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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Gary S. Fuis 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. Their work spans several subfields including ecological modeling, ecology, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's research topics encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, species distribution and climate change, rangeland and wildlife management, as well as geology and paleoclimatology research.

Fuis has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including R. D. Catchings, Daniel S. Scheirer, Klaus Bauer, M. Goldman, and Tait E. Earney.

Their publications have appeared in multiple scientific venues, including:

  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Geosphere
  • Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Gary S. Fuis include:

  • New Insights on Subsurface Geology and the San Andreas Fault at Loma Prieta, Central California (2022), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Insights into the geometry and evolution of the southern San Andreas fault from geophysical data, southern California (2022), Geosphere
  • Preliminary geologic map of early Miocene felsic eruptive centers in the Aquarius Mountains, west-central Arizona (2022), Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World
  • Early Miocene Felsic Volcanism on the Southwest Edge of the Colorado Plateau (2020), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Erratum to New Insights on Subsurface Geology and the San Andreas Fault at Loma Prieta, Central California (2022), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Gary S. Fuis has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California

    Andreas Plesch;John H. Shaw;Christine Benson;William A. Bryant

  • A seismic refraction survey of the Imperial Valley Region, California

    Gary S. Fuis;Walter D. Mooney;J.H. Healy;G.A. McMechan

  • Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect and continental evolution involving subduction underplating and synchronous foreland thrusting

    Gary S. Fuis;Thomas E. Moore;George Plafker;Thomas M. Brocher

  • Crustal structure of the Imperial Valley region.

    G. S. Fuis;W. D. Mooney;J. H. Healey;G. A. McMechan

  • Mapping the megathrust beneath the northern Gulf of Alaska using wide‐angle seismic data

    Thomas M. Brocher;Gary S. Fuis;Michael A. Fisher;George Plafker

  • Crustal structure and tectonics from the Los Angeles basin to the Mojave Desert, southern California

    G.S. Fuis;T. Ryberg;N.J. Godfrey;D.A. Okaya

  • Structure of the California Coast Ranges and San Andreas Fault at SAFOD from seismic waveform inversion and reflection imaging

    Florian Bleibinhaus;Florian Bleibinhaus;John A. Hole;Trond Ryberg;Gary S. Fuis

  • Lithospheric structure and tectonics from seismic-refraction and other data

    G.S. Fuis;W.D. Mooney

  • Anatomy of a metamorphic core complex: Seismic refraction/wide‐angle reflection profiling in southeastern California and western Arizona

    Jill McCarthy;Steven P. Larkin;Gary S. Fuis;Robert W. Simpson

  • Fault systems of the 1971 San Fernando and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, southern California: Relocated aftershocks and seismic images from LARSE II

    Gary S. Fuis;Robert W. Clayton;Paul M. Davis;Trond Ryberg

  • Precise location of San Andreas Fault tremors near Cholame, California using seismometer clusters: Slip on the deep extension of the fault?

    David R. Shelly;William L. Ellsworth;Trond Ryberg;Christian Haberland

  • A New Perspective on the Geometry of the San Andreas Fault in Southern California and Its Relationship to Lithospheric Structure

    Gary S. Fuis;Daniel S. Scheirer;Victoria E. Langenheim;Monica D. Kohler

  • Deep crustal structure of the Cascade Range and surrounding regions from seismic refraction and magnetotelluric data

    William D. Stanley;Walter D. Mooney;Gary S. Fuis

  • Crustal structure of accreted terranes in southern Alaska, Chugach Mountains and Copper River Basin, from seismic refraction results

    Gary S. Fuis;Elizabeth L. Ambos;Walter D. Mooney;Nikolas I. Christensen

  • A geologic interpretation of seismic-refraction results in northeastern California

    Gary S. Fuis;J.J. Zucca;Walter D. Mooney;B. Milkereit

  • Accretion and subduction tectonics in the Chugach Mountains and Copper River Basin, Alaska: Initial results of the Trans-Alaska Crustal Transect

    Robert A. Page;George Plafker;Gary S. Fuis;Warren J. Nokleberg

  • Geophysical evidence for the evolution of the California Inner Continental Borderland as a metamorphic core complex

    Uri S. ten Brink;Jie Zhang;Thomas M. Brocher;David A. Okaya

  • Crustal structure of northeastern California

    John J. Zucca;Gary S. Fuis;Bernd Milkereit;Walter D. Mooney

  • Surface Fault Slip Associated with the 2004 Parkfield, California, Earthquake

    Michael J. Rymer;John C. Tinsley;Jerome A. Treiman;J Ramón Arrowsmith

  • West margin of North America — a synthesis of recent seismic transects

    Gary S. Fuis

Frequent Co-Authors

Joann M. Stock
Joann M. Stock California Institute of Technology
Walter D. Mooney
Walter D. Mooney United States Geological Survey
Trond Ryberg
Trond Ryberg University of Potsdam
Paul M. Davis
Paul M. Davis University of California, Los Angeles
Neal W. Driscoll
Neal W. Driscoll University of California, San Diego
Thomas M. Brocher
Thomas M. Brocher United States Geological Survey
Robert W. Clayton
Robert W. Clayton California Institute of Technology
Nikolas I. Christensen
Nikolas I. Christensen University of British Columbia
Alistair J. Harding
Alistair J. Harding University of California, San Diego
Graham M. Kent
Graham M. Kent University of Nevada Reno

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