Dr. Robert F. Mereu

Seismology

Bob Mereu

Professor Emeritus
Office: BGS 1000E
Phone: 519-661-3605
Fax: 519-661-3198
Email: rmereu@uwo.ca


Research Interests

  • Seismicity in Ontario – Director of the Southern Ontario Seismic Network (SOSN)
  • Crustal and upper mantle seismology
  • Inversion, wave propagation and scattering
  • Time series analysis, digital filtering, signal enhancement
  • Instrumentation

Selected Publications

Dineva, S., Eaton, D. , Ma, S. and Mereu R.F., 2007. The October 2005 Georgian Bay, Canada, earthquake sequence: Mafic Dykes and their role in the mechanical heterogeneity of the Precambrian crust Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. V97:457-473.

Dineva, S. Eaton, D.W., and Mereu, R.F., 2004. Seismicity of the southern Great Lakes: Revised earthquake hypocentres and possible tectonic controls. Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. V 94:1902-1916.
Mereu, R.F., 2003, The heterogeneity of the crust and its effect on seismic wide-angle reflection fields: Chapter 10, pages 257-279: In Heterogeneity of the Crust and Upper Mantle: nature, scaling and seismic properties. Eds. John A. Goff and Klaus Holliger).Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Mereu, R.F. 2003, Simulating a mechanical pen recorder with a computer program. Seismological Research Letters. V 74: 44-45.
Mereu, R.F., Asmis, H.W., Dunn, B., Brunet, J., Eaton, D., Dineva, S., and Yapp, A., 2002. The seismicity of the western lake Ontario Area: Results from the Southern Ontario Seismic Network (SOSN) (1992-1-2001). Seismological Research Letters, V 73: 534-551.
Mereu, R.F. 2000. The effect of small random reflectors on the complexity of Pg coda. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, V 120: 183-199)
Mereu, R.F. 2000. The complexity of the crust and Moho under the southeastern Superior and Grenville Provinces of the Canadian Shield from seismic wide-angle reflection data. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. V 37: pp 439-458
Winardhi, S. and Mereu, R.F., 1997. Crustal structure of the Superior and Grenville Provinces of the southeastern Canadian Shield. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences , V 34, pp 1167-1184.







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