Member Since 2012
Will Steinhardt
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Cruz
Professional Experience
University of California Santa Cruz
Postdoctoral Researcher
2020 - Present
Harvard University
Graduate Student
Education
Masters
2013
Harvard University
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Received December 2024
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2018
Presentation Title: The Origins of Fracture Surface Roughness: Observing Hydraulic Fracture in Brittle Hydrogels to understand the Dynamic Formation of Rough Crack Surfaces
Event: 2018 Fall Meeting
Awarding Section: Mineral and Rock Physics
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Publications
Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault
Earthquakes occur through repeated cycles of locking and slip. What is the relationship between transiently locked patches and the size, location, ...
February 22, 2025
Seismological Stress Drops for Confined Ruptures Are Invariant to Normal Stress
Seismic moment and rupture length can be combined to infer stress drop, a key parameter for assessing earthquakes. In natural earthquakes, stress d...
May 03, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault: Untangling the Relative Roles of History and Geometry in Governing the Next Earthquake
FAULT COMPLEXITIES AND THEIR ROLE IN NUCLEATION AND RUPTURE PROPAGATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE LABORATORY, FIELD, AND MODELING II POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2024
Will Steinhardt, Emily E. Brodsky
Earthquake nucleation can involve locking or preslip. Both are influenced by geometry and slip history, and untangling the role of each can be difficu...
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The variability of stress and what to do about it
FRANCIS BIRCH LECTURE
tectonophysics | 11 december 2024
Emily E. Brodsky, Will Steinhardt, Gaspard Farge, ...
Stress is not uniform in the Earth. Even over relatively small volumes, pore pressure fluctuations, fault complexity, and lithological variations cons...
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Understanding the Relationship Between Precursory Locking, Earthquake Nucleation, Slip, and Asperities Using a Novel Laboratory Fault
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
Will Steinhardt, Emily E. Brodsky
The relationship between the nucleation behavior of an earthquake, the location of stress asperities, and the final, resultant event is a critical ele...
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