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3922
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Charles J. Ammon is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Computer Science, and Engineering. Within these broader disciplines, their work focuses on subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Geophysics and Sensor Technology
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Charles J. Ammon are:

  • A. A. Velasco
  • Thorne Lay
  • Terry C. Wallace
  • A. Nyblade
  • Jonas A. Kintner

Their research is published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geophysical Prospecting

Some recent papers by Charles J. Ammon include:

  • "Achievements and Prospects of Global Broadband Seismographic Networks After 30 Years of Continuous Geophysical Observations," 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Testing a Local-Distance Rg/Sg Discriminant Using Observations from the Bighorn Region, Wyoming," 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • "Crust and Upper Mantle Structure Beneath the Eastern United States," 2022, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Short-Period Surface-Wave Tomography in the Continental United States-A Resource for Research," 2021, Seismological Research Letters
  • "Precise Relative Magnitude and Relative Location Estimates of Low-Yield Industrial Blasts in Pennsylvania," 2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Charles J. Ammon was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Iterative deconvolution and receiver-function estimation

    Juan Pablo Ligorría;Charles James Ammon

  • The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004

    Thorne Lay;Thorne Lay;Hiroo Kanamori;Charles J. Ammon;Meredith Nettles

  • The isolation of receiver effects from teleseismic P waveforms

    Charles J. Ammon

  • On the nonuniqueness of receiver function inversions

    Charles J. Ammon;George E. Randall;George Zandt

  • Rupture Process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

    Charles J. Ammon;Chen Ji;Hong-Kie Thio;David Robinson

  • Continental crust composition constrained by measurements of crustal Poisson's ratio

    George Zandt;Charles J. Ammon

  • Joint inversion of receiver function and surface wave dispersion observations

    J. Julià;J. Julià;J. Julià;C. J. Ammon;R. B. Herrmann;R. B. Herrmann;and A. M. Correig

  • Depth‐varying rupture properties of subduction zone megathrust faults

    Thorne Lay;Hiroo Kanamori;Charles J. Ammon;Keith D. Koper

  • Possible large near-trench slip during the 2011 M w 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Thorne Lay;Charles J. Ammon;Hiroo Kanamori;Lian Xue

  • Moment tensor solutions for small and moderate earthquakes in the Ibero‐Maghreb region

    Daniel Stich;Charles J. Ammon;Jose Morales

  • A rupture model of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

    Charles J. Ammon;Thorne Lay;Hiroo Kanamori;Michael Cleveland

  • Upper mantle velocity structure beneath the Tibetan Plateau from Pn travel time tomography

    D. E. McNamara;D. E. McNamara;D. E. McNamara;W. R. Walter;T. J. Owens;C. J. Ammon

  • Crustal structure in Ethiopia and Kenya from receiver function analysis: Implications for rift development in eastern Africa

    Mulugeta T. Dugda;Andrew A. Nyblade;Jordi Julia;Charles A. Langston

  • Teleseismic inversion for rupture process of the 27 February 2010 Chile (Mw 8.8) earthquake

    T. Lay;C. J. Ammon;H. Kanamori;K. D. Koper

  • The 2009 Samoa–Tonga great earthquake triggered doublet

    Thorne Lay;Charles J. Ammon;Hiroo Kanamori;Luis Rivera

  • Frequency-dependent rupture process of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake: Comparison of short-period P wave backprojection images and broadband seismic rupture models

    Keith D. Koper;Alexander R. Hutko;Thorne Lay;Charles J. Ammon

  • The 17 July 2006 Java tsunami earthquake

    Charles J. Ammon;Hiroo Kanamori;Thorne Lay;Aaron A. Velasco

  • A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands

    Charles J. Ammon;Hiroo Kanamori;Thorne Lay

  • Monitoring the Earthquake source process in North America

    R. B. Herrmann;H. Benz;Charles James Ammon

  • The 2006–2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence

    Thorne Lay;Hiroo Kanamori;Charles J. Ammon;Alexander R. Hutko

  • Lithospheric Structure of the Arabian Shield From the Joint Inversion of Receiver Function and Surface-Wave Dispersion Observations

    Jordi Julia;Charles J Ammon;Robert B Herrimann

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorne Lay
Thorne Lay University of California, Santa Cruz
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Robert B. Herrmann
Robert B. Herrmann Saint Louis University
Jordi Julià
Jordi Julià Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Keith D. Koper
Keith D. Koper University of Utah
Barry Voight
Barry Voight Pennsylvania State University
Terry C. Wallace
Terry C. Wallace Los Alamos National Laboratory
Andrew A. Nyblade
Andrew A. Nyblade Pennsylvania State University
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Sridhar Anandakrishnan Pennsylvania State University
Charles A. Langston
Charles A. Langston University of Memphis

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