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Member Since 1982
Susan Y. Schwartz
Retired, [OBA] High Altitude Ballooning Texas Atmospheric and Space Research
Professional Experience
[OBA] High Altitude Ballooning Texas Atmospheric and Space Research
Retired
2024 - Present
University of California Santa Cruz
Professor
1994 - 2024
Education
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Doctorate
1988
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2016
Citation
For fundamental work that places subduction zone earthquakes in tectonic context.
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Seismology Fellows Committee
Publications
Continuous Tremor Activity With Stable Polarization Direction Following the 2014 Large Slow Slip Eve...

Many types of slow earthquakes have been discovered at subduction zones around the world. However, the physical process of these slow earthquakes i...

February 17, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Precursory seismic signals before catastrophic landslides in Costa Rica: From slow to fast slip
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Esteban J. Chaves, Susan Y. Schwartz, Javier F. Pa...
At Volcanoes, complex landslide instabilities triggered by nearby earthquakes, rainfall, local deformation, or a combination of all, may induce change...
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Seismicity Migration and a Surface Creep Event in 2021 on the Calaveras Fault
EARTHQUAKE SOURCE CHARACTERIZATION AND FAULT ZONE PROPERTIES FROM MICROMETER TO KILOMETER SCALES III POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2023
Litong Huang, Susan Y. Schwartz, Emily E. Brodsky
Surface creep events are usually thought to extend no deeper than 1-5km, but the potential relationship that exists between surface creep and deeper g...
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Earthquake detection in subduction zones: Transfer learning with amphibious data from the Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment
MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED EARTHQUAKE MONITORING AND SEISMIC ANALYSIS IV ORAL
seismology | 16 december 2022
Grace Barcheck, Geoffrey A. Abers, Emily C. Roland...
We train the machine-learning (ML) earthquake detection and picking algorithm EarthquakeTransformer (EQT) for use with amphibious or offshore seismic ...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2026
Member
Seismology Fellows Committee
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