Glenn Sasagawa

Project Scientist

Room: Revelle Lab 3106

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

Telephone: (858) 534-4329

Email: gsasagawa@ucsd.edu

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

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Research Interests:

• Absolute gravity measurements
• Volcanism
• Postglacial rebound and visco-elastic gravity signatures
• Marine gravimeter systems

Recent publications: ^†

• V. Ballu, J. Ammann, O. Pot, O. de Viron, G. Sasagawa, G. Reverdin, M.N. Bouin, M. Cannat, C. Deplus, S. Deroussi, M. Maia and M. Diament. A seafloor experiment to monitor vertical deformation at Lucky Strike volcano, Journal of Geodesy, 2008. DOI 10.1007/s00190-008-0248-3
• T. Stenvold, O. Eiken, M.A. Zumberge, G. Sasagawa and S. Nooner, 2005, High precision relative depth and subsidence mapping from seafloor water pressure measurements, Society of Petroleum Engineers Journal, 11, 380-389, 2006.
• S. Nooner, G. Sasagawa, D.K. Blackman, M.A. Zumberge, Constraints on Crustal Structure at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from Seafloor Gravity Measurements Made at the Atlantis Massif, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30,1446, doi:10.1029/2003 GL017126, 2003.
• O. Eiken, T. Stenvold, M. Zumberge, H. Alnes, G. Sasagawa, Gravimetric monitoring of gas production from the Troll field, Geophysics, 73, WA 149-154, 2008.
• M. Zumberge, H. Alnes, O. Eiken, G. Sasagawa, T.Stenvold, Precision of seafloor gravity and pressure measurements for reservoir monitoring, Geophysics, 73, WA 133-141, 2008.
• Lambert, A., N. Courtier, G. Sasagawa,F. Klopping , D. Winester, T.S. James, J.O. Liard, New constraints on Laurentide Postglacial rebound from absolute gravity measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2109-2112, 2001
• G. Sasagawa, W. Crawford, O. Eiken, S. Nooner, T. Stenvold, M. Zumberge, A new seafloor gravimeter, Geophysics, 68, 544-553, 2003.
• G. Sasagawa, M. Zumberge, O. Eiken, Long Term Seafloor Tidal Gravity and Pressure Observations in the North Sea: Testing and Validation of a Theoretical Tidal Model, Geophysics, 73, WA 143-148, 2008.
• Francis, O., T.M. Niebauer, G. Sasagawa, F. Klopping, J. Gschwind, Calibration of a superconducting gravimeter by comparison with an absolute gravimeter FG5 in Boulder, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 1075-1078, 1998.