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Andrew Curtis is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and has a significant body of research output focused primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their work is notably extensive in the subfields of Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's research portfolio includes notable papers such as:

  • Optical interferometry-based array of seafloor environmental sensors using a transoceanic submarine cable, 2022, Science
  • Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Bayesian seismic tomography using normalizing flows, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Variational full-waveform inversion, 2020, Geophysical Journal International
  • Seismic events miss important kinematically governed grain scale mechanisms during shear failure of porous rock, 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors contributing to many of their studies include:

  • Xin Zhang
  • Xuebin Zhao
  • Fred Bowyer
  • Rachel Wood
  • Robert G. Bingham

The venues where Andrew Curtis frequently publishes reflect a broad interdisciplinary engagement, with multiple contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Scientific Reports

The main research topics covered by Curtis's work emphasize seismic imaging and inversion techniques, along with seismic waves and analysis. Other areas of investigation include hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, geophysical methods and applications, seismology and earthquake studies, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Best Publications

  • Seismic interferometry-turning noise into signal

    Andrew Curtis;Peter Gerstoft;Haruo Sato;Roel Snieder

  • Earthquake location, direct, global-search methods

    Anthony Lomax;Alberto Michelini;Andrew Curtis

  • Tutorial on seismic interferometry: Part 2 — Underlying theory and new advances

    Kees Wapenaar;Evert Slob;Roel Snieder;Andrew Curtis

  • Low-oxygen waters limited habitable space for early animals.

    R. Tostevin;R. A. Wood;G. A. Shields;S. W. Poulton

  • Modeling of wave propagation in inhomogeneous media.

    Dirk-Jan van Manen;Johan O. A. Robertsson;Andrew Curtis

  • Global crustal thickness from neural network inversion of surface wave data

    Ueli Meier;Andrew Curtis;Jeannot Trampert

  • Seismic interferometry, surface waves and source distribution

    David Halliday;Andrew Curtis

  • Dynamic redox conditions control late Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems in the Nama Group, Namibia

    R A Wood;Simon W Poulton;Anthony R Prave;Karl-Heinz Hoffmann

  • Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia

    A. M. Penny;Rachel Wood;Andrew Curtis;F. Bowyer

  • Interferometric modeling of wave propagation in inhomogeneous elastic media using time reversal and reciprocity

    Dirk-Jan van Manen;Andrew Curtis;Johan O. A. Robertsson

  • Target-oriented Marchenko imaging of a North Sea field

    Matteo Ravasi;Ivan Vasconcelos;Alexander Kritski;Andrew Curtis

  • Prior information, sampling distributions, and the curse of dimensionality

    Andrew Curtis;Anthony Lomax

  • Virtual seismometers in the subsurface of the Earth from seismic interferometry

    Andrew Curtis;Heather Nicolson;Heather Nicolson;David Halliday;Jeannot Trampert

  • Fully nonlinear inversion of fundamental mode surface waves for a global crustal model

    U. Meier;A. Curtis;J. Trampert

  • An introduction to prior information derived from probabilistic judgements: elicitation of knowledge, cognitive bias and herding

    Michelle C. Baddeley;Andrew Curtis;Rachel Wood

  • Source-receiver wave field interferometry

    Andrew Curtis;David Halliday

  • Geophysical Research Abstracts

    Malcolm Atkinson;Andrew Bell;Andrew Curtis;Elizabeth Entwistle

  • Interferometric ground-roll removal: Attenuation of scattered surface waves in single-sensor data

    David F. Halliday;Andrew Curtis;Peter Vermeer;Claudio Strobbia

  • Reconditioning inverse problems using the genetic algorithm and revised parameterization

    Andrew Curtis;Roel Snieder

  • Interferometric surface-wave isolation and removal

    David F. Halliday;Andrew Curtis;Johan O. A. Robertsson;Dirk Jan van Manen

  • Eurasian fundamental mode surface wave phase velocities and their relationship with tectonic structures

    Andrew Curtis;Jeannot Trampert;Roel Snieder;Bernard Dost

  • System and method for seismic wavefield separation

    Johan Olof Anders Robertsson;Andrew Curtis

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood University of Edinburgh
Jeannot Trampert
Jeannot Trampert Utrecht University
Kees Wapenaar
Kees Wapenaar Delft University of Technology
Ian Main
Ian Main University of Edinburgh
Roel Snieder
Roel Snieder Colorado School of Mines
Kenneth Stuart Sorbie
Kenneth Stuart Sorbie Heriot-Watt University
Alberto Michelini
Alberto Michelini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Nicholas Rawlinson
Nicholas Rawlinson University of Cambridge
Christine Thomas
Christine Thomas University of Münster

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