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Edwin Nissen is affiliated with the University of Victoria in Canada and has a significant body of work in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research is concentrated primarily in geophysics, encompassing related subfields such as atmospheric science, artificial intelligence, geology, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's scholarly output includes contributions to several main topics, notably earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, earthquake detection and analysis, and seismology and earthquake studies.

Nissen has coauthored extensively with a group of frequent collaborators, including Lucinda J. Leonard, Léa Pousse-Beltran, Eric Bergman, Nicolas Harrichhausen, and Kristin Morell, with each collaboration appearing multiple times in the publication record.

The principal venues where Nissen's work has appeared include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Among recent papers, notable examples are:

  • The 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ (Turkey) Earthquake Reveals Rupture Behavior of the East Anatolian Fault (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • On the Relevance of Geodetic Deformation Rates to Earthquake Potential (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Three-Dimensional Surface Displacements During the 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake (New Zealand) From Photogrammetry-Derived Point Clouds (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • The 2019-2020 Khalili (Iran) Earthquake Sequence-Anthropogenic Seismicity in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt? (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • The 2020 Mw 6.5 Monte Cristo Range, Nevada, Earthquake: Anatomy of a Crossing-Fault Rupture through a Region of Highly Distributed Deformation (2023, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America)

Best Publications

  • Rapid mapping of ultrafine fault zone topography with structure from motion

    Kendra Johnson;Edwin Nissen;Srikanth Saripalli;J. Ramón Arrowsmith

  • New views on earthquake faulting in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt of Iran

    Edwin Nissen;Mohammad Tatar;James A. Jackson;Mark B. Allen

  • Highly variable coastal deformation in the 2016 MW7.8 Kaikōura earthquake reflects rupture complexity along a transpressional plate boundary

    K.J. Clark;E.K. Nissen;J.D. Howarth;I.J. Hamling

  • Orogenic plateau growth: Expansion of the Turkish‐Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold‐and‐thrust belt

    M. B. Allen;C. Saville;E. J-P. Blanc;M. Talebian

  • Slip in the 2010–2011 Canterbury earthquakes, New Zealand

    J. R. Elliott;Edwin Nissen;P. C. England;James A. Jackson

  • The Dahuiyeh (Zarand) earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation of an intramountain reverse fault

    M. Talebian;J. Biggs;M. Bolourchi;A. Copley

  • Three‐dimensional surface displacements and rotations from differencing pre‐ and post‐earthquake LiDAR point clouds

    Edwin Nissen;Edwin Nissen;Aravindhan K. Krishnan;J. Ramón Arrowsmith;Srikanth Saripalli

  • Coseismic fault zone deformation revealed with differential lidar: Examples from Japanese Mw ∼7 intraplate earthquakes

    Edwin Nissen;Tadashi Maruyama;J Ramon Arrowsmith;John R. Elliott

  • Breaking up the hanging wall of a rift‐border fault: The 2009 Karonga earthquakes, Malawi

    Juliet Biggs;E. Nissen;T. Craig;J. Jackson

  • The M7 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, Earthquake: 3-D Deformation Along the Fault and Within the Damage Zone Constrained From Differential Lidar Topography

    Chelsea P. Scott;J Ramon Arrowsmith;Edwin Nissen;Lia Lajoie

  • The vertical separation of mainshock rupture and microseismicity at Qeshm island in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, Iran

    E. Nissen;F. Yamini-Fard;M. Tatar;A. Gholamzadeh

  • Limitations of rupture forecasting exposed by instantaneously triggered earthquake doublet

    E. Nissen;J. R. Elliott;R. A. Sloan;R. A. Sloan;T. J. Craig

  • The 2005 Qeshm Island earthquake (Iran)—a link between buried reverse faulting and surface folding in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt?

    Edwin Nissen;Manoucher Ghorashi;James Jackson;Barry Parsons

  • The 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ (Turkey) Earthquake Reveals Rupture Behavior of the East Anatolian Fault

    Léa Pousse-Beltran;Edwin Nissen;Eric A. Bergman;Musavver Didem Cambaz

  • Seismotectonics of the Zagros (Iran) From Orogen‐Wide, Calibrated Earthquake Relocations

    Ezgi Karasözen;Edwin Nissen;Eric A. Bergman;Abdolreza Ghods

  • The 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Ezgeleh‐Sarpolzahab (Iran) Earthquake and Active Tectonics of the Lurestan Arc

    Edwin Nissen;Edwin Nissen;Abdolreza Ghods;Ezgi Karasözen;John R. Elliott

  • The 2006 March 25 Fin earthquakes (Iran)—insights into the vertical extents of faulting in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt

    M. Roustaei;E. Nissen;M. Abbassi;A. Gholamzadeh

  • Reinterpretation of the active faulting in central Mongolia

    R.T. Walker;E. Nissen;E. Molor;A. Bayasgalan

  • Combining InSAR and seismology to study the 2003 Siberian Altai earthquakes—dextral strike‐slip and anticlockwise rotations in the northern India–Eurasia collision zone

    Edwin Nissen;Brian Emmerson;Gareth J. Funning;Anatoly Mistrukov

  • Subduction and vertical coastal motions in the eastern Mediterranean

    Andrew Howell;James Jackson;Alexander Copley;Dan McKenzie

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric A. Bergman
Eric A. Bergman University of Colorado Boulder
James Jackson
James Jackson University of Cambridge
Barry Parsons
Barry Parsons University of Oxford
Richard Walker
Richard Walker University of Oxford
J Ramón Arrowsmith
J Ramón Arrowsmith Arizona State University
Michael E. Oskin
Michael E. Oskin University of California, Davis
Kelin Wang
Kelin Wang Geological Survey of Canada
Honn Kao
Honn Kao Geological Survey of Canada
Pilar Villamor
Pilar Villamor GNS Science
Alex Copley
Alex Copley University of Cambridge

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