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Will Steinhardt
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Santa Cruz
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University of California Santa Cruz
Postdoctoral Researcher
2020 - Present
Harvard University
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2013
Harvard University
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Distinguishing Single and Linked Ruptures in the Laboratory and Nature
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 february 2026
How Do Earthquakes Get Big?
STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION, MECHANICS, AND HAZARDS OF GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX AND MULTISEGMENT FAULT SYSTEMS I ORAL
tectonophysics | 16 december 2025
Seeing and hearing frictional interfaces: using total internal reflection imaging and acoustic methods to explore contact dynamics
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF EARTH MATERIALS (PPEM): FROM TRANSIENT TO STEADY-STATE DEFORMATION I POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2025
Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
22 february 2025
Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault: Untangling the Relative Roles of History and Geometry in Governing the Next Earthquake
FAULT COMPLEXITIES AND THEIR ROLE IN NUCLEATION AND RUPTURE PROPAGATION: INSIGHTS FROM THE LABORATORY, FIELD, AND MODELING II POSTER
seismology | 12 december 2024
The variability of stress and what to do about it
FRANCIS BIRCH LECTURE
tectonophysics | 11 december 2024
Understanding the Relationship Between Precursory Locking, Earthquake Nucleation, Slip, and Asperities Using a Novel Laboratory Fault
RUPTURE AND DEFORMATION PROCESSES, FROM SLOW TO FAST AND FROM MICRO TO MACRO III POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 15 december 2023
First contact: defining contact asperities in the spatial structure of fault roughness
FRACTURE ROUGHNESS ANALYSIS AND INFLUENCE OF FAULT STRUCTURAL MATURITY ON EARTHQUAKE BEHAVIOR II ORAL
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Honors & Awards
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Received December 2024
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2018

Presentation Title: The Origins of Fracture Surface Roughness: Observing Hydraulic Fracture in Brittle Hydrogels to understand the Dynamic Formation of Rough Crack Surfaces

Event: 2018 Fall Meeting

Awarding Section: Mineral and Rock Physics

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