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Professor
Clark R. Wilson
Professor and Wallace E. Pratt Professor in Geophysics
Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1975
Field of Study:
Geophysics
Short Biography:
Dr. Wilson
is a member of the project science team for the Gravity Recovery and
Climate Experiment (GRACE) dual satellite mission, and with students is
developing methods to estimate changes in water storage in river basins
from time variations in the gravity field measured from space. See the
website at www.csr.utexas/grace.
Dr. Wilson is also principal investigator in the development of a
surface gravimeter system for measuring changes in ground water
storage. This NSF funded project is being conducted with colleagues
from the Department, the Bureau of Economic Geology, the US Geological
Survey, and the University of Arizona.
Dr. Wilson's interests in geophysics cover
two main areas, geodesy and applied seismology. In the area of geodesy
he has support from NASA to investigate the causes of earth rotation and
gravity field changes that arise from air and water mass redistribution
due to weather and climate. This is an interdisciplinary area, and
Dr. Wilson works with hydrologists, oceanographers, aerospace engineers,
and others. Dr. Wilson is a member of the Center for Space Research in
the College of Engineering, and his work in geodesy involves heavy collaboration
with scientists in that unit. See the websites for the Center for
Space Research Projects that he is working on: related to global water
balance: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/research/ggfc
and related to the global angular momentum budget of the earth: http://www.csr.utexas.edu/eos
In the area of applied seismology. Dr. Wilson has support, together
with two colleagues in Civil Engineering, to develop a national earthquake
engineering facility for the study of geotechnical properties of the near-surface
using seismic methods. See the website for this project at http://nees.utexas.edu
This facility will use the tools of exploration geophysics to determine
shear velocity for the upper few hundred meters, a critical parameter
related to site response to earthquake shaking. At the same time,
the results will apply directly to the exploration geophysics problem
of finding shallow velocity structure related to the ‘statics’
problem of reflection seismology.
Contact Information:
Office: 4.220C
Phone: 512-471-5008
FAX: 512-471-9425
Email:
crwilson@mail.utexas.edu
Office Hours:
M, W, F: 11:00 - 12:00
Mailing
Address:
The University
of Texas at Austin
Geol Science Dept
1 University Station C1100
Austin, TX 78712-0254
