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Richard J. Blakely
U.S.
Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, California
94025 USA
phone: 650-329-5316 (voice)
fax: 650-329-5133 (fax)
email: blakely@usgs.gov
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Richard Blakely is a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey currently working with
the Western Earth Surface Processes Team
in
Menlo Park, California.
His interests focus on the application of potential-field
methods to geologic and tectonic problems.
Recent investigations include
the application of gravity measurements to estimate the size and depth of magma
chambers beneath the Cascade Range of Oregon, mapping concealed faults in
western Oregon and Washington
with aeromagnetic and seismic techniques, and estimating the size and shape of
Quaternary basins in the Death Valley region of California
and Nevada.
Blakely received his B.S. degree from Oregon
State University
and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford
University. He was an Associate
Professor at Oregon State
University prior to joining the
U.S. Geological Survey in 1975. He also has served as consulting professor for Stanford
University and Oregon
State University
and has taught classes to various organizations in the United
States and South America. Blakely is a Fellow of the American
Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America and has received the
Meritorious Service Award from the Department of the Interior.
