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  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Andrea Donnellan is affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Geophysics. The scientist's work also spans into subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The major topics of research explored by Andrea Donnellan cover various aspects of earthquake and tectonic studies, earthquake detection and analysis, seismic waves and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, GNSS positioning and interference, as well as landslides and related hazards.

Andrea Donnellan has contributed to a number of scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • The complex dynamics of earthquake fault systems: new approaches to forecasting and nowcasting of earthquakes (2021, Reports on Progress in Physics)
  • Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground-Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Using Daily Observations from Planet Labs Satellite Imagery to Separate the Surface Deformation between the 4 July Mw 6.4 Foreshock and 5 July Mw 7.1 Mainshock during the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Bookshelf Kinematics and the Effect of Dilatation on Fault Zone Inelastic Deformation: Examples From Optical Image Correlation Measurements of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • Automated Estimation and Tools to Extract Positions, Velocities, Breaks, and Seasonal Terms From Daily GNSS Measurements: Illuminating Nonlinear Salton Trough Deformation (2020, Earth and Space Science)

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Earth and Space Science, Seismological Research Letters, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, arXiv (Cornell University), and GeoHazards.

Collaborations with other researchers form an important part of Andrea Donnellan's scientific contributions. Frequent co-authors include John B. Rundle, Lisa Grant Ludwig, Jay Parker, G. A. Lyzenga, and Geoffrey Fox.

In 2020, Andrea Donnellan was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Satellite remote sensing of earthquake, volcano, flood, landslide and coastal inundation hazards

    David M. Tralli;Ronald G. Blom;Victor Zlotnicki;Andrea Donnellan

  • Geomorphic and geologic controls of geohazards induced by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

    J. S. Kargel;G. J. Leonard;D. H. Shugar;U. K. Haritashya

  • Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984–1992

    Kurt L. Feigl;Duncan C. Agnew;Yehuda Bock;Danan Dong

  • The 2012 Brawley swarm triggered by injection-induced aseismic slip

    Shengji Wei;Shengji Wei;Jean Philippe Avouac;Kenneth W. Hudnut;Andrea Donnellan

  • Co-seismic displacements of the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake

    K. W. Hudnut;Z. Shen;M. Murray;S. McClusky

  • Nowcasting earthquakes: Nowcasting Earthquakes

    J. B. Rundle;D. L. Turcotte;A. Donnellan;L. Grant Ludwig

  • A RELM earthquake forecast based on pattern informatics

    James R. Holliday;Chien Chih Chen;Kristy F. Tiampo;John B. Rundle

  • Geodetic measurement of deformation in the Ventura Basin Region, southern California

    Andrea Donnellan;Bradford H. Hager;Robert W. King;Thomas A. Herring

  • The Magnitude 6.7 Northridge, California, Earthquake of January 17, 1994

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  • Hydro‐isostatic deflection and tectonic tilting in the central Andes: Initial results of a GPS survey of Lake Minchin shorelines

    Bruce G. Bills;Shanaka L. de Silva;Donald R. Currey;Robert S. Emenger

  • Space-time clustering and correlations of major earthquakes.

    James R. Holliday;John B. Rundle;Donald L. Turcotte;William Klein

  • Discrepancy between geological and geodetic deformation rates in the Ventura basin

    Andrea Donnellan;Bradford H. Hager;Robert W. King

  • GPS observations of fault afterslip and upper crustal deformation following the Northridge earthquake

    Andrea Donnellan;Gregory A. Lyzenga

  • Reports on progress in physics the complex dynamics of earthquake fault systems: new approaches to forecasting and nowcasting of earthquakes.

    John B Rundle;Seth Stein;Andrea Donnellan;Donald L Turcotte

  • Virtual California: Fault Model, Frictional Parameters, Applications

    P. B. Rundle;J. B. Rundle;K. F. Tiampo;A. Donnellan

  • Shortening and thickening of metropolitan Los Angeles measured and inferred by using geodesy

    Donald F. Argus;Michael B. Heflin;Andrea Donnellan;Frank H. Webb

  • Seismic cycle and plate margin deformation in Costa Rica: GPS observations from 1994 to 1997

    P. Lundgren;M. Protti;A. Donnellan;M. Heflin

  • Reconciling rapid strain accumulation with deep seismogenic fault planes in the Ventura Basin, California

    Bradford H. Hager;Gregory A. Lyzenga;Andrea Donnellan;Danan Dong

  • Global Seismic Nowcasting With Shannon Information Entropy.

    John B. Rundle;Alexis Giguere;Donald L. Turcotte;James P. Crutchfield;James P. Crutchfield

  • Modification of the pattern informatics method for forecasting large earthquake events using complex eigenfactors

    J.R. Holliday;J.B. Rundle;K.F. Tiampo;W. Klein

  • Systematic Procedural and Sensitivity Analysis of the Pattern Informatics Method for Forecasting Large (M > 5) Earthquake Events in Southern California

    J. R. Holliday;J. B. Rundle;K. F. Tiampo;W. Klein

  • GPS evidence for a coherent Antarctic plate and for postglacial rebound in Marie Byrd Land

    Andrea Donnellan;Bruce P Luyendyk

  • Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground‐Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence

    Daniel J. Ponti;James Luke Blair;Carla M. Rosa;Kate Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Rundle
John B. Rundle University of California, Davis
Marlon Pierce
Marlon Pierce Indiana University
Geoffrey C. Fox
Geoffrey C. Fox University of Virginia
Kristy F. Tiampo
Kristy F. Tiampo University of Colorado Boulder
Donald L. Turcotte
Donald L. Turcotte University of California, Davis
Kenneth W. Hudnut
Kenneth W. Hudnut United States Geological Survey
Terry E. Tullis
Terry E. Tullis Brown University
Eric J. Fielding
Eric J. Fielding Jet Propulsion Lab
Paul A. Rosen
Paul A. Rosen Jet Propulsion Lab

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