Monica D. Kohler
Research Seismologist/Earthquake Engineer
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
kohler at ess.ucla.edu
Office:
Dept. of Civil Engineering.
Thomas Lab 221, M/C 104-44
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Phone: (626) 395-4142
Fax: (626) 568-2719
Education
Harvard University, B.A., 1988
California Institute of Technology, Ph.D., 1995
Research Interests
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Operating the real-time seismic monitoring network in the steel moment-frame UCLA Factor building for use in building-ground motion recordings as part of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA.
- Computing impulse response functions of the Factor building using local and regional earthquake data for use as time history input in numerical dynamic analysis. Computing wave propagation characteristics for various damage scenarios using finite-element modeling of Factor building.
- Testing the response of a wireless Stargate-mote, tiered, embedded seismic structure network.
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3D seismic tomographic modeling of crustal and mantle lithosphere beneath young transpressional plate boundary systems with application to the Transverse Ranges in southern California, and the Southern Alps in South Island, New Zealand.
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Developing and testing new travel-time inversion technique using wavelet-type approach with spatially variable velocity structure resolution as a function of seismic raypath density.
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Developing the mantle velocity structure contribution for the SCEC Southern California Reference Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Model Version 3.
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Investigating the occurrence of intermediate-depth earthquakes not associated with subduction in central South Island, New Zealand with respect to mantle lithospheric seismic velocity heterogeneity and deformation.
