Research Highlights

CONTACTS

Group Leader
Wendee Brunish
Deputy Group Leader
Lee Steck
Administrative Specialist
Gloria Chavez
Administrative Specialist
Jody Benson
Group Specialist
Cecilia Gonzales

Leigh House

Geophysicist

Research Interests

Seismic Reflection Modeling and Imaging
Seismicity and Tectonics
Induced Microseismicity

Contact

505 667 1912 - Phone
505-667-8487 - FAX

Education

Ph.D., Earthquake Seismology, Columbia University, 1982.
M.S., Seismology, Columbia University, 1977.
B.S., Applied Geophysics, Columbia University, 1972.

Experience

Technical Staff Member, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 1983 to present
Program Director, Geophysics Program, National Science Foundation (1 year assignment), 2000 to 2001
Research Geophysicist, Exploration Research Division, Gulf Science and Technology Co, Pittsburgh, PA, 1981 to 1983
Research Assistant, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1975 to 1981
Electronics Technician, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY. (sailed 80 N to 70 S on RVs Vema and Conrad), 1972 to 1975

Awards, Professional and Personal Activities

SEG Research Committee, 1996-present
Organizer of research workshops, Member of Technical Program Committees, SSA, SEG
Los Alamos Achievement Award, STA/NSF fellowship for research in Japan
USSF Soccer Referee, Cub Scout Den Leader, Northern New Mexico District
(BSA) Award of Merit

Selected Recent Publications

Fehler, M., W.S. Phillips, L. House, R.H. Jones, R. Aster, and C. Rowe, Improved relative locations of clustered earthquakes using constrained multiple event location, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 90, 775-780, 2000.

Fehler, M. L. House, W.S. Phillips, and R. Potter, A method to allow temporal variation of velocity in travel-time tomography using microearthquakes induced during hydraulic fracturing, Tectonophysics, 298, 189-201, 1998.

House, L., and R. Flores, Seismological studies of a fluid injection in sedimentary rocks, East Texas, Pure appl. geophys., 159, 371-401, 2002.

Phillips, W.S., J.T. Rutledge, L.S. House, and M.C. Fehler, Induced microearthquake patterns in hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs: Six Case Studies, Pure appl. geophys., 159, 345-369, 2002.

Phillips, W.S., L.S. House, and M.C. Fehler, Detailed joint structure in a geothermal reservoir from studies of induced microearthquake clusters, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 11,745-11,763, 1997.