Curriculum Vitae

Aron Jeffrey Meltzner
28 Jun 2009

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Candidate (Geology), California Institute of Technology, 2003-present

Master of Science (Geological Sciences), San Diego State University, 2006

Bachelor of Science with honor (Geology), California Institute of Technology, 2000

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS:

2007 recipient of the Outstanding Student Paper Award, Seismology Section, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2007, San Francisco, CA

2006 recipient of the Outstanding Student Presentation Award, Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, April 2006, San Francisco, CA

2005 recipient of the Outstanding Student Presentation Award, Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, April 2005, Incline Village, NV

2003-2004 recipient of the Special Institute Fellowship in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at Caltech

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship 2002 Honorable Mention awardee

recipient of various awards and scholarships in the Department of Geological Sciences at SDSU, 2001-2003

winner of the 2000 Deans' Cup award (at Caltech), in recognition of efforts to improve the quality of undergraduate life at Caltech and to establish lines of communication with members of the faculty and administration; accompanied by a $200 prize

1999-2000 recipient of the Ian Campbell Award in Geology (at Caltech), for outstanding performance in field geology courses during the 1999-2000 academic year; accompanied by the award of a Brunton Compass

1998-1999 recipient of the Fritz Burns Prize in Geology (at Caltech), in recognition of one's potential to make a significant contribution in the earth sciences through research; accompanied by a $2500 grant to support ongoing research

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:

2009 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting co-convener for the special session entitled "Paleogeodesy at Subduction Zones"

2006 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting co-convener for the special session entitled "The Giant Sumatran Earthquakes of 2004 and 2005"

Development of a website, educational exercises (undergraduate level), and a trail guide for the lay public for the offset of Wallace Creek along the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain. The website URL is http://www.scec.org/wallacecreek/ and the brochure and class exercises are available in PDF format from the website.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

American Geophysical Union

Geological Society of America

Seismological Society of America

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

PUBLISHED PAPERS:

Rockwell, T., D. Ragona, G. Seitz, R. Langridge, M.E. Aksoy, G. Ucarkus, M. Ferry, A.J. Meltzner, Y. Klinger, M. Meghraoui, D. Satir, A. Barka, and B. Akbalik (2009). Paleoseismology of the North Anatolian fault near the Marmara Sea: implications for fault segmentation and seismic hazard,  in Palaeoseismology: Historical and Prehistorical Records of Earthquake Ground Effects for Seismic Hazard Assessment, K. Reicherter, A.M. Michetti, and P.G. Silva (Editors), The Geological Society, London, Special Publications 316, 31-54, doi:10.1144/SP316.3.   [Paper]

Mériaux, A.-S., K. Sieh, R.C. Finkel, C.M. Rubin, M.H. Taylor, A.J. Meltzner, and F.J. Ryerson (2009). Kinematic behavior of southern Alaska constrained by westward decreasing postglacial slip rates on the Denali fault, Alaska, Journal of Geophysical Research 114, B03404, doi:10.1029/2007JB005053.   [Paper]

Sieh, K., D.H. Natawidjaja, A.J. Meltzner, C.-C. Shen, H. Cheng, K.-S. Li, B.W. Suwargadi, J. Galetzka, B. Philibosian, and R.L. Edwards (2008). Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of West Sumatra, Science 322, 1674-1678, doi:10.1126/science.1163589.   [Link to Paper]

Konca, A.O., J.-P. Avouac, A. Sladen, A.J. Meltzner, K. Sieh, P. Fang, Z. Li, J. Galetzka, J. Genrich, M. Chlieh, D.H. Natawidjaja, Y. Bock, E.J. Fielding, C. Ji, and D.V. Helmberger (2008). Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence, Nature 456, 631-635, doi:10.1038/nature07572.   [Link to Paper]

Shen, C.-C., K.-S. Li, K. Sieh, D. Natawidjaja, H. Cheng, X. Wang, R.L. Edwards, D.D. Lam, Y.-T. Hsieh, T.-Y. Fan, A.J. Meltzner, F.W. Taylor, T.M. Quinn, H.-W. Chiang, and K.H. Kilbourne (2008). Variation of initial ²³⁰Th/²³²Th and limits of high precision U-Th dating of shallow-water corals, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 4201-4223, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.011.   [Paper]

Taylor, F.W., R.W. Briggs, C. Frohlich, A. Brown, M. Hornbach, A.K. Papabatu, A.J. Meltzner, and D. Billy (2008). Rupture across arc segment and plate boundaries in the 1 April 2007 Solomons earthquake, Nature Geoscience 1, 253-257, doi:10.1038/ngeo159.   [Link to Paper]

Konca, A.O., V. Hjorleifsdottir, T.-R. A. Song, J.-P. Avouac, D.V. Helmberger, C. Ji, K. Sieh, R. Briggs, and A. Meltzner (2007). Rupture kinematics of the 2005 M_W 8.6 Nias-Simeulue earthquake from the joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 97, S307-S322, doi:10.1785/0120050632.   [Paper]

Meltzner, A.J., T.K. Rockwell, and L.A. Owen (2006). Recent and long-term behavior of the Brawley fault zone, Imperial Valley, California: an escalation in slip rate?, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 96, 2304-2328, doi:10.1785/0120050233.   [Link to Paper]

Meltzner, A.J. (2006). Characterization of the long-term behavior of the Imperial and Brawley faults, Imperial Valley, California, Master's Thesis, San Diego State University, 149 pp. and 4 plates.   [Link to PDFs]

Briggs, R.W., K. Sieh, A.J. Meltzner, D. Natawidjaja, J. Galetzka, B. Suwargadi, Y. Hsu, M. Simons, N. Hananto, I. Suprihanto, D. Prayudi, J.-P. Avouac, L. Prawirodirdjo, and Y. Bock (2006). Deformation and slip along the Sunda megathrust in the great 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake, Science 311, 1897-1901, doi:10.1126/science.1122602.   [Link to Paper]

Subarya, C., M. Chlieh, L. Prawirodirdjo, J.-P. Avouac, Y. Bock, K. Sieh, A.J. Meltzner, D.H. Natawidjaja, and R. McCaffrey (2006). Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, Nature 440, 46-51, doi:10.1038/nature04522.   [Link to Paper]

Meltzner, A.J., K. Sieh, M. Abrams, D.C. Agnew, K.W. Hudnut, J.-P. Avouac, and D.H. Natawidjaja (2006). Uplift and subsidence associated with the great Aceh-Andaman earthquake of 2004, Journal of Geophysical Research 111, B02407, doi:10.1029/2005JB003891.   [Link to Paper]

Meltzner, A.J., and T.K. Rockwell (2004). The Tejon Pass earthquake of 22 October 1916: an M 5.6 event on the Lockwood Valley and San Andreas faults, southern California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 94, 1293-1304.   [Link to Paper]

Klinger, Y., K. Sieh, E. Altunel, A. Akoglu, A. Barka, T. Dawson, T. Gonzalez, A. Meltzner, and T. Rockwell (2003). Paleoseismic evidence of characteristic slip on the western segment of the North Anatolian fault, Turkey, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 93, 2317-2332.   [Paper]

Girty, G.H., J. Marsh, A. Meltzner, J.R. McConnell, D. Nygren, J. Nygren, G.M. Prince, K. Randall, D. Johnson, B. Heitman, and J. Nielsen (2003). Assessing changes in elemental mass as a result of chemical weathering of granodiorite in a Mediterranean (hot summer) climate, Journal of Sedimentary Research 73, 434-443.   [Paper]

Meltzner, A.J., and D.J. Wald (2003). Aftershocks and triggered events of the great 1906 California earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 93, 2160-2186.   [Link to Paper]

Meltzner, A.J., and D.J. Wald (2002). Felt reports and intensity assignments for aftershocks and triggered events of the great 1906 California earthquake, U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-37, 301 pp.   [Link to Paper]

Meltzner, A.J. (2000). Aftershocks of the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, based on intensity observations, Undergraduate Thesis, California Institute of Technology, 66 pp.

Scientists from USGS, SCEC, and CDMG (2000). Preliminary report on the 16 October 1999 M 7.1 Hector Mine, California, earthquake, Seismological Research Letters 71, 11-23.

Meltzner, A.J., and D.J. Wald (1999). Foreshocks and aftershocks of the great 1857 California earthquake, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 89, 1109-1120.   [Link to Paper]

Meltzner, A.J., and D.J. Wald (1998). Foreshocks and aftershocks of the great 1857 California earthquake, U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-465, 115 pp.   [Link to Paper]

SUBMITTED PAPERS & MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION:

Meltzner, A.J., T.K. Rockwell, and D.M. Verdugo (2009). Evidence for non-characteristic behavior along the northern Imperial fault at Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, California, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, submitted.

SELECTED ABSTRACTS:

Meltzner, A.J., K. Sieh, B.E. Philibosian, H.-W. Chiang, C.-C. Shen, B.W. Suwargadi, and D.H. Natawidjaja (2008). Earthquake recurrence and long-term segmentation near the boundary of the 2004 and 2005 Sunda megathrust ruptures, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 89 (53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T51C-08.   [Abstract]

Rockwell, T.K., and A.J. Meltzner (2008). Non-characteristic slip and earthquake clustering on the Imperial fault, Mesquite Basin, Imperial Valley, California, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 89 (53), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T11A-1845.   [Abstract]

Meltzner, A.J., K. Sieh, R.W. Briggs, B.E. Philibosian, H.-W. Chiang, C.-C. Shen, B.W. Suwargadi, and D.H. Natawidjaja (2007). Coseismic, postseismic, and interseismic deformation, and long-term segmentation near the boundary of the 2004 and 2005 Sunda megathrust ruptures, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract S24A-02.   [Abstract]

Meltzner, A.J. (2007). Use of coral microatolls and a tide model to measure coseismic vertical deformation: potential utility and common mistakes, Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 88 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G43B-1199.   [Abstract]

Meltzner, A.J., L.M. Jones, and H. Kanamori (2005). Insight into a mystery: why do the longest strike-slip earthquake ruptures produce so few large aftershocks?, Seismological Research Letters 76, p. 267.   [Abstract]

Rockwell, T.K., J. Young, G. Seitz, A. Meltzner, D. Verdugo, F. Khatib, D. Ragona, O. Altangerel, and J. West (2003). 3,000 years of ground-rupturing earthquakes in the Anza Seismic Gap, San Jacinto fault, southern California: time to shake it up?, Seismological Research Letters 74, pp. 236-237.   [Abstract]