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