Jack Pelton serves as the Dean of the Graduate College. Prior to that appointment he served as the director of the university’s Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface (CGISS) and coordinated the geophysics graduate program at Boise State since 1987. Dr. Pelton has been instrumental in developing Boise State’s first Ph.D. program in geophysics and in advancing the university’s research agenda.
Articles
Earthquakes in the Pamplona Zone, Yakutat Block, South Central Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (1997)
The Pamplona zone is a region of complex deformation and moderate seismicity located within the...
A High-Resolution Seismic Reflection and Gravity Survey of Quaternary Deformation Across the Wasatch Fault, Utah, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (1993)
High-resolution reflection seismic and detailed gravity data were acquired across an exposure of the Wasatch...
A Versatile Shotgun Source for Engineering and Groundwater Seismic Surveys, Geophysics (1993)
We describe an electrical seismic gun that is capable of firing 8-gauge blank black powder...
An Electrically Detonated Downhole Seismic Gun (with James C. Parker and Martin E. Dougherty), Expanded Abstracts with Biographies (SEG 61st Annual International Meeting and Exposition) (1991)
An electrically detonated downhole seismic gun (EDG) that will fire blank 8-guage shells underwater has...
High-Resolution Seismic Imaging and Gravity Analysis of Deformation Across the Wasatch Fault, Abstracts of the U.S. Geological Survey, Central Region, Open-File Report OF 91-0582 (1991)
High resolution seismic and gravity data were acquired at a trench site across a Quaternary...
Contributions to Books
Chapter 7: Near-Surface Seismology: Wave Propagation, Near-Surface Geophysics (2005)
"This chapter serves as an introduction to seismic wave propagation for those waves commonly observed...
Chapter 8: Near-Surface Seismology: Surface-Based Methods, Near-Surface Geophysics (2005)
"This chapter provides a survey of those near-surface seismic methods that are based on the...
Presentations
Body Waveform Modeling Studies of Earthquakes Occurring in the Prince William Sound Region, Alaska in the Ten Years Following the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (1995 Fall Meeting), American Geophysical Union (1995)
We present initial results of body waveform modeling studies of magnitude 5.2 to 6.5 earthquakes...
Predictions of Fine Scale Seismic Structure of the Upper Oceanic Crust, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (1993 Fall Meeting), American Geophysical Union (1993)
Seismic velocity in the upper oceanic crust depends largely on the fracture and porosity characteristics...
Focal Depth Estimates from Long-Period P-waveform Modeling of Selected Alaskan Teleseisms, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (1982 Fall Meeting), American Geophysical Union (1982)
Modeling of long-period far-field P-waveforms from 5.5
Three-Dimensional Crust-Upper Mantle Velocity Structure of Southern Alaska, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (1982 Fall Meeting), American Geophysical Union (1982)
The USGS Southern Alaska seismograph network spans an area in which a significant tectonic transition...