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  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Steven W. Roecker is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Geophysics. Additional subfields of study include Artificial Intelligence, Geology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including earthquake and tectonic studies, seismology and earthquake studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic waves and analysis, earthquake detection and analysis, and seismic imaging and inversion techniques.

Publications by Steven W. Roecker have appeared frequently in several venues, with the highest number in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other notable publication venues include the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Scientific Reports, and Geophysical Journal International.

Recent papers from the scientist include:

  • Subduction of an Oceanic Plateau Across Southcentral Alaska: High-Resolution Seismicity (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Upper mantle slab under Alaska: contribution to anomalous core-phase observations on south-Sandwich to Alaska paths (2020), Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
  • Complex Structure in the Nootka Fault Zone Revealed by Double-Difference Tomography and a New Earthquake Catalog (2022), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Double Differencing by Demeaning: Applications to Hypocenter Location and Wavespeed Tomography (2021), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • Anomalous intraslab structure revealed by the analysis of aftershocks of the Mw 6.7 Coquimbo-La Serena earthquake of 20 January 2019 (2022), Tectonophysics

Steven W. Roecker has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • D. Comte
  • Daniela Calle-Gardella
  • Andreas Rietbrock
  • Jefferson Yarce
  • A. F. Sheehan

Their work has been recognized through the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Geodynamic evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle beneath the Alboran region of the western Mediterranean: Constraints from travel time tomography

    Alexander Calvert;Eric Sandvol;Dogan Seber;Muawia Barazangi

  • Three‐dimensional elastic wave velocity structure of the western and central Tien Shan

    S. W. Roecker;T. M. Sabitova;L. P. Vinnik;Y. A. Burmakov

  • The effect of S-wave arrival times on the accuracy of hypocenter estimation

    Joan S. Gomberg;Kaye M. Shedlock;Steven W. Roecker

  • Velocity structure of the Pamir-Hindu Kush Region: Possible evidence of subducted crust

    S. W. Roecker

  • Estimates of Q in central Asia as a function of frequency and depth using the coda of locally recorded earthquakes

    S. W. Roecker;B. Tucker;J. King;D. Hatzfeld

  • Receiver function tomography of the central Tien Shan

    Lev P. Vinnik;Christoph Reigber;Igor M. Aleshin;Grigoriy L. Kosarev

  • Microearthquake seismicity and fault plane solutions in the Hindu Kush Region and their tectonic implications

    J. L. Chatelain;S. W. Roecker;D. Hatzfeld;P. Molnar

  • Receiver functions for the Tien Shan Analog Broadband Network: Contrasts in the evolution of structures across the Talasso‐Fergana Fault

    G. L. Kosarev;N. V. Petersen;L. P. Vinnik;S. W. Roecker

  • Deep structure of an arc-continent collision: Earthquake relocation and inversion for upper mantle P and S wave velocities beneath Papua New Guinea

    Geoffrey A. Abers;Steven W. Roecker

  • Three‐dimensional P and S wave velocity structures beneath Taiwan: Deep structure beneath an arc‐continent collision

    S. W. Roecker;Y. H. Yeh;Y. B. Tsai

  • Missing roots and mantle “drips”: Regional Pn and teleseismic arrival times in the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity, California

    Craig H. Jones;Hiroo Kanamori;Steven W. Roecker

  • Crustal extensional faulting triggered by the 2010 Chilean earthquake: The Pichilemu Seismic Sequence

    Marcelo Farías;Diana Comte;Steven Roecker;Daniel Carrizo

  • Shear-wave splitting and small-scale convection in the continental upper mantle

    L. I. Makeyeva;L. P. Vinnik;S. W. Roecker

  • Three‐dimensional P velocity structures of the lithosphere beneath Taiwan from the analysis of TAIGER and related seismic data sets

    Hao Kuo-Chen;Francis T. Wu;Steven W. Roecker

  • Fine-scale structure of the San Andreas fault zone and location of the SAFOD target earthquakes

    C. Thurber;S. Roecker;H. Zhang;S. Baher

  • Tomographic image of the crust and upper mantle beneath the western Tien Shan from the MANAS broadband deployment: Possible evidence for lithospheric delamination

    Li Zhiwei;Steve Roecker;Li Zhihai;Wei Bin

  • Two‐dimensional seismic image of the San Andreas Fault in the Northern Gabilan Range, central California: Evidence for fluids in the fault zone

    C. Thurber;S. Roecker;W. Ellsworth;Y. Chen

  • MICROEARTHQUAKE SEISMICITY AND FAULT PLANE SOLUTIONS RELATED TO ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION IN THE EASTERN SUNDA ARC, INDONESIA

    Robert McCaffrey;Peter Molnar;Steven W. Roecker;Yoko S. Joyodiwiryo

  • Lithosphere and asthenosphere of the Tien Shan imaged by S receiver functions

    Serge Oreshin;Lev Vinnik;Dmitry Peregoudov;Steve Roecker

  • Earthquake locations and three‐dimensional fault zone structure along the creeping section of the San Andreas fault near Parkfield, CA: Preparing for SAFOD

    C. Thurber;S. Roecker;K. Roberts;M. Gold

Frequent Co-Authors

Vadim Levin
Vadim Levin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lev Vinnik
Lev Vinnik Russian Academy of Sciences
Clifford H. Thurber
Clifford H. Thurber University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan L. Beck
Susan L. Beck University of Arizona
Frederik Tilmann
Frederik Tilmann Freie Universität Berlin
Andreas Rietbrock
Andreas Rietbrock Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Peter Molnar
Peter Molnar University of Colorado Boulder
Keith Priestley
Keith Priestley University of Cambridge
Haijiang Zhang
Haijiang Zhang University of Science and Technology of China
William L. Ellsworth
William L. Ellsworth Stanford University

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