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Member Since 1991
Michele L. Cooke
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professional Experience
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor
1999 - Present
Education
Stanford University
Doctorate
1996
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Doctorate
1991
Stanford University
Masters
1991
Princeton University
Bachelors
1989
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Current Roles
Member
Devendra Lal Medal Committee
Associate Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
Publications
What Controls Early Restraining Bend Growth? Structural, Morphometric, and Numerical Modeling Analys...

Restraining bends influence topography, strike‐slip evolution, and earthquake rupture dynamics, however the specific factors governing their ...

May 31, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Energy budget of subduction zones
INTEGRATING WIDE-OPEN DATASETS INTO MODELS OF THE SUBDUCTION ZONE EARTHQUAKE CYCLE TO IMPROVE SOCIETAL RESILIENCE II ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Michele L. Cooke, Juliet G. Crider, Leif Karlstrom...
The size of devastating subduction zone hazard events can be measured by the amount of energy they release, which depends on how much stored energy is...
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Pre-Earthquake Tractions on the Southern San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults over the Last ~1000 Years
DATA-INFORMED EARTHQUAKE MODELING II POSTER
seismology | 13 december 2023
Emery Anderson-Merritt, Michele L. Cooke
Estimating the evolving state of stress in a fault system can help us constrain the conditions that may have generated previous ground-rupturing earth...
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Accessibility of Earthquake Early Warning with deaf and hard of hearing communities: a review
EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING: PERFORMANCE AND PROGRESS I ORAL
natural hazards | 11 december 2023
Michele L. Cooke, Audrey Cooper, Kota Takayama, Da...
Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) alerts can give many people valuable seconds to take protective action, such as drop, cover and hold on, before earthqu...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Devendra Lal Medal Committee
2016 - 2024
Associate Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
2018 - 2020
Member
Tectonophysics Section Nomination & Honors Committee
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