Sarah Kruse
Sarah Kruse
Associate Professor
Contact
Office: SCA 232
Lab: SCA522
Phone: 813/974-7341
Email: skruse@usf.edu
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Education
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989
Research
Near-Surface Geophysics. Applications of ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic, and resistivity methods to environmental studies (for example near-surface groundwater flow) and volcanological studies. Numerical simulations of ground penetrating radar response to geologic materials and structures.
Current Courses
Recent Publications
W. Montero, J. Lewis, J. Marshall, S. Kruse, and P. Wetmore, Neotectonic faulting and fore arc sliver motion along the Atirro-Rió Sucio fault system, Costa Rica, Central America, accepted, GSA Bulletin.
B. M. Mwashote, M. Murray, W.C. Burnett, J. Chanton, S. Kruse, and A. Forde, Submarine groundwater discharge in the Sarasota Bay system: Its assessment and implications for the nearshore coastal environment, Continental Shelf Research, in press.
Kruse, S., Near-Surface Geophysics Techniques in Geomorphology, Chapter 4 in Remote Sensing and GIScience in Geomorphology, Volume 3 in Treatise in Geomorphology, in press, Elsevier.
van Gaalen, J. F., S. Kruse, W. B. Lafrenz and S. M. Burroughs, Predicting water table response to rainfall events, Central Florida, Ground Water, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.00970.x, 2012.
Courtland, L.M., S.E. Kruse, C.B. Connor, L.J. Connor, and I.P. Savov, GPR investigation of tephra fallout, Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua; a method for constraining parameters used in tephra sedimentation models, Bulletin of Volcanology, 74, 1409-1424, 2012.
van Gaalen, J., S. Kruse, G. Coco, L. Collins, and T. Doering, Observations of beach cusp evolution at Melbourne Beach, Florida, USA, Geomorphology, 129,131-140, 2011.
S. Kruse, R. Mora, C. Ramirez, and G. Alvarado, Ground penetrating radar imaging of tephra stratigraphy on Poás and Irazú volcanoes, Costa Rica, Revista Geológica de América Central, 43, 119-136, 2010.
Stringer, C.E., M.C. Rains, S. Kruse, and D. Whigham, Controls on water levels and salinity in a barrier island mangrove, Indian River Lagoon, Florida, Wetlands, 30, 725-734, DOI 10.1007/s13157-010-0072-4, 2010.
Hickey, T.D., Hine, A.C., Shinn, E.A., Cunningham, K.J., Kruse, S.E., and Poore, R.Z., Pleistocene carbonate stratigraphy of south Florida: evidence for high-frequency sea-level cyclicity, Journal of Coastal Research, 264,605-614, DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-09-00052.1, 2010.
Diez, M., C. B. Connor, S.E. Kruse, L. Connor, and I.P. Savov, Evidence of small-volume igneous diapirism in the shallow crust of the Colorado Plateau, San Rafael desert, Utah, Lithosphere, 2009, 1, 328-336, doi:10.1130/L61, 2009.
Wetmore, P. H., C. B. Connor, S. E. Kruse, S. Callihan, G. Pignotta, C. Stremtan, and A. Burke, Geometry of the Trachyte Mesa intrusion, Henry Mountains, Utah: Implications for the emplacement of small melt volumes into the upper crust, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 10, 8, doi:10.1029/2009GC002469, 2009.
Van Gaalen, J.F., S.E. Kruse, S.M. Burroughs, and G. Coco, Time-frequency methods for characterizing cuspate landforms in Lidar data, Journal of Coastal Research, 25(3), 1143-1148, 2009.
Guha, S., S. Kruse, and P. Wang, Joint time-frequency analysis of GPR data over layered sequences, The Leading Edge, 27 (11), 1454-1460, 2008.
Swarzenski, P.W., F.W. Simonds, A.J. Paulson, S. Kruse, and C. Reich, Geochemical and geophysical examination of submarine groundwater discharge and associated nutrient loading estimates into Lynch Cove, Hood Canal, WA, Environ. Sci. & Technol, 41(20), 7022-7029, 2007.
Montero, W. and S. Kruse, Neotectónica y geofísica de la Falla Aguacaliente en los valles de Coris y de El Guarco, Revista Geológica de América Central, 34-35, 43-58, 2006.
Denyer, P., G. Cárdenes, and S. Kruse, Registro histórico y evolución de la barra arenosa de Puntarenas, Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica, Revista Geológica de América Central, 31, 45-59, 2006.
Kruse, S., M. Grasmueck, M. Weiss, and D. Viggiano, Sinkhole structure imaging in covered karst terrain, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L16405, doi:10.1029/2006GL026975, 2006.
Guha, S., S.E. Kruse, E.E. Wright, and U.E. Kruse, Spectral analysis of ground penetrating radar response to thin sedimentary layers, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L23304, doi:10.1029/2005GL023933, 2005.
Greenwood, W.J., S.E. Kruse, and P. Swarzenski, Extending electromagnetic methods to map coastal pore water salinities, Groundwater, doi: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.00137.x, 2005.
Schneider, J.A. and S.E. Kruse, Assessing natural and anthropogenic impacts on freshwater lens morphology on small barrier islands: Dog Island and St. George Island, Florida, Hydrogeology Journal, 14, 131-145, doi 10.1007/s10040-005-0442-9, 2005.