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  1. 2012, Seats, K., J.F. Lawrence and G. Prieto, Improved Ambient Noise Correlation Functions using Welch’s Method, Geophysical Journal International, 188(12), DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05263.x. (PDF).
  2. 2011, Cochran, E.S., J.F. Lawrence, A. Kaiser, B. Fry, A. Chung, C. Christensen, Comparison between low-cost and traditional MEMS accelerometers: a case study from the M7.1 Darfield, New Zealand, aftershock deployment. Annals of Geophysics, Vol. 54 (6), 728-737, doi:10.4401/ag-5268, 2011. (PDF).
  3. 2011, Prieto, G. A., M. Denolle, J. F. Lawrence, G. C. Beroza, On amplitude information carried by the ambient seismic field. Comptes rendus geoscience. Thematic Issue: Imaging and Monitoring with Seismic Noise. 343, 600-614. (PDF).
  4. 2011, Chung, A.I., Neighbors, C., Miller, M., Sepulveda, A., Belmonte, A., Cochran, E. S., Lawrence, J. F. Catching quakes in Chile with a Rapid Aftershock Mobilization Program, Seismol. Res. Lett., 82 (4): 526 (PDF).
  5. 2011, Lawrence, J.F. and G. Prieto, Attenuation Tomography of the Western United States from Ambient Seismic Noise, J. Geophys. Res. 116, B06302, doi:10.1029/ 2010JB007836 (PDF).
  6. 2010, Jakka, R. S., E. S. Cochran, and J. F. Lawrence, Earthquake source characterization by the isochrone back projection method using near-source ground motions, Geophys. J. Int., doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04670.x (PDF).
  7. 2010, Prieto, G. A., J. F. Lawrence, A. I Chung, M. D. Kohler, Impulse Response of Civil Structures from Ambient Noise Analysis, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 100 (5A), pp. 2322-2328, doi:10.1785/0120090285 (PDF).
  8. 2009, Keranen, K. M., S. L. Klemperer, J. Julia, J. F. Lawrence, and A. A. Nyblade, Low lower crustal velocity across Ethiopia: Is the Main Ethiopian Rift a narrow rift in a hot craton?, G-cubed, 10, Q0AB01, doi:10.1029/2008GC002293 (PDF).
  9. 2009, Caldwell, W.B., S.L. Klemperer, S.S. Raib and J.F. Lawrence, Partial melt in the upper-middle crust of the northwest Himalaya revealed by Rayleigh wave dispersion, Tectonophysics, 477, 1-2, 58-65 (PDF).
  10. 2009, Cochran, E.S., J.F. Lawrence, C. Christensen, and R. Jakka, The Quake-Catcher Network: Citizen science expanding seismic horizons, Seism. Res. Lett., 80, 26-30 (PDF).
  11. 2009, Prieto, G. A., J. F. Lawrence, G. C. Beroza., Anelastic Earth Structure from the Coherency of the Ambient Seismic Field, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B07303, doi:10.1029/2008JB006067 (PDF).
  12. 2009, Cochran E., Lawrence J., Christensen C., Chung A., "A novel strong-motion seismic network for community participation in earthquake monitoring", IEEE Inst & Meas., 12, 6, 8-15, doi:10.1109/MIM.2009.5338255 (PDF).
  13. 2008, Lawrence, J.F., and P.M. Shearer, Imaging mantle transition zone thickness with SdS-SS finite-frequency sensitivity kernels, Geophys. J. Int., 174, 143-158, doi: 10,1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03673.x (PDF).
  14. 2008, van Wijka, J.W., J.F. Lawrence, and N.W. Driscoll, Formation of the Transantarctic Mountains related to extension of the West Antarctic Rift system, Tectonophysics, 458, 1-4, 117-126 (PDF).
  15. 2007, Courtier, A.M., M.G. Jackson, J.F. Lawrence, Z. Wang, C.-T. A. Lee, R. Halama, J.M. Warren, R. Workman, W. Xu, M.M. Hirschmann, A.M. Larson, S.R. Hart, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, L. Strixrude, W.-P. Chen, Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots, Earth & Planet. Sci. Lett., 264, 308-316 (PDF).
  16. 2007, Lawrence, J.F., J.W. van Wijk and N.W. Driscoll, Tectonic implications for uplift of the Transantarctic Mountains, International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences, p. 1-4 (PDF).
  17. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., and P.M. Shearer, A global study of transition zone thickness using receiver functions, J. Geophys. Res., 111, dio:10.1029/2005JB003973 (PDF).
  18. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., and M.E. Wysession, QLM9: A new radial quality factor model for the lower mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 241, 962-971 (PDF).
  19. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., P.M. Shearer, G. Masters, Mapping attenuation beneath North America using waveform cross-correlation and cluster analysis, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, doi:10.1029/2006GL025813 (PDF).
  20. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., and D.A. Wiens, A.A. Nyblade, S. Anandakrishnan, P.J. Shore, D. Voigt, Rayleigh wave phase velocity analysis of the Ross Sea, Transantarctic Mountains, and East Antarctica, from a temporary seismograph array, J. Geophys. Res., 111, doi:1029/2005JB003812 (PDF).
  21. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., and D.A. Wiens, A.A. Nyblade, S. Anandakrishnan, P.J. Shore, D. Voigt, Upper mantle thermal variations beneath the Transantarctic Mountains inferred from teleseismic S-wave attenuation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L03303, doi:10.1029/2005GL024516 (PDF).
  22. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., and P.M. Shearer, Constraining density, P velocity, and S velocity for the mantle transition zone with reflected and transmitted waveforms, G-cubed, 7 doi:10.1029/2006GC001339 (PDF).
  23. 2006, Lawrence, J.F., and D.A. Wiens, A.A. Nyblade, S. Anandakrishnan, P.J. Shore, D. Voigt, Comprehensive seismic and geophysical study of the Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica, and the West Antarctic Rift System, G-cubed, 7, doi:10.1029/2006GC001282 (PDF).
  24. 2006, Lawrence, J. F., and M. E. Wysession, Seismic evidence for subduction-transported water in the lower mantle, in Earth's Deep-Water Cycle, AGU Monograph, 251-261 (PDF).
  25. 2004, Lawrence, J.F., D.A. Wiens, Combined receiver-function and surface wave phase-velocity inversion using a niching genetic algorithm: application to Patagonia, Bull. Seis. Soc. Am., 94, 977-987 (PDF).
  26. 2003, Fisher, J.L., M.E. Wysession, and K.M. Fischer, Small-scale lateral variations in D" attenuation and velocity structure, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 doi:10.1029/2002GL016179 (PDF).

(Note: name change from J.L. Fisher to J.F. Lawrence).