Author Archives: Michele Cooke

SSA meeting presentations

April 14, 2025 – 12:28 pm
  • Cooke, Cooper, Takayama, Sumy and McBride, Deaf University Student Experiences With Earthquake Early Warning, 11:00 am April 15th
  • Cooke, Ramos Sánchez, The Impact of Pre-existing Weaknesses on Early Strike-slip Fault Evolution, 3 pm April 17th
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Berenice Plotek defends her MS

March 25, 2025 – 5:30 pm

On March 25th Berenice Plotek successfully defended her MS thesis
Insights into fault propagation and fold development through mechanical numerical modeling

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DEEPS Colloquium at Brown U

February 27, 2025 – 7:25 pm

On February 27th Michele gave a research lecture for the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Colloquium at Brown University

What can tiny faults in clay tell us about seismic hazard?

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2025 Utah Quaternary Fault Parameters Working Group meeting

February 9, 2025 – 1:58 pm

Grasshopper Anderson-Merritt presents on their USGS funded work modeling stress evolution on the Wasatch fault system to the Utah Quaternary Fault Parameters Working Group

3d mesh of fault surfaces of the Wasatch fault system. Large arrows show regional extension.
3d mesh of fault surfaces of the Wasatch fault system. Large arrows show regional extension.

Simulating the Evolution of Stress over the Past 7 ka along the Wasatch Fault System in
Utah: Grasshopper Anderson-Merritt and Michele Cooke, University of Massachusetts
Amherst

After the meeting presentations will be posted at this web site

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Media interviews for 3.9 Portsmouth earthquake

January 28, 2025 – 12:48 am

Michele gave 4 media interviews today about the earthquake in coastal New Hampshire.

  • Channel 22 news This interview included a nice bit about our project to increase accessibility of ShakeAlert for deaf and hard of hearing people.
  • Western Mass news
    massLive This interview published Michele’s statement that continued federal funding of science is needed to understand earthquakes

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Presentations at AGU

December 9, 2024 – 12:42 am
  • Cooke, Cooper and Takayama, Deaf university student experiences with earthquake early warning, NH21E-2268
  • Anderson-Merritt, Cooke and Scharer, Estimating pre-earthquake tractions on the southern San Andreas and San Jacinto faults since 1000 CE, T31D-3149
  • Anderson-Merritt, Cooke and DuRoss, Estimating evolving shear tractions on the Wasatch fault since 5 ka. T41C 3264
  • Plotek, Cooke and McBeck, Predicting crustal thrust fault propagation and branching by Integrating numerical models and physical scaled experiments, MR41B-3084

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Presentations at the GSA Connects 24 meeting

September 23, 2024 – 6:15 pm
  • Plotek, Berenice, Jess McBeck, and Michele Cooke, INVESTIGATING THRUST FAULT BRANCHING AND PROPAGATION USING WORK OPTIMIZATION, Oral presentation 143-3, Monday 2:10 pm room 303A
  • Cooke, Michele, LANGUAGE EQUITY FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING GEOSCIENTISTS, Oral presentation 158-12, Tuesday 11:15 am room 208A
  • PRESENTATION ID 158-13
  • Alwan, Akilah, Michele Cooke, Shirley Jackson, Anita Marshall, Samuel Nyarko, Jennifer Piatek, Elizabeth Sibert and Lean Hong Tan, DISCLOSE AND LOSE MY JOB?” DISCLOSURE TENSIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE GEOSCIENCES, oral presentation 158-13, Tuesday 11:30 am, room 208A
  • Nyarko, Samuel, Akilah Alwan, Michele Cooke, Shirley Jackson, Anita Marshall, Samuel Nyarko, Jennifer Piatek and Elizabeth Sibert, METHODOLOGICAL DESIGN OF THE DISABLED GEOSCIENTISTS’ EXPERIENCE SURVEY, oral presentation 272-2, Wednesday 1:55 pm n room 208A.
  • Marshall, Cooke and Scharer, Hazards and Hilltops: The San Andreas Fault and Mount San Jacinto IAGD Accessible Field Trip, Thursday
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Natural Hazards Workshop presentations

July 16, 2024 – 5:33 pm

Sunday July 14th poster: Cooke, Michele, Audrey Cooper, Kota Takayama, Sara McBride, and Danielle Sumy From Alert to Action: Earthquake Early Warning and Deaf Communities

Wednesday July 17 panel ShakeAlert: A Five-Year Retrospective of the USGS Social Science Working Group. Michele Cooke one of 5 panelists

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New paper in Natural Hazards

July 10, 2024 – 5:50 pm

Cooper, Audrey, Michele Cooke, Kota Takayama, Danielle Sumy and Sara McBride, From alert to action: earthquake early warning and deaf communities, Natural Hazards, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06719-6

literature maps shows three distinct custers of papers. 1) DHH+ experiences with disasters, 2) social vulnerability and 3) earthquake early warning. While some DHH+ and EEW papers cite social vulnerability papers, no papers from either DHH or EEW cite papers in the other cluster.
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New paper in Tectonics the on early evolution of restraining bends in the eastern california shear zone

June 21, 2024 – 8:18 pm
each of seven different configurations of faults results in different uplift patterns. dipping faults produce greater uplift

Garvue, Max M,. James A. Spotila, Michele L. Cooke and Elizabeth R. Curtiss, 2024, What Controls Early Restraining Bend Growth? Structural, Morphometric, and Numerical Modeling Analyses From the Eastern California Shear Zone, Tectonics,  https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC008148

Max did a great job combining careful field data and numerical models to decipher the relationships between fault configuration and uplift patterns.

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