Elizabeth Cochran

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Elizabeth Cochran
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Scientific career
Thesis Earthquake rupture initiation and fault structure : I. triggering of earthquakes by Earth tides : II. seismic anisotrophy near the Hector Mine rupture : III. post-seismic displacements observed with InSAR  (2005)

Elizabeth Scott Cochran is a seismologist known for her work on early warning systems for earthquakes and human-induced earthquakes.

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Education and career

As a middle-school student living in California, Cochran experiences the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. [1] Cochran has a B.S. from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2000) and went on to earn an M.Sc.(2003) and a Ph.D.(2005) from the University of California. [2] Following her Ph.D. Cochran was a postdoctoral investigator at the University of California, San Diego. [3] From 2007 until 2011 Cochran was an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside, until she joined the United States Geological Survey. [2]

Research

Cochran's early research was on the impact of the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake. [4] [5] Her subsequent work examined the geographic extent of earthquake damage, [6] and defined the factors that lead to the 2011 Oklahoma earthquake. [7] In 2006, Cochran co-foundered of Quake-Catcher Network, a crowd-sourced program that detects earthquakes. [2] Quake-Cather Network was able to track the 2008 Reno earthquakes. [1] The original idea was to use laptops to track earthquakes, [8] [9] but as the project evolved it outfitted citizen scientists with seismometers which are used to detect earthquakes. [10] [11] Later, Cochran was the lead scientist for ShakeAlert, an early warning system for earthquakes in the western United States. [12] [13]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

In 2006 Cochran received the Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award from the Geological Society of America. [14] In 2010 Cochran received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which is an honor given to early career scientists in the United States. [15]

References

  1. 1 2 "USGS scientist works on earthquake early warning and monitoring systems". The Washington Post. September 2, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Elizabeth S Cochran | U.S. Geological Survey". www.usgs.gov. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  3. ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  4. ↑ Cochran, Elizabeth S.; Vidale, John E.; Li, Yong-Gang (2003). "Near-fault anisotropy following the Hector Mine earthquake: HECTOR MINE ANISOTROPY". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 108 (B9). doi: 10.1029/2002JB002352 .
  5. ↑ Cochran, Elizabeth S.; Vidale, John E.; Tanaka, Sachiko (2004-11-12). "Earth Tides Can Trigger Shallow Thrust Fault Earthquakes". Science. 306 (5699): 1164–1166. Bibcode:2004Sci...306.1164C. doi:10.1126/science.1103961. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   15498971. S2CID   45644672.
  6. ↑ Cochran, Elizabeth S.; Li, Yong-Gang; Shearer, Peter M.; Barbot, Sylvain; Fialko, Yuri; Vidale, John E. (2009-04-01). "Seismic and geodetic evidence for extensive, long-lived fault damage zones". Geology. 37 (4): 315–318. Bibcode:2009Geo....37..315C. doi:10.1130/G25306A.1. ISSN   0091-7613.
  7. ↑ Sumy, Danielle F.; Cochran, Elizabeth S.; Keranen, Katie M.; Wei, Maya; Abers, Geoffrey A. (2014). "Observations of static Coulomb stress triggering of the November 2011 M 5.7 Oklahoma earthquake sequence". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 119 (3): 1904–1923. Bibcode:2014JGRB..119.1904S. doi: 10.1002/2013JB010612 . ISSN   2169-9313.
  8. ↑ Vance, Erik. "Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  9. ↑ DiMassa, Cara Mia (2010-03-22). "Scientist recruits quake-catching army". Arkansas Online. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  10. ↑ Vastag, Brian (2011-09-11). "Explorations". Austin American-Statesman. pp.  , . Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  11. ↑ Benson, K.; Schlachter, S.; Estrada, T.; Taufer, M.; Lawrence, J.; Cochran, E. (2013-10-01). "On the powerful use of simulations in the Quake-Catcher Network to efficiently position low-cost earthquake sensors". Future Generation Computer Systems. Including Special sections: Advanced Cloud Monitoring Systems & The fourth IEEE International Conference on e-Science 2011 — e-Science Applications and Tools & Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing. 29 (8): 2128–2142. doi:10.1016/j.future.2013.04.012. ISSN   0167-739X. S2CID   1734586.
  12. ↑ Cochran, Elizabeth S.; Kohler, Monica D.; Given, Douglas D.; Guiwits, Stephen; Andrews, Jennifer; Meier, Men-Andrin; Ahmad, Mohammad; Henson, Ivan; Hartog, Renate; Smith, Deborah (2017-12-06). "Earthquake Early Warning ShakeAlert System: Testing and Certification Platform". Seismological Research Letters. 89 (1): 108–117. doi:10.1785/0220170138. ISSN   0895-0695. S2CID   135100928.
  13. ↑ Kohler, Monica D.; Cochran, Elizabeth S.; Given, Doug; Guiwits, Steve; Neuhauser, Doug; Henson, Ivan; Hartog, Renate; Bodin, Paul; Kress, Victor; Thompson, Stephen; Felizardo, Claude (2017-12-06). "Earthquake Early Warning ShakeAlert System: West Coast Wide Production Prototype". Seismological Research Letters. 89 (1): 99–107. doi:10.1785/0220170140. ISSN   0895-0695. S2CID   134793266.
  14. ↑ "Past Awardees". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
  15. ↑ "President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
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