CRUSTAL DYNAMICS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Brendan J. Meade,  Associate Professor

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Plate boundary zones are home to the majority of global earthquake activity and the Earth's greatest mountain ranges.  We work to understand what contemporary fault system activity tells us about earthquake cycle processes, seismic hazard, lithospheric rheology, and the tectonic development of continents. Our efforts are focused on using GPS data to image present-day fault system activity, understanding the migration of plate boundary zone activity, and modeling the mechanics and evolution of orogenic belts.

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Brendan J. Meade

Associate Professor

Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

Harvard University

meade@fas.harvard.edu


B.A. Johns Hopkins University, 1998

Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004


December 2009: New block modeling code released. The new release implements the algorithms described by the recent Meade and Loveless (2009) paper and is used to image present-day fault system activity across the Japanese Islands (Loveless and Meade, in press). This suite of codes allows for the simultaneous estimation of tectonic rotations, internal block strain, and spatially variable fault coupling on geometrically complex faults represented as triangulated meshes. Also included is an integrated graphical interface for creation and testing of multiple fault system geometries.Software.html

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