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	Dr. William Waite
	U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center Quissett Campus, 384 Woods Hole Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 Tel. (508) 457-2346 Fax. (508) 457-2310 Contact: wwaite@usgs.gov

Publications

• Moerig, R., Waite, W.F., Boyd, O.S., Getting, I.C., Spetzler, H.A., 1996, Seismic Attenuation in Artificial Glass Cracks: Physical and Physicochemical Effects of Fluids, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 23, pp. 2057-2060.
• Moerig, R., Waite, W., Spetzler, H., 1997, Effects of Surfactant Contamination on Fluid Flow, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 24, pp. 755-758.
• Waite, W., Moerig, R., Spetzler, H., 1997, Seismic Attenuation in a Partially Saturated, Artificial Crack Due to Restricted Contact Line Motion, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 24, pp. 3309-3312.
• Waite, W., Helgerud, M.B., Nur, A., 1998, Observations of Propane Hydrate Formation, Stanford Rock Physics & Borehole Geophysics Project Annual Report, vol. 68, pp. E1-1 to E1-13.
• Helgerud, M.B., Waite, W., Nur, A, 1998, Speed of Sound Through a Glass Bead Pack Containing Propane Gas Hydrate, Stanford Rock Physics & Borehole Geophysics Project Annual Report, vol. 68, pp. E2-1 to E2-E2-13.
• Waite, W.F., Helgerud, M.B., Nur, A., Pinkston, J.C., Stern, L.A., Kirby, S.H., and Durham, W.B., 2000, First Laboratory Measurements of Compressional and Shear Wave Speeds Through Pure Methane Hydrate at In Situ Conditions, in Holder, G.D., and Bishnoi, P.R., Gas Hydrates, Challenges for the Future: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 912, pp. 1003-1009.
• Dvorkin, J., Helgerud, M.B., Waite, W.F., Kirby, S.H. and Nur, A., 2000, Introduction to Physical Properties and Elasticity Models, Chapter 20 in Max, M.D., ed., Natural Gas Hydrate in Oceanic and Permafrost Environments: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, p. 245-260.
• Stern, L.A., Kirby, S.H., Durham, W.B., Circone, S. and Waite, W.F., 2000, Laboratory Synthesis of Pure Methane Hydrate Suitable for Measurement of Physical Properties and Decomposition Behavior, Chapter 25 in Max, M.D., ed., Natural Gas Hydrate: Oceanic and Permafrost Environments, Kluwer, Dordrecht, p. 323-348.
• Waite, W.F., deMartin, B.J., Kirby, S.H., Pinkston, J. and Ruppel, C.D., 2002, Thermal Conductivity Measurements in Porous Mixtures of Methane Hydrate And Quartz Sand: Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 29, no. 24, 2229, doi:10.1029/2002GL015988, pp. 82(1)-82(4).
• Waite, W.F., Pinkston, J. and Kirby, S.H., 2002, Preliminary Laboratory Thermal Conductivity Measurements in Pure Methane Hydrate and Methane Hydrate-Sediment Mixtures; A Progress Report: The Fourth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, vol. 2, pp. 728-733.
• Helgerud, M.B., Waite, W.F., Kirby, S.H. and Nur, A., 2002, Measured Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Compressional and Shear Wave Speeds in Polycrystalline sI Methane Hydrate and Polycrystalline Ice Ih: The Fourth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, vol.2, pp. 711-715.
• Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., Mason, D.H., Dillon, W.P. and Pecher, I.A., 2002, Sediment Properties Associated with Gas Hydrate Formation: The Fourth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, vol. 2, pp. 722-727.
• Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., Mason, D.H., Dillon, W.P. and Hutchinson, D.R., 2002, Acoustic, Pore Pressure, and Strength Properties of Sediment Containing Gas Hydrate: Minerals of the Ocean International Conference, Proceedings Volume, Ministry of Natural Resources, Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 13, pp. 161-164.
• Helgerud, M.B., Waite, W.F., Kirby, S.H. and Nur, A., 2003, Measured Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Vp and Vs in Compacted, Polycrystalline Ice lh: Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 81, pp. 81-87.
• Helgerud, M.B., Waite, W.F., Kirby, S.H. and Nur, A., 2003, Measured Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Vp and Vs in Compacted, Polycrystalline sl Methane and sll Methane-Ethane Hydrate: Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 81, pp. 47-53.
• Waite, W.F., Winters, W.J., Mason, D.H., 2004, Methane Hydrate Formation in Partially Water-Saturated Ottawa Sand: American Mineralogist, vol. 89(8-9), pp. 1202-1207
• Winters, W.J., Pecher, I.A., Waite, W.F., Mason, D.H. 2004, Physical properties and rock physics models of sediment containing natural and laboratory-formed methane gas hydrate: American Mineralogist, vol. 89(8-9), pp. 1221-1227.
• Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., and Mason, D.H., 2004, Strength and acoustic properties of Ottawa sand containing laboratory-formed methane gas hydrate: Chapter 14 in Taylor, C.E. and Kwan, J.T. (Eds.) Advances in the Study of Gas Hydrates, New York, NY, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, p. 213-226.
• Waite, W.F., Gilbert, L.Y., Winters, W.J., Mason, D.H., 2005, Thermal property measurements in Tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrate and hydrate-bearing sediment between -25 and +4°C, and their application to methane hydrate: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, v. 5, paper 5042, Trondheim, Norway, June 13-16, 2005, p. 1724-1733.
• Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., Mason, D.H., Gilbert, L.Y., Pecher, I.A., 2005, Grain size effects on acoustic and strength behavior of sediments containing natural- and laboratory-formed methane gas hydrate: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Gas Hydrates, v. 2, paper 2017, Trondheim, Norway, June 13-16, 2005, p. 507-516.
• Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., Hutchinson, D.R. and Mason, D.H., 2005, Physical property studies in the USGS GHASTLI laboratory; Fire in the ice: Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Methane Hydrate Newsletter, Fall 2005, p. 6-9.
• Waite, W.F., Ruppel, C.D., Kirby, S.H., 2006, Comment on "Thermal and visual time-series at a seafloor gas hydrate deposit on the Gulf of Mexico slope" by I.R. MacDonald, L.C. Bender, M.Vardaro, B. Bernard, and J.M. Brooks, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 233, 2005, p. 481-482.
• Waite, W.F., Gilbert, L.Y., Winters, W.J., Mason, D.H., 2006, Estimating thermal diffusivity and specific heat from needle probe thermal conductivity data: Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 77, paper # 044904.
• Chand, S., T. A. Minshull, J. A. Priest, A. I. Best, C. R. Clayton, and W. F. Waite, 2006, An effective medium inversion algorithm for gas hydrate quantification and its application to laboratory and borehole measurements of gas hydrate-bearing sediments, Geophysical Journal International, 166, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03038.x, p. 543-552.
• Winters, W.J., Waite, W.F., Mason, D.H. and Gilbert, L.Y., 2006. Physical properties of repressurized sediment from Hydrate Ridge. In: A.M. Trehu, G. Bohrmann, M.E. Torres and F.S. Colwell (Editors), Proc. ODP, Scientific Results, pp. 1-19.
• Lee, M.W., W.F. Waite, 2007. Amplitude loss of seismic waveform due to source coupling to the medium, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L05303, doi: 10.1029/2006GL029015.
• Winters, W. J., W. F. Waite, D. H. Mason, L. Y. Gilbert, and I. A. Pecher, 2007. Methane gas hydrate effect on sediment acoustic and strength properties, Journal of Petroleum Science & Engineering, 56, 127-135.
• Waite, W.F., L.A. Stern, S.H. Kirby, W.J. Winters, D.H. Mason, 2007. Simultaneous determination of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and specific heat in sI methane hydrate, Geophysical Journal International, 169, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03382.x, p. 767-774.