Berkeley Seismological Laboratory PhD Theses
2023
| Rodrigo Chi | Detection of Waves in the Earth’s Outer Core Using Geomagnetic Data-Driven Techniques |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
2022
| William Davis | Stochastic Models of Geodynamo Simulations |
Advisor: Bruce Buffett |
| Patcharaporn Maneerat | Short- and Long- Term Tectonics across the Indo-Burma Range |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Yuexin Li | Illuminating seismic and aseismic fault slip from satellite geodesy: focus on continental creeping faults |
Advisor: |
2019
| Nathaniel J. Lindsey | Fiberoptic Seismology in Theory and Practice |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger and Michael Manga |
| Kathryn Materna | Geodetic and Seismological Investigations of Earthquake Cycle Deformation and Fault Zone Properties |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Noah Randolph-Flagg | The Role of Groundwater in Volcanic and Fault Zone Processes |
Advisor: Michael Manga |
| Robert I. Citron | Early Mars Geodynamics: Giant Impacts, Super-Plumes, and Vast Oceans |
Advisor: Michael Manga |
| Robert Michael Martin-Short | Seismic Investigation of Subduction in Cascadia and Alaska and Simulating the Ability of MyShake Networks to Detect and Locate Earthquakes |
Advisor: Richard Allen |
2018
| Sierra Boyd | Analysis of Seismic Moment Tensors, In-Situ Stress, and Finite-Source Scaling of Earthquakes at The Geysers Geothermal Field, California |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
| Qingkai Kong | MyShake – Building a global smartphone seismic network |
Advisor: Richard Allen |
2017
| Chris Johnson | Stress modulation of earthquakes : A study of long and short period stress perturbations and the crustal response |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Brent Gregory Delbridge | Constraints on Slow Slip from Landsliding and Faulting |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
2015
| Andrea Chiang |
Investigating Source Processes of Isotropic Events |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
| Shan Dou | Field and Laboratory Investigations on Seismic Properties of Unconsolidated Saline Permafrost | Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
2014
| Scott French |
Global full-waveform tomography using the spectral element method: New constraints on the structure of the Earth's interior |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Mong-Han Huang |
Crustal deformation during co- and postseismic phases of the earthquake cycle inferred from geodetic and seismic data |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Zhao Zheng | Refining Constraints on Seismic Discontinuities and Elastic Structure in the Earth's Upper Mantle | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
2013
| Saane Cottaar |
Heterogeneity and Flow in the Deep Earth |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Rob Porritt | Tracing the Farallon plate through seismic imaging with USArray | Advisor: Richard Allen |
2012
| Holly Moore Brown |
Evaluating and Improving the ElarmS Earthquake Early Warning Algorithm |
Advisor: Richard Allen |
| Amanda Thomas |
Fact or friction: Inferring rheology from nonvolcanic tremor and low-frequency earthquakes on the deep San Andreas fault |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Kelly Wiseman | The Far Reach of MegaThrust Earthquakes: Evolution of Stress, Deformation, and Seismicity Following the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Rupture | Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
2011
| Edwin (Trey) Apel |
Shells on a Sphere: Tectonic Plate Motion and Plate Boundary Deformation |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Aurélie Guilhem | Analysis of unusual earthquake and tremor seismicity at the Mendocino triple junction and Parkfield, California | Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
2010
| Gilead Wurman |
Earthquake Early Warning and the Physics of Earthquake Rupture |
Advisor: Richard Allen |
| Yder Jean Masson |
Computing the Seismic Attenuation in Complex Porous Materials |
Advisor: Michael Manga |
2009
| Vedran Lekic |
Inferring the Elastic Structure of the Earth's Mantle using the Spectral Element Method |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Ahyi Kim | Investigating Rupture Process of Parkfield Seismicity | Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
| Nestor Herman Cuevas | Electrokinetic coupling in hydraulic fracture propagation |
Advisor: James Rector |
2008
| Sean Ford |
Isotropic Sources and Attenuation Structure: Nuclear Tests, Mine Collapses, and Q |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
| Karl Kappler |
Long Term Electromagnetic Monitoring at Parkfield, CA |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
Mei Xue |
Using Seismic Methods to Constrain Mantle Convection Processes | Advisor: Richard Allen |
2007
| Dennise Christine Templeton |
Exotic Seismic Sources: Nearly Identically Repeating Events and Non-Double-Couple Earthquakes |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann and Douglas Dreger |
2006
| David Dolenc |
Results From Two Studies in Seismology: I. Seismic Observations and Modeling in the Santa Clara Valley, California II. Observations and Removal of the Long-Period Noise at the Monterey Ocean Bottom Broadband Station (MOBB) |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
| Ingrid Johanson |
Slip Characteristics of San Andreas Fault Transition Zone Segments |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Junkee Rhie |
Studies on tiny and huge seismic sources using long period surface waves: From the hum to 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Akiko To | Elastic and viscoelastic properties of the solid earth using normal mode based and numerical methods in 1D and in 3D | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
2005
| Aimin Cao | Seismological Constraints on Inner Core Properties | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
2004
| Matthew d'Alessio |
The Thermal and Mechanical Behavior of Faults |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Dennise Templeton |
Exotic Seismic Sources: Nearly Identically Repeating Events and Non-Double-Couple Earthquakes |
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
| Mark Panning | Deep Earth Seismic Structure and Earthquake Source Processes from Long Period Waveform Modelling | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
2003
| Wu-Cheng Chi | From subduction to collision : results from seismic profiling, gravity modeling, and earthquake finite fault inversions in Taiwan region |
Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
| Yuan-Cheng Gung | Lateral Variations in Attenuation and Anisotropy of the Upper Mantle from Seismic Waveform Tomography | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
2002
| David Schmidt | The Kinematics of Faults in the San Francisco Bay Area Inferred from Geodetic and Seismic Data | Advisor: Roland Bürgmann |
2001
| Hrvoje Tkalčić | Study of deep Earth structure using body waves | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
1999
| Ludovic Bregér |
New constraints on deep earth heterogeneity and anisotropy |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Chanicy Kuo |
Three-dimensional Density Structure of the Earth: Limits to Astrophysical and Seismological Approaches |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Christiane Wilson Stidham | Three-Dimensional Crustal Structure Influences on Wave Propagation and Generation of Strong Ground Motion in the greater San Francisco Bay region | Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
1998
| Janine Weber-Band | Neotectonics of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area, east-central Coast Ranges, California | Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
1997
| Peggy Johnson | Source processes of small earthquakes, M 1-5: studies of the San Andreas fault and Parkfield and Long Valley Caldera, California | Advisor: Douglas Dreger |
1996
| Michael Pasyanos | Regional Moment Tensors and the Structure of the Crust in Central and Nothern California |
Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
| Michael Antolik | New results from studies of three outstanding problems in local, regional, and global seismology | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |
1990
| Xian-Dong Li | The Asphericity of the Earth from Free Oscillations | Advisor: Barbara Romanowicz |