Journals

*Cabaniss, H.E., Gregg, P.M., Nooner, S.L., and Chadwick, W.W. Jr., (2020) Triggering of eruptions at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Scientific Reports, 10, 102019, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67043-0  

*Hefner, W.L., Nooner, S.L., Chadwick, W.W. Jr., and Bohnenstiehl, D.R., (2020) Revised Magmatic Source Models for the 2015 Eruption at Axial Seamount Including Estimates of Fault‐Induced Deformation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 125(4), https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019356  

Gaherty, J.B., Zheng, W., Shillington, D.J., Pritchard, M.E., Henderson, S.T., Chindandali, P.R.N., Mdala, H., Shuler, A., Lindsey, N., Oliva, S.J, Nooner, S.L., Scholz, C.A., Schaff, D., Ekström, G., and Nettles, M., (2019) Faulting processes during early-stage rifting: seismic and geodetic analysis of the 2009–2010 Northern Malawi earthquake sequence, Geophysical Journal International, 217(3), 1767-1782, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz119.

Wilcock, W.S.D., R.P. Dziak, M. Tolstoy, W.W. Chadwick Jr., S.L. Nooner, D.R. Bohnenstiehl, J. Caplan-Auerbach, F. Waldhauser, A.F. Arnulf, C. Baillard, T.-K. Lau, J.H. Haxel, Y.J. Tan, C. Garcia, S. Levy, and M.E. Mann, (2018). The recent volcanic history of Axial Seamount: Geophysical insights into past eruption dynamics with an eye toward enhanced observations of future eruptions. Oceanography 31(1): 114-123, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.117.  

*Sciance, M. B. and Nooner, S. L., (2017) Decadal flood trends in Bangladesh from extensive hydrographic data, Natural Hazards, doi: 10.1007/s11069-017-3036-7. 

Nooner, S. L. and Chadwick Jr., W. W., (2016) Inflation-predictable behavior and co-eruption deformation at Axial Seamount, Science, 354(6318), 1399-1403, doi: 10.1126/science.aah4666 

Chadwick, W. W., Jr, J. B. Paduan, D. A. Clague, B. M. Dreyer, S. G. Merle, A. M. Bobbitt, D. W. Caress, B. T. Philip, D. S. Kelley, and S. L. Nooner (2016), Voluminous eruption from a zoned magma body after an increase in supply rate at Axial Seamount, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL071327.  

Donna J Shillington, James B Gaherty, Cynthia J Ebinger, Christopher A Scholz, Kate Selway, Andrew A Nyblade, Paul A Bedrosian, Cornelia Class, Scott L Nooner, … (2016), Acquisition of a Unique Onshore/Offshore Geophysical and Geochemical Dataset in the Northern Malawi (Nyasa) Rift, Seismological Research Letters, 87(6), 1406-1416, doi: 10.1785/0220160112  

Webb, S. C., and S. L. Nooner (2016), High Resolution Seafloor Absolute Pressure Gauge Measurements Using a Better Counting Method, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0114.1.

Nooner, S. L., S. C. Webb, W. R. Buck, and M.-H. Cormier (2014), Post Eruption inflation of the East Pacific Rise at 9°50′ N, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(6), 2676–2688, doi:10.1002/2014GC005389.

Zha, Y., S. C. Webb, S. L. Nooner, and W. C. Crawford (2014), Spatial distribution and temporal evolution of crustal melt distribution beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°-10°N inferred from 3-D seafloor compliance modeling, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119(6), 4517–4537, doi:10.1002/2014JB011131.

Chadwick, W. W., Jr., S. L. Nooner, D. A. Butterfield, and M. D. Lilley (2012), Seafloor deformation and forecasts of the April 2011 eruption at Axial Seamount, Nature Geoscience, 5, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1464.

Dziak, R. P., Haxel, J. H., Bohnenstiehl, D. R., Chadwick, W. W., Nooner, S. L., Fowler, M. J., Matsumoto, H., and D. A. Butterfield (2012), Seismic precursors and magma ascent before the April 2011 eruption at Axial Seamount, Nature Geoscience, 5, doi: 10.1038/NGEO1490.

Alnes, H., O. Eiken, S. Nooner, G. Sasagawa, T. Stenvold, and M. Zumberge (2011), Results from Sleipner gravity monitoring: Updated density and temperature distribution of the CO2 plume, Energy Procedia, 4, 5504–5511, doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.536.

Diebold, J., Tolstoy, M., Doermann, L., Webb, S. C., Nooner, S., and Crone, T. J. (2010), R/V Marcus G. Langseth Seismic source: Modeling and Calibration, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 11, doi:10.1029/2010GC003216.

Steckler, M. S., Nooner, S. L., Akhter, S. H., Chowdhury, S. K., Bettadpur, S., Seeber, L., and Kogan, M. G. (2010), Modeling Earth Deformation from Monsoonal Flooding in Bangladesh using Hydrographic, GPS and GRACE Data, Journal of Geophysical Research, 115, B08407, doi:10.1029/2009JB007018.

Chadwick, W. W., Butterfield, D. A., Embley, R. W., Tunnicliffe, V., Huber, J. A., Nooner, S. L., and Clague, D. A. (2010), Spotlight 1 – Axial Seamount, Oceanography, 23, 1, 38-39 (invited).

Tolstoy, M., Diebold, J., Doermann, L., Nooner, S., Webb, S. C., Bohnenstiehl, D. R., Crone, T. J., and Holmes, R. C. (2009), Broadband calibration of the R/V Marcus G. Langseth four‐string seismic sources, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 10, 8, doi:10.1029/2009GC002451.

Nooner, S. L., Bennati, L., Calais, E., Buck, W. R., Hamling, I. J., Wright, T. J., and Lewi, E. (2009), Post-rifting relaxation in the Afar region, Ethiopia, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L21308, doi:10.1029/2009GL040502.

Nooner, S. L. and Chadwick, W. W. (2009), Vertical uplift measured in the caldera of Axial Seamount: implications for magma supply and future eruptions, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 10, Q02002, doi:10.1029/2008GC002315. Download a pdf

Arts, R., Chadwick, A., Eiken, O., Thibeau, S., and Nooner, S. (2008), Ten years’ experience of monitoring CO2 injection in the Utsira sand at Sleipner (offshore Norway), First Break, 26, 65-72.  Download a pdf

Blum, J. A., Nooner, S. L., and Zumberge, M. A. (2008), Recording Earth strain with optical fibers, IEEE Sensors Journal, 8(1), 1152-1160 (INVITED).

Nooner, S. L., Eiken, O., Hermanrud, C., Sasagawa, G. S., Stenvold, T., and Zumberge, M. A. (2007), Constraints on the in situ density of CO2 within the Utsira formation from time-lapse seafloor gravity measurements, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 1, 198-214.  Download a pdf

Chadwick, W. W., Nooner, S. L., Zumberge, M. A., Embley, R. W., and Fox, C. G. (2006), Vertical deformation monitoring at Axial Seamount since its 1998 eruption using deep-sea pressure sensors, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 150, 313-327.  Download a pdf

Stenvold, T., Eiken, O., Zumberge, M. A., Sasagawa, G., and Nooner, S. (2006), High-precision depth and subsidence mapping from seafloor water pressure measurements, SPE Journal, 11, 380-381.

Blackman, D. K., Karson, J. A., Kelley, D. S., Cann, J. R., Fru-Green, G. L., Gee, J. S., Hurst, S. D., John, B. E., Morgan, J., Nooner, S. L., Ross, D. K., Schroeder, T. J., and Williams, E. A. (2003), Geology of the Atlantis Massif (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30º N):  Implications for the evolution of an ultramafic oceanic core complex, Marine Geophysical Researches, 23, 443-469.

Nooner, S. L., Sasagawa, G. S., Blackman, D. K., and Zumberge, M. A. (2003), Structure of oceanic core complexes:  Constraints from seafloor gravity measurements made at the Atlantis Massif, Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 1446-1449. Download a pdf

Sasagawa, G. S., Crawford, W., Eiken, O., Nooner, S., Stenvold, T., and Zumberge, M. A. (2003), A new sea-floor gravimeter, Geophysics, 68, 544-553.  Download a pdf

Zumberge, M. A., Berger, J., Hedlin, M. A., Husmann, E., Nooner, S., Hilt, R., and Widmer-Schnidrig, R. (2003), An optical fiber infrasound sensor:  A new lower limit on atmospheric pressure noise between 1 and 10 Hz, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 2474-2479.

Blackman, D. K., Applegate, B., Bacher, N., Fruh-Green, G. L., Gee, J., Hanna, H., Hurst, S., John, B., Lyons, S., Morgan, J., Nooner, S., Rivizzigno, P., Ross, D., Sasagawa, G., and Schroeder, T. (2000), Seafloor mapping and sampling of the MAR 30º N oceanic core complex-MARVEL (Mid-Atlantic Ridge vents in extending lithosphere), InterRidge News, 10, 33-36.

 

Ph.D. Dissertation

Nooner, S. L. (2005), Gravity changes associated with underground injection of CO2 at the Sleipner storage reservoir in the North Sea, and other marine geodetic studies, Ph.D. thesis, 188 pp, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.  Download a pdf

Masters Thesis

Nooner, S. L. (1999), Low Temperature MFM Imaging of Fe2+xV1-xAl Intermetallics, 67 pp, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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