Carl Tape
Webpage: www.gps.caltech.edu/~carltape
carltape(a)gps.caltech.edu
626.395.3825 (office)

Caltech Seismological Laboratory
1200 E. California Blvd., MC 252-21
Pasadena, CA  91125  U.S.A.
Education
California Institute of Technology
Ph.D. student in geophysics
 Pasadena, California 2003 - 2009 (anticipated)
University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship)
M.Sc. by Research, Earth Sciences
 Oxford, England 2001 - 2003
Carleton College
B.A. in physics and geology
 Northfield, Minnesota 1997 - 2001

Research experience (click links for details)
 Teaching experience
 Internships, etc
    NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Earth System Science, 2004
    Rhodes Scholar (U.S.), 2001-2003
    Outstanding Student Presentation, seismology section, AGU 2002
    Kresge Science Fellow, Carleton College, summer research grant - sedimentary geology project, 2000
    Keck Consortium Participant, summer research in British Columbia - structural geology project, 2000
    REU Summer Internship at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Atmospheric Physics Division, 1999

Work experience
    Alaska Biological Research, Inc., summer, 1998
    U.S. Postal Service, winter breaks, 1997-1999
    soccer referee, summers, 1993-2000

Other interests
    soccer, running, hiking, rafting, minerals (Tucson Gem and Mineral Show), Alaska

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Publications
Tape, C., Liu, Q., Maggi, A., and J. Tromp, 2009 (in prep), Strong crustal heterogeneity of southern California revealed by adjoint tomography.

Tape, C., Muse, P., and M. Simons, 2008 (in prep), Multiscale estimation of GPS velocity fields.

Maggi, A., C. Tape, M. Chen, D. Chao, and J. Tromp, 2009 (in revision), An automated time-window selection algorithm for seismic tomography, Geophysical Journal International.

Tape, C., Liu, Q., and J. Tromp, 2007, Finite-frequency tomography using adjoint methods---Methodology and examples using membrane surface waves,  Geophysical Journal International, v. 168, 1105-1129.
high-resolution "research version" PDF (12.9 MB)
high-resolution published PDF (42.6 MB)
published PDF (2.0 MB)

Tromp, J., Tape, C., and Q. Liu, 2005, Seismic tomography, adjoint methods, time reversal, and banana-doughnut kernels, Geophysical Journal International, v. 160, p. 195-216.
high-resolution "research version" PDF (29.6 MB)
published PDF (4.9 MB)

Peter, D., Tape., C., Boschi, L., and J. H. Woodhouse, 2007, Surface wave tomography: global membrane waves and adjoint methods,  Geophysical Journal International, v. 171, p. 1098-1117.

Tape, C.H., Cowan, C.A., and A.C. Runkel, 2003, Tidal bundle sequences in the Jordan Sandstone (Upper Cambrian), southeastern Minnesota, U.S.A.: Evidence for tides along inboard shorelines of the Sauk epicontinental sea: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 73, p. 354-366.

Davidson, C., Davis, K.J., Bailey, C.M., Tape, C.H., Singleton, J., and B. Singer, 2003, Age, origin, and significance of brittle faulting and pseudotachylyte along the Coast shear zone, Prince Rupert, British Columbia: Geology, v. 31, p. 43-46.

Tape, C.H., 2000, Aquarium, computer, and Alaska Range mirages, The Physics Teacher, v. 38, p. 308-311.

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Abstracts
Tape, C. Liu, Q., Maggi, A., and J. Tromp, 2007, Adjoint tomography of southern California, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S32A-06.

Strand, L., Y. Kim, J. Tromp, D. Komatitsch, C. Tape, W. Mei, P. Olson, L. Armendariz, and S. Kientz, CIG science gateways: Using supercomputers through a browser, CIG/SPICE/IRIS Computational Seismology Workshop, October 9-11, 2007, Jackson, New Hampshire, 2007.

Tape, C. Liu, Q., Maggi, A., and J. Tromp, 2006, Southern California "event" kernels for 3D tomographic inversions based upon adjoint methods, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S43B-1383.

Tape, C., Liu, Q., and J. Tromp, 2006, Finite-frequency tomography using adjoint methods --- Methodology and examples using membrane surface waves in the Southern California Seismic Network, 2006 SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, California. (abstract)

Tape, C., and M. Simons, 2006, Toward a multiscale representation of time-dependent displacement fields derived from dense GPS networks, 2006 SCEC Annual Meeting, Palm Springs, California. (abstract)

Tape, C. Liu, Q., Maggi, A., Zhou, Y., and J. Tromp, 2005, Seismic tomography using adjoint methods: Experiments using membrane surface waves, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S42A-04.

Tape, C., Liu Q., and J. Tromp, 2004, Tomography, adjoint methods, time reversal, and banana-doughnut kernels, Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S31B-1041.

Tape, C.H, and J.H. Woodhouse, 2003, Waves on a spherical membrane, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S42J-01.

Tape, C.H, and J.H. Woodhouse, 2002, Wave propagation on a spherical membrane in comparison with predictions from ray theory, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S61B-1119.

Tape, C., Davidson, C., Singleton, J., and K. Davis, 2001, Kinematic analysis of brittle faulting in the Prince Rupert area, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, GSA Abstracts with Programs, 33(6), p. 150.

Tape, C.H., Cowan, C.A., and A.C. Runkel, 2000, Evidence for tides in Cambrian epeiric seas of North America, GSA Abstracts with Programs, 32(7), p. 307.
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