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Tom Parsons
Research Geophysicist, USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park
Professional Experience
USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park
Research Geophysicist
1992 - Present
Education
Leland Stanford Jr University
Doctorate
1992
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received January 2012
Citation
For fundamental insights into earthquake triggering, earthquake interaction and fault mechanics.
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Publications
The Weight of New York City: Possible Contributions to Subsidence From Anthropogenic Sources
New York City faces accelerating inundation risk from sea level rise, subsidence, and increasing storm intensity from natural and anthropogenic cau...
May 08, 2023
On the Use of High‐Resolution and Deep‐Learning Seismic Cata...
November 14, 2022
Thank You to Our 2021 Peer Reviewers
April 13, 2022
Confronting Racism to Advance Our Science
March 25, 2021
Thank You to Our 2020 Peer Reviewers
March 18, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Using Earthquake Rupture Forecasts as Input to Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis (PTHA)
INTERDISCIPLINARY TSUNAMI SCIENCE IV ORAL
natural hazards | 15 december 2023
Eric L. Geist, Tom Parsons
We develop a method to incorporate earthquake rupture forecasts (ERFs) into probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA), providing a common source sp...
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Excess Cumulative Stress at the Tokai Section of the Nankai Megathrust from Combinatorial Optimization of Earthquake Distributions
MULTISCALE CRUSTAL DEFORMATION IN SUBDUCTION ZONES AND THE MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKE CYCLE: PROGRESS FROM OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS I ONLINE POSTER DISCUSSION
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Eric L. Geist, Tom Parsons
A framework for determining the spatial distribution of earthquakes on a complex fault system has been updated and applied to the Nankai megathrust, u...
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Conserving a Minimum Stress State on Faults: New Constraints for Combinatorial Rupture Forecasts
GEOPHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON CRUSTAL STRESS AND STRUCTURE IN THE AGE OF MACHINE LEARNING I ORAL
tectonophysics | 17 december 2021
Eric L. Geist, Tom Parsons
A critical component of seismic hazard analysis is estimating the magnitude-frequency distribution of earthquakes that occur on mapped faults (aka rup...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Member
Lehmann Medal Committee
2019 - 2022
Editor
AGU Advances
2020 - 2021
Member
Lehmann Medal Committee
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