Member Since 1987
Jean-Philippe Avouac
Professor, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Professor
2003 - Present
Education
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Doctorate
1991
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2015
Union Fellow
Received December 2014
Citation
For fundamental work on the understanding of active tectonics, landscape evolution, and the earthquake cycle.
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Francis Birch Lecture
Received December 2007
Publications
Geodetic Monitoring of Elastic and Inelastic Deformation in Compacting Reservoirs Due To Subsurface ...
A variety of geo‐energy operations involve extraction or injections of fluids, including hydrocarbon production or storage, hydrogen storage,...
March 20, 2025
Earthquake Growth Inhibited at Higher Coulomb Stress Change ...
October 15, 2024
Earthquake Nucleation Characteristics Revealed by Seismicity...
October 02, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Linking Dune and Ripple Migration to Wind Speed on Earth and Mars
AEOLIAN PROCESSES ON EARTH AND OTHER PLANETARY BODIES I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2024
Chloe Daudon, Jean-Philippe Avouac, JH Meiring Bey...
Dunes and ripples are markers of eolian activity. Dunes arise and evolve from the action of wind blowing on sand grains, and can thus provide informat...
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Efficient physics-based modelling of induced seismicity Decatur CCS project and upscaling to the Illinois basin.
GEOLOGIC CARBON STORAGE I ORAL
seismology | 13 december 2024
Mateo ACOSTA, Guillaume Salha, Charles Forestier, ...
To enable worldwide scalable development of carbon sequestration in saline aquifers, we need to assess (i) the risks of induced faulting and seismicit...
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Maximum Magnitude of Injection-Induced Earthquakes on a Fault Governed by Rate and State Friction
ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING TRIGGERING MECHANISMS OF INDUCED SEISMICITY IV ORAL
seismology | 13 december 2024
KYUNGJAE IM, Jean-Philippe Avouac
We use analytical and numerical investigations to understand how a fluid injection affects the evolution of rupture radius and maximum magnitude (Mmax...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Immediate Past President
Tectonophysics Executive Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2021 - 2022
Member
Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service Committee
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