Frank Vernon

Researcher

Room: Revelle Lab 2109

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

Telephone: (858) 534-5537

Email: flvernon@ucsd.edu

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Research Interests:

• Time-series analysis
• Real-time environmental sensor networks
• Earthquake seismology
• Ocean Observatories

Courses Taught:

• SIO223 (Geophysical Data Analysis)
• SIO299 (Research)

Recent publications: ^†

• Wolfe, C. J., F. L. Vernon III, and A. Al-Amri (1999). Shear-wave splitting across western Saudi Arabia: The pattern of upper mantle anisotropy at a Proterozoic shield. Geophy. Res. Lett.. 26, 779-782.
• Wolfe, C. J. and F. L. Vernon (1998). Shear-wave splitting at central Tien Shan: Evidence for rapid variation of anisotropic patterns. Geophy. Res. Lett., 25, 1217-1220.
• Vernon, F.L., R. Mellors, D. Thomson (1995). Broadband Signal Enhancement of Seismic Array Data: Applications to Long-period Surface Waves and High-frequency Wavefields. Proceedings - 17 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 17, 807-814.
• Vernon, F.L., J. Berger, J. Zollweg, A. Al-Amri (1995). Broadband Seismic Characterization of the Arabian Shield. Proceedings - 17 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 17, 329-338.
• Vernon, F.L. (1994). Jackknifed Multiple-Window Spectra and Coherence Applied to Seismic Data. Proceedings - ICASSP -94 6, 93-96.
• Vernon, F., J. Fletcher, L. Haar, A. Chave, and E. Sembera (1991). Coherence of seismic body waves from local events as measured by a small aperture array. J. Geophys. Res. 96, B7, 11,981-11,996.
• Vernon, F. L., G. Pavlis, T. Owens, D. McNamara, and P. Anderson (1998). Near surface scattering effects observed with a high-frequency phased array at Pinyon Flats, California. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 88, 1548-1560.
• Vernon, F. L. , R. J. Mellors, J. Berger, A. M. Al-Amri, J. Zollweg (1996). Initial Results from the Deployment of Broadband Seismometers in the Saudi Arabian Shield. Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 18, 108-117.
• Tolstoy, Maya; Vernon, Frank L; Orcutt, John A; Wyatt, Frank K (2002). Breathing of the seafloor; Tidal correlations of seismicity at Axial Volcano. Geology 30, 503-506.
• Thomson, D. J., L. J. Lanzerotti, F. L. Vernon, III, M. R. Lessard, and L. T. P. Smith (2007). Solar Modal Structure of the Engineering Environment. Proc. IEEE, 95,1085-1132, Doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.894712.
• Thomson, D. J. and F. L. Vernon, III (1998). Signal Extraction via Multitaper Spectra of Nonstationary Data. Proceedings thirty-second Asilomar conference on signals, systems, and computers, 32, 271-276.
• T. Hansen, S. Tilak, S. Foley, K. Lindquist, F. Vernon, A. Rajasekar, J. Orcutt (2006). ROADNet: A network of SensorNets. Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, IEEE, 579-587.
• Sutherland, F. H., F. L. Vernon, J. A. Orcutt, J. A. Collins, and R. A. Stephen (2004). Results from OSNPE: Improved Teleseismic Earthquake Detection at the Seafloor. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 94 (5), 1868-1878.
• Stephen, R. A., D. E. Koelsch, K. R. Peal, F. Vernon, J. Orcutt, F. N. Spiess (1995). SEABASS: A deployment and recording system for broad band seafloor seismology. in Multidisciplinary Observatories on the Deep Seafloor , January 11-13, Marseille, France, 200-218.
• Stephen, R. A. , F. N. Spiess, J. A. Collins, J. A. Hildebrand, J. A. Orcutt, K. R. Peal, F. L. Vernon, and F. B. Wooding (2003). Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4, 1092, doi: 10.1029/2002GC000485.
• Sohn, R. A., F. Vernon, J. A, Hildebrand, S. C. Webb (2000). Field measurements of sonic boom penetrations into the ocean. J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 107, 3073-3083.
• Scott, J.S., T.G. Masters, and F.L. Vernon (1994). Three-dimensional velocity structure of the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California- I. P-waves. Geophys. J. Int. 119, 611-626.
• Scott Burdick, Robert D. van der Hilst, Frank L. Vernon, Vladik Martynov, Trilby Cox, Jennifer Eakins, Taimi Mulder, Luciana Astiz, and Gary L. Pavlis (2009). Model Update December 2008: Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from P-wave Travel Time Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data. Seismological Research Letters 80(4): 638-645
• Schulte-Pelkum, V., P. S. Earle, and F. L. Vernon (2004), Strong directivity of ocean-generated seismic noise, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 5, Q03004, doi:10.1029/2003GC000520.
• Schulte-Pelkum, V., F. Vernon, J. Eakins (2003). Large teleseismic P wavefront deflections observed with broadband arrays, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 93, 747-756,.
• Schreiber, K. U. , J. N. Hautmann, A. Velikoseltsev, J. Wassermann, H. Igel, J. Otero, F. Vernon, and J.-P. R. Wells (2009). Ring Laser Measurements of Ground Rotations for Seismology. BSSA; 99: 1190 - 1198.
• Sandoval, E., D. Seber, M. Barazangi, F. Vernon, R. Mellors, A. Al-Amri (1998). Lithospheric Seismic Velocity Discontinuities Beneath the Arabian Shield. Geophy. Res. Lett., 25, 2873-2876.
• Sales, B. C., M. B. Maple, and F. L. Vernon III (1978). Initial oxidation kinetics near the Curie temperature of nickel, Phy. Rev. Bull. 18, 486-491.
• Reyes, A., J. Gonzalez, L. Munguía, A. Nava, F. Vernon, and J. N. Brune (1978). Locations of aftershocks of the Oaxaca earthquake using smoked paper recorders and digital event recorders, Geofis. Int. 17, 341-357.
• Rebollar, C., L. Quintanar, R. R. Castro, S. M. Day, J. Madrid, J. N. Brune, L. Astiz, F. Vernon (2001). Source Characteristics of a 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake that Occurred in the Transform Fault System of the Delfin Basin in the Gulf of California Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 91, 781-791
• Prince, J., E. Mena, I. Mora, J. Brune, L. Alonso, and F. Vernon (1982). Observations of damage and intensity, in J.G. Anderson and R.S. Simons, eds., The Mexicali Valley Earthquake of 9 June 1980, EERI Newsletter 16, 87-93.
• Prieto, G. A., R. L. Parker, F. L. Vernon. (2009), A Fortran 90 library for multitaper spectrum analysis, Published Online, In Press Computers and Geosciences, doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2008.06.007
• Prieto, G. A., R. L. Parker, D. J. Thomson, F. L. Vernon and R. L. Graham (2007). Reducing the bias of multitaper spectrum estimates. Geophys. J. Int., 171,1269-1281, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03592.x
• Prieto, G. A., P. M. Shearer, F. L. Vernon, and D. Kilb (2004). Earthquake source scaling and self-similarity estimation from stacking P and S spectra. J. Geophys. Res., 109, No. B8, B08310 10.1029/2004JB003084.
• Prieto, G. A., F.L. Vernon, G. Masters, and D. J. Thomson (2005), Multitaper Wigner-Ville Spectrum for Detecting Dispersive Signals from Earthquake Records, Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, IEEE, 938-941. [peer-reviewed]
• Prieto, G. A. , D. J. Thomson, F. L. Vernon, P. M. Shearer and R. L. Parker (2006). Confidence intervals of earthquake source parameters, Geophys. J. Int., 168,1227-1234, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03257.x.
• Pavlis, G. L., F. Vernon, D. Harvey, and D. Quinlan (2004). The generalized earthquake-location (GENLOC) package: an earthquake-location library. Computers & Geosciences, 30, 1079-1091.
• Pavlis, G. L., D. Repin, S. Radzevicius, F. Vernon (1996). Near-Surface Effects on High-Frequency Seismic Waves: Observations from Dense, Three-Component Seismic Arrays. Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 18, 251-260.
• Pavlis, G. L., H. Mahdi, F.L. Vernon (1994). Surface Wave Propagation in Central Asia: Observations of Scattering and Multipathing with the Kyrgyz Broadband Array. Proceedings - 16th Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 16, 291- 297. -
• Pavlis, G. L. and F. Vernon (1994). Calibration of Seismometers Using Ground Noise. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer. 84, 1243-1255.
• Park, J., F. L. Vernon III, and C.R. Lindberg (1987). Frequency dependent polarization analysis of high frequency seismograms. J. Geophys. Res. 92, 12664-12674.
• Park, J., C. R. Lindberg, and F. L. Vernon III (1987). Multitaper spectral analysis of high frequency seismograms. J. Geophys. Res. 92, 12675-12684.
• Orcutt, J., F. Vernon (1995). A prototype ocean seismic network (OSN) deep-sea borehole seismograph. in Multidisciplinary Observatories on the Deep Seafloor , January 11-13, Marseille, France, 150-160.
• Orcutt, J. O., C. deGroot-Hedlin, W. Hodgekiss, W. Kuperman, W. Munk, F. Vernon, P. Worcester, E. Bernard, R. Dziak, C. Fox, C. Chiu, C. Collins, J. Mercer, R. Odom, M. Park, D. Soukup, R. Spindel (2000). Long-Term Observations in Acoustics – the Ocean Acoustic Observatory Federation. Oceanography, 13, 57-63.
• Niu, F., T. Bravo, G. Pavlis, F. Vernon, H. Rendon, M. Bezada, and A. Levander (2007), Receiver function study of the crustal structure of the southeastern Caribbean plate boundary and Venezuela, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B11308, doi:10.1029/2006JB004802.
• Nersesov I. L., K. F. Priestley, V. G. Martynov, C. B. Archambeau, V. I. Zhuravlev, F. Vernon, J. Berger, N. T. Tarasov, W. R. Walter, D. Chavez, V. G. Kunakov, H. Eissler, and R. Aster (1991). Joint Soviet-American study of Seismic Verification of Nuclear Explosions, Nauka Publishing House, 143. (IN RUSSIAN)
• Munguía, L., J. N. Brune, A. Reyes, J. Gonzalez, R. Simons, and F. Vernon (1978). Digital seismic event recorder records and spectra for aftershocks of the November 29, 1978 Oaxaca earthquake, Geofis. Int. 17, 359-366.
• Mellors, R., F. Vernon, D. Thomson (1996). Detection of Dispersive Signals Using Multitaper Double-Frequency Coherence. Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 18, 745-753.
• Mellors, R. J., V. E. Camp, F. L. Vernon, A. M. S. Al-Amri, A. Ghalib (1999). Regional waveform propagation in the Arabian peninsula. J. Geophys. Res. 104, 20221-20235.
• Mellors, R. J., F. L. Vernon, G. L. Pavlis, G. A. Abers, S. Ghose, M. W. Hamburger, V. Mishatkin, B. Iliasov (1997). The Ms=7.3 1992 Suusamyr, Kyrgyzstan: 1: Constraints on fault geometry and source parameters based on aftershocks and body-wave modeling. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer. 87, 11-22
• Mellors, R. J., F. L. Vernon, and D. J. Thomson (1998). Detection of dispersive signals using multitaper dual-frequency coherence. Geophys. J. Int., 135, 146-154.
• Mellors, R. J., E. Riggs, J. Eakins, and F. Vernon, (2003). A Real-time Interactive Educational Seismology Exhibit. Seismol. Res. Lett., 74 (5), 635-640..
• Martynov, V. G., F. L. Vernon, R. J. Mellors, G. L. Pavlis (1999). High Frequency Attenuation in the Crust and Upper Mantle of the northern Tien Shan. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 89, 215-238.
• Martynov, V. G., F. L. Vernon, D. L. Kilb, and S. W. Roecker (2004). Directional Variations in Travel-Time Residuals of Teleseismic P Waves in the Crust and Mantle beneath Northern Tien Shan. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 94, 650-664.
• Lindquist, K.G., R.L. Newman, and F.L. Vernon (2007). The Antelope Interface to PHP and Applications: Web-based Real-time Monitoring. Seismological Research Letters. 78: 663 - 670.
• Lindquist, K.G. and T.S. Hansen, F.L. Vernon, R.L. Newman (2007). "Dynamic Dataflow Topology Monitoring in the ROADNet Real-Time Platform". In Proceedings from Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web (DSI 2007), Cambridge, MA (April 24, 48 pp.).
• Lindquist, K.G. and F.L. Vernon, D. Quinlan, J. Orcutt, A. Rajasekar, T.S. Hansen, S. Foley (2007). "The Data Acquisition Core of the ROADNet Real-Time Monitoring System". In Proceedings from Data Sharing and Interoperability on the World-wide Sensor Web (DSI 2007), Cambridge, MA (April 24, 48 pp.).
• Li, Yong-Gang, F. L. Vernon (2001). Characterization of the San Jacinto Fault Zone near Anza, California, by Fault-Zone Trapped Waves. J. Geophys. Res. 106, 30,671-30,688.
• Li, Y. G., K. Aki, and F. L. Vernon (1997). San Jacinto fault-zone guided waves: A discrimination for recent active strands near Anza, California. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 11689-11702.
• Li, Y. G., F. L. Vernon, and K. Aki (1997). Correction to “San Jacinto fault-zone guided waves: A discrimination for recent active strands near Anza, California”. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 20437.
• Lewis, M. A., Z. Peng, Y. Ben-Zion, and F. L. Vernon (2005). Shallow seismic trapping structure in the San Jacinto fault zone near Anza, California. Geophys. J. Int, 162, 867-881, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02684.x.
• Lewis, J.L., S.M. Day, H. Magistrale, R. Castro, L. Astiz, C. Rebollar, J. Eakins, F. Vernon, and J. Brune (2001). Crustal thickness of the Peninsular Ranges and Gulf extensional province in the Californias, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 13,599-13,611.
• Lewis, J. L., S. M. Day, H. Magistrale, J. Eakins, F. Vernon (2000). Regional crustal thickness variations of the Peninsular Ranges, southern California. Geology, 28, 303-306.
• Kilb, Debi, Vladislav G. Martynov, and Frank L. Vernon (2007). Aftershock Detection Thresholds as a Function of Time: Results from the ANZA Seismic Network following the 31 October 2001 ML 5.1 Anza, California, Earthquake. BSSA; 97: 780 - 792.
• Kilb, D., R.L. Newman, F.L. Vernon, J.A. Eakins, L. Ziegler, J. Bowen, and J. Otero, (2003). Education and Outreach based on data from the Anza seismic network in Southern California. Seismol. Res. Lett., 74 (5), 522-528..
• Kilb, D., C.S. Keen, R.L. Newman, G.M. Kent, D.T. Sandwell, F.L. Vernon, C.L. Johnson, and J.A. Orcutt, (2003). The Visualization Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Education and Outreach. Seismol. Res. Lett., 74 (5), 641-648.
• Kappus, M. and F.L. Vernon (1991). Acoustic signature of thunder from seismic records. J. Geophys. Res. 96, 10,989-11,006.
• Ichinose G, S. Day, H. Magistrale, T. Prush, F. Vernon, A. Edelman (1996). Crustal Thickness Variations Beneath The Peninsular Ranges, Southern California. Geo. Res. Lett., 23, 3095-3098.
• Hough, S., J. G. Anderson, J. Brune, F. Vernon III, J. Berger, J. Fletcher, L. Haar, T. Hanks, and L. Baker (1988). Attenuation near Anza, California. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 78, 676-691.
• Heuze, F., R. Archuleta, F. Bonilla, S. Day, M. Doroudian, A. Elgamal, S. Gonzales, M. Hoehler, T. Lai, D. Lavallee, B. Lawrence, P.-C. Liu, A. Martin, L. Matesic, B. Minster, R. Mellors, D. Oglesby, S. Park, M. Riemer, J. Steidl, F. Vernon, M. Vucetic, J. Wagoner, and Z. Yang (2004). Estimating site-specific strong earthquake motions. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 24, 199–223.
• Hedlin, M.A.H., J. Berger, F.L. Vernon (2002). Surveying infrasonic noise on oceanic islands, Pure and Applied Geophysics 159, 1127-1152.
• Hedlin, M. A.H., F.L. Vernon, J.B. Minster, J.A. Orcutt (1995). Regional Small-Event Identification Using Seismic Networks and Arrays. Proceedings - 17 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 17, 875-884.
• Hedlin, M. A., J.B. Minster, F.L. Vernon, J.A. Orcutt, (1994). Imaging Prominent Crustal Scatterers and Constraining Source Depth Using the Piñon Flat Broad-band 3-Component Array. Proceedings - 16th Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 16, 145-151.
• Hedlin, M. A. H., F. L. Vernon, J.-B. Minster, J. A. Orcutt (1996). Experiments in Regional Monitoring of Small Seismo/Acoustic Events. Proceedings - 18 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 18, 515-523.
• Hedlin, M. A. H., F. L. Vernon, J. Berger (1998). Surveying Infrasonic Noise on Oceanic Islands. Proceedings - 20 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 20, 586-595.
• Hedlin, M. A. H. , J. Berger, F. L. Vernon (1999). Surveying Infrasonic Noise on Oceanic Islands. Proceedings - 21 Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 21, Vol. II, 141-150.
• Hartse, H., R. Aster, M. Fehler, J. Scott, and F. Vernon (1994). Small-scale stress heterogeneity in the Anza seismic gap, Southern California. J. Geophys. Res. 99, 6801-6818.
• Hanson, J.A., J.B. Minster, and F.L. Vernon (1993). Characterization of Frequency Dependent Polarizations for Local Events Recorded on Surface and Borehole Instruments. Proceedings - 15th Annual Seismic Research Symposium. 15, 132.
• Haase, J. S., E. Hauksson, F. Vernon, A. Edelman (1996). Modeling of Ground Motion from a 1994 Northridge Aftershock Using a Tomographic Velocity Model of the Los Angeles Basin. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer. 86, S156-S167
• Gurrola, H., J. B. Minster, H. K. Given, F. L. Vernon, R. Aster, and J. Berger (1990). Analysis of high-frequency seismic noise in the western United States and eastern Kazakhstan. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer. 80, 951-970.
• Growdon M. A., G. L. Pavlis, F. Niu, F. L. Vernon, H. Rendon (2009), Constraints on mantle flow at the Caribbean–South American plate boundary inferred from shear wave splitting, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B02303, doi:10.1029/2008JB005887.
• Given, H. K., N. T. Tarasov, V. Zhuravlev, F. L. Vernon, J. Berger, and I. L. Nersesov (1990). High-frequency seismic observations in eastern Kazakhstan, USSR, with emphasis on chemical explosion experiments. J. Geophys. Res. 95, 295-307.
• G. A. Prieto, R. L. Parker, F. L. Vernon, P. M. Shearer and D. J. Thomson (2007). Uncertainties in Earthquake Source Spectrum Estimation using Empirical Green Functions. AGU Monograph on Radiated Energy and the Physics of Earthquake Faulting , R. E. Abercrombie, A. McGarr, H. Kanamori, and G. di Toro eds. Doi: 10.1029/170GM08 69-74.
• Frankel, A., J. Fletcher, F. Vernon, L. Haar, J. Berger, T. Hanks, and J. Brune (1986). Rupture characteristics and tomographic source imaging of ML ~3 earthquakes near Anza, Southern California. J. Geophys. Res. 91, 12,633-12,651.
• Fletcher, J., L. Haar, T. Hanks, L. Baker, F. Vernon, J. Berger, and J. Brune (1987). The digital array at Anza, California: Processing and initial interpretation of source parameters. J. Geophys. Res. 92, 369-382.
• Fletcher, J., L. Baker, T. C. Hanks, F. Vernon III, J. Berger, and J. Brune (1984). Seismicity and source parameters from the digital array at Anza, California, in Proc. 8th World Conf. Earthquake Engineering, July 21-28, San Francisco, Calif., 215-222.
• Fletcher, J. B., L. C. Haar, F. L. Vernon, J. N. Brune, T. C. Hanks, and J. Berger (1986). The effects of attenuation on the scaling of source parameters for earthquakes at Anza, California, in Earthquake Source Mechanics, Geophys. Monog. 37 (M. Ewing V. 6), Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C., 331-338.
• de Groot-Hedlin, C. D., and F. L. Vernon (1998). An Evolutionary Programming Method for Estimating Layered Velocity Structure. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 88, 1023-1035.
• Cotofana, C., L. Ding, P. Shin, S. Tilak, T. Fountain, J. Eakins, F. Vernon (2006). An SOA-based Framework for Instrument Management for Large-scale Observing Systems (USArray Case Study). Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Services 2006, IEEE, 815-822.
• Collins, J.A., F.L. Vernon, J.A. Orcutt, R.A. Stephen, K.R. Peal, F. B. Wooding, F.N. Spiess, and J.A. Hildebrand (2001). Broadband seismology in the oceans: lessons from the Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment. Geophy. Res. Lett., 28, 49-52.
• Collins, J.A., F.L. Vernon, J.A. Orcutt, R.A. Stephen (2002). Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Swell: Constraints from the Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment. Geophy. Res. Lett. 29(11), 10.1029/2001GL013302
• Chavez, D., J. Gonzalez, A. Reyes, M. Medina, C. Duarte, J. N. Brune, F. Vernon, R. Simons, L. K. Hutton, P. T. German, and C. E. Johnson (1982). Mainshock location and magnitude determination using combined U.S. and Mexican data, in U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 1254, The Imperial Valley, California, earthquake of October 15, 1979, U.S. Geol. Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 51-53.
• Chave, A.D., M. Arrott, C. Farcas, E. Farcas, I. Krueger, M. Meisinger, J.A. Orcutt, F.L. Vernon, C. Peach, O. Schofield and J. Kleinert, Cyberinfrastructure for the US Ocean Observatories Initiative: Enabling interactive observation in the ocean, Proc. IEEE Oceans ’09, Bremen, Germany, 10 pp.
• Chave, A.D., J.W. Bailey, S. Beaulieu, R. Butler, F.K. Duennebier, J.H. Filloux, D. Harris, M. Mandea, J.A. Orcutt, K. Smith, R. Stephen, P. Tarits, F.L. Vernon, and F.B. Wooding (2003). 2003-2004 Upgrades and Additions to the Hawaii-2 Observatory. Proc. 3rd Int.Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables and Related Technologies, IEEE, 14-19. [peer-reviewed]
• Burdick, Scott, Li, Chang, Martynov, Vladik, Cox, Trilby, Eakins, Jennifer, Mulder, Taimi, Astiz, Luciana, Vernon, Frank L., Pavlis, Gary L., van der Hilst, Robert D. (2008). Upper Mantle Heterogeneity beneath North America from Travel Time Tomography with Global and USArray Transportable Array Data Seismological Research Letters 79: 384-392
• Brune, J. N., R. S. Simons, F. Vernon, L. Canales, and A. Reyes (1980). Digital seismic event recorders: description and examples from the San Jacinto fault, the Imperial fault, the Cerro Prieto fault, and the Oaxaca, Mexico subduction fault, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 70, 1395-1408.
• Brune, J. N., J. Fletcher, F. Vernon, L. Haar, T. Hanks, and J. Berger (1986). Low stress-drop earthquakes in the light of new data from the Anza, California telemetered digital array, in Earthquake Source Mechanics, Geophys. Monog. 37 (M. Ewing V. 6), Amer. Geophys. Union, Washington, D.C., 237-246.
• Brune, J. N., F. L. Vernon III, R. Simons, J. Prince, and E. Mena (1982). Strong motion data recorded in Mexico, in U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 1254, The Imperial Valley, California, earthquake of October 15, 1979, U.S. Geol. Survey, Menlo Park, Calif. 319-349.
• Berger, J., L. N. Baker, J. N. Brune, J. B. Fletcher, T. C. Hanks, and F. L. Vernon (1984). The Anza array: a high dynamic-range, broad-band, digitally radio-telemetered seismic array, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 74, 1469-1481.
• Berger, J., H. Eissler, F. L. Vernon, I. L. Nersesov, M. B. Gokhberg, O. A. Stolyrov, and N. D. Tarasov (1988). Studies of high-frequency seismic noise in Eastern Kazakhstan. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer. 78, 1744-1758.
• Barker, B., M. Clark, P. Davis, M. Fisk, M. Hedlin, H. Israelsson, V. Khalturin, W.Y. Kim, K. McLaughlin, C. Meade, J. Murphy, R. North, J. Orcutt, C. Powell, P. G. Richards, R. Stead, J. Stevens, F. Vernon, T. Wallace (1998). Monitoring Nuclear Tests. Science, 281, 1967-1968.
• Anderson, J. G., J. N. Brune, J. Prince, and F. L. Vernon III (1983). Preliminary report on the use of digital strong motion recorders in the Mexicali Valley, Baja California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 73, 1451-1468.
• Al-Shurki, H., G. L. Pavlis, F. L. Vernon (1995). Site Effect Observations from Broadband Arrays Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer. 85, 1758-1769.
• Al-Amri, A. M., R. Mellors, F. L. Vernon (1999). Broadband Seismic Noise Characteristics of the Arabian Shield. The Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 24, 99-113.