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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Fred F. Pollitz is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Geophysics. Pollitz's work also intersects with several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Civil and Structural Engineering, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in Pollitz's scientific contributions include earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismology and earthquake studies, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Pollitz has authored and co-authored several research papers published in prominent scientific venues. Notable papers include:

  • The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications (2023, Earthquake Spectra)
  • The USGS 2023 Conterminous U.S. Time-Independent Earthquake Rupture Forecast (2023, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America)
  • Kinematics of Fault Slip Associated with the 4-6 July 2019 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake Sequence (2020, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America)
  • Western U.S. Deformation Models for the 2023 Update to the U.S. National Seismic Hazard Model (2022, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Simplifying complex fault data for systems-level analysis: Earthquake geology inputs for U.S. NSHM 2023 (2022, Scientific Data)

Pollitz frequently publishes in several scientific journals such as:

  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • The Seismic Record

Frequent collaborators of Pollitz include Edward H. Field, Alexandra E. Hatem, Peter M. Powers, C. W. Wicks, and Yuehua Zeng.

In recognition of their contributions, Pollitz was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Earthquake–Volcano Interactions

    David P. Hill;Fred Pollitz;Christopher Newhall

  • Gravitational viscoelastic postseismic relaxation on a layered spherical Earth

    Fred F. Pollitz

  • Mantle Flow Beneath a Continental Strike-Slip Fault: Postseismic Deformation After the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake

    Fred F. Pollitz;Chuck Wicks;Wayne Thatcher

  • Coseismic Deformation From Earthquake Faulting On A Layered Spherical Earth

    Fred F. Pollitz

  • Mobility of continental mantle: Evidence from postseismic geodetic observations following the 1992 Landers earthquake

    Fred F. Pollitz;Gilles Peltzer;Roland Bürgmann

  • The Size and Duration of the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake from Far-Field Static Offsets

    Paramesh Banerjee;Fred F. Pollitz;Fred F. Pollitz;Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Roland Bürgmann;Roland Bürgmann

  • Post-seismic relaxation following the great 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake on a compressible self-gravitating Earth

    Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Paramesh Banerjee

  • Postseismic relaxation theory on the spherical earth

    Fred F. Pollitz

  • Viscosity of Oceanic Asthenosphere Inferred from Remote Triggering of Earthquakes

    Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Roland Bürgmann;Barbara Romanowicz;Barbara Romanowicz

  • Transient rheology of the uppermost mantle beneath the Mojave Desert, California

    Fred F. Pollitz

  • Coseismic Slip Distributions of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra–Andaman and 28 March 2005 Nias Earthquakes from gps Static Offsets

    Paramesh Banerjee;Fred F Pollitz;B Nagarajan;Roland Bürgmann

  • The 11 April 2012 east Indian Ocean earthquake triggered large aftershocks worldwide

    Fred F. Pollitz;Ross S. Stein;Volkan Sevilgen;Roland Bürgmann

  • Lithosphere-asthenosphere interaction beneath the western United States from the joint inversion of body-wave traveltimes and surface-wave phase velocities

    Mathias Obrebski;Richard M Allen;Fred Pollitz;Shu-Huei Hung

  • Geodetic and seismic constraints on some seismogenic zone processes in Costa Rica

    Edmundo Norabuena;Timothy H. Dixon;Susan Schwartz;Heather DeShon;Heather DeShon

  • Coseismic and post-seismic signatures of the Sumatra 2004 December and 2005 March earthquakes in GRACE satellite gravity

    Isabelle Panet;Valentin Mikhailov;Valentin Mikhailov;Michel Diament;Fred Pollitz

  • Geodetic slip model of the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku earthquake

    Fred F. Pollitz;Roland Bürgmann;Paramesh Banerjee

  • Motion of the Scotia Sea plates

    Christine Thomas;Roy Livermore;Fred Pollitz

  • Stress Triggering of the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake by Transient Deformation Following the 1992 Landers Earthquake

    Fred F. Pollitz;I. Selwyn Sacks

  • Pliocene change in Pacific-plate motion

    Fred F. Pollitz

  • Transient rheology of the upper mantle beneath central Alaska inferred from the crustal velocity field following the 2002 Denali earthquake

    Fred F. Pollitz

  • Geodetic and Seismic Constraints on some Seismogenic Zone Processes in Costa Rica

    T. H. Dixon;E. Norabuena;S. Schwartz;Heather R. DeShon

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Bürgmann
Roland Bürgmann University of California, Berkeley
Wayne Thatcher
Wayne Thatcher United States Geological Survey
Shin-Chan Han
Shin-Chan Han The Ohio State University
Charles W. Wicks
Charles W. Wicks United States Geological Survey
I. Selwyn Sacks
I. Selwyn Sacks Carnegie Institution for Science
Ross S. Stein
Ross S. Stein United States Geological Survey
William L. Ellsworth
William L. Ellsworth Stanford University
Richard M. Allen
Richard M. Allen University of California, Berkeley
Robert Smalley
Robert Smalley University of Memphis
Walter D. Mooney
Walter D. Mooney United States Geological Survey

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