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Dr. Graham M. Kent is Director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory/ and Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Previous to July 2009, Graham was a Research Geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and had been Director of the Visualization Center at Scripps from 2001-2009. Dr. Kent is a native of South Lake Tahoe, California. He attended San Diego State University, where he studied Geophysics and graduated Valedictorian of the Class of 1985. Soon thereafter, he entered graduate school at Scripps Institution of Oceanography receiving his PhD in 1992.
After a 4-year-long appointment at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Graham returned to Scripps to continue his work in geophysics, with an emphasis toward seismic studies of extensional tectonics, ranging from magma chambers beneath mid-ocean ridges to fault hazards at Lake Tahoe. While at Scripps, he led an effort to use advanced visualization techniques to study faulting and volcanic systems.
Dr. Kent has conducted a variety of studies around the globe, including tsunami and ocean bottom seismic research. He’s mapped earthquake faults beneath Lake Tahoe that have produced tsunamis and most recently has placed important constraints on southern San Andreas Fault recurrence times through mapping cross faults beneath the Salton Sea. More recently, his research interests include mapping fault hazards within the Walker Lane using seismic imagery in lakes and airborne LiDAR on land. He was one of two PIs on a $15M research program to map faults hazards offshore of Southern California (California Public Utility Commission funded) in association with nuclear storage at San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS). Another current project is the $4M California High Speed Rail Geohazard evaluation program.
He also brought ShakeOut to Nevada in 2010 (1st state to join California); the 9th Annual Great Nevada Shakeout earthquake drill (Oct. 18th, 2018) in partnership with the Great Shakeout will be the largest combined public earthquake drill in the world. 590,000+ Nevadans participated in this exercise in 2017. Kent also spearheaded AlertTahoe, a public and private program to bring earthquake early warning (EEW) to the Tahoe region, and build out a fire camera network for early detection of ignition in the basin. Together, this system is designed to provide hardened communications for 'all hazards' through a redundant mesh microwave network. The real-time Axis cameras have scored early successes in alerting fire personnel of the earliest stages of fire ignition at Tahoe (USFS, Tahoe Prosperity enter and others) , and more recently, in central Nevada as part of a parallel Wildland Fire Camera network funded by BLM. In the inagural year (2015), over two dozen fires were either discovered or early Intel was provided in Tahoe and central Nevada. In 2016, this number jumped to 108 fires, and last year, 240+ fires within the larger ALERTWildfire footprint that included Tahoe, central Nevada and San Diego County (supported by San Diego Gas and Electric). ALERTWildfire was geared up for fire season 2018 to place an additional 50+ existing cameras in the field to widen the footprint of this successful program, including support from SoCal Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric. AlertTahoe continues to team with the Tahoe Prosperity Center to raise funds to expand the camera network through private donations. The 2018 field season included installs in Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Orange County/Los Angeles and the North Bay Area. Partner institutions are UC San Diego and the University of Oregon.
He is married to Stephanie Kent, a Tahoe native, and has two children, Matthew and Christine. Graham was also a NASA Astronaut Finalist, Class of 1996.
Sahakian, V., J. Bormann, N. Driscoll, A. Harding, G. Kent and S. Wesnousky, Seismic constraints on the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault: Implications for the length and magnitude of future earthquake ruptures, Journal of Geophysical Research (Solid Earth), pp. 1-21, doi: 10.1002/2016JB013467, 2017.
Noble, P.J., G.I. Ball, S.H. Zimmerman, J. Maloney, S.B. Smith, G. Kent, K.D. Adams, R.E. Karlin and N. Driscoll, Holocene paleoclimate history of Fallen Leaf Lake, CA., from geochemistry and sedimentology of well-dated sediment cores, Quaternary Science Reviews, 193-210, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.037, 2016.
Angster, S., S. Wesnousky, W. Huang, G. Kent, T. Nakata, and H. Goto, Application of UAV photography to refining the slip rate on the Pyramid Lake fault zone, Nevada, Bulletin Seismological Society of America, 106,(2), p. 1-14, doi: 10.1785/0120150144, 2016.
Smith, K., G. Kent, D. Slater, G. Plank, M. Williams, M. McCarthy, F. Vernon, N. Driscoll and H.-W. Braun, Integrated multi-hazard regional networks: Earthquake warning/response, wildfire detection/response, and extreme weather tracking, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 599-612, 2016.
Basler-Reeder, K., J. Louie, S. Pullammanappallil, and G. Kent, Joint optimization of vertical component gravity and P-wave first arrivals by simulated annealing, Geophysics, v. 81(4), p. 1-13, doe:10.1190/GEO2015-0643.1, 2016.
Maloney, J. M., N. W. Driscoll, G. M. Kent, J. Bormann, S. Duke, and T. Freeman, Segmentation and step-overs along strike-slip fault systems in the California Borderlands: Implications for fault architecture and basin formation, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 655-677, 2016.
Dingler, J., N. Driscoll, G. Seitz, and G. Kent, New quantitative constraints on Holocene slip rate and surface displacement along the southern San Andreas Fault in Mecca Hills using ground based terrestrial laser scanning, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 809-831, 2016.
Kent, G., Schmauder, G., Maloney, J., Driscoll, N., Kell, A., Smith, K., Baskin, R. and Seitz, G., Reevaluating Late-Pleistocene and Holocene active faults in the Tahoe basin, California-Nevada, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 833-858, 2016.
Seitz, G., G. Kent, N. Driscoll and J. Dingler, Large earthquakes on the Incline Village Fault from onshore and offshore paleoseismology, Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 859-877, 2016.
Ruhl, C. J., K. D. Smith, G. M. Kent, and Tyler C. Seaman, Seismotectonics and seismic hazard implications for the Reno-Tahoe area of the Walker Lane in Nevada and California, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 879-895, 2016.
Louie, J. N., Schmauder, G. C., Kent, G. M., Smith, K. D., McBean, K., McBean, A., and Hall, K., Simulation of the scenario-earthquake shaking in the Lake Tahoe Basin--A comparison of Shakeup and Nevada ShakeZoning, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied Geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 897-925, 2016.
Smith, K. D., G. M. Kent, D. P. von Seggern, N. W. Driscoll, and A. Eisses, Evidence for Moho-lower crustal transition depth diking and rifting of the Sierra Nevada micro plate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL070283, 2016.
Strachan, S., Kelsey, E.P., Brown, R.F., Dascalu, S., Harris, F., Kent, G., Lyles, B., McCurdy, G., Slater, D., Smith, K., 2016. Filling the data gaps in mountain climate observatories through advanced technology, refined instrument siting, and a focus on gradients. Mountain Research and Development,Nov. 2016, Vol. 36, No. 4: 518-527, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-16-00094.
Han, L., Hole, J. A., Stock, J. M., Fuis, G. S., Kell, A., Driscoll, N. W., Kent, G. M., Harding, A. J., Rymer, M. J., Gonzalez-Fernandez, A., and Lazaro-Mancilla, O., 2016, Continental rupture and the creation of new crust in the Salton Trough rift, Southern California and northern Mexico: Results from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project, J. Geophys. Res.: Solid Earth, 121, 7469-7489, dio: 10.1002/2016JB013139.
Sahakian, V., A. Kell, A. Harding, N. Driscoll and G. Kent, 2016, Geophysical evidence for a San Andreas subparallel transtentional fault along the northeastern shore of the Salton Sea, Bull. Seis. Soc., v. 106(5), p. 1-16, doi: 10.1785/0120150350.
Eisses, A.K., A. Kell, G.M. Kent, N.W. Driscoll, R.L. Baskin, K.D. Smith, R.E. Karlin, J.K. Louie and S.K Pullammanappallil, New constraints on fault architecture, slip rates and strain partitioning beneath Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Geosphere, v. 11(3), p. 1-22, doi: 10.1130/GES00821.1, 2015.
Darnell, P., N. W. Driscoll, D. Brothers, J. E. Conrad, J. Kluesner, G. Kent, and B. D. Andrews, Colored shaded-relief bathymetry, acoustic back scatter, and selected perspective views of the Inner Continental Borderland, southern California, Scientific Investigations Map 3324, USGS Publications Warehouse, DOI: 10.3133/sim3324, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3324.
Arnulf, A. F., A. J. Harding, G. M. Kent, S. M. Carbotte, J. P. Canales, and M. R. Nedimovic, Anatomy of an active submarine volcano, Geology, p. 1-4, doi:10.1130/G35629.1, 2014.
Dong, S., G. Ucarkus, S. G. Wesnousky, J. Maloney, G. Kent, N. Driscoll, and R. Baskin, Strike-slip faulting along the Wassuk Range of the northern Walker Lane, Geosphere 1-9, v. 10(1), doi:10.1130/GES00912.1, 2014.
Arnulf, A. F., A. J. Harding, G. M. Kent, S. C. Singh, and W. Crawford, Constraints on the shallow velocity structure of the Lucky Strike Volcano, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, from downward continued multichannel streamer data, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JB010500, 2014.
Umhoefer, P. J., S. J. Maloney, B. Buchanan, J. R. Arrowsmith, G. Martinez-Gutierrez, G. Kent, N. Driscoll, A. Harding, D. Kaufman and T. Rittenour, Late Quaternary faulting history of the Carrizal and related faults, La Paz region, Baja California Sur, Mexico, Geosphere, 10(3), doi:10.1130/GES00924.1, 2014.
Smith, S. B., R. Karlin, G. Kent, G. Seitz, and N. Driscoll, Holocene subaqueous paleoseismology of Lake Tahoe, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 1-18, doi: 10.1130/B30629.1, 2013.
Coyan, M. M., J. R. Aerosmith, P. Umhoefer, J. Coyan, G. Kent, N. Driscoll, and G. M. Gutierrez, Geometry and Quaternary slip behavior of the San Juan de los Planes and Saltito fault zones, Baja California Sur, Geosphere, 426-443, vol. 9(3), doi: 10.1130/GES00806, 2013.
Maloney, J. M., P. J. Noble, N. W. Driscoll, G. M. Kent, S. B. Smith, G. C. Schmauder, J. M. Babcock, R. L. Baskin, R. Karlin, A. M. Kell, G. G. Seitz, S. Zimmerman and J. A., Paleoseismic history of the Fallen Leaf segment of the West Tahoe–Dollar Point fault reconstructed from slide deposits in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California–Nevada, Geosphere, 1-26, vol. 9(4), doi: 10.1130/GES00877, 2013.
Arnulf, A. F., A. J. Harding, S. C. Singh, G. M. Kent, and W. C. Crawford, Nature of upper crust beneath the Lucky Strike volcano using full waveform inversion of streamer data, Geophys. J. Int., 1-21, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt461, 2013.
Rose, E.J., Fuis, G.S., Stock, J.M., Hole, J.A., Kell, A.M., Kent, G., Driscoll, N.W., Goldman, M., Reusch, A.M., Han, L., Sickler, R.R., Catchings, R.D., Rymer, M.J., Criley, C.J., Scheirer, D.S., Skinner, S.M., Slayday-Criley, C.J., Murphy, J.M., Jensen, E.G., McClearn, R., Ferguson, A.J., Butcher, L.A., Gardner, M.A., Emmons, I., Loughran, C.L., Svitek, J.R., Bastien, P.C., Cotton, J.A., Croker, D.S., Harding, A.J., Babcock, J.M., Harder, S.H., and C.M. Rosa, 2013, Borehole-explosion and air-gun data acquired in the 2011 Salton Seismic Imaging Project (SSIP), southern California—Description of the survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013–1172, 83 p.,http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131172.
Arnulf, A. F., A. J. Harding, S. C. Singh, G. M. Kent and W. Crawford, Fine-scale velocity structure of upper oceanic crust from full waveform inversion of downward continued seismic reflection data at the Lucky Strike Volcano, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Geophysical Research Letters, pp. 1-16, L08303, DOI:10.1029/2012GL051064, 2012.
Henig, A. S., D. K. Blackman, A. J. Harding, J.-P. Canales and G. M. Kent, Downward continued multichannel seismic refraction analysis of Atlantis Massif oceanic core complex, 30°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems (G-cubed), 1-25, 13 (1), Q0AG07, doi: 10.1029/2012GC004059, 2012.
Brothers, D., A. Harding, A. Gonzalez-Fernandez, W. S. Holbrook, G. Kent, N. Driscoll, J. Fletcher, D. Lizarralde, P. Umhoefer and G. Axen, Farallon slab detachment and deformation of the Magdalena Shelf, southern Baja California, Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L09307, doi:10.1029/2011GL050828, 2012.
Sutherland, F., G. Kent, A. Harding, P. Umhoefer, N. Driscoll, D. Lizarralde, J. Fletcher, G. Axen, W. Holbrook, A. Gonzalez-Fernandez and P. Lonsdale, Middle Miocene to early Pliocene oblique extension in the southern Gulf of California, Geosphere, 8, 752-770, doi:1130/GES00770.1, 2012.
Holbrook, W. S., G. Kent, K. Keranen, H. P. Johnson, A. Trehu, H. Tobin, J. Caplan-Auerbach, and J. Beeson, Cascadia forearc seismic survey: Open access data available, EOS, 50, 521-522, December 11th, 2012.
Kent, G., Schauder, G., Maloney, J., Driscoll, N., Kell, A., Smith, K., Baskin, R. and Seitz, G., Reevaluating Late-Pleistocene and Holocene active faults in the Tahoe basin, California-Nevada, Special Volume: Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Applied geology in California, editors Robert Anderson and Horacio Ferriz, p. 833-858, 2016.
Dingler, J., G. Kent, N. Driscoll, G. Seitz, J. Babcock, A. Harding, B. Karlin, and C. Goldman, A high-resolution seismic CHIRP investigation of active normal faulting across the Lake Tahoe basin, California-Nevada, Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., pp. 1089-1107, v. 121, doi:10.1130/B26244.1 , 2009.
Morgan, C. W., G. M. Kent, G. G. Seitz, and M. Novak, Glacio-lacustrine stratigraphy, aquifer characterization and contaminant transport: a case study in South Lake Tahoe, California, Hydrogeology Journal, pp. 981-994,16(5), doi: 10.1007/s10040-008-0299-9, 2008.
Kent, G., J. Babcock, N. Driscoll, A. Harding, J. Dingler, G. Seitz and R. Karlin, Reply: 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe, Geology, e114-e116, doi:10.1130/G23127Y.1, 2006.
Kent, G. M., J. A. Babcock, N. W. Driscoll, A. J. Harding, G. G. Seitz, J. A. Dingler, J. V. Gardner, C. R. Goldman, A. C. Heyvaert, P. Gayes, R. Karlin, L. A. Mayer, C. W. Morgan, L. A. Owen, R. C. Richards, A 60 k.y. record of extension across the western boundary of the Basin and Range Province: Estimate of slip rates from offset shoreline terraces and a catastrophic slide beneath Lake Tahoe, Geology, 33, 365-368, 2005.
Kent, G. M., Singh, S. C., Harding, A. J., Sinha, M. C., Orcutt, J. A., Barton, P. J., White, R. S., Bazin, S., Hobbs, R. W., Tong, C. H., and Pye, J. W., Evidence from three-dimensional seismic reflectivity images for enhanced melt supply beneath mid-ocean-ridge discontinuities, Nature, 614-618, 406, 2000.
Mutter, J. C., S. M. Carbotte, W. Su, L. Xu, P. Buhl, R. S. Detrick, G. M. Kent, J. A. Orcutt, and A. J. Harding, “Seismic images of active magma systems beneath the East Pacific Rise between 17°05’S and 17°35’S”, Science, 268, 391-395, 1995.
Detrick, R. S., A. J. Harding, G. M. Kent, J. A. Orcutt, J. C. Mutter, and P. Buhl, “Seismic Structure of the Southern East Pacific Rise”, Science, 259, 499-503, 1993.
Kent, G. M., A. J. Harding, and J. A. Orcutt, “Evidence for a smaller magma chamber beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°30’N”, Nature, 344, 650-653, 1990.
Neal Driscoll, Alistair Harding, Adrien Arnulf, Steve Holbrook, Satish Singh, Larry Smarr, Frank Vernon, Paul Umhoefer, Gordon Seitz, Rob Baskin, Danny Brothers, Ken Smith, Annie Kell, Jayne Bormann and John Louie.
Amy Eisses (UNR, '11, Anadarko), Roxy Frary (UNR, '11, Nobel Energy), Tyler Kent (UNR, '12, Noble Energy), Courtney Bralio (UNR, '16, NDOM), Jeffrey Kinney (UNR, present), Kelley Shaw (UNR, present).

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