2026 Gabi Laske: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	34	7807	7238	2641	2338	139	8202

Overview

Gabi Laske is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. They have contributed extensively to research involving Seismic Waves and Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, and High-pressure geophysics and materials.

Their work spans multiple specialized areas including Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Seismology and Earthquake Studies, Cryospheric studies and observations, and Landslides and related hazards.

Frequent publication venues where Gabi Laske's research has appeared include:

Geophysical Journal International
Seismological Research Letters
The Cryosphere
Frontiers in Earth Science
Seismica

Gabi Laske has authored several papers, including:

"Glaciohydraulic seismic tremors on an Alpine glacier" (2020) published in The Cryosphere
"Why Do My Squiggles Look Funny? A Gallery of Compromised Seismic Signals" (2021) published in Seismological Research Letters
"Observations of Earth's Normal Modes on Broadband Ocean Bottom Seismometers" (2021) published in Frontiers in Earth Science
"Melt-affected ocean crust and uppermost mantle near Hawaii-clues from ambient-noise phase velocity and seafloor compliance" (2020) published in Geophysical Journal International
"Probabilistic estimation of structure coefficients and their uncertainties, for inner-core sensitive modes, using matrix autoregression" (2020) published in Geophysical Journal International

The researcher collaborates frequently with colleagues such as Fabian Lindner, Fabian Walter, Florent Gimbert, A. T. Ringler, and David B. Mason.

Best Publications

Update on CRUST1.0 - A 1-degree Global Model of Earth's Crust

Gabi Laske;Guy Masters;Zhitu Ma;Mike Pasyanos

1808
Citations
CRUST 5.1: A global crustal model at 5° × 5°

Walter D. Mooney;Gabi Laske;T. Guy Masters

1242
Citations
The Relative Behavior of Shear Velocity, Bulk Sound Speed, and Compressional Velocity in the Mantle: Implications for Chemical and Thermal Structure

Guy Masters;Gabi Laske;Harold Bolton;Adam Dziewonski

953
Citations
A Shear-Velocity Model of the Mantle [and Discussion]

Guy Masters;Stuart Johnson;Gabi Laske;Harold Bolton

532
Citations
LITHO1.0: An updated crust and lithospheric model of the Earth

Michael E. Pasyanos;T. Guy Masters;Gabi Laske;Zhitu Ma

522
Citations
Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

Jeffrey Park;Teh-Ru Alex Song;Jeroen Tromp;Emile A. Okal

368
Citations
Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms

C. Houser;G. Masters;P. Shearer;G. Laske

325
Citations
Mantle shear-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hot spot.

Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Gabi Laske;John A. Collins

270
Citations
Constraints on global phase velocity maps from long-period polarization data

G. Laske;G. Masters

217
Citations
CRUST1.0: An Updated Global Model of Earth's Crust

G. Laske;G. Masters;Z. Ma;M. E. Pasyanos

189
Citations
The global seismographic network surpasses its design goal

Rhett Butler;Thome Lay;Ken Creager;Paul Earl

178
Citations
Global upper-mantle structure from finite-frequency surface-wave tomography

Ying Zhou;Ying Zhou;Guust Nolet;F. A. Dahlen;Gabi Laske

171
Citations
Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations

Gabi Laske;Guy Masters

133
Citations
Finite-frequency effects in global surface-wave tomography

Ying Zhou;F. A. Dahlen;Guust Nolet;Gabi Laske

130
Citations
Underplating of the Hawaiian Swell: evidence from teleseismic receiver functions

Garrett M. Leahy;John A. Collins;Cecily J. Wolfe;Gabi Laske

112
Citations
Global observation of off-great-circle propagation of long-period surface waves

G. Laske

108
Citations
Seismic imaging of melt in a displaced Hawaiian plume

Catherine A. Rychert;Gabi Laske;Nicholas Harmon;Peter M. Shearer

96
Citations
Mantle P-wave velocity structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot

Cecily J. Wolfe;Sean C. Solomon;Gabi Laske;John A. Collins

80
Citations
SURFACE-WAVE POLARIZATION DATA AND GLOBAL ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE

G. Laske;G. Masters

78
Citations
Observation of Coriolis coupled modes below 1 mHz

W. Zürn;G. Laske;R. Widmer-Schnidrig;F. Gilbert

76
Citations
Ocean‐Bottom Seismometer Instrument Orientations via Automated Rayleigh‐Wave Arrival‐Angle Measurements

Adrian K. Doran;Gabi Laske

63
Citations
LITHO1.0 - An Updated Crust and Lithospheric Model of the Earth Developed Using Multiple Data Constraints

M. E. Pasyanos;G. Masters;G. Laske;Z. Ma

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Masters University of California, San Diego

John A. Orcutt University of California, San Diego

Cecily J. Wolfe United States Geological Survey

Sean C. Solomon Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Erik H. Hauri Carnegie Institution for Science

Robert S. Detrick Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

David Bercovici Yale University

Michael E. Pasyanos Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Michael E Weber University of Bonn

Zvi Ben-Avraham Tel Aviv University

External Links

Personal website of Gabi Laske

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