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  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Douglas A. Wiens is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research is situated primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Geophysics. Other subfields addressed include Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

The topics covered in their work encompass a range of geophysical and geological domains. These include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismic waves and analysis
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Landslides and related hazards

Douglas A. Wiens has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "A Geothermal Heat Flux Map of Antarctica Empirically Constrained by Seismic Structure" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Antarctic upper mantle rheology" (2021), published in Geological Society London Memoirs
  • "The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment" (2020), published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "The seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle" (2021), published in Geological Society London Memoirs
  • "Upper Mantle Hydration Indicated by Decreased Shear Velocity Near the Southern Mariana Trench From Rayleigh Wave Tomography" (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with others, with common coauthors including:

  • A. Nyblade (16 joint publications)
  • R. C. Aster (15 joint publications)
  • Andreas Richter (11 joint publications)
  • Walid Mansour (11 joint publications)
  • Hannah F. Mark (10 joint publications)

Douglas A. Wiens's work appears most often in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 12 publications
  • Geophysical Research Letters - 11 publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth - 5 publications
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems - 3 publications
  • Geological Society London Memoirs - 2 publications

Among professional recognitions, Douglas A. Wiens was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Tomography of the source area of the 1995 Kobe earthquake: Evidence for fluids at the hypocenter?

    Dapeng Zhao;Hiroo Kanamori;Hiroaki Negishi;Douglas Wiens

  • Seismotectonics and relative plate motions in the Scotia Sea region

    Aristeo M. Pelayo;Douglas A. Wiens

  • Age dependence of oceanic intraplate seismicity and implications for lithospheric evolution

    Douglas A. Wiens;Seth Stein

  • A Complex Pattern of Mantle Flow in the Lau Backarc

    Gideon P. Smith;Douglas A. Wiens;Karen M. Fischer;Leroy M. Dorman

  • Depth Extent of the Lau Back-Arc Spreading Center and Its Relation to Subduction Processes

    Dapeng Zhao;Dapeng Zhao;Dapeng Zhao;Yingbiao Xu;Yingbiao Xu;Yingbiao Xu;Douglas A. Wiens;Douglas A. Wiens;Douglas A. Wiens;Le Roy Dorman;Le Roy Dorman;Le Roy Dorman

  • Observed rapid bedrock uplift in Amundsen Sea Embayment promotes ice-sheet stability

    Valentina R. Barletta;Valentina R. Barletta;Michael Bevis;Benjamin E. Smith;Terry Wilson

  • A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics

    Douglas A. Wiens;Charles DeMets;Richard G. Gordon;Seth A Stein

  • Intraplate seismicity and stresses in young oceanic lithosphere

    Douglas A. Wiens;Seth Stein

  • Tsunami earthquakes: Slow thrust‐faulting events in the accretionary wedge

    Aristeo M. Pelayo;Douglas A. Wiens

  • Water input into the Mariana subduction zone estimated from ocean-bottom seismic data

    Chen Cai;Douglas A. Wiens;Weisen Shen;Weisen Shen;Melody Eimer

  • Temperature, lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary, and heat flux beneath the Antarctic Plate inferred from seismic velocities

    Meijian An;Douglas A. Wiens;Yue Zhao;Mei Feng

  • S-velocity model and inferred Moho topography beneath the Antarctic Plate from Rayleigh waves

    Meijian An;Douglas A. Wiens;Yue Zhao;Mei Feng

  • Structure of the crust beneath Cameroon, West Africa, from the joint inversion of Rayleigh wave group velocities and receiver functions

    Alain Pierre K. Tokam;Charles T. Tabod;Andrew A. Nyblade;Jordi Julià

  • Simultaneous teleseismic and geodetic observations of the stick–slip motion of an Antarctic ice stream

    Douglas A. Wiens;Sridhar Anandakrishnan;J. Paul Winberry;Matt A. King

  • Solid Earth change and the evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    Pippa L. Whitehouse;Natalya Gomez;Matt A. King;Douglas A. Wiens

  • Subduction seismicity and tectonics in the lesser Antilles arc

    Seth Stein;Joseph F. Engeln;Douglas A. Wiens;Kazuya Fujita

  • Long-term eruptive activity at a submarine arc volcano

    Robert W. Embley;William W. Chadwick;William W. Chadwick;Edward T. Baker;David A. Butterfield;David A. Butterfield

  • On the decompression melting structure at volcanic arcs and back-arc spreading centers

    James A. Conder;Douglas A. Wiens;Julie Morris

  • Seismological constraints on the mechanism of deep earthquakes: temperature dependence of deep earthquake source properties

    Douglas A. Wiens

  • Mechanisms and depths of Atlantic transform earthquakes

    Joseph F. Engeln;Douglas A. Wiens;Seth Stein

  • Seismic attenuation tomography of the Tonga‐Fiji region using phase pair methods

    Erich G. Roth;Douglas A. Wiens;Leroy M. Dorman;John Hildebrand

  • The depth distribution of mantle anisotropy beneath the Tonga subduction zone

    Karen M. Fischer;Douglas A. Wiens

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew A. Nyblade
Andrew A. Nyblade Pennsylvania State University
Richard C. Aster
Richard C. Aster Colorado State University
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Sridhar Anandakrishnan Pennsylvania State University
Terry Wilson
Terry Wilson The Ohio State University
Seth Stein
Seth Stein Northwestern University
Spahr C. Webb
Spahr C. Webb Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Justin Revenaugh
Justin Revenaugh University of Minnesota
Peter D. Bromirski
Peter D. Bromirski University of California, San Diego
Ian W. D. Dalziel
Ian W. D. Dalziel The University of Texas at Austin
Ralph A. Stephen
Ralph A. Stephen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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