Keith Sverdrup
Professor
322 Lapham Hall
(414) 229-4017
sverdrup@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf-47kb)
Degrees:
Ph.D., Earth Science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego
B.S., Geophysics from the University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Seismotectonics and geoscience education in undergraduate oceanography.
Teaching Areas: Oceanography, earthquakes and plate tectonics
Other Activities:
Co-PI on a four-year National Science Foundation undergraduate scholarship program, the COMPASS Scholarships, for students majoring in the natural sciences. The program supports a cohort of natural science majors by offering special courses for them, mentorship and tutoring, and financial support.
I am the principal author of two introductory oceanography textbooks. These textbooks have been adopted by colleges and universities across the country as well as overseas.
Over the years I have served on a number of committees, generally related to undergraduate education, for the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, and the Geological Society of America.
Selected Publications:
Books:
Duxbury, A.C., A.B. Duxbury, and K.A. Sverdrup, Fundamentals of Oceanography, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill Publishers, 344 p., Copyright 2007, ISBN 0-07-242970-6.
Sverdrup, K.A., and E.V. Armbrust, An Introduction to the World’s Oceans, 9th edition, McGraw-Hill Publishers, 521 p., Copyright 2008, ISBN 978-0-07-282701-9.
Selected Papers:
Cronin, V.S., Schurter, G.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., Preliminary Landsat lineament analysis of the northern Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, northwest Himalaya, from Treloar, P.J. & Searle, M.P. (eds), Himalayan Tectonics, Geological Society of London Special publication, No. 74, p. 193-206, 1993.
Sverdrup, K.A., Schurter, G.J., and Cronin, V.S., Relocation Analysis of Earthquakes near Nanga Parbat-Haramosh Massif, Northwest Himalaya, Pakistan, Geophys. Res. Letters, 21, no. 21, p. 2331-2334, 1994.
Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., Preliminary assessment of the seismicity of the Malibu Coast Fault Zone, southern California, and related issues of philosophy and practice, in Welby, C.W. and Gowan, M.E., eds, A Paradox of Power: Voices of Warning and Reason in the Geosciences: Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America Reviews in Engineering Geology, v. XII, Copyright 1998, ISBN 0-8137-4112-2.
Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., Defining Static Correction for Jointly Relocated Earthquakes along the Blanco Transform Fault based on SOSUS Hydrophone Data, Oceans 2003 MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings (ISBN 0-933957-30-9), p. P2721-2726, San Diego, California, Sept. 2003.
Cronin, V.S., and Sverdrup, K.A., Multiple-Event Relocation of Historic Earthquakes Along Blanco Transform Fault Zone, NE Pacific, Geophys. Res. Letters, 30, no. 19, p. 2001-2004, 2003.