. Biasi*, Teleseismic imaging of the western United States
upper mantle structure using the simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (chapter 11),
Iyer, H.M. and K. Hirihara, Eds., Seismic Tomography: Theory and practice, 265-298,
Chapman and Hall, London, 1993.
Biasi*, G. P., and E. D. Humphreys, P-wave image of the upper mantle structure of central
California and southern Nevada, Geophys. Res. Lett., 11, 1161-1164, 1992.
Saucier*, F., E.D. Humphreys and R.J. Weldon, Stress near geometrically complex strike-slip
faults: application to the San Andreas fault at Cajon Pass, southern California, J. Geophys.
Res., 97, 5081-5094, 1992.
Humphreys, E.D. and R.J, Weldon, Kinematic constraints on the rifting of Baja California, in,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 47: The Gulf and Peninsular
Province of the Californias, Chapter 12, J.P. Dauphin B.R.T. Simoneit, eds., pp. 217-229,
1991.
Humphreys, E.D., and B.H. Hager, A kinematic model for the late Cenozoic development of
southern California crust and upper mantle, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 19,747-19,762, 1990.
Humphreys, E.D., and R.W. Clayton, Tomographic image of the southern California mantle, J.
Geophys. Res., 95, 19,725-19,746, 1990.
Dueker*, K., and Humphreys, E., Upper-mantle velocity structure of the Great Basin,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1327-1330, 1990.
Patino-Douce*, A.E., E.D. Humphreys, and A.D. Johnston, Anatexis and metamorphism in
tectonically thickened continental crust exemplified by the Sevier Hinterland, western North
America, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 97, 290-315, 1990.
Patino-Douce*, A.E., A.D. Johnston, and E.D. Humphreys, Closed-system anatexis in the
Cordilleran interior: the importance of initial structure, EOS "Frogs" article, 1990.
Thompson, R.N. P.T. Leat, and E. Humphreys, What is the influence of the Yellowstone plume
on Pliocene-Recent western USA magmatism?, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral
Resources Bulletin, 131, 268, 1989.
Weldon, R.J., and E.D. Humphreys, Comment on "Structural transect of the western
Transverse Ranges" by J. Namsen and T. Davis, Geology, Aug., 769-770 1989.
Rassmusen*, J.R., and E.D. Humphreys, A tomographic image of the mantle beneath
Washington, Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 1417-1420, 1988.
Humphreys, E.D. and R.W. Clayton, Adaptation of tomographic reconstruction to seismic
travel-time problems, J. Geophys. Res., 93, 1073-1085, 1988.
Weldon, R.J, and E.D. Humphreys, A kinematic model of southern California, Tectonics, 5,
33-48, 1986.
Humphreys, E.D., R.W. Clayton and B.H. Hager, A tomographic image of mantle structure
beneath southern California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 11, 625-627, 1984.