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Overview

Kurt L. Feigl is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular concentration on Geophysics.

Their main areas of study also include numerous subfields, such as:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Aerospace Engineering

Feigl has contributed to several topics in their research portfolio. Key topics covered include:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis
  • Seismology and Earthquake Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

They have published multiple papers, with notable recent works including:

  • Optimizing geothermal production in fractured rock reservoirs under uncertainty, 2020, published in Geothermics
  • Unrest at the Laguna del Maule volcanic field 2005-2020: renewed acceleration of deformation, 2021, published in Bulletin of Volcanology
  • High-Resolution Shallow Structure at Brady Hot Springs Using Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) on a Trenched Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Array, 2021, published in Geophysical Monograph
  • Geodetic Measurements and Numerical Models of Deformation at Coso Geothermal Field, California, USA, 2004-2016, 2020, published in Remote Sensing
  • Time-Series Analysis of Volume Change at Brady Hot Springs, Nevada, USA, Using Geodetic Data From 2003-2018, 2020, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

The venues where Feigl frequently publishes include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Geothermics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Bulletin of Volcanology
  • Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • C. H. Thurber
  • N. E. Lord
  • Sabrina L. Bradshaw
  • Michael Cardiff
  • Hao Guo

Best Publications

  • Radar interferometry and its application to changes in the Earth's surface

    Didier Massonnet;Kurt L. Feigl

  • The displacement field of the Landers earthquake mapped by radar interferometry

    Didier Massonnet;Marc Rossi;César Carmona;Frédéric Adragna

  • Coseismic and Postseismic Fault Slip for the 17 August 1999, M = 7.5, Izmit, Turkey Earthquake.

    R. E. Reilinger;S. Ergintav;R. Bürgmann;S. McClusky

  • Intrusion triggering of the 2010 Eyjafjallajokull explosive eruption

    Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Andrew Hooper;Thóra Árnadóttir

  • Radar interferometric mapping of deformation in the year after the Landers earthquake

    Didier Massonnet;Kurt Feigl;Marc Rossi;Frédéric Adragna

  • Space geodetic measurement of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984–1992

    Kurt L. Feigl;Duncan C. Agnew;Yehuda Bock;Danan Dong

  • Discrimination of geophysical phenomena in satellite radar interferograms

    Didier Massonnet;Kurt L. Feigl

  • Surface motion of mountain glaciers derived from satellite optical imagery

    Etienne Berthier;H. Vadon;David Baratoux;Y. Arnaud

  • Crustal deformation and fault slip during the seismic cycle in the North Chile subduction zone, from GPS and InSAR observations

    M. Chlieh;J. B. de Chabalier;J. C. Ruegg;R. Armijo

  • Ground motion response to an ML 4.3 earthquake using co-located distributed acoustic sensing and seismometer arrays

    Herbert F Wang;Xiangfang Zeng;Xiangfang Zeng;Douglas E Miller;Douglas E Miller;Dante Fratta

  • Active tectonics of the western Mediterranean: Geodetic evidence for rollback of a delaminated subcontinental lithospheric slab beneath the Rif Mountains, Morocco

    Abdelali Fadil;Philippe Vernant;Simon McClusky;Robert Reilinger

  • Fault slip distribution of two June 2000 M W 6.5 earthquakes in South Iceland estimated from joint inversion of InSAR and GPS measurements

    Rikke Pedersen;Sigurjón Jónsson;Thóra Árnadóttir;Freysteinn Sigmundsson

  • Geodetic measurement of tectonic deformation in the Santa Maria Fold and Thrust Belt, California

    Kurt L. Feigl;Robert W. King;Thomas H. Jordan

  • Estimating Slip Distribution for the İzmit Mainshock from Coseismic GPS, ERS-1, RADARSAT, and SPOT Measurements

    Kurt L. Feigl;Francesco Sarti;Hélène Vadon;Simon McClusky

  • Crustal deformation near Hengill volcano, Iceland 1993–1998: Coupling between magmatic activity and faulting inferred from elastic modeling of satellite radar interferograms

    Kurt L. Feigl;Jérôme Gasperi;Freysteinn Sigmundsson;Alexis Rigo

  • RNGCHN: a program to calculate displacement components from dislocations in an elastic half-space with applications for modeling geodetic measurements of crustal deformation

    Kurt L. Feigl;Emmeline Dupré

  • Dynamics of a large, restless, rhyolitic magma system at Laguna del Maule, southern Andes, Chile

    Brad S. Singer;Nathan L. Andersen;Hélène Le Mével;Kurt L. Feigl

  • Estimation of an earthquake focal mechanism from a satellite radar interferogram: Application to the December 4, 1992 Landers aftershock

    Kurt L. Feigl;Arnaud Sergent;Dominique Jacq

  • Analysis of coseismic surface displacement gradients using radar interferometryc New insights into the Landers earthquake

    Gilles Peltzer;Kenneth W. Hudnut;Kurt L. Feigl

  • Magma injection into a long-lived reservoir to explain geodetically measured uplift: Application to the 2007-2014 unrest episode at Laguna del Maule volcanic field, Chile.

    Hélène Le Mével;Patricia M. Gregg;Kurt L. Feigl

  • Satellite radar interferometric map of the coseismic deformation field of the M = 6.1 Eureka Valley, California Earthquake of May 17, 1993

    Didier Massonnet;Kurt L. Feigl

Frequent Co-Authors

Freysteinn Sigmundsson
Freysteinn Sigmundsson University of Iceland
Thóra Árnadóttir
Thóra Árnadóttir University of Iceland
Clifford H. Thurber
Clifford H. Thurber University of Wisconsin–Madison
Páll Einarsson
Páll Einarsson University of Iceland
Simon McClusky
Simon McClusky Australian National University
Andrew Hooper
Andrew Hooper University of Leeds
Erik Sturkell
Erik Sturkell University of Gothenburg
Semih Ergintav
Semih Ergintav Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute
Corné Kreemer
Corné Kreemer University of Nevada Reno
Sigurjón Jónsson
Sigurjón Jónsson King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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