Heckman, V. M., M. D. Kohler, and T. H. Heaton, Detecting failure events in buildings: a numerical and experimental analysis, 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, July 25-29, 2010. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., T. H. Heaton, and V. Heckman, A time-reversed reciprocal method for detecting high-frequency events in civil structures with accelerometer arrays, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, Boston, MA, July 30-31, 2009. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., T. H. Heaton, and S. C. Bradford, Propagating waves in the steel, moment-frame Factor building recorded during earthquakes, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 97, 1334-1345, 2007. (pdf)
Davey, F. J., D. Eberhart-Phillips, M. D. Kohler, S. Bannister, G. Caldwell, S. Henrys, M. Scherwath, T. Stern, and H. van Avendonk, Geophysical structure of the Southern Alps orogen, South Island, New Zealand, in A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand, edited by D. Okaya, T. Stern, and F. Davey, American Geophysical Union Monograph, 175, 47-73, doi: 10.1029/175GM04, 2007. (pdf)
Fuis, G. S., M. D. Kohler, M. Scherwath, U. ten Brink, H. J. A. Van Avendonk, and J. M. Murphy, A comparison between the transpressional plate boundaries of the South Island, New Zealand, and southern California, USA: the Alpine and San Andreas Fault systems, in A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand, edited by D. Okaya, T. Stern, and F. Davey, American Geophysical Union Monograph, 175, 307-327, doi:10.1029/175GM16, 2007. (pdf)
Kohler, M. , T. Heaton, R. Govindan, P. Davis, and D. Estrin, Using embedded wired and wireless seismic networks in the moment-resisting steel frame Factor building for damage identification, Proc. 4th China-Japan-U.S. Symposium on Structural Control and Monitoring, Oct. 16-17, 2006. (pdf)
Husker, A. L., M. D. Kohler, and P. M. Davis, Anomalous seismic amplitudes measured in the Los Angeles basin interpreted as a basin-edge diffraction catastrophe, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 96, 147-164, 2006. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., P. M. Davis, and E. Safak, Earthquake and ambient vibration monitoring of the steel frame UCLA Factor building, Earthquake Spectra, 21, 715-736, 2005. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., H. Magistrale, and R. W. Clayton, Mantle heterogeneities and the SCEC reference three-dimensional seismic velocity model version 3, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 93, 757-774, 2003. (pdf)
Fuis, G. S., R. W. Clayton, P. M. Davis, T. Ryberg, W. J. Lutter, D. A. Okaya, E. Hauksson, C. Prodehl, J. M. Murphy, M. L. Benthien, S. A. Baher, M. D. Kohler, K. Thygesen, G. Simila, and G. R. Keller, Fault systems of the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, southern California: Relocated aftershocks and seismic images from LARSE II, Geology, 31, 171-174, 2003. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D. and D. Eberhart-Phillips, Intermediate-depth earthquakes in a region of continental convergence: South Island, New Zealand, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 93, 85-93, 2003. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D. and D. Eberhart-Phillips, Three-dimensional lithospheric structure below the New Zealand Southern Alps, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B10), 2225, doi:10.1029/2001JB000182, 2002. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., and B. C. Kerr, Data report for the 1998-1999 Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment II Passive Array, USGS Open-File Report, 02-329, 105 pp., 2002. (pdf)
Baher, S., P. Davis, G. Fuis, J. Rubinstein, M. Kohler, S. Persh, A-S. Provost, Earthquake data report For LARSE II - High Resolution, Santa Monica, California, USGS Open File Report, 02-2002, 2002.
Houseman, G. A., E. A. Neil, and M. D. Kohler, Lithospheric instability beneath the Transverse Ranges of California, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 16237-16250, 2000. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., B. C. Kerr, and P. M. Davis, The 1997 Los Angeles Basin Passive Seismic Experiment - a dense, urban seismic array to investigate basin lithospheric structures, USGS Open-File Report, 00-148, 109 pp., 2000. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., Lithospheric deformation beneath the San Gabriel Mountains in the southern California Transverse Ranges, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 15025-15041, 1999. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., and P. M. Davis, Crustal thickness variations in Southern California from Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment passive phase teleseismic travel times, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 87, 1330-1344, 1997.
Kohler, M. D., J. E. Vidale, and P. M. Davis, Complex scattering within D" observed on the very dense Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment passive array, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1855-1858, 1997
Fuis, G. S., D. A. Okaya, R. W. Clayton, W. J. Lutter, T. Ryberg, T. M. Brocher, T. M. Henyey, M. L. Benthien, P. M. Davis, J. Mori, R. D. Catchings, U. S. ten Brink, M. D. Kohler, K. D. Klitgord, and R. G. Bohannon, Images of crust beneath Southern California will aid study of earthquakes and their effects, Eos, Trans., Am. Geophys. Union (article), 77(18), p. 173, 1996.
Kohler, M. D., P. M. Davis, H. Liu, M. Benthien, S. Gao, G. S. Fuis, R. W. Clayton, D. Okaya, and J. Mori, Data Report for the 1993 Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment (LARSE93), Southern California: A Passive Study From Seal Beach Northeastward Through the Mojave Desert, USGS Open-File Report, 96-85, 82 pp., 1996. (pdf)
Kohler, M. D., Three-dimensional velocity structure and resolution of the core-mantle boundary region from whole-mantle inversions of body waves, Phys. Earth Plan. Int., 101, 85-104, 1997.
Kohler, M. D., and T. Tanimoto, One-layer global inversion for outermost core velocity, Phys. Earth Plan. Int., 72, 173-184, 1992.
Kohler, M. D., and D. J. Stevenson, Modeling core fluid motions and the drift of magnetic field patterns at the CMB by use of topography obtained by seismic inversion, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 1473-1476, 1991.