
Member Since 1987
Roland Burgmann
Professional Experience
University of California Berkeley
Professor
Education
Stanford University
Doctorate
1993
Honors & Awards
William Bowie Lecture
Received December 2024
Francis Birch Lecture
Received December 2013
Union Fellow
Received December 2013
Citation
For elucidating the role of the micromechanical properties of the ductile lithosphere to understand the earthquake deformation cycle.
See Details
Close Details
Publications

A New Fault Slip Mode Unveiled in the Regional Dynamic Triggering of the 2023 Turkey Kahramanmaras E...
Faults can slip at vastly different rates, generating both high‐stress‐drop regular earthquakes and low‐stress‐drop slow sl...
February 23, 2025

Coseismic Shallow Slip Deficit Accounted for by Diffuse Off‐...
December 12, 2024

The Elusive Role of Aseismic Slip Along a Seaward Dipping No...
August 10, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Are creep and seismicity along nearby faults modulated by the poroelastic transients from the Geysers geothermal field in Northern California?
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING TRIGGERING MECHANISMS OF INDUCED SEISMICITY III POSTER
seismology | 13 december 2024
Sui Tung, Roland Burgmann, Manoochehr Shirzaei, Ti...
The Geyser geothermal field has been producing energy since 1960. There are several faults, namely, the Rodgers Creek Fault (RCF), Maacama Fault (MF),...
View Abstract
US West Coast Surface Deformation With Wide-swath L-Band ALOS-2 PALSAR-2
CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY AND DISASTER RESPONSE USING L BAND SAR MISSIONS BY JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES II ORAL
global environmental change | 13 december 2024
saoussen Belhadj aissa, Eric J. Fielding, Danielle...
Under a JAXA-NASA agreement, JAXA has acquired over 451 scenes in the wide-swath ScanSAR mode over the West Coast USA and provided them to NASA and ot...
View Abstract
How does aseismic slip communicate with M6 events in a collision zone?
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: MULTISCALE RHEOLOGY OF PLATE BOUNDARY FAULTS V POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2024
Kate H. Chen, Wei Peng, Roland Burgmann
Recognizing where and when the slow slips occurred during earthquake cycle is critical for earthquake forecasting and hazard assessment. Abundant M≥6 ...
View Abstract
Volunteer Experience
2015 - 2016
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2014 - 2014
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2000 - 2001
Secretary
Geodesy Executive Committee
Check out all of Roland Burgmann’s AGU Research!
View All Research Now