Junle Jiang

Junle Jiang faculty page

Computational geophysics; crustal dynamics; earthquake physics; rock mechanics; space geodesy; inverse theory

My research aims to understand the characteristics, dynamics, and impacts of Earth’s crustal processes due to natural causes or human activities, including micro- and mega-earthquakes, fault creep, ground uplift and subsidence, slope failure, tsunami, and their interactions in diverse settings such as geothermal fields, crustal faults, and subduction zones. I often combine analyses of geodetic datasets, e.g., Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS/GPS) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), with seismological observations and laboratory-based computational models to study these geophysical processes over multiple time scales (from seconds to centuries) and their behavior under transient or steady environmental forcing. Through such interdisciplinary efforts, I hope to further our understanding and assessment of natural hazards and improve the monitoring and mitigation of induced hazards during geo-energy explorations such as hydraulic fracturing and geothermal energy production.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GSdnS_gAAAAJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-5846

GEOL 1114 Physical Geology for Scientists & Engineers 
GPHY 2013 Frontiers of Geophysics
GPHY 3013 Data Analysis in Geoscience
GPHY 3440 Mentored Research Experience
GPHY 4413/5413 Global Geophysics
GPHY 4553 Introduction to Seismology
GPHY 5020 Computational Geophysics
GPHY 5970 Remote Sensing & Space Geodesy
GPHY 5970 Geophysical Journal Seminar
GPHY 6970 Machine Learning in Geosciences Seminar

Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Lambert, V. R., Abdelmeguid, M., Almquist, M., Ampuero, J., Ando, R., Barbot, S. D., Cattania, C., Chen, A., Dal Zilio, L., Dunham, E. M., Elbanna, A. E., Gabriel, A., Harvey, T., Huang, Y., Kaneko, Y., Kozdon, J. E., Lapusta, N., Li, D., Li, M., Liang, C., Liu, Y., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Segall, P., Sun, Y., Thakur, P., Uphoff, C., van Dinther, Y., & Yang, Y. (2023). Incorporating full elastodynamic effects and dipping fault geometries in community code verification exercises for simulations of earthquake sequences and aseismic slip (SEAS), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer., 113, 499–523, doi:10.1785/0120220066.

Materna, K., Barbour, A., Jiang, J., and Eneva, M. (2022) Detection of aseismic slip and poroelastic reservoir deformation at the North Brawley Geothermal Field from 2009 to 2019, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023335, doi:10.1029/2021JB023335. 

Jiang, J., Y. Bock, and E. Klein (2021), Coevolving early afterslip and aftershock signatures of a San Andreas fault rupture, Science Advances, 7, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abc1606.

Jiang, J., & Lohman, R. B. (2020), Coherence-guided InSAR deformation analysis in the presence of ongoing land surface changes in the Imperial Valley, California, Remote Sens. Environ., 112160, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112160.

Erickson, B., J. Jiang, M. Barall, N. Lapusta, E. M. Dunham, R. Harris, L. Abrahams, K. Allison,  J.-P. Ampuero, S. Barbot, C. Cattania, A. Elbanna, Y. Fialko, B. Idini, J. Kozdon, V. Lambert, Y. Liu, Y. Luo, X. Ma, P. Segall, P. Shi, and M. Wei (2020), The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS), Seismo. Res. Lett, doi:10/ggj42s.

Jiang, J. and N. Lapusta (2017), Connecting depth limits of interseismic locking, microseismicity, and large earthquakes in models of long-term fault slip, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, 6491–6523, doi:10.1002/2017JB014030.

Jiang, J., and M. Simons (2016), Probabilistic imaging of tsunamigenic seafloor deformation during the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 121, 9050–9076, doi:10.1002/2016JB013760.

Jiang, J., and Y. Fialko (2016), Reconciling seismicity and geodetic locking depths on the Anza section of the San Jacinto fault, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 10663–10671, doi:10.1002/2016GL071113.

Jiang, J., and N. Lapusta (2016), Deeper penetration of large earthquakes on seismically quiescent faults, Science, 352(6291), 1293–1297, doi:10.1126/science.aaf1496.

Duputel, Z., J. Jiang, R. Jolivet, M. Simons, L. Rivera, J.-P. Ampuero, B. Riel, S. E. Owen, A. W. Moore, S. V. Samsonov, F. O. Culaciati, and S. E. Minson (2015), The Iquique earthquake sequence of April 2014: Bayesian modeling accounting for prediction uncertainty, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 7949–7957, doi:10.1002/2015GL065402.