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Member Since 1996
Demian M. Saffer
Director, University of Texas at Austin
Professional Experience
University of Texas at Austin
Director
2019 - Present
Pennsylvania State University Main Campus
Professor
2005 - 2019
Education
Doctorate
1999
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
Citation
For leadership in unifying the hydrological, mechanical and geological study of earthquakes and subduction dynamics
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Francis Birch Lecture
Received December 2022
Current Roles
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
Guest Associate Editor
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Publications
The Role of Clay in Limiting Frictional Healing in Fault Gouges
Frictional healing is fundamental to the seismic cycle and plays a role in the energy balance, dynamics, and recurrence interval of earthquakes and...
October 13, 2023
Storage, Transport, and Fate of Perfluoroalkyl Acids (PFAAs)...
September 21, 2023
Frictional Behavior Downdip Along the Subduction Megathrust:...
December 30, 2022
Using Seafloor Geodesy to Detect Vertical Deformation at the...
November 29, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Insights into the physics of earthquake rupture from a 1-meter earthquake machine
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
David C. Bolton, Srisharan Shreedharan, Kaitlin S...
We have recently designed and built a large (~ 1 m) direct shear apparatus at the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the spatiotemporal evol...
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Insights into the occurrence and characteristics of near-trench megathrust slip behavior at the Hikurangi subduction zone from almost a decade of seafloor geodetic experiments
RECENT APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SEAFLOOR GEODESY I ORAL
geodesy | 14 december 2023
Laura M. Wallace, Spahr C. Webb, John B. DeSanto, ...
Resolving the distribution of interseismic coupling and transient slow slip event (SSE) processes at offshore subduction zones is hampered by the diff...
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Seafloor observations of a 2022 shallow slow slip event in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone offshore Gisborne
RECENT APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SEAFLOOR GEODESY II POSTER
geodesy | 14 december 2023
Erik K. Fredrickson, Laura M. Wallace, Yoshihiro I...
Slow slip events have been found to occur regularly in the offshore reaches of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone off New Zealands north island. Surface de...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2026
Guest Associate Editor
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2024 - 2026
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
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