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Peter J. Haeussler is a researcher affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their work predominantly centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with an emphasis on geophysics and atmospheric science. Their research outputs span various subfields including Earth-Surface Processes, Geology, and Artificial Intelligence as applied to Earth sciences.

The main topics covered in their work include earthquake and tectonic studies, geological and geochemical analysis, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological formations and processes, high-pressure geophysics and materials, seismic waves and analysis, and geological studies and exploration.

Frequent coauthors in their publications are:

  • Robert C. Witter
  • Adrian M. Bender
  • Richard O. Lease
  • Peter M. Powers
  • Daniel S. Brothers

Peter J. Haeussler's research has been published in several venues, with multiple works appearing in:

  • Geosphere
  • Geophysical Monograph
  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Earthquake Spectra
  • Sedimentology

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter J. Haeussler include:

  • The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications, 2023, Earthquake Spectra
  • Detection and Assessment of a Large and Potentially Tsunamigenic Periglacial Landslide in Barry Arm, Alaska, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment, 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • Rapid shallow megathrust afterslip from the 2021 M8.2 Chignik, Alaska earthquake revealed by seafloor geodesy, 2023, Science Advances
  • Turbidite stratigraphy in proglacial lakes: Deciphering trigger mechanisms using a statistical approach, 2020, Sedimentology

Best Publications

  • The 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska: a large magnitude, slip-partitioned event.

    Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Peter J Haeussler;Jeffrey T Freymueller;Arthur D Frankel

  • Imaging the transition from Aleutian subduction to Yakutat collision in central Alaska, with local earthquakes and active source data

    Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Donna Eberhart-Phillips;Douglas H. Christensen;Thomas M. Brocher;Roger Hansen

  • Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the Denali and Totschunda Faults in the 3 November 2002 M 7.9 Earthquake, Alaska

    Peter J. Haeussler;David P. Schwartz;Timothy E. Dawson;Heidi D. Stenner

  • Life and death of the Resurrection plate: Evidence for its existence and subduction in the northeastern Pacific in Paleocene–Eocene time

    Peter J. Haeussler;Dwight C. Bradley;Ray E. Wells;Marti L. Miller

  • Geologic signature of early Tertiary ridge subduction in Alaska

    Dwight C. Bradley;Timothy M. Kusky;Peter J. Haeussler;Richard J. Goldfarb

  • Geologic history of Siletzia, a large igneous province in the Oregon and Washington Coast Range: Correlation to the geomagnetic polarity time scale and implications for a long-lived Yellowstone hotspot

    Ray Wells;David Bukry;Richard Friedman;Douglas Pyle

  • Link between ridge subduction and gold mineralization in southern Alaska

    Peter J. Haeussler;Dwight C. Bradley;Richard Goldfarb;Lawrence W. Snee

  • Controls on accretion of flysch and mélange belts at convergent margins: Evidence from the Chugach Bay thrust and Iceworm mélange, Chugach accretionary wedge, Alaska

    Timothy M. Kusky;Dwight C. Bradley;Peter J. Haeussler;Susan M. Karl

  • The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska

    Bretwood Higman;Dan H. Shugar;Colin P. Stark;Göran Ekström

  • Geologic map of central (interior) Alaska

    Frederic H. Wilson;James H. Dover;Dwight C. Bradley;Florence R. Weber

  • Denali fault slip rates and Holocene-late Pleistocene kinematics of central Alaska

    A. Matmon;D. P. Schwartz;Peter J. Haeussler;R. Finkel

  • An Overview of the Neotectonics of Interior Alaska: Far‐Field Deformation from the Yakutat Microplate Collision

    Peter J. Haeussler

  • Spatial variations in focused exhumation along a continental-scale strike-slip fault: The Denali fault of the eastern Alaska Range

    Jeff A. Benowitz;Paul W. Layer;Phil Armstrong;Stephanie E. Perry

  • Potential seismic hazards and tectonics of the upper Cook Inlet basin, Alaska, based on analysis of Pliocene and younger deformation

    Peter J. Haeussler;Ronald L. Bruhn;Thomas L. Pratt

  • Active Tectonics and Seismic Potential of Alaska

    Jeffrey T. Freymueller;Peter J. Haeussler;Robert L. Wesson;Göran Ekström

  • The 2023 US 50-State National Seismic Hazard Model: Overview and implications

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  • Progressive deformation of the Chugach accretionary complex, Alaska, during a paleogene ridge-trench encounter

    Timothy M. Kusky;Dwight C. Bradley;Peter Haeussler

  • Paleoseismic potential of sublacustrine landslide records in a high-seismicity setting (south-central Alaska)

    Nore Praet;Jasper Moernaut;Jasper Moernaut;Maarten Van Daele;Evelien Boes

  • Controls on intrusion of near-trench magmas of the Sanak-Baranof belt, Alaska, during Paleogene ridge subduction, and consequences for forearc evolution

    Timothy M. Kusky;Dwight C. Bradley;D. Thomas Donely;David Rowley

  • Uplift and subsidence reveal a nonpersistent megathrust rupture boundary (Sitkinak Island, Alaska)

    Richard W. Briggs;Simon E. Engelhart;Alan R. Nelson;Tina Dura

  • Why the 2002 Denali fault rupture propagated onto the Totschunda fault: Implications for fault branching and seismic hazards

    David P. Schwartz;Peter J. Haeussler;Gordon G. Seitz;Timothy E. Dawson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dwight C. Bradley
Dwight C. Bradley United States Geological Survey
Paul W. Layer
Paul W. Layer University of Alaska Fairbanks
Robert C. Witter
Robert C. Witter United States Geological Survey
Marc De Batist
Marc De Batist Ghent University
Timothy M. Kusky
Timothy M. Kusky China University of Geosciences
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Ray E. Wells
Ray E. Wells United States Geological Survey
Paul B. O'Sullivan
Paul B. O'Sullivan Syracuse University
Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Jeffrey T. Freymueller Michigan State University
Marten Geertsema
Marten Geertsema University of Northern British Columbia

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