John Blum

Graduate Student Res

Room: Revelle Lab 4213

Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA.

Telephone: (858) 822-4336

Email: jablum@ucsd.edu

Website: http://gravity.ucsd.edu/about/jblum.html

Research Interests:

• Coastal hazards
• Geodesy
• Seafloor slope stability: influences of seismic and storm waves
• Seafloor mapping

Recent publications: ^†

• Shen, Y. and J. Blum. Seismic evidence for accumulated oceanic crust above the 660-km discontinuity beneath southern Africa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(18), 1925, 2003.
• Bokuniewicz, H., Pollock, M., Blum, J. and R. Wilson. Submarine Groundwater Discharge and Salt Penetration across the Sea Floor, Groundwater, 42, 983–989, 2005.
• Blum, J., Nooner, S. and M.A. Zumbege. Recording Earth strain with optical fibers, IEEE Fiber Optic Sensors, Submitted, 2007.
• Blum, J. and Y. Shen. Thermal, hydrous, and mechanical states of the mantle transition zone beneath southern Africa, Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., 217, 367–378, 2004.