J. Barrett Salisbury
Neotectonics, earthquake geology, paleoseismology, seismic hazards, tsunami hazards, tsunami source characterization, geomorphology, lidar, photogrammetry
Education and/or Training
Ph.D. 2016, Arizona State University - Geological Sciences
M.S. 2010, San Diego State University - Geological Sciences
B.S. 2007, Washington & Lee University - Geological Sciences
Projects and/or Research Interests
Barrett manages the State of Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards program. Day-to-day operations are focused on earth science in the public service with the goal of reducing the impact of future earthquake and tsunami events. A major component of this work involves working directly with Alaskans, helping them become more resilient in the face of ever-present hazards through education, planning, mitigation, and response. Barrett is a partner in the Alaska arm of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program and is the current Chair of the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission.
Specific research interests include integrating earthquake geology and paleoseismology with high-resolution topographic analyses to characterize earthquake hazards and to understand the geomorphic evolution of active faults.
Selected Professional Activities
AFFILIATIONS
2019-present, DNR Representative for the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission
Selected Publications
- Nicolazzo, J.A., Wikstrom Jones, K.M., Salisbury, J.B., and Horen, K.C., 2024, Post-landslide elevation changes detected from multi-temporal lidar surveys of the November 2023 Wrangell, Alaska, landslides: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2024-2, 22 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31124
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., and Nicolsky, D.J., 2023, Tsunami inundation maps of Anchorage and upper Cook Inlet, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2023-2, 56 p., 9 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/31018
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., and Nicolsky, D.J., 2022, Tsunami inundation maps for Karluk and Larsen Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2022-2, 42 p., 2 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30892
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., and Nicolsky, D.J., 2022, Updated tsunami inundation maps for Seward and northern Resurrection Bay, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2022-3, 51 p., 4 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30893
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., and Nicolsky, D.J., 2022, Addendum A: Regional tsunami hazard assessment for Pasagshak, Alaska, in Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., Nicolsky, D.J., and Koehler, R.D., Regional tsunami hazard assessment for selected communities on Kodiak Island, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2019-6A, 4 p., 2 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30763
- Salisbury, J.B., Herbst, A.M., and Daanen, R.P., 2021, Lidar-derived elevation models for the Grewingk Glacier 1967 landslide scar, Alaska, collected June 3, 2019: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2021-6, 7 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30599
- Salisbury, J.B., Daanen, R.P., and Herbst, A.M., 2021, Lidar-derived elevation models for Homer, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2021-2, 6 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30591
- Suleimani, E.N., Nicolsky, D.J., Salisbury, J.B., and West, M.E., 2020, Addendum A: Regional tsunami hazard assessment for Hydaburg, Alaska, in Suleimani, E.N., Nicolsky, D.J., Salisbury, J.B., and West, M.E., Regional tsunami hazard assessment for the communities of Kasaan, Klawock, Metlakatla, Pelican, Point Baker, and Port Protection in southeast Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2020-2A, 3 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:3,200. https://doi.org/10.14509/30438
- Suleimani, E.N., Nicolsky, D.J., and Salisbury, J.B., 2020, Regional tsunami hazard assessment for communities of Bristol Bay and the Pribilof Islands, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2020-1, 32 p., 6 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30422
- Suleimani, E.N., Nicolsky, D.J., Salisbury, J.B., and West, M.E., 2020, Regional tsunami hazard assessment for the communities of Kasaan, Klawock, Metlakatla, Pelican, Point Baker, and Port Protection in southeast Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2020-2, 3 p., 6 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30423
- Salisbury, J.B., Herbst, A.M., and Wikstrom Jones, K.M., 2020, November 30, 2018, Mw 7.1 Anchorage earthquake photogrammetry: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2019-10, 25 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30270
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., Nicolsky, D.J., and Koehler, R.D., 2019, Regional tsunami hazard assessment for the communities of Port Alexander, Craig, and Ketchikan, southeast Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2019-7, 23 p., 5 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30196
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., Nicolsky, D.J., and Koehler, R.D., 2019, Regional tsunami hazard assessment for False Pass and Perryville, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2019-3, 16 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:21,000. https://doi.org/10.14509/30192
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., Nicolsky, D.J., and Koehler, R.D., 2019, Regional tsunami hazard assessment for Shemya, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2019-4, 13 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:15,500. https://doi.org/10.14509/30193
- Suleimani, E.N., Salisbury, J.B., Nicolsky, D.J., and West, M.E., 2019, Tsunami inundation maps for Adak and Atka, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2019-1, 63 p., 6 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/30186
- Nicolsky, D.J., Suleimani, E.N., Koehler, R.D., and Salisbury, J.B., 2019, Developing an approximate tsunami hazard zone for areas with poor topographic coverage in Alaska: Pure and Applied Geophysics, p. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-019-02180-w
- Salisbury, J.B., 2019, Living with earthquakes in Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular 77, 2 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30144
- Grant Ludwig, L., Akciz, S.O., Arrowsmith, J R., and Salisbury, J.B., 2019, Reproducibility of San Andreas fault slip rate measurements at Wallace Creek in the Carrizo Plain, CA: Earth and Space Science, v. 6. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EA000360
- Suleimani, E.N., Nicolsky, D.J., Koehler, R.D., and Salisbury, J.B., 2018, Regional tsunami hazard assessment for Andreanof Islands, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2017-2, 19 p., 2 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/29704
- Salisbury, J.B., Arrowsmith, J R., Brown, Nathan, Rockwell, Thomas, Akciz, Sinan, and Grant Ludwig, L., 2018, The age and origin of small offsets at Van Matre Ranch along the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 108, no. 2, p. 639-653. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120170162
- Nicolsky, D.J., Suleimani, E.N., Koehler, R.D., and Salisbury, J.B., 2017, Tsunami inundation maps for Juneau, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Report of Investigation 2017-9, 66 p., 5 sheets. https://doi.org/10.14509/29741
- Salisbury, J.B., Rockwell, T.K., and Buga, M., 2017, Paleoseismic evidence for the 21 April 1928 Mw 6.9 surface rupture of the northern Clark Strand of the Central San Jacinto Fault, California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 107, no. 2, p. 1027-1032. http://doi.org/10.1785/0120160026
- Qin, J., Chen, J., and Salisbury, J.B., 2015, Photon transferred TL signals from potassium feldspars and their effects on post-IR IRSL measurements: Journal of Luminescence, v. 160, p. 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2014.11.022
- Rockwell, T.K., Fletcher, J.M., Teran, O.J., Hernandez, A.P., Mueller, K.J., Salisbury, J.B., Akciz, S.O., and Stepancikova, P., 2015, Reassessment of the 1892 Laguna Salada earthquake: fault kinematics and rupture patterns: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 105, no. 6, p. 2885-2893. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120140274
- Salisbury, J.B., Haddad, D.E., Rockwell, T.K., Arrowsmith, J R., Madugo, C., Zielke, O., and Scharer, K.M., 2015, Validation of meter-scale surface faulting offset measurements from high-resolution topographic data: Geosphere, v. 11, no. 6, p. 1884-1901. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01197.1
- Madden, C., Haddad, D.E., Salisbury, J.B., Zielke, O., Arrowsmith, J R., Weldon, R.J., II, and Colunga, J., 2013, Compilation of slip-in-the-last-event data and analysis of last event, repeated slip, and average displacement for recent and prehistoric ruptures, Appendix R, in Field, E.H., Biasi, G.P., Bird, P., Dawson, T.E., Felzer, K.R., Jackson, D.D., Johnson, K.M., Jordan, T.H., Madden, C., Michael, A.J., Milner, K.R., Page, M.T., Parsons, T., Powers, P.M., Shaw, B.E., Thatcher, W.R., Weldon, R.J., II, and Zeng, Y., Uniform California earthquake rupture forecast, version 3 (UCERF3) - The time-independent model: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2013-1165. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2013/1165
- Scharer, K.M., Salisbury, J.B., Arrowsmith, J R., and Rockwell, T.K., 2013, Southern San Andreas fault evaluation field activity: Approaches to measuring small geomorphic offsets -- challenges and recommendations for active fault studies: Seismological Research Letters, v. 85, no. 1, p. 68-76. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220130108
- Salisbury, J.B., Rockwell, T.K., Middleton, T.J., and Hudnut, K., 2012, LiDAR and field observations of slip distribution for the most recent surface ruptures along the central San Jacinto fault: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 102, no. 2, p. 598-619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120110068
