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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2000 - Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Emily E. Brodsky is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing extensively on geophysics and related subfields.

The scientist's work covers several interconnected areas within Earth sciences, with notable emphasis on earthquake and tectonic studies. Brodsky's research also involves earthquake detection and analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and their analysis, as well as landslides and related hazards.

Frequent co-authors in Brodsky's publications include:

  • Kélian Dascher-Cousineau
  • Thorne Lay
  • Thomas Goebel
  • Huiyun Guo
  • P. M. Fulton

Brodsky has published consistently in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • AGU Advances
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Among recent papers, some notable examples include:

  • "What Controls Variations in Aftershock Productivity?" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Two Foreshock Sequences Post Gulia and Wiemer (2019)" (2020), published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "New Opportunities to Study Earthquake Precursors" (2020), published in Seismological Research Letters
  • "Fault Roughness Promotes Earthquake-Like Aftershock Clustering in the Lab" (2023), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "How roughness emerges on natural and engineered surfaces" (2022), published in MRS Bulletin

Brodsky has also contributed extensively to geophysics, totaling 80 publications in this subfield. Their broader academic focus includes artificial intelligence, mechanics of materials, management, monitoring, policy and law, and computational mechanics, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach.

In recognition of their work, Brodsky received the Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award from The Geological Society of America in 2000 and was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • The physics of earthquakes

    Hiroo Kanamori;Emily E Brodsky

  • A mechanism for sustained groundwater pressure changes induced by distant earthquakes

    Emily E. Brodsky;Evelyn Roeloffs;Douglas Woodcock;Ivan Gall

  • Seismic waves increase permeability

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

  • SEISMIC TRIGGERING OF ERUPTIONS IN THE FAR FIELD: Volcanoes and Geysers

    Michael Manga;Emily Brodsky

  • Changes in permeability caused by transient stresses: Field observations, experiments, and mechanisms

    Michael Manga;Igor Beresnev;Emily E. Brodsky;Jean E. Elkhoury

  • Decay of aftershock density with distance indicates triggering by dynamic stress

    Karen R. Felzer;Emily E. Brodsky

  • Evolution of fault-surface roughness with slip

    Amir Sagy;Emily E. Brodsky;Gary J. Axen

  • Collateral damage: Evolution with displacement of fracture distribution and secondary fault strands in fault damage zones

    Heather M. Savage;Heather M. Savage;Emily E. Brodsky

  • Roughness of fault surfaces over nine decades of length scales

    Thibault Candela;Thibault Candela;François Renard;François Renard;Yann Klinger;Karen Mair

  • Elastohydrodynamic lubrication of faults

    Emily E. Brodsky;Hiroo Kanamori

  • Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku-Oki Fault Determined from Temperature Measurements

    P. M. Fulton;E. E. Brodsky;Y. Kano;J. Mori

  • Structure and composition of the plate-boundary slip zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake.

    Frederick M. Chester;Christie Rowe;Kohtaro Ujiie;James Kirkpatrick

  • Continuous permeability measurements record healing inside the Wenchuan earthquake fault zone.

    Lian Xue;Hai-Bing Li;Emily E. Brodsky;Zhi-Qing Xu

  • The 2016 Mw5.1 Fairview, Oklahoma earthquakes: Evidence for long-range poroelastic triggering at >40 km from fluid disposal wells

    T.H.W. Goebel;M. Weingarten;X. Chen;J. Haffener

  • Low Coseismic Shear Stress on the Tohoku-Oki Megathrust Determined from Laboratory Experiments

    Kohtaro Ujiie;Kohtaro Ujiie;Hanae Tanaka;Tsubasa Saito;Akito Tsutsumi

  • New constraints on mechanisms of remotely triggered seismicity at Long Valley Caldera

    Emily E. Brodsky;Stephanie G. Prejean

  • Remotely Triggered Seismicity on the United States West Coast following the Mw 7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake

    S. G. Prejean;D. P. Hill;E. E. Brodsky;S. E. Hough

  • A new observation of dynamically triggered regional seismicity: Earthquakes in Greece following the August 1999 Izmit, Turkey earthquake

    Emily E. Brodsky;Vassilis Karakostas;Hiroo Kanamori

  • The spatial footprint of injection wells in a global compilation of induced earthquake sequences

    Thomas H. W. Goebel;Emily E. Brodsky

  • Connecting near-field and far-field earthquake triggering to dynamic strain

    Nicholas J. van der Elst;Emily E. Brodsky

  • Laboratory observations of permeability enhancement by fluid pressure oscillation of in situ fractured rock

    Jean E. Elkhoury;Jean E. Elkhoury;André Niemeijer;André Niemeijer;Emily E. Brodsky;Chris Marone

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Mori
Jim Mori Kyoto University
Hiroo Kanamori
Hiroo Kanamori California Institute of Technology
Thorne Lay
Thorne Lay University of California, Santa Cruz
François Renard
François Renard University of Oslo
Michael Manga
Michael Manga University of California, Berkeley
Derek Elsworth
Derek Elsworth Pennsylvania State University
Demian M. Saffer
Demian M. Saffer The University of Texas at Austin
Chris Marone
Chris Marone Pennsylvania State University
Slawek Tulaczyk
Slawek Tulaczyk University of California, Santa Cruz
Jean Schmittbuhl
Jean Schmittbuhl University of Strasbourg

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