Alison LaBonte

alabonte@ucsd.edu
858 822 4925
Scripps Inst. Oceanography
9500 Gilman Drive, 0244
La Jolla, CA 92093-0244

Education:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Diego2001-present
Scripps Institute of Oceanography Doctoral Program
Geosciences Curricular Group

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles
1995-2000
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics/ Applied Science
Summa Cum Laude

Honors/Awards:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, San Diego:
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholar, 2005-present.
Regents Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2002.

Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society 2000 scholar recipient.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles:
Graduated Summa Cum Laude
Physical Sciences commencement speaker, 2000.
Charles E. and Sue K. Young Undergraduate Student Award winner, 1999.
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1997.
Dean's Honors List, 14 quarters.

Dissertation:

Design and development of underwater instrumentation for measuring fluid flow at subduction margins.

Real-time monitoring and a hydrotectonic study at the Nootka transform-Cascadia subduction zone triple junction.

Modeling poroelastic response to tectonic strains; comparison with empirical results from the Cascadia SZ.

Publications:

LaBonte, A.L., K.M. Brown, M.D. Tryon, Monitoring periodic and episodic flow events at Monterey Bay seeps using a new optical flow meter, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, B02105, doi:10.1029/2006JB004410.

LaBonte, A., A new temperature probe for determining flow rates at cold seeps, 10th Annual MBARI Intern Symposium, Aug. 17, 2006.

LaBonte, A., Featured speaker, SIO Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series:The Future Stewards of Our Planet, Feb. 13th, 2006.

D. Frye, J. Ware, M. Grund, L. Freitag, J. Collins, R. Detrick, J. Delaney, D. Kelley, M. Lilley, W. Wilcock, A. LaBonte and K. Brown, An Acoustically-Linked Moored Buoy Ocean Observatory Successfully Tested for a Year in the Northeast Pacific, EOS, May 30, 2006.

LaBonte, A., K.M. Brown, Y. Fialko, Consecutive Flow Events and Propagating Aseismic Slip at the Costa Rica Forearc: Matching Models to Measurements, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T13B-0459, 2005.

Reif, C., A. LaBonte, Graduate Students Unite! Building an Outreach Program From Scratch, EOS Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract ED13F-05, 2005.

LaBonte, A.L., K.M. Brown, OTIS Flow Meter for Offshore Detection of Silent Earthquakes, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S53A-0189, 2004.

Tryon, M.D., A.L. Labonte, E. Fueri, D.R. Hilton, K.M. Brown, Toward long-term geochemical sampling of gases and deep fluids in subduction zone fore-arcs: New instrument developments, EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract V13A-1440, 2004.

LaBonte, A., K.M. Brown, A High Temporal Resolution Optical Flow Meter for Measuring Aqueous Flow in Active Plate Boundary Systems, Proceedings of the Oceans 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean Science Conference, San Diego, CA, 2003.

Shipboard Experience:

R/V Thomas Thompson, Juan de Fuca Ridge and Nootka Fault, PI Kelley (UW), recovered hydronode and CAT meters, Jason watch stander, 2005.

R/V Atlantis, Costa Rica, PIs Hilton and Brown (SIO), deployed OTIS and CAT meters, assisted in push core sampling, 2005.

R/V Thomas Thompson, Juan de Fuca Ridge and Nootka Fault, PI Delaney (UW), installed flow monitoring observatory at Nootka seep and ROPOS watch stander, 2004.

R/V Atlantis, Juan de Fuca Ridge and Nootka Fault, PIs Kelley (UW), Brown and Hilton(SIO), OTIS meter deployments and CTD casts, 2004.

R/V Pt Lobos, Monterey Bay, PIs Brown and Hilton (SIO), deployed and recovered OTIS and CAT meters, March 15, 29, August 4, 27, 2004.

R/V Thomas Thompson, Marianas, PIs Fryer, Mottl (UH) & Wheat (UAF), CAT meter deployments and ROV Jason watch stander, 2003.

R/V Maurice Ewing, Costa Rica, Chief Scientist Tryon (SIO), assisted in CAT meter deployment, 2002.

R/V Thomas Thompson, Juan de Fuca Ridge, PIs Delaney and Kelley (UW), CTD casts, 2002.

R/V Sproul, San Diego Bay, PI Constable (SIO), deployment of marine MT instruments, 2002.

Prior Research Experience:

Maritime Archaeology Techniques Course: Learned the use of remote sensing equipment for underwater environments: side scan sonar, magnetometer, and GPS, to search for benthic artifacts. Instructor: Hans Van Tilburg, Marine Option Program, University of Hawaii, Monoa, summer 2000.

Research Assistant. Development and analysis of larval recruitment density dependent model for fish species in patch reef habitats. Conducted under Dr. Graham Forrester, marine biology department, UCLA, spring 1998 - spring 1999. Dive assistant in collection of corresponding empirical data, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, summer 1999.

Research Fellowship. Theoretical and numerical analysis of a population model using an integrodifference equation. Dr. Michael Neubert, advisor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, summer 1998.

Research Assistant. Analyzed results of simulated particle transportation and settlement in a fluid medium. Conducted under Dr. Juan Restrepo, mathematics department, UCLA, summer 1997.

Other:

Co-leader of SCOPE - Scripps Community Outreach Program for Education 2005-present.
SIO Geology Research Division Student Representative, 2002-2003.
Student Representative of SIO Alumni Steering Committee, 2004-present.
Member of ChiPS - Committee for Humanity and Public Service, 2002-present.
Instruction of UCLA's scientific diving program, Winter 1998 - Spring 2000.
Member of UCLA women's water polo team, 1996-1999.