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Duncan Carr Agnew is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Geophysics, Oceanography, Artificial Intelligence, Ocean Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. The scientist's work often intersects topics such as Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Seismic Waves and Analysis, Seismology and Earthquake Studies, Geophysics and Sensor Technology, earthquake and tectonic studies, Earthquake Detection and Analysis, and Inertial Sensor and Navigation.

Agnew has authored multiple papers published in well-recognized venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming," 2024, Nature
  • "Time and tide: pendulum clocks and gravity tides," 2020, History of geo- and space sciences
  • "Time Marks and Clock Corrections: A Century of Seismological Timekeeping," 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • "Reply to "Comment on 'Sources of Long-Range Anthropogenic Noise in Southern California and Implications for Tectonic Tremor Detection' by Asaf Inbal, Tudor Cristea-Platon, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Gregor Hillers, Duncan Agnew, and Susan E. Hough" by Allie Hutchison, Yijian Zhou, and Abhijit Ghosh," 2023, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Their work is frequently published in specific scientific venues, indicating recurring collaboration with these journals or communities:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • History of geo- and space sciences

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Asaf Inbal
  • Tudor Cristea-Platon
  • Jean-Paul Ampuero
  • Gregor Hillers
  • Ignacio Sepúlveda

Best Publications

  • The complete (3-D) surface displacement field in the epicentral area of the 1999 Mw7.1 Hector Mine earthquake, California, from space geodetic observations

    Yuri Fialko;Mark Simons;Duncan Agnew

  • Seismic waves increase permeability

    Jean E. Elkhoury;Emily E. Brodsky;Duncan C. Agnew

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

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

  • NLOADF: A program for computing ocean‐tide loading

    Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Strainmeters and tiltmeters

    Duncan Carr Agnew

  • The time-domain behavior of power-law noises

    Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Absence of earthquake correlation with Earth tides: An indication of high preseismic fault stress rate

    John E. Vidale;Duncan Carr Agnew;Malcolm J. S. Johnston;David H. Oppenheimer

  • Ongoing drought-induced uplift in the western united states

    Adrian Antal Borsa;Duncan Carr Agnew;Daniel R. Cayan;Daniel R. Cayan

  • Uplift and subsidence associated with the great Aceh‐Andaman earthquake of 2004

    Aron J. Meltzner;Kerry Sieh;Michael Abrams;Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Finding the repeat times of the GPS constellation

    Duncan Carr Agnew;Kristine M. Larson

  • The influence of formation material properties on the response of water levels in wells to Earth tides and atmospheric loading

    Stuart Rojstaczer;Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Deformation on Nearby Faults Induced by the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake

    Yuri Fialko;David Sandwell;Duncan Agnew;Mark Simons

  • Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Continuous measurements of regional crustal deformation between the 1992 Landers and 1994 Northridge earthquakes

    Y. Bock;S. Wdowinski;S. Wdowinski;P. Fang;Jiahua Zhang

  • International deployment of accelerometers: A network for very long period seismology

    D. Agnew;J. Berger;R. Buland;W. Farrell

  • Probabilities of large earthquakes occurring in California on the San Andreas Fault

    Duncan C Agnew;Clarence R Allen;Lloyd S Cluff;James H Dieterich

  • Detection of crustal deformation from the Landers earthquake sequence using continuous geodetic measurements

    Yehuda Bock;Duncan C. Agnew;Peng Fang;Joachim F. Genrich

  • Monument motion and measurements of crustal velocities

    Hadley O. Johnson;Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Seismic wave observations with the Global Positioning System

    Rosanne M. Nikolaidis;Yehuda Bock;Paul J. de Jonge;Peter Shearer

  • SPOTL: Some Programs for Ocean-Tide Loading

    Duncan Carr Agnew

  • Application of the global positioning system to crustal deformation measurement: 1. Precision and accuracy

    Kristine M. Larson;Duncan C. Agnew

Frequent Co-Authors

Zheng-Kang Shen
Zheng-Kang Shen University of California, Los Angeles
Yehuda Bock
Yehuda Bock University of California, San Diego
Kenneth W. Hudnut
Kenneth W. Hudnut United States Geological Survey
Peter M. Shearer
Peter M. Shearer University of California, San Diego
Kerry E Sieh
Kerry E Sieh Nanyang Technological University
Kristine M. Larson
Kristine M. Larson University of Colorado Boulder
David D. Jackson
David D. Jackson University of California, Los Angeles

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