BRIDGET R. SMITH-KONTER
Now at:
NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology

Formerly at:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

CURRICULUM VITAE
Full CV (pdf)


Education
~ Ph.D., Earth Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 2005
~ B.S., Major Physics & Astronomy, Minor Mathematics, Northern Arizona University, magna cum laude, 1999.


Professional Experience
~ Postdoctoral Researcher, JPL, Caltech, 2007
~ Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, 2005-2006
~ Postdoctoral Scholar, SIO, University of California, San Diego, 2005-2006
~ Graduate Student Researcher, SIO, University of California, San Diego, 1999-2005
~ Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, (The Atmosphere, Geodynamics of Terrestrial Planets, Intro to Geophysics), 2000-2004
~ Research Assistant, NASA Ames, NASA Ames Astrobiology Academy, 1999
~ Research Assistant, Stanford University, Stanford Linear Accelorator Center, 1998
~ Research Assistant, Lowell Observatory, NASA Space Grant, 1997-1999


Courses Taught
~ ERTH01, The Planets, Undergraduate Non-Major Course, University of California, San Diego, 2005-2006
~ Earthquakes in Action, High School Summer Enrichment Course, COSMOS, University of California, San Diego, 2005-2006
~ SIO239, Frontiers in Plate Boundary Deformation, Graduate Seminar Course, University of California, San Diego , 2005
~ Visualization Course, Scripps Institution of Oceanography , SIO Visualization Contest Introductory Course, 2005


Academic Honors & Awards
~ 2005. SIO Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of California, San Diego
~ 2004. Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Fall Meeting, Geodesy
~ 2004. 1st Place, SIO Visualization Contest, University of California, San Diego
~ 2003. Edward A. Frieman Director's Prize for Graduate Student Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2003. NASA Earth System Science Fellowship, University of California, San Diego (2003-2005)
~ 1999. National Science Foundation Fellowship, University of California, San Diego (1999-2002)
~ 1999. Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Arts and Sciences, Northern Arizona Univeristy
~ 1998. Physics and Astronomy Chair's Scholar, Northern Arizona University


Academic Services & Outreach Activities & Activities
~ 2006. Instructor, Earthquakes in Action, California Summer School in Mathematics and Science, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
~ 2006. Co-Organizer, SIO Earthquake Education Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2005. Instructor, Earthquakes in Action, California Summer School in Mathematics and Science, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
~ 2005. Contributor, SIO Earthquake Education Workshop, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2005. Contributor, Earthquake! Life on A Restless Planet Exhibit, Stephen Birch Aquarium, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
~ 2004. Chair of Student Body, Students@SIO, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
~ 2004. Chair, SIO Outstanding Teaching Award Committee, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Publications
- Wdowinski, S., B. Smith, Y. Bock, and D. T. Sandwell, Spatial characterization of the interseismic velocity field in southern California, Geology, doi:10.1130/G22938A.1.

- Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, A Model of the Earthquake Cycle Along the San Andreas Fault System Over the Past 1000 years, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:10.1029/2005JB003703, 2006.

- Luttrell, K., D. Sandwell, B. Smith, B. Bills, and Y. Bock, Modulation of the Earthquake Cycle at the Southern San Andreas Fault by Lake Loading, submitted to J. Geophys. Res., 2006.

- Taesombut, N., X. Wu, A. Chien, A. Nayak, B. Smith, D. Kilb, T. Im, D. Samilo, G. Kent, and J. Orcutt, Collaborative Data Visualization for Earth Sciences with the OptIPuter, Journal of Future Generation Computing System, 22, doi:10.1016/j.future.2006.03.023, 2006.

- Sandwell, D. T., and B. Smith, California Earthquakes, to be included in:  Our Changing Planet:  A view from Space, editors, King, Partington and Williams, in press, 2006.

- Smith, B., Three Dimensional Deformation and Stress Models: Exploring One Thousand Years of Earthquake History Along the San Andreas Fault System, Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego, 2005.

- Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, A 3-D Semi-analytic Viscoelastic Model for Time-dependent Analyses of the Earthquake Cycle, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2004JB003185, 2004.

- Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, Coulomb Stress Along the San Andreas Fault System, J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi:10.1029/2002JB002136, 2003.

- Smith, B. and D. Sandwell, Accuracy and Resolution of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, doi:10.1029/2002GL016643, 2003.

- Sandwell, D. L. Sichiox, and B. Smith, The 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake:  Vector Near-Field Displacements from ERS InSAR, Bull. Seismo. Soc. Am., 92, 1341-1354, 2002.

- Woodney, L.M., M.F.A’Hearn, D.G.Schleicher, T.L. Farnham, J.P. McMullin, M.C.H. Wright, J.M. Veal, L. E. Snyder, I. De Pater, J. R. Forster, P. Palmer, Y. J.Kuan,W. R. Williams, C. C. Cheung, and B. Smith, Morphology of HCN and CN in Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1), Icarus 157, 193, 2002.

- Schleicher, D.G., T.L. Farnham, W.R. Williams, B. Smith, and C.C. Cheung, Modeling the Rotational Morphology of Gas and Dust Jets in Comet Hale-Bopp (1995 O1) At Perihelion, Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 31, 1128, 1999.