Judith HUBBARD

Judith Hubbard is a structural geologist with a focus on earthquake hazards. She studies geophysical problems ranging in scale from the hazards of particular faults to the construction of the Tibetan Plateau. She incorporates a wide range of datasets in her research, including seismic reflection data (either from the oil and gas industry or personally acquired), well logs, surface geology, rupture maps, and relocated aftershocks. She uses quantitative fault-related folding techniques to interpret these data and develop realistic geometric and kinematic 3D fault models.

Most recently, Judith received the 2019 Nanyang Education Award, the highest honour conferred by Nanyang Technological University to faculty members in the field of teaching.

Education:

2011: Ph. D. Geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2009: M.A. Geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005: B.S. Geology with honor, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA

Professional Experience:

2012 — present: Assistant Professor at the Asian School of the Environment and Principal Investigator at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU
2011 — 2012: Post-doctoral research, Harvard University
2005 — 2011: Doctoral research, Harvard University
2004: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Caltech

Professional Activities:

Member of the American Geophysical Union
Member of the Southern California Earthquake Center
Member of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
Harvard Graduate Consortium on Energy and Environment

Courses Taught:

ES7012 - Structural geology

Past courses:

2011: Structural Geology (Earth and Planetary Sciences 171), Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
2010: Natural Disasters (Science of the Physical Universe 12), Head Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant in Course Development, Harvard University
2009: Earth Resources and the Environment (Earth and Planetary Sciences 109), Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
2008: Structural Geology (Earth and Planetary Sciences 171), Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
2007: Environmental Risks and Disasters (Science A43), Teaching Assistant, Harvard University
2004: Introduction to Earth and Planetary Sciences: Earth as a Planet (Geology 11a), Teaching Assistant, Caltech

Honours and Awards:

2020: 2019 Nanyang Education Award
2012: National Research Foundation Fellowship, Singapore
2010: Shaler Teaching Award, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
2006, 2007: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2005: James Mills Pierce Fellowship at Harvard University

Publications:

Yao, J., Liu S., Wei S., Hubbard J., Huang B‐S., Chen M., et al. (2021). Slab Models Beneath Central Myanmar Revealed by a Joint Inversion of Regional and Teleseismic Traveltime Data. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 126(2),
Dal Zilio, L., Hetenyi G., Hubbard J., & Bollinger L. (2021). Building the Himalaya from tectonic to earthquake scales. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment.
Liu, Y., Hubbard J., Almeida R. V., Foster A., Liberty L., Lee Y. Sin, et al. (2020). Constraints on the shallow deformation around the Main Frontal Thrust in central Nepal from refraction velocities. Tectonophysics. 777,
Ong, M. S. Q., Barbot S., & Hubbard J. (2019). Physics-Based Scenario of Earthquake Cycles on the Ventura Thrust System, California: The Effect of Variable Friction and Fault Geometry. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 176(9), 3993–4007.
Wang, X., Wei S., Wang Y., Maung P. Maung, Hubbard J., Banerjee P., et al. (2019). A 3-D Shear Wave Velocity Model for Myanmar Region. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 124, 504-526.
Mallick, R., Lindsey E. O., Feng L., Hubbard J., Banerjee P., & Hill E. M. (2019). Active Convergence of the India-Burma-Sunda Plates Revealed by a New Continuous GPS Network. Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 124(3), 3155-3171.
Bradley, K. E., Mallick R., Andikagumi H., Hubbard J., Meilianda E., Switzer A. D., et al. (2019). Earthquake-triggered 2018 Palu Valley landslides enabled by wet rice cultivation. Nature Geoscience.
Almeida, R., Hubbard J., Liberty L., Foster A., & Sapkota S. Nath (2018). Seismic imaging of the Main Frontal Thrust in Nepal reveals a shallow decollement and blind thrusting. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 494, 216-225.
Lindsey, E., Almeida R., Mallick R., Hubbard J., Bradley K. E., Tsang L., et al. (2018). Structural Control on Downdip Locking Extent of the Himalayan Megathrust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 123(6), 5265-5278.
Almeida, R., Lindsey E., Bradley K. E., Hubbard J., Mallick R., & Hill E. M. (2018). Can the Updip Limit of Frictional Locking on Megathrusts Be Detected Geodetically? Quantifying the Effect of Stress Shadows on Near‐Trench Coupling. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(10), 4754-4763.
Li, Z., Zhang P., Zheng W., Jia D., Hubbard J., Almeida R., et al. (2018). Oblique Thrusting and Strain Partitioning in the Longmen Shan Fold-and-Thrust Belt, Eastern Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 123(8), 4431-4453.
Li, Z., Jing L-Z., Almeida R., Hubbard J., Sun C., & Yi G. (2017). Re-evaluating seismic hazard along the southern Longmen Shan, China: Insights from the 1970 Dayi and 2013 Lushan earthquakes. Tectonophysics. 717, 519-530.
Riesner, M., Durand-Riard P., Hubbard J., & Plesch A. (2017). Building Objective 3D Fault Representations in Active Tectonic Settings. Seismological Research Letters. 88(3), 831-839.
Wang, M., Hubbard J., Plesch A., & Wang L. (2016). Three-dimensional seismic velocity structure in the Sichuan basin, China. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 121(2), 1007-1022.
Qiu, Q., Hill E. M., Barbot S., Hubbard J., Feng W., Lindsey E. O., et al. (2016). The Mechanism of Partial rupture of a Locked Megathrust: The Role of Fault Morphology. Geology.
Hubbard, J., Almeida R., Foster A., Sapkota S. N., Burgi P., & Tapponnier P. (2016). Structural segmentation controlled the 2015 M-w 7.8 Gorkha earthquake rupture in Nepal. Geology. 44(8), 639-642.
Hubbard, J., Barbot S., Hill E. M., & Tapponnier P. (2015). Coseismic slip on shallow décollement megathrusts: implications for seismic and tsunami hazard. Earth-Science Reviews. 141(February), 45-55.
Hill, E. M., Yue H., Barbot S., Lay T., Tapponnier P., Hermawan I., et al. (2015). The 2012 Mw 8.6 Wharton Basin sequence: A cascade of great earthquakes generated by near‐orthogonal, young, oceanic‐mantle faults. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 120(5), 3723–3747.
McAuliffe, L. J., Dolan J. F., Rhodes E. J., Hubbard J., & Pratt T. L. (2015). Paleoseismologic evidence for large-magnitude (M-w 7.5-8.0) earthquakes on the Ventura blind thrust fault: Implications for multifault ruptures in the Transverse Ranges of southern California. Geosphere. 11(5), 1629-1650.
Hubbard, J., Dolan J. F., Pratt T. L., McAuliffe L. J., & Rockwell T. K. (2014). Structure and Seismic Hazard of the Ventura Avenue Anticline and Ventura Fault, California: Prospect for Large, Multisegment Ruptures in the Western Transverse Ranges. Bulletin Of The Seismological Society Of America. 104(3), 1070-1087.
Wang, M., Jia D., Hubbard J., Plesch A., Li Y., & Liu B. (2014). The 2013 Lushan earthquake: Implications for seismic hazards posed by the Range Front blind thrust in the Sichuan Basin, China. Geology. 42(10), 915-918.
DeDontney, N., & Hubbard J. (2012). Applying Wedge Theory to Dynamic Rupture Modeling of Fault Junctions. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 102, 1693-1711.
Hubbard, J., & Klinger Y. (2010). Structural Setting of the 2008 M-w 7.9 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 100, 2713-2735.
Li, Y., Jia D., Hubbard J., Lin A., Wang M., Luo L., et al. (2010). Structural interpretation of the coseismic faults of the Wenchuan earthquake: Three-dimensional modeling of the Longmen Shan fold-and-thrust belt. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth. 115,
Hubbard, J. (2009). Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M=7.9) earthquake. Nature. 458, 194-197.
Xu, X., Wen X., Yu G H., Chen G., Klinger Y., Hubbard J., et al. (2009). Coseismic reverse- and oblique-slip surface faulting generated by the 2008 Mw 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake, China. Geology. 37, 515-518.
Bold, K., Edwards C., Guckenheimer J., Guharay S., Hoffman K., Hubbard J., et al. (2003). The forced van der Pol equation II: Canards in the reduced system. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. 2, 570-608.

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