JORDAN R. MULLER

jmuller@core2.gsfc.nasa.gov      301-614-6470 (voice)


CURRENT POSITION:
      National Research Council Research Associate, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
      
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
      Neotectonics, structural geology, seismology, crustal deformation, boundary element modeling, laser altimetry, InSAR interferometry

EDUCATION:     1996 - BA (Geosciences), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
            1999 - MS (Geology and Geophysics), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
            2004 - PhD (Geology), Stanford University, Stanford, CA
      [Thesis:  Earthquake fault interaction in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey]
	
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
	1994 - 1995	Teaching Assistant, Franklin and Marshall College
	1996 - 1999	Research Assistant, University of Hawaii
	1997 - 1997	Staff Geologist, Woodward-Clyde Geotechnical Engineers, Honolulu, HI
	1999 - 2004	Research Assistant, Stanford University
	2000 - 2000	Staff Geologist, Cotton, Shires, and Associates, Los Gatos, CA
      2002 - 2003	Teaching Assistant, Stanford University
	2002 - 2002	Consulting Geologist, Advanced Resources International, Denver, CO
	2002 - 2002	Geologist, British Petroleum, Houston, TX

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Muller, J.R., Aydin, A., and Wright, T.J., 2005, Using an Elastic Dislocation Model to Investigate Static Coulomb Stress Change Scenarios for Earthquake Ruptures in the Eastern Marmara Sea Region, Turkey:  Geological Society of London Special Publication – Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Crustal-Scale Processes, in press.
Muller, J.R., and Aydin, A., 2005, Using Geomechanical Modeling to Constrain the Fault Geometry within the Marmara Sea, Turkey:  Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 110, B03407, doi:10.1029/2004JB003226.
Muller, J.R., and Aydin, A., 2004, Rupture Progression Along Discontinuous Oblique Fault Sets: Implications for the Karadere Rupture Segment of the 1999 Izmit Earthquake, and Future Rupture in the Marmara Sea:  Tectonophysics (Special Issue), v. 391, p. 283-302.
Fielding, E.J., Wright, T.J., Muller, J.R., Parsons, B.E., Walker, R., 2004, Aseismic deformation of a fold-and-thrust belt imaged by synthetic aperture radar interferometry near Shahdad, southeast Iran:  Geology, v. 32, p. 577-580.
Muller, J.R., Aydin, A., and Maerten, F., 2003, Investigating the transition between the 1967 Mudurnu Valley and 1999 Izmit earthquakes along the North Anatolian fault with static stress changes:  Geophysical Journal International, v. 154, p. 471-482.
Muller, J.R., Ito, G., and Martel, S.J., 2001, Effects of volcano loading on the propagation of dikes in the lithosphere:  Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 106, n. B6, p. 11,101-11,113.
Muller, J.R., and Martel, S.J., 2000, Numerical models of translational landslide rupture surface growth: Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 157, n. 6-8, p. 1009-1038.
Martel, S.J., and Muller, J.R., 2000, A two-dimensional boundary element method for calculating the elastic gravitational stresses in slopes:  Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 157, n. 6-8, p. 989-1007.
Prentice, C., Merritts, D., Bodin, P., Beutner, E., Schill, A., and Muller, J., 1999, Evidence of an onshore location for the northern termination of the San Andreas fault:  GSA Bulletin, v. 111, n. 4, p. 512-523.