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Member Since 1991
Rachel E. Abercrombie
Research Professor, Boston University
Professional Experience
Boston University
Research Professor
2001 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1991
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2020
Citation
For ground breaking contributions to our understanding of earthquakes over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales
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Outstanding Reviewer Award - JGR-Solid Earth
Received December 2016
Current Roles
President-Elect
Seismology Executive Committee
Section President-Elect
Council
Publications
Thank You to Our 2023 Reviewers
The entire editorial board of the Journal of Geophysical Research‐Solid Earth would like to sincerely thank all our colleagues who reviewed m...
April 23, 2024
SMatStack to Enhance Noisy Teleseismic Seismic Phases: Valid...
November 01, 2023
Quantifying Site Effects and Their Influence on Earthquake S...
September 07, 2023
Thank You to Our 2022 Peer Reviewers
July 06, 2023
AGU Abstracts
To heal or not to heal?: The moment-recurrence time behavior of repeating earthquakes in the 2011 Prague, Oklahoma aftershock sequence is consistent with laboratory healing rates
DERISKING INDUCED AND TRIGGERED EARTHQUAKES: ADVANCES IN THEORY, MONITORING, AND FORECAST MODELING II ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2023
Kristina Okamoto, Heather M. Savage, Emily E. Brod...
The competition between fault healing (i.e., re-strengthening) and fault loading determine the seismic cycle. Therefore, understanding how faults stre...
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Insights into Cascadia's Offshore Seismicity from OBS Data Mining
MACHINE LEARNING–DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF GEOPHYSICAL SIGNALS VI ORAL
seismology | 14 december 2023
Cyril Journeau, Amanda Thomas, Brenton Hirao, Doug...
The Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) represents a 1,100 km-long tectonic boundary located in the Pacific Northwest. Here, the Juan de Fuca and Gorda pla...
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Quantifying the structural and site effects on microearthquake source parameter variability in a sedimentary basin across a dense array in Oklahoma
UNDERSTANDING THE VARIABILITY IN EARTHQUAKE SOURCE PARAMETER MEASUREMENTS I POSTER
seismology | 11 december 2023
Hilary Chang, Rachel E. Abercrombie, Nori Nakata, ...
The unconsolidated sediments within sedimentary basins can cause site effects that distort seismic wavefield amplitudes. The amplification of ground m...
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Volunteer Experience
2020 - 2027
Editor
JGR Solid Earth Section
2023 - 2026
Member
Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service Committee
2023 - 2024
Chair
Jerome Paros Scholarships in Geophysical Instrumentation
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