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  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Ian Main is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Computer Science. Their work focuses primarily on geophysics and the application of artificial intelligence within this field.

Their research spans multiple subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence, mechanics of materials, management, monitoring, policy and law, and global and planetary change. Main's main topics of study encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, seismology and earthquake studies, geochemistry and geologic mapping, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, rock mechanics and modeling, earthquake detection and analysis, and high-pressure geophysics and materials.

Main has published frequently in various scientific venues, with leading contributions appearing in:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Research Square
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Ian Main include:

  • Catastrophic Failure: How and When? Insights From 4-D In Situ X-ray Microtomography, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Seismic events miss important kinematically governed grain scale mechanisms during shear failure of porous rock, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Biases in estimating b-values from small earthquake catalogues: how high are high b-values?, 2022, Geophysical Journal International
  • Pseudo-prospective testing of 5-year earthquake forecasts for California using inlabru, 2022, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • Data-Driven Optimization of Seismicity Models Using Diverse Data Sets: Generation, Evaluation, and Ranking Using Inlabru, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Main frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, including Mark Naylor, Alexis Cartwright-Taylor, Ian B. Butler, Florian Fußeis, and Andrew Curtis. These collaborations have contributed to a consistent body of work primarily focused on seismology and geophysics.

In recognition of their contributions, Ian Main was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Scaling of fracture systems in geological media

    E. Bonnet;O. Bour;N. E. Odling;P. Davy

  • EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts

    Andy Bell;Ian Main;Malcolm Atkinson;Rosa Filgueira Vicente

  • Assessing Damage of Reinforced Concrete Beam using b -value Analysis of Acoustic Emission Signals

    Ing. S. Colombo;I. G. Main;M. C. Forde

  • Statistical physics, seismogenesis, and seismic hazard

    Ian Main

  • OPERATIONAL EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING. State of Knowledge and Guidelines for Utilization

    Thomas H. Jordan;Yun-Tai Chen;Paolo Gasparini;Raul Madariaga

  • Time-dependent brittle creep in Darley Dale sandstone

    M. J. Heap;P. Baud;P. G. Meredith;Andrew Bell

  • Role of pore fluids in the generation of seismic precursors to shear fracture

    P. R. Sammonds;P. G. Meredith;I. G. Main

  • Brittle creep in basalt and its application to time-dependent volcano deformation

    Michael Heap;Michael Heap;Patrick Baud;Philip Meredith;Sergio Vinciguerra

  • A reinterpretation of the precursory seismic b-value anomaly from fracture mechanics

    Ian G. Main;Philip G. Meredith;Colin Jones

  • A damage mechanics model for power-law creep and earthquake aftershock and foreshock sequences

    Ian G. Main

  • Sequential growth of deformation bands in the laboratory

    Karen Mair;Ian Main;Stephen Elphick

  • TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN SEISMICITY DURING QUASI-STATIC AND DYNAMIC ROCK FAILURE

    Philip G. Meredith;Ian G. Main;Colin Jones

  • Non-universal scaling of fracture length and opening displacement

    Christine Hatton;Ian Main;P. G. Meredith

  • APPLICABILITY OF TIME-TO-FAILURE ANALYSIS TO ACCELERATED STRAIN BEFORE EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

    Ian G. Main

  • Comparison of polarity and moment tensor inversion methods for source analysis of acoustic emission data

    Caroline C. Graham;Sergei Stanchits;Ian G. Main;Georg Dresen

  • Information theory and the earthquake frequency-magnitude distribution

    Ian G. Main;Paul W. Burton

  • EARTHQUAKES AS CRITICAL PHENOMENA - IMPLICATIONS FOR PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS

    Ian G. Main

  • Numerical simulation of wave propagation in media with discrete distributions of fractures: effects of fracture sizes and spatial distributions

    S. Vlastos;S. Vlastos;E. Liu;I. G. Main;X.-Y. Li

  • Origin and Nonuniversality of the Earthquake Interevent Time Distribution

    Sarah Touati;Mark Naylor;Ian G. Main

  • Apparent Breaks in Scaling in the Earthquake Cumulative Frequency-Magnitude Distribution: Fact or Artifact?

    Ian Main

  • Geophysical Research Abstracts

    Malcolm Atkinson;Andrew Bell;Andrew Curtis;Elizabeth Entwistle

  • Earthquake Hazard Analysis: Issues and insights

    Ian Main

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip G. Meredith
Philip G. Meredith University College London
Michael J. Heap
Michael J. Heap University of Strasbourg
Xiang-Yang Li
Xiang-Yang Li China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Enru Liu
Enru Liu ExxonMobil (United States)
Peter Sammonds
Peter Sammonds University College London
Malcolm Atkinson
Malcolm Atkinson University of Edinburgh
Patience A. Cowie
Patience A. Cowie University of Bergen
Patrick Baud
Patrick Baud University of Strasbourg
Andrew Curtis
Andrew Curtis University of Edinburgh
Ling Li
Ling Li University of Queensland

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