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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Clifford H. Thurber is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research contributions primarily focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on geophysics and related subfields.

The main fields of study for the scientist encompass Earth and Planetary Sciences, with specific subfields including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, Geology, and Environmental Chemistry. Their work engages deeply with the following topics:

  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geophysical Methods and Applications

Among the scientist's recent papers are:

  • "Using a Deep Neural Network and Transfer Learning to Bridge Scales for Seismic Phase Picking," 2020, published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Relocated aftershocks and background seismicity in eastern Indonesia shed light on the 2018 Lombok and Palu earthquake sequences," 2020, published in Geophysical Journal International
  • "PubDAS: A PUBlic Distributed Acoustic Sensing Datasets Repository for Geosciences," 2023, published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "3D Seismic Velocity Models for Alaska from Joint Tomographic Inversion of Body-Wave and Surface-Wave Data," 2020, published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "Surface-wave dispersion spectrum inversion method applied to Love and Rayleigh waves recorded by distributed acoustic sensing," 2020, published in Geophysics

The scientist frequently publishes in various venues, with notable numbers of contributions in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Collaborations form an important part of the scientist's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hao Guo (8 joint publications)
  • K. L. Feigl (7 joint publications)
  • Avinash Nayak (6 joint publications)
  • N. E. Lord (6 joint publications)
  • Xiangfang Zeng (5 joint publications)

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Clifford H. Thurber was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Parameter estimation and inverse problems

    Richard C. Aster;Brian Borchers;Clifford H. Thurber

  • A fast algorithm for two-point seismic ray tracing

    Junho Um;Clifford Thurber

  • Earthquake locations and three-dimensional crustal structure in the Coyote Lake Area, central California

    Clifford H. Thurber

  • Double-Difference Tomography: The Method and Its Application to the Hayward Fault, California

    Haijiang Zhang;Clifford H. Thurber

  • Automatic P-Wave Arrival Detection and Picking with Multiscale Wavelet Analysis for Single-Component Recordings

    Haijiang Zhang;Clifford Thurber;Charlotte Rowe

  • Local earthquake tomography with flexible gridding

    Clifford Thurber;Donna Eberhart-Phillips

  • User's manual for SIMULPS12 for imaging vp and vp/vs; a derivative of the "Thurber" tomographic inversion SIMUL3 for local earthquakes and explosions

    J.R. Evans;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;C.H. Thurber

  • Development and Applications of Double-difference Seismic Tomography

    Haijiang Zhang;Clifford Thurber

  • Three-Dimensional Compressional Wavespeed Model, Earthquake Relocations, and Focal Mechanisms for the Parkfield, California, Region

    Clifford Thurber;Haijiang Zhang;Felix Waldhauser;Jeanne Hardebeck

  • Hypocenter-velocity structure coupling in local earthquake tomography

    Clifford H. Thurber

  • Teleseismic Relocation and Assessment of Seismicity (1918–2005) in the Region of the 2004 Mw 9.0 Sumatra–Andaman and 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias Island Great Earthquakes

    E. Robert Engdahl;Antonio Villaseñor;Heather R. DeShon;Clifford H. Thurber

  • Ground motion response to an ML 4.3 earthquake using co-located distributed acoustic sensing and seismometer arrays

    Herbert F Wang;Xiangfang Zeng;Xiangfang Zeng;Douglas E Miller;Douglas E Miller;Dante Fratta

  • Variations of fluid pressure within the subducting oceanic crust and slow earthquakes

    Aitaro Kato;Takashi Iidaka;Ryoya Ikuta;Yasuhiro Yoshida

  • Global Prevalence of Double Benioff Zones

    Michael R. Brudzinski;Clifford H. Thurber;Bradley R. Hacker;E. Robert Engdahl

  • Nonlinear earthquake location: Theory and examples

    Clifford H. Thurber

  • High-resolution subducting-slab structure beneath northern Honshu, Japan, revealed by double-difference tomography

    Haijiang Zhang;Clifford H. Thurber;David Shelly;Satoshi Ide

  • Rapid solution of ray tracing problems in heterogeneous media

    C. H. Thurber;W. L. Ellsworth

  • Joint inversion for Vp, Vs, and Vp/Vs at SAFOD, Parkfield, California

    Haijiang Zhang;Haijiang Zhang;Clifford Thurber;Paul Bedrosian

  • Teleseismic double-difference relocation of earthquakes along the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone using a 3-D model

    J. D. Pesicek;C. H. Thurber;H. Zhang;H. R. DeShon

  • Advances in seismic event location

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  • Fine-scale structure of the San Andreas fault zone and location of the SAFOD target earthquakes

    C. Thurber;S. Roecker;H. Zhang;S. Baher

  • An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure

    Clifford Thurber

Frequent Co-Authors

Haijiang Zhang
Haijiang Zhang University of Science and Technology of China
Richard C. Aster
Richard C. Aster Colorado State University
Heather R. DeShon
Heather R. DeShon Southern Methodist University
Kurt L. Feigl
Kurt L. Feigl University of Wisconsin–Madison
Matthew M. Haney
Matthew M. Haney Alaska Volcano Observatory
John Townend
John Townend Victoria University of Wellington
Steven W. Roecker
Steven W. Roecker Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
William L. Ellsworth
William L. Ellsworth Stanford University

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