Gabi Laske

Gabi Laske is a geophysicist at the University of California, San Diego who is known for her work on the interior of the Earth. Laske was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2022.

Education and career

Laske grew up in Germany and earned two degrees from the Universitat Karlsruhe, one in 1988 and a second in 1992.^[1] She moved to the University of California, San Diego in 1994, where she started as a postdoctoral scholar. In 2012 she was promoted to professor.^[2]

Research

Laske is known for her work on the Earth's interior which she investigates using seismic tomography. Her early research worked on tools to improve the mapping of the subsurface.^[3]^[4] Her research has also examined the rotation of Earth's innner core,^[5] and plumes within the mantle.^[6] Laske also examines the movements of earthquakes through the Earth's interior, and a portion of this work was conducted in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands.^[7]

Awards and honors

Laske was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2022.^[2]

Selected publications

Laske, G.; Masters, G. (10 July 1996). "Constraints on global phase velocity maps from long-period polarization data". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 101 (B7): 16059–16075. Bibcode:1996JGR...10116059L. doi:10.1029/96JB00526.
Mooney, Walter D.; Laske, Gabi; Masters, T. Guy (10 January 1998). "CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5° × 5°". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 103 (B1): 727–747. Bibcode:1998JGR...103..727M. doi:10.1029/97JB02122.
Laske, Gabi; Masters, Guy (November 1999). "Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations". Nature. 402 (6757): 66–69. Bibcode:1999Natur.402...66L. doi:10.1038/47011.
Masters, Guy; Laske, Gabi; Bolton, Harold; Dziewonski, Adam (2000). "The relative behavior of shear velocity, bulk sound speed, and compressional velocity in the mantle: Implications for chemical and thermal structure". Earth's Deep Interior: Mineral Physics and Tomography from the Atomic to the Global Scale. Geophysical Monograph Series. Vol. 117. pp. 63–87. doi:10.1029/gm117p0063. ISBN 978-0-87590-975-2.
Wolfe, Cecily J.; Solomon, Sean C.; Laske, Gabi; Collins, John A.; Detrick, Robert S.; Orcutt, John A.; Bercovici, David; Hauri, Erik H. (4 December 2009). "Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot". Science. 326 (5958): 1388–1390. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1388W. doi:10.1126/science.1180165. PMID 19965755.

References

↑ "Biography | GABI LASKE". University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 2026-08-14.
1 2 "Gabi Laske at AGU". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 2026-08-14.
↑ Laske, G.; Masters, G. (10 July 1996). "Constraints on global phase velocity maps from long-period polarization data". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 101 (B7): 16059–16075. Bibcode:1996JGR...10116059L. doi:10.1029/96JB00526.^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ Mooney, Walter D.; Laske, Gabi; Masters, T. Guy (10 January 1998). "CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5° × 5°". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 103 (B1): 727–747. Bibcode:1998JGR...103..727M. doi:10.1029/97JB02122.^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ Laske, Gabi; Masters, Guy (November 1999). "Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations". Nature. 402 (6757): 66–69. Bibcode:1999Natur.402...66L. doi:10.1038/47011.^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ Agius, Matthew R.; Rychert, Catherine A.; Harmon, Nicholas; Laske, Gabi (September 2017). "Mapping the mantle transition zone beneath Hawaii from Ps receiver functions: Evidence for a hot plume and cold mantle downwellings". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 474: 226–236. Bibcode:2017E&PSL.474..226A. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.033.^{[non-primary source needed]}
↑ Wolfe, Cecily J.; Solomon, Sean C.; Laske, Gabi; Collins, John A.; Detrick, Robert S.; Orcutt, John A.; Bercovici, David; Hauri, Erik H. (4 December 2009). "Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot". Science. 326 (5958): 1388–1390. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1388W. doi:10.1126/science.1180165. PMID 19965755.^{[non-primary source needed]}

External links

Gabi Laske publications indexed by Google Scholar

[1] "Biography | GABI LASKE". University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 2026-08-14.

[:0-2] 1 2 "Gabi Laske at AGU". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 2026-08-14.

[3] Laske, G.; Masters, G. (10 July 1996). "Constraints on global phase velocity maps from long-period polarization data". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 101 (B7): 16059–16075. Bibcode:1996JGR...10116059L. doi:10.1029/96JB00526.^{[non-primary source needed]}

[4] Mooney, Walter D.; Laske, Gabi; Masters, T. Guy (10 January 1998). "CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5° × 5°". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 103 (B1): 727–747. Bibcode:1998JGR...103..727M. doi:10.1029/97JB02122.^{[non-primary source needed]}

[5] Laske, Gabi; Masters, Guy (November 1999). "Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations". Nature. 402 (6757): 66–69. Bibcode:1999Natur.402...66L. doi:10.1038/47011.^{[non-primary source needed]}

[6] Agius, Matthew R.; Rychert, Catherine A.; Harmon, Nicholas; Laske, Gabi (September 2017). "Mapping the mantle transition zone beneath Hawaii from Ps receiver functions: Evidence for a hot plume and cold mantle downwellings". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 474: 226–236. Bibcode:2017E&PSL.474..226A. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.033.^{[non-primary source needed]}

[7] Wolfe, Cecily J.; Solomon, Sean C.; Laske, Gabi; Collins, John A.; Detrick, Robert S.; Orcutt, John A.; Bercovici, David; Hauri, Erik H. (4 December 2009). "Mantle Shear-Wave Velocity Structure Beneath the Hawaiian Hot Spot". Science. 326 (5958): 1388–1390. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1388W. doi:10.1126/science.1180165. PMID 19965755.^{[non-primary source needed]}

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