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  • 1965 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Wayne C. Crawford is affiliated with the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France. Their academic work spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary concentration in Geophysics. The research also extends into Oceanography, Geology, Ocean Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range, including earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, geophysics and gravity measurements, and geological and geophysical studies worldwide.

Wayne C. Crawford has contributed to various notable publications. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Mayotte seismic crisis: building knowledge in near real-time by combining land and ocean-bottom seismometers, first results, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Structural Equation Modelling, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Business and Management
  • Shear wave splitting in the Alpine region, 2021, Geophysical Journal International
  • Microseismicity and lithosphere thickness at a nearly-amagmatic oceanic detachment fault system, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Geophysical Journal International
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Solid Earth
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
  • Nature Geoscience

Collaborations have been formed with various co-authors over time. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Romuald Daniel
  • Anne Paul
  • Simon Besançon
  • Cécile Doubre
  • Nathalie Feuillet

Wayne C. Crawford was awarded the title Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1965. This reflects recognition by a scientific body, though details beyond the award title and year are not specified.

Best Publications

  • Discovery of a magma chamber and faults beneath a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal field

    Satish C. Singh;Wayne C. Crawford;Hélène Carton;Tim Seher

  • An Automatic Kurtosis‐Based P ‐ and S ‐Phase Picker Designed for Local Seismic Networks

    Christian Baillard;Wayne C. Crawford;Valérie Ballu;Clément Hibert

  • Infragravity waves: From driving mechanisms to impacts

    Xavier Bertin;Anouk de Bakker;Ap van Dongeren;Giovanni Coco

  • Identifying and Removing Tilt Noise from Low-Frequency (! 0.1 Hz) Seafloor Vertical Seismic Data

    Wayne C. Crawford;Spahr C. Webb

  • Infragravity waves in the deep ocean

    Spahr C. Webb;Xin Zhang;Wayne Crawford

  • The AlpArray Seismic Network: A Large-Scale European Experiment to Image the Alpine Orogen

    György Hetényi;Irene Molinari;John Clinton;Götz Bokelmann

  • Automated identification, location and volume estimation of rockfalls at Piton de la Fournaise volcano

    Clément Hibert;Clément Hibert;Anne Mangeney;Anne Mangeney;Gilles Grandjean;Christian Baillard

  • Seafloor Compliance Observed by Long-Period Pressure and Displacement Measurements

    Wayne C. Crawford;Spahr C. Webb;John A. Hildebrand

  • Comparing the role of absolute sea-level rise and vertical tectonic motions in coastal flooding, Torres Islands (Vanuatu)

    Valérie Ballu;Valérie Ballu;Marie-Noëlle Bouin;Patricia Siméoni;Wayne C. Crawford;Wayne C. Crawford

  • Variations in the distribution of magma in the lower crust and at the Moho beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°–10°N

    Wayne C. Crawford;Spahr C. Webb

  • Constraints on melt in the lower crust and Moho at the East Pacific Rise, 9°48′N, using seafloor compliance measurements

    Wayne C. Crawford;Spahr C. Webb;John A. Hildebrand

  • Tonga Ridge and Lau Basin crustal structure from seismic refraction data

    Wayne C. Crawford;Wayne C. Crawford;John A. Hildebrand;LeRoy M. Dorman;Spahr C. Webb

  • Long-period seafloor seismology and deformation under ocean waves

    Spahr C. Webb;Wayne C. Crawford

  • Birth of a large volcanic edifice offshore Mayotte via lithosphere-scale dyke intrusion

    Nathalie Feuillet;Stephan Jorry;Wayne C. Crawford;Christine Deplus

  • Estimating shear velocities in the oceanic crust from compliance measurements by two‐dimensional finite difference modeling

    Wayne C. Crawford;Spahr C. Webb;John A. Hildebrand

  • Shallow-Water Broadband OBS Seismology

    Spahr C. Webb;Wayne C. Crawford

  • Strong seismic heterogeneity in layer 2A near hydrothermal vents at the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    A. F. Arnulf;S. C. Singh;A. J. Harding;G. M. Kent

  • A new sea‐floor gravimeter

    Glenn S. Sasagawa;Wayne Crawford;Ola Eiken;Scott Nooner

  • Performance report of the RHUM-RUM ocean bottom seismometer network around La Réunion, western Indian Ocean

    Simon C. Stähler;Simon C. Stähler;Karin Sigloch;Karin Sigloch;Kasra Hosseini;Wayne C. Crawford

  • Temporal variability and tidal modulation of hydrothermal exit‐fluid temperatures at the Lucky Strike deep‐sea vent field, Mid‐Atlantic Ridge

    Thibaut Barreyre;Thibaut Barreyre;Javier Escartín;Robert A. Sohn;Mathilde Cannat

  • Crustal velocity structure of the Lucky Strike segment of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge at 37°N from seismic refraction measurements

    Tim Seher;Tim Seher;Wayne C. Crawford;Satish C. Singh;Mathilde Cannat

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathilde Cannat
Mathilde Cannat Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Javier Escartín
Javier Escartín École Normale Supérieure
Robert A. Sohn
Robert A. Sohn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Heidrun Kopp
Heidrun Kopp GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Anne Paul
Anne Paul Grenoble Alpes University
Satish C. Singh
Satish C. Singh Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Ingo Grevemeyer
Ingo Grevemeyer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Spahr C. Webb
Spahr C. Webb Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Stéphan J. Jorry
Stéphan J. Jorry French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Guilhem Barruol
Guilhem Barruol Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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