Rob McCaffrey
Retired
Dept. of Geology
Portland State University
E-mail:
mccafr@gmail.com
I am a geophysicist with interests in tectonic plate motions, crustal deformation, earthquakes, GPS and seismology.
Miscellaneous
Movie
of transient strain rates in CA since 1992 (2nd invariant)
SCEC Presentation
on time-dependent crustal deformation in California.
Appearance in OPB Oregon Field Guide's
Unprepared
.
2015 GPS velocity field map
(North America reference)
2015 PNW vectors file
(North America reference, from McCaffrey et al., 2016).
NY Times article on Sumatra earthquake
Stone Age Apocalypse
about eruption of Toba.
Story on AGU presentation in the Honolulu Star Bulletin
Education/Employment/Visits
West Bridgewater HS, 1972
B.S., Boston College, 1972-1976
Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz, 1976-1981
PostDoc/Res. Scientist, MIT 1982-1988
Prof. of Geophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988-2010
Visiting Scientist, Oregon State University, 1995-96
Visiting Scientist, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2001
Senior Scientist, GNS Science, 2007
Visiting Scientist, TUBITAK, Turkey, 2009
Adjunct Res. Prof., Portland State, 2010-2016
Research
Three Sisters Bulge
US Pacific Northwest
Indonesia
Toba Caldera
Sumatra
Output
Publications
Reports
My CV (pdf)
through 2015
Software
DEFNODE/TDEFNODE
MT5 Waveform analysis
Personal
Woodworking projects
Last update 10/8/2024