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Member Since 1991
Michele L. Cooke
Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Member, Devendra Lal Medal Committee
Professional Experience
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor
1999 - Present
Education
Stanford University
Doctorate
1996
Stanford University
Masters
1991
Princeton University
Bachelors
1989
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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
A New Method to Invert for Interseismic Deep Slip Along Clos...
January 23, 2024
Predicting Off‐Fault Deformation From Experimental Strike‐Sl...
January 24, 2022
Smoothing of Fault Slip Surfaces by Scale-Invariant Wear
September 24, 2018
Off-Fault Focal Mechanisms Not Representative of Interseismi...
September 14, 2018
AGU Abstracts
Estimating Evolving Shear Tractions on the Wasatch Fault since 5 ka
STRUCTURE, MECHANICS, AND HAZARDS OF GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX FAULT SYSTEMS III POSTER
tectonophysics | 12 december 2024
Emery Anderson-Merritt, Michele L. Cooke, Christop...
Estimates of shear tractions before past ground-rupturing earthquakes are critical inputs for dynamic rupture models to simulate past earthquakes. We ...
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Predicting Crustal Thrust Fault Propagation and Branching by Integrating Numerical Models and Physical Scaled Experiments
CRUSTAL DEFORMATION AND HETEROGENEITY FROM LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO LARGE EARTHQUAKE CYCLES I POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 12 december 2024
Berenice Plotek, Michele L. Cooke, Jessica McBeck
We can forecast the propagation and branching of crustal thrust faults using numerical models and physical scaled experiments that simulate the evolut...
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Estimating Pre-Earthquake Tractions on the Southern San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults since 1000 CE
TECTONIC SETTINGS AND EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT ZONES I POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2024
Emery Anderson-Merritt, Michele L. Cooke, Katherin...
Estimating the evolving state of stress in a fault system may help us determine the conditions that generated previous ground-rupturing earthquakes an...
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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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