Roger Bilham
Ph.D. Cambridge University, U.K., 1970
Professor, Geological Sciences
Associate Director, Solid Earth Sciences
E-mail: bilham@stripe.colorado.edu
Office: ESCI (Benson) 462B
Phone: 303-492-6189
Web: Prof. Bilham
Research Interests
Bilham’s research includes: Application of space geodesy and strain and tilt instrumentation to monitor deformation of the Earth at plate boundaries, mostly in southern Asia and western North America; Design and operation of new geophysical instruments to monitor strain and tilt in the Earth; Archival research into historical earthquakes; Statistics of urban earthquakes and global seismic hazards.
Current Research
Bilham is presently monitoring the details of strain changes in eastern India (Assam), northern India (Kashmir and the Karakoram, and Pakistan, Baluchistan and Sindh. We operate an array of creep-meters on the San Andreas fault system, and several long baseline (500 m) tilt-meters in the Pacific Northwest, and near volcanoes in California and SW Italy. Archaeological studies in Pakistan and Kashmir.
Selected Publications
Bilham, R. Co-seismic strain and the Transition to Surface Afterslip recorded by Creep-meters near the 2004 Parkfield epicenter. Seism. Res. Lett. 76(1), 49-57. 2005.
Bilham, R. (2006). Dangerous Tectonics, Fragile Buildings, and Tough Decisions, Science 31 March 2006: (311)5769, 1873 - 1875 doi: 10.1126/science.1125176.
Feldl, N and R. Bilham, Great Himalayan Earthquakes and the Tibetan Plateau, Nature 444, 165-170 (9 November 2006) doi:10.1038/nature05199.
Bilham, R., Tsunamigenic Middle Earth, (2008). Nature Geoscience, 1, 211-212, 2008.
Bilham, R., (2008) Tom LaTouche and the Great Assam Earthquake of 12 June 1897; letters from the epicenter. Seism. Res. Lett. 79(3), 426-437.
Bilham, R., and W. Szeliga, (2008). Interaction Between the Himalaya and the Flexed Indian Plate - Spatial Fluctuations in Seismic Hazard in India in the Past Millennium? 2008 Seismic Enginering Conference Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria earthquake, ed A. Santini and N. Moraci, American Inst. of Physics Conf. Proc., 224-231, 978-0-7354-4/08/ 1020(1), 224-231, (978-0-7354-0542-4/08).
Hough, S., and R. Bilham, (2008). Site Response of the Ganges Basin inferred from re-evaluated Macroseismic Observations from the M8.1 Shillong 1897, M7.8 Kangra 1905 and 1934 Nepal M8.1 earthquakes. Journal of Earth System Science. 117, S2, 773-782.
Ambraseys N. and R. Bilham, (2009)The tectonic setting of Bamiyan and seismicity in and near Afghanistan for the past twelve centuries. UNESCO Special Publication: The Destruction of the Giant Buddha Statues in Bamyian, Central Afghanistan, UNESCO's emergency activities for the recovering and rehabilitation of cliff and niches. Ed. Carlo Crippa and Claudio Margottini. pages 67-93.
Bilham, R., The seismic future of cities, 12th annual Mallet-Milne Lecture. Bull. Earthquake Engineering, 2009, 1-48.
Professor Bilham is a CIRES Teaching Faculty.
