Bob Parker

Professor/Researcher/Director

Room: Revelle Lab 4206

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

Telephone: (858) 534-2475

Email: rlparker@ucsd.edu

Website: http://mahi.ucsd.edu/parker/index.html

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Research Interests:

• Electromagnetic sounding
• Gravity interpretation
• Spectral methods for potential theory
• Geomagnetism
• Geophysical inverse theory

Courses Taught:

• SIO203B (Methods of Applied Analysis)
• SIO223B (Geophysical Data Analysis II)
• SIO229 (Gravity and Geomagnetism)
• SIO230 (Introduction to Inverse Theory)
• SIO231 (Intro EM Methods in Geophysics)
• SIO239 (Special Topics in Geophysics)
• SIO299 (Research)

Recent publications: ^†

• Zumberge, M. A., Berger, J., Dziechiuch, M., Parker, R. L., Resolving Quadrature Fringes in Real Time, Applied Optics, 43, No 4, pp 771-5, 2004.
• Prieto, G. A., Thomson, D. J., Vernon, F. L., Shearer, P. M., and Parker, R. L., Confidence intervals for earthquake source parameters, Geophysical Journal International, 168, 1227-34, 2007.
• Prieto, G. A., Parker, R. L., Vernon, F. L., Shearer, P., M., and Thomson, D. J., Uncertainties in earthquake source spectrum estimation using empirical Green functions, in Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting, Geophysical monograph 170, eds Abercrombie, McGarr, Kanamori, and Di Toro, American Geophysical Union, Washington, 2006.
• Prieto, G. A., Parker, R. L., Thomson, D. J., Vernon, F. L., and Graham, R.L., Reducing the bias in multitaper spectrum estimates, Geophysical Journal International, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03592.x, 2007.
• Parker, R. L., Ideal bodies for Mars magnetics, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, E1, doi:10.1029/2001JE001760, 2003.
• Parker, R. L., and Song, Y.-Q., Assigning uncertainties in the inversion of NMR relaxation data, Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 174,314-24, 2005.
• Medin, A. E., Parker, R. L., and Constable, S., Making sound inferences from geomagnetic sounding, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 160, 51-9, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2006.09.001, 2007.
• Malinverno, A., and Parker, R. L., Two ways to quantify uncertainty in geophysical inverse problems, Geophysics, 71, 15-27,2005.
• Korte, M., Constable, C. G., and Parker, R. L., Revised magnetic power spectrum of the oceanic crust, Journal of Geophysical Research,107, B9, 2205, doi:10.1029/2001JB001389, 2002.
• Jackson, A., Constable, C. G., Walker, M. R., and Parker, R. L. Models of Earth's main magnetic field incorporating flux and radial vorticity constraints, Geophysical Journal International, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03526.x, 171, 133-44, 2007.