Clayton, Robert W.

Committee Member — 102 thesises

• Thio, Hong Kie — 1. Using Short-Period Surface Waves to Study Seismic Source and Structure. 2. Source Complexity of Large Strike-Slip Earthquakes (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Donnellan, Andrea — A geodetic study of crustal deformation in the Ventura Basin region, Southern California (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eisner, Leo — A Reciprocity Method for Multiple Source Simulations (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Massari, Anthony Thomas — Achieving Higher Fidelity Building Response through Emerging Technologies and Analytical Techniques (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scrivner, Craig William — Analysis and Modeling of Seismic Ground Motions in Heterogeneous Structures in Southern California (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dmochowski, Jane Ellen — Application of MODIS-ASTER (Master) Simulator Data to Geological Mapping of Young Volcanic Regions in Baja California, Mexico (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vidale, John Emilio — Application of Two-Dimensional Finite-Difference Wave Simulation to Earthquakes, Earth Structure, and Seismic Hazard (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Dongzhou — Applications of Nuclear Resonant Scattering to Further Our Understanding of Earth’s Interior (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Scott, Patricia Frances — Applications of the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz Integral to Problems in Body Wave Seismology (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ortega Culaciati, Francisco Hernan — Aseismic Deformation in Subduction Megathrusts: Central Andes and North-East Japan (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Riel, Bryan Valmonte — Automatic Decomposition of Geodetic Time Series for Studies of Ground Deformation (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Labedz, Celeste Ritter — Between Seismic Speed and Glacial Pace: Cryoseismic Observation of Intermediate-Scale Processes at Lemon Creek Glacier, Alaska (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vriend, Nathalie Maria — Booming Sand Dunes (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhu, Lupei — Broadband waveform modeling and its application to the lithospheric structure of the Tibetan plateau (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Keller, William R. — Cenozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions and Plate Boundary Processes in the Southwest Pacific (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Olson, Michael James — Cloud Computing Services for Seismic Networks (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chael, Eric Paul — Constraints on the Earth's Anelastic and Aspherical Structure from Antipodal Surface Waves (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hearn, Thomas Martin — Crustal Structure in Southern California from Array Data (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heckman, Vanessa Mary — Damage Detection in Civil Structures using High-Frequency Seismograms (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salyards, Stephen Lowell — Dating and Characterizing Late Holocene Earthquakes Using Paleomagnetics (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bai, Kangchen — Dynamic Earthquake Source Modeling and the Study of Slab Effects (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richards, Mark Alan — Dynamical Models for the Earth's Geoid (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spasojevic, Sonja — Dynamics of Long-Term Sea-Level Change and Vertical Motion of Continents (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yamada, Masumi — Early Warning for Earthquakes with Large Rupture Dimension (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Yingdi — Earthquake Moment-Area Scaling Relations and the Effect of Fault Heterogeneity on Slow to Fast Earthquake Slip (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lui, Semechah Ka Yan — Earthquake Source Characterization Through Seismic Observations and Numerical Modeling (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hjörleifsdóttir, Vala — Earthquake Source Characterization Using 3D Numerical Modeling (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Favela, Javier — Energy Radiation from a Multi-Story Building (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rowan, Linda Rose — Equation of state of molten mid-ocean ridge basalt. Structure of Kilauea volcano. (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhan, Zhongwen — Exploiting Seismic Waveforms of Ambient Noise and Earthquakes (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Atterholt, James William — Fault Zone Structure and Rupture Behavior with Fiber-Optic Sensing and Second Moments (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, David Judson — Geology of the Eastern Tehachapi Mountains and Late Cretaceous-Early Cenozoic tectonics of the southern Sierra Nevada Region, Kern County, California (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Selvans, Michelle Marie — Geophysical Investigations of Near-Surface Structure on the Earth and Mars (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Song, Xi — High Resolution Modeling of Regional Phases (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhong, Minyan — High-Resolution Geophysical Images of Static Crustal Structure and Time-Dependent Glacier Flow (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schmitt, Douglas Ray — I. Applications of Double-Exposure Holography to the Measurement of In Situ Stress and the Elastic Moduli of Rock from Boreholes. II. Shock Temperature Measurements in Fused Quartz and Crystalline NaCl to 35 GPa (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ho-Liu, Phyllis Hang-Yin — I. Attenuation Tomography. II. Modeling Regional Love Waves: Imperial Valley to Pasadena (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Yida — I. Dynamics of Subduction Initiation and II. Constraining Sedimentary Basin Structure with Seismic Ambient Noise (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruff, Larry John — I. Great Earthquakes and Seismic Coupling at Subduction Zones. II. The Structure of the Lowermost Mantle Determined by Short Period P-Wave Amplitudes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Cangli — I. Rigid Body Penetration into Brittle Material. II. Phase Change Effect on Shock Wave Propagation (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Melbourne, Timothy Ian — I. Rupture Properties of Large Subduction Earthquakes. II. Broadband Upper Mantle Structure of Western North America (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanders, Christopher O'Neill — I. Seismotectonics of the San Jacinto Fault Zone and the Anza Seismic Gap. II. Imaging the Shallow Crust in Volcanic Areas with Earthquake Shear Waves (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Sheng-Nian — I. The Heterogeneities at the Core-Mantle and Inner-Core Boundaries from PKP Phases. II. The Static and Dynamic Behavior of Silica at High Pressures (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fawcett, John Alan — I. Three Dimensional Ray-Tracing and Ray-Inversion in Layered Media. II. Inverse Scattering and Curved Ray Tomography with Applications to Seismology (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Filippitzis, Filippos — Identification of Structural Damage, Ground Motion Response, and the Benefits of Dense Seismic Instrumentation (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Persaud, Patricia — Images of Early Continental Breakup in and around the Gulf of California and the Role of Basal Shear in Producing Wide Plate Boundaries (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ma, Yiran — Imaging the Earth with Ambient Noise and Earthquakes (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Yan — Imaging the Earth’s Near Surface with Dense Seismic Observation (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Hsui-Lin — Interpretation of Near-Source Ground Motion and Implications (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stephenson, Oliver Laurent — Investigating the Earthquake Cycle on Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales Using Satellites and Simulations (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Venkataraman, Anupama — Investigating the Mechanics of Earthquakes Using Macroscopic Seismic Parameters (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaneko, Yoshihiro — Investigations of Earthquake Source Processes Based on Fault Models with Variable Friction Rheology (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Solomatova, Natalia Viatcheslavovna — Iron-bearing Oxides, Silicate Glasses and Carbonates at Lower Mantle Pressures (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wallace, Terry Charles, Jr. — Long Period Regional Body Waves (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Larochelle, Stacy — Mechanical Interactions Between Water and the Solid Earth: from Quasi-Static Geodetic Deformation to Dynamic Fault Slip (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kanda, Ravi V. S. — Mechanical Models for InterSeismic Deformation in Subduction Zones (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Le Bras, Ronan — Methods of Multiparameter Inversion of Seismic Data Using the Acoustic and Elastic Born Approximations (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muir, Jack Broderick — Model Parameterization and Model Selection in Geophysical Inverse Problems. Designing Inverse Problems that Respect a priori Geophysical Knowledge (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Graves, Robert Wilson — Modeling seismic wave propagation using paraxial extrapolators (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Alisic, Laura — Multi-Scale Dynamics and Rheology of Mantle Convection with Plates (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Min — Numerical Simulations of Seismic Wave Propagation in Anisotropic and Heterogeneous Earth Models: The Japan Subduction Zone (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Ting — Part I: Structure of Central and Southern Mexico from Velocity and Attenuation Tomography. Part II: Physics of Small Repeating Earthquakes (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Skinner, Steven Michael — Plate Tectonic Constraints on Flat Subduction and Paleomagnetic Constraints on Rifting (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wen, Lianxing — Plate Tectonics, Mantle Convection and D" Seismic Structures (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Williams, Ethan Francis — Probing Solid-Earth, Ocean, and Structural Dynamics with Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Zhichao — Probing Water Below the Surface: Insights from Seismic Interferometry with Conventional and DAS Array (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, YoungHee — Properties of the Subduction System in Mexico (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stork, Christof — Ray Trace Tomographic Velocity Analysis of Surface Seismic Reflection Data (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yan, Zhimei — Regional Mapping of the Crustal Structure in Southern California (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Savage, Brian Kirk — Regional Seismic Wavefield Propagation (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jia, Zhe — Resolving Earthquake Source Complexities in the Heterogeneous Earth (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Louie, John Nikolai — Seismic Reflection Experiments Imaging the Physical Nature of Crustal Structures in Southern California (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Weishi — Seismic Strain Rates and the State of Tectonic Stress in the Southern California Region (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dougherty, Sara Lyn — Seismic Structure along Transitions from Flat to Normal Subduction: Central Mexico, Southern Peru, and Southwest Japan (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sun, Daoyuan — Seismic Structure of the Lower Mantle (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tape, Carl Harlan — Seismic Tomography of Southern California Using Adjoint Methods (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Castellanos, Jorge Alberto Castillo — Seismic Wavefield Imaging of the Earth: the Regional, the Local, and the Remote (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lai, Voon Hui — Seismic Waveform Modeling of Natural Hazards and Sharp Structural Boundaries (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Inbal, Asaf — Seismogeodetic Imaging of Active Crustal Faulting (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Annie Hsin-Wen — Sensor Networks for Geospatial Event Detection - Theory and Applications (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Grand, Stephen Pierre — Shear Velocity Structure of the Mantle Beneath the North American Plate (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ai, Huirong (Anita) — Shock-Induced Damage in Rocks: Application to Impact Cratering (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Dunzhu — Some Advances in Computational Geophysics: Seismic Wave and Inverse Geodynamic Modeling (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davies, John Huw — Some Problems in Mantle Structure and Dynamics. Part 1. Inversion for Depth Variation of Spectra of Mantle Compressional and Shear Velocity Heterogeneity. Part 2. Physical Model of Source Region of Subduction Zone Volcanism (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Houston, Heidi Beth — Source Characteristics of Large Earthquakes at Short Periods (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Qinya — Spectral-Element Simulations of 3-D Seismic Wave Propagation and Applications to Source and Structural Inversions (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smither, Catherine Louise — Stress-relief displacements induced by drilling and three-dimensional modeling of planetary impacts (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rubin, Charles Martin — Structural, stratigraphic, and geochronologic analysis of the Alexander-Taku terrane boundary and the overlapping upper Jurassic to lower Cretaceous gravina sequence, southeast Alaska (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phillips-Alonge, Kristin Eileen — Structure of the Subduction System in Southern Peru from Seismic Array Data (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Humphreys, Eugene Drake — Studies of the Crust-Mantle System Beneath Southern California (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walck, Marianne Carol — Teleseismic Array Analysis of Upper Mantle Compressional Velocity Structure (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kursinski, Emil Robert — The GPS Radio Occultation Concept: Theoretical Performance and Initial Results (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spotila, James Anthony — The neotectonics of the San Bernardino Mountains and adjacent San Andreas Fault : a case study of uplift associated with strike-slip fault systems (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bowden, Daniel Craig — The Propagation and Amplification of Surface Waves (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pechmann, James Christopher — The Relationship of Small Earthquakes to Strain Accumulation Along Major Faults in Southern California (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zajac, Blair J. — The State of Stress as Inferred from Deviated Boreholes: Constraints on the Tectonics of Offshore Central California and Cook Inlet, Alaska (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nazareth, Julie Jeannine — The Structure of the Crust and Distribution of Earthquakes in Southern California (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Murphy, Caitlin Anne — Thermoelasticity of Hexagonal Close-Packed Iron from the Phonon Density of States (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kohler, Monica Diane — Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocity Structure of the Earth's Outermost Core and Mantle (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bradford, Samuel Case, V — Time-Frequency Analysis of Systems with Changing Dynamic Properties (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mao, Xiaolin — Understanding Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics with Numerical Models Constrained by Observations (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rollins, John Christopher — Using Heterogeneous 3D Earth Models to Constrain Interseismic and Postseismic Deformation in Southern California and Nepal (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))