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  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Michael E. Oskin is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable concentration in geophysics. Additional subfields of study include atmospheric science, artificial intelligence, management, monitoring, policy and law, and earth-surface processes.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Seismology and earthquake studies
  • Seismic waves and analysis

Michael E. Oskin has published extensively in multiple venues, including:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Seismological Research Letters
  • UNC Libraries
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Oskin include:

  • The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (2021, UNC Libraries)
  • Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground-Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Accrual of widespread rock damage from the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • Airborne Lidar and Electro-Optical Imagery along Surface Ruptures of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence, Southern California (2020, Seismological Research Letters)
  • Late Pleistocene slip rate of the central Haiyuan fault constrained from optically stimulated luminescence, 14C, and cosmogenic isotope dating and high-resolution topography (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Oskin include:

  • Alba M. Rodríguez Padilla
  • Yiran Wang
  • K. W. Hudnut
  • Youli Li
  • Elaine Young

Among honors received, Oskin was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

    Tom G. Farr;Paul A. Rosen;Edward Caro;Robert Crippen

  • Decoupling of erosion and precipitation in the Himalayas

    D. W. Burbank;A. E. Blythe;J. Putkonen;B. Pratt-Sitaula

  • Effects of bedrock landslides on cosmogenically determined erosion rates

    Nathan A. Niemi;Nathan A. Niemi;Michael Oskin;Douglas W. Burbank;Arjun M. Heimsath

  • Near-Field Deformation from the El Mayor–Cucapah Earthquake Revealed by Differential LIDAR

    Michael E. Oskin;J Ramon Arrowsmith;Alejandro Hinojosa Corona;Austin J. Elliott

  • Community Fault Model (CFM) for Southern California

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

  • Rapid localization of Pacific–North America plate motion in the Gulf of California

    Michael Oskin;Joann Stock;Arturo Martín-Barajas

  • Exhumation of basement‐cored uplifts: Example of the Kyrgyz Range quantified with apatite fission track thermochronology

    Edward R. Sobel;Michael Oskin;Douglas Burbank;Alexander Mikolaichuk

  • Assembly of a large earthquake from a complex fault system: Surface rupture kinematics of the 4 April 2010 El Mayor–Cucapah (Mexico) Mw 7.2 earthquake

    John M. Fletcher;Orlando J. Teran;Thomas K. Rockwell;Michael E. Oskin

  • Pacific–North America plate motion and opening of the Upper Delfín basin, northern Gulf of California, Mexico

    Michael Oskin;Joann Stock

  • Elevated shear zone loading rate during an earthquake cluster in eastern California

    Michael Oskin;Lesley Perg;Eitan Shelef;Michael Strane

  • Marine incursion synchronous with plate-boundary localization in the Gulf of California

    Michael Oskin;Joann Stock

  • Pulsed exhumation of interior eastern Tibet: Implications for relief generation mechanisms and the origin of high-elevation planation surfaces

    Huiping Zhang;Michael E. Oskin;Jing Liu-Zeng;Peizhen Zhang;Peizhen Zhang

  • Slip rate of the Calico fault: Implications for geologic versus geodetic rate discrepancy in the Eastern California Shear Zone

    Michael Oskin;Lesley Perg;Dylan Blumentritt;Sujoy Mukhopadhyay

  • Bedload-to-suspended load ratio and rapid bedrock incision from Himalayan landslide-dam lake record

    Breth Pratt-Sitaula;Michelle Garde;Douglas W. Burbank;Michael Oskin

  • Alpine landscape evolution dominated by cirque retreat

    Michael Oskin;Douglas W. Burbank

  • Large-magnitude transient strain accumulation on the Blackwater fault, Eastern California shear zone

    Michael Oskin;Alex Iriondo

  • Coseismic fault zone deformation revealed with differential lidar: Examples from Japanese Mw ∼7 intraplate earthquakes

    Edwin Nissen;Tadashi Maruyama;J Ramon Arrowsmith;John R. Elliott

  • Inherited strike-slip faults as an origin for basement-cored uplifts: Example of the Kungey and Zailiskey ranges, northern Tian Shan

    Jacob Selander;Michael Oskin;Cholponbek Ormukov;Kanatbek Abdrakhmatov

  • Oblique rifting ruptures continents: Example from the Gulf of California shear zone

    Scott E.K. Bennett;Michael E. Oskin

  • Rupture termination at restraining bends: The last great earthquake on the Altyn Tagh Fault

    Austin J. Elliott;Austin J. Elliott;Michael E. Oskin;Jing Liu-Zeng;Yanxiu Shao

  • Long-term continental deformation associated with transpressive plate motion: The San Andreas fault

    James A. Spotila;Nathan Niemi;Robert Brady;Martha House

  • Deformation processes adjacent to active faults: Examples from eastern California

    Eitan Shelef;Michael Oskin

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas K. Rockwell
Thomas K. Rockwell San Diego State University
Rebecca J. Dorsey
Rebecca J. Dorsey University of Oregon
Jing Liu-Zeng
Jing Liu-Zeng Tianjin University
Kenneth W. Hudnut
Kenneth W. Hudnut United States Geological Survey
Douglas W. Burbank
Douglas W. Burbank University of California, Santa Barbara
Edwin Nissen
Edwin Nissen University of Victoria
J Ramón Arrowsmith
J Ramón Arrowsmith Arizona State University
Nathan A. Niemi
Nathan A. Niemi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Joann M. Stock
Joann M. Stock California Institute of Technology
Bernd Hamann
Bernd Hamann University of California, Davis

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