Dr. Rachel E. Abercrombie

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Graduate Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows

Gisela Viegas Fernandes

Ph.D. 2009: Thesis entitled Earthquake Source Properties and Wave Propagation in Eastern North America.
Gisela started a post-doctoral fellowship at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, in September 2009.

Maya El Hariri

M.A. 2008: Thesis entitled Seismicity Patterns and Fluid-Flow Observations From Reservoir Induced Earthquakes.
Waveform cross-correlation and relocation of seismicity from Brazil to investigate the role of fluid diffusion in triggering earthquakes. Maya started a Ph.D. at New Mexico Tech in Seismology in January 2008.

Katherine Murphy

M.A. 2006: Thesis entitled The 23 December 2004 M8.1 Macquarie Ridge Earthquake. Bodywave modelling of this large earthquake to investigate source processes and seismotectonics. Katherine started at Weston Geophysical Corporation in September 2006. 

Jelena Tomic

M.A. 2004: Jelena’s thesis involved Empirical Green’s function analysis of small reservoir induced earthquakes, including determining rupture velocity. Jelena started a Ph.D. at UCLA in Geophysics in September 2004. 

Karen Felzer

Ph.D. 2002, Harvard: While Karen was not officially my student, I was her principal informal advisor. Her research involves using statistical techniques to study the physics of earthquake interaction. Karen currently has a USGS Mendenhall Fellowship with the USGS in Pasadena, California.

Takuji Yamada, Post Doctoral Fellow:

Takuji is a JSPS Research Fellow at Tokyo University, who visited us 2005-2007. His research has focused on small earthquakes in South African Gold mines.

Eleanor Sonley, Post Doctoral Fellow:

January 2005 – December 2005. Eleanor worked on the source processes of small, repeating earthquakes at Parkfield (California) recorded by the HRSN borehole network. Now at Binghamton University.