RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Crustal magnetic anomaly maps/models for alternative navigation
- Propagation of uncertainty in crustal anomaly maps/models
- Geologic interpretation of gravity and magnetic anomalies
- Digital compilation of magnetic surveys
- Public release of digital magnetic grids and image products
- Innovative display of geophysical information
CURRENT RESEARCH
My current primary focus is on new methods to deliver trustable magnetic anomaly information for use in alternative navigation (i.e., navigation in the absence of GPS).
I am working with other members of the GEOMAG team on updates to the 2 arc-minute global magnetic anomaly compilation for inclusion in high resolution global models for navigation and support of directional drilling.
I am part of the “MagMapper” team to assist the Dept. of Energy in development of a citizen science application to verify the location of suspected orphan wells.
I was a member of the joint State Department/NOAA/USGS effort to map and describe the extent of the United States Extended Continental Shelf according to the definitions in the United Nations’ Law of the Sea, Article 76. My role included scientific leadership for the Arctic and Atlantic regional documentation.
SELECTED CITATIONS
Optimum Magnetic Anomaly Survey Design R Saltus, A Chulliat, A Balmes - AGU24, 2024
Magnetic anomaly grid and associated uncertainty from marine trackline data: The Caribbean Alternative Navigation Reference Experiment (CANREx) RW Saltus, A Chulliat, B Meyer, M Bates, A Sirohey Earth and Space Science 10 (11), e2023EA002958, 2023
Magnetic maps and models for alternative navigation R Saltus, P Alken, A Balmes, N Boneh, S Califf, A Chulliat, B Meyer, ... 2023 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 805-813, 2023
There is more Wrangellia—magnetic characterization of southern Alaska crust RW Saltus, TL Hudson Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 59 (4), 243-257, 2022
Derivation and error analysis of the earth magnetic anomaly grid at 2 arc min resolution version 3 (EMAG2v3) B Meyer, A Chulliat, R Saltus Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 18 (12), 4522-4537, 2017
Geophysical analysis of the Alpha–Mendeleev ridge complex: characterization of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province GN Oakey, RW Saltus Tectonophysics 691, 65-84, 2016
- Saltus, R., 2013, Tackling “boundary faults” across the Alaska-Yukon border – A report from the field: Earth Magazine, October 2013, p. 8-9.
- Saltus, R.W., and Blakely, R.J., 2011, Unique Geologic Insights from “Non-Unique” Gravity and Magnetic Interpretation: GSA Today, v. 21, n. 12, p. 4-10.
- Saltus, R.W., Miller, E.L., and Gaina, Carmen, 2011, Regional magnetic domains of the circum-Arctic – A framework for geodynamic interpretation, in Spencer et al., eds., Arctic Petroleum Geology, Geological Society Memoir No. 35, p. 49-60.
- Haeussler, P.J., and Saltus, R.W., 2011, Location and extent of Tertiary structures in Cook Inlet basin, Alaska, and mantle dynamics that focus deformation and subsidence: USGS PP 1776 D, p. 1-30.