Floating on the Seine River in Paris.  Photos taken by my 3 year old daughter.

Jessie Lafayette Bonner
Seismologist

Jessie joined Weston Geophysical in February of 2000 after spending two years as a staff member of the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Geophysics Laboratory.  His research interests include:

• Variable-period surface wave magnitude estimates
• Short-period Rg generation and propagation
• Explosion source phenomenology
• Lg modeling
• Depth phase identification
• Regional seismology
• Microseismic event detection and phase identification
• Mining ground truth database development.

Jessie obtained his Ph.D at SMU in 1997 under the direction of Dr. Eugene Herrin.  For his dissertation, he completed research in three different areas, including quantifying surface wave radiation from quarry blasts, determining the crustal structure of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico, and correlating heat flow and seismicity in California.  After finishing his degree, he assisted Paul Golden in the construction, operation, and certification of the primary seismic array NVAR near Mina, Nevada.  Jessie obtained his M.S. from Baylor University (1993) under the direction of Dr. Tom Goforth, and he graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.S. in geology (1991).

Jessie is married to the former Leigh Erin Murray and has a son, Edward Wesley (born Jan 2000), and a daughter, Isabelle Beatrice (April 2004).

Eiffel Tower: 2nd Observation Deck

  Contact

  Weston Geophysical Corporation
  4000 S. Medford Suite 10W
  Lufkin, TX 75904
  bonner@westongeophysical.com
  Phone: (936)-632-4226
  Fax: (936)-632-4226
 

Bonner, J. L., D. Russell, D. Harkrider, D. Reiter, and R. Herrmann (2006).  Development of a time-domain, variable-period surface wave magnitude measurement procedure for application at regional and teleseismic distances,  part II:  application and M_s-m_b performance. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 96, 678 - 696.  (PDF)

Hooper, H., J. Bonner, and M. Leidig, (2006).  Effects of confinement on short-period surface waves: observations from a new dataset.  Bull. Seism. Soc. Am.  96,  697-712. (PDF)

Patton, H., J. Bonner, and  I. Gupta, (2005).  Rg Excitation by underground explosions: insights from source modeling the 1997 Kazahkstan Depth of Burial Experiments. Geophys. J. Int.  doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02752.x (PDF)

Leidig, M., J. Bonner, and D. Reiter, (2005).  Development of a velocity model for Black Mesa, Colorado Plateau. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 95.  2136-2151. (PDF)

Shumway, R.H., J.L. Bonner and D.T. Reiter (2004). Nonparametric deconvolution of seismic depth phases.  D.R. Brillinger, E. A. Robinson and F. Schoenberg ed., Time Series Analysis and Applications to Geophysical Systems,  IMA Volume 139, 1-10, New York: Springer-Verlag.

Leidig, M., D. Reiter, J. Bonner, and A. Rodgers, (2004).  Applicability of 3D modeling techniques in creating single-station locations: a test case in southern  Asia.  Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 94, 753- 759.  (PDF)

McLaughlin, K., J. Bonner, and T. Barker (2004).  Seismic source mechanisms from quarry blasts:  modeling observed Love and Rayleigh wave radiation patterns from a central Texas quarry. Geophys. J. Int.  156. 79-93. (PDF)

Bonner, J., D. Blackwell, and E. Herrin (2003).  Thermal constraints on earthquake depths in California, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 93, No. 6. (PDF)

Bonner, J., D. Harkrider, E.T. Herrin, R.H. Shumway, S.A. Russell and I.M. Tibuleac (2003).  Evaluation of short-period, near-regional M_s scales for the Nevada Test Site, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 93, 1773-1791. (PDF)

Bonner, J., D.C. Pearson, and S. Blomberg , (2003).  Azimuthal variation of short-period Rayleigh waves from cast blasts in northern Arizona, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 93. (PDF)

Bonner, J., D.T. Reiter, and R. H. Shumway (2002). Application of a cepstral F-statistic for improved depth estimation, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 92, 1675-1693. (PDF)

Sorrells, G., J. Bonner, J., and E.T. Herrin, (2002).  Seismic precursors to space shuttle shock fronts, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 159, 1153-1181.

Bonner, J., D.C. Pearson, W.S. Phillips, and S.R. Taylor (2001).  Shallow velocity structure of the Shagan River Test Site in eastern Kazakhstan, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 158, 2017-2039.

Bonner, J., and E. T. Herrin, (1999).  Surface wave studies of the Sierra Madre Occidental of northern Mexico,  Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 89, 1323. (PDF)

Bonner, J., E. Herrin, and T. Goforth (1996).  Azimuthal variation of Rg from Central Texas Quarry Blasts,  Seism. Res. Letts, 67, 43.

Sorrells, G.G., E.T. Herrin, and J. Bonner (1997). Construction of regional ground truth databases using seismic and infrasound data, Seism. Res. Letts, 68, 743.

Goforth, T., and J. Bonner (1995).  Characteristics of Rg waves recorded from quarry blasts in central Texas,  Bull. Seism. Soc. Am, 85, 1232. (PDF)

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