Recent Activities of the Geomechanics Group
Research is only part of the story. The science keeps moving, just like the rocks and faults we study. Follow us through new discoveries, published work, dissertation defenses, and the people and moments behind the science.
August 2026: Michele joined a group mapping transtensional faults in the high Sierra
June 2026: Paper on training convolutional neural networks to estimate off fault deformation published in JGR Solid Earth
June 2026: Paper on stress accumulation and release along the San Andreas fault system published in BSSA
April 2026: Paper on accessibility of Shake Alert earthquake early warning for deaf and hard of hearing people published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
January 2026: Euro Rock Mechanics meeting poster by Emery Anderson-Merritt and Michele L. Cooke, Insights into the effective viscosity of the upper crust from simulating shear traction evolution across multiple earthquake cycles in regions with short and long recurrence intervals.
January 2026: Dr. Emery ‘Grasshopper’ Anderson-Merrit defends his PhD dissertation “Estimating Evolving Shear Tractions on the Southern San Andreas and Wasatch fault systems”. Bravo Grasshopper!
October 2025: Cooke, Michele, Disrupting ableism in geoscience communication and education: a language equity lens, invited talk 132-6, Geological Society of America meeting
May 2025: Paper on evolution of releasing bends in scaled physical experiments published in Tekotonika
April 2025: Paper on the energy budget of subduction zone hazards published in Reviews in Geophysics
July 2024: Paper on language equity and earthquake early warning for deaf and hard of hearing people published in GeoHazards