Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory
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JORDAN R. MULLER
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CURRENT POSITION
- National Research Council Research Associate, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
RESEARCH AREAS
- Neotectonics, structural geology, seismology, crustal deformation, boundary element modeling, laser altimetry, InSAR interferometry
EDUCATION
- 1996 - BA (Geosciences), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
- 1999 - MS (Geology and Geophysics), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
- 2004 - PhD (Geology), Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- [Thesis: Earthquake fault interaction in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey]
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
| 1994 - 1995 | Teaching Assistant, Franklin and Marshall College |
| 1996 - 1999 | Research Assistant, University of Hawaii |
| 1997 - 1997 | Staff Geologist, Woodward-Clyde Geotechnical Engineers, Honolulu, HI |
| 1999 - 2004 | Research Assistant, Stanford University |
| 2000 - 2000 | Staff Geologist, Cotton, Shires, and Associates, Los Gatos, CA |
| 2002 - 2003 | Teaching Assistant, Stanford University |
| 2002 - 2002 | Consulting Geologist, Advanced Resources International, Denver, CO |
| 2002 - 2002 | Geologist, British Petroleum, Houston, TX |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Muller, J.R., Aydin, A., and Wright, T.J., 2005, Using an Elastic Dislocation Model to Investigate Static Coulomb Stress Change Scenarios for Earthquake Ruptures in the Eastern Marmara Sea Region, Turkey: Geological Society of London Special Publication - Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes, in press.
Muller, J.R., and Aydin, A., 2005, Using Geomechanical Modeling to Constrain the Fault Geometry within the Marmara Sea, Turkey: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 110, B03407, doi:10.1029/2004JB003226.
Muller, J.R., and Aydin, A., 2004, Rupture Progression Along Discontinuous Oblique Fault Sets: Implications for the Karadere Rupture Segment of the 1999 Izmit Earthquake, and Future Rupture in the Marmara Sea: Tectonophysics (Special Issue), v. 391, p. 283-302.
Fielding, E.J., Wright, T.J., Muller, J.R., Parsons, B.E., Walker, R., 2004, Aseismic deformation of a fold-and-thrust belt imaged by synthetic aperture radar interferometry near Shahdad, southeast Iran: Geology, v. 32, p. 577-580.
Muller, J.R., Aydin, A., and Maerten, F., 2003, Investigating the transition between the 1967 Mudurnu Valley and 1999 Izmit earthquakes along the North Anatolian fault with static stress changes: Geophysical Journal International, v. 154, p. 471-482.
Muller, J.R., Ito, G., and Martel, S.J., 2001, Effects of volcano loading on the propagation of dikes in the lithosphere: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, n. B6, p. 11,101-11,113.
Muller, J.R., and Martel, S.J., 2000, Numerical models of translational landslide rupture surface growth: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 157, n. 6-8, p. 1009-1038.
Martel, S.J., and Muller, J.R., 2000, A two-dimensional boundary element method for calculating the elastic gravitational stresses in slopes: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 157, n. 6-8, p. 989-1007.
Prentice, C., Merritts, D., Bodin, P., Beutner, E., Schill, A., and Muller, J., 1999, Evidence of an onshore location for the northern termination of the San Andreas fault: GSA Bulletin, v. 111, n. 4, p. 512-523.
