Brendan Meade
Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Faculty Affiliate Kempner Institute
My work is focused on characterizing earthquake cycle behaviors and the topographic evolution of the Earth through mathematical and computational approaches.
Brendan Meade received a BA in History of Science from Johns Hopkins University is 1998 and Ph.D. in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences from MIT in 2004. He was a Daly postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences from 2004-2005 and continued as an assistant, associate, and full professor. During sabbaticals, he has served as a visiting professor at Google Research and has worked as a research scientist at Google Deep Mind.
Brendan Meade’s work covers a range of topics related to the solid Earth including the nature of the earthquake cycle, geodetic imaging of fault system activity, the coupled fluvial-tectonic evolution of mountain belts, the mechanics of geometrically complex fault systems, and earthquake forecasting. To understand the Earth’s actively deforming and discontinuous near surface, he develops regional and global scale computational models of active earthquake cycle activity constrained by GNSS and InSAR satellite observations. Quantities derived from these models provide insights into the locations of future earthquakes, rates of strain energy accumulation, estimates of topographic growth rates, and physical interactions across the crust-mantle system.
Contact Info
20 Oxford St. Cambridge MA 02138
meade@fas.harvard.edu
617.495.8921
Brendan Meade (brendanjmeade.github.io)