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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - ACM Gordon Bell Prize An Extreme-Scale Implicit Solver for Complex PDEs: Highly Heterogeneous Flow in Earth's Mantle
  • 1993 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America
  • 1993 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael Gurnis is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Geology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work spans several main topics including earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, methane hydrates and related phenomena, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, and broader geological and geophysical studies.

Michael Gurnis has contributed to a substantial number of publications, often collaborating with frequent co-authors such as Kara A. Bogus, Michelle A. Kominz, Stephen J. Gallagher, Craig S. Fulthorpe, and Gerald Auer. The main venues where their work appears include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Geophysical Journal International, Nature Geoscience, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation," 2020, Geology
  • "Subduction Duration and Slab Dip," 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Reconstruction of the Cenozoic deformation of the Bohai Bay Basin, North China," 2020, Basin Research
  • "Dynamics of the abrupt change in Pacific Plate motion around 50 million years ago," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Stress transition from horizontal to vertical forces during subduction initiation," 2022, Nature Geoscience

Michael Gurnis has been recognized with several awards. Notably, they received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 2015 for work involving an extreme-scale implicit solver for complex partial differential equations related to highly heterogeneous flow in Earth's mantle. They are also a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union since 1993 and were honored with the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 1993.

Best Publications

  • Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma

    M. Seton;R.D. Müller;S. Zahirovic;C. Gaina

  • Large-scale mantle convection and the aggregation and dispersal of supercontinents

    Michael Gurnis

  • Role of temperature‐dependent viscosity and surface plates in spherical shell models of mantle convection

    Shijie Zhong;Maria T. Zuber;Louis Moresi;Michael Gurnis

  • GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time

    R. Dietmar Müller;John Cannon;Xiaodong Qin;Robin J. Watson

  • A Global Plate Model Including Lithospheric Deformation Along Major Rifts and Orogens Since the Triassic

    R. Dietmar Müller;Sabin Zahirovic;Simon E. Williams;John Cannon

  • Evolving force balance during incipient subduction

    Michael Gurnis;Chad Hall;Luc Lavier;Luc Lavier

  • Sharp sides to the African superplume.

    Sidao Ni;Eh Tan;Michael Gurnis;Don Helmberger

  • Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence across fracture zones

    Chad E. Hall;Michael Gurnis;Maria Sdrolias;Luc L. Lavier

  • The role of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny

    Lijun Liu;Michael Gurnis;Maria Seton;Jason Saleeby

  • Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates

    James A. Boyden;R. Dietmar Müller;Michael Gurnis;Trond H. Torsvik

  • A review of observations and models of dynamic topography

    Nicolas Flament;Michael Gurnis;R. Dietmar Müller

  • Constraining mantle density structure using geological evidence of surface uplift rates: The case of the African Superplume

    Michael Gurnis;Jerry X. Mitrovica;Jeroen Ritsema;Hendrik-Jan van Heijst

  • The Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Flow: From Local to Global Scales

    Georg Stadler;Michael Gurnis;Carsten Burstedde;Lucas C. Wilcox

  • Mantle convection with plates and mobile, faulted plate margins.

    Shijie Zhong;Michael Gurnis

  • Constraints on the lateral strength of slabs from three-dimensional dynamic flow models

    Louis Moresi;Michael Gurnis

  • Reconstructing Farallon Plate Subduction Beneath North America Back to the Late Cretaceous

    Lijun Liu;Sonja Spasojević;Michael Gurnis

  • A benchmark study on mantle convection in a 3-D spherical shell using CitcomS

    Shijie Zhong;Allen McNamara;Eh Tan;Louis Moresi

  • Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates

    Michael Gurnis;Mark Turner;Sabin Zahirovic;Lydia DiCaprio

  • Horizontal subduction and truncation of the Cocos Plate beneath central Mexico

    Xyoli Pérez-Campos;YoungHee Kim;Allen Husker;Paul M. Davis

  • Controls of the structure of subducted slabs

    Michael Gurnis;Michael Gurnis;Bradford H. Hager

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Flament
Nicolas Flament University of Sydney
R. Dietmar Müller
R. Dietmar Müller University of Sydney
Simon Williams
Simon Williams University of Sydney
Maria Seton
Maria Seton University of Sydney
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
Shijie Zhong
Shijie Zhong University of Colorado Boulder
Sabin Zahirovic
Sabin Zahirovic University of Sydney
Louis Moresi
Louis Moresi Australian National University
Osamu Ishizuka
Osamu Ishizuka National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Omar Ghattas
Omar Ghattas The University of Texas at Austin

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