Meade Group

One of their primary research areas involves modeling geodetic observations of interseismic motion across geometrically complex fault systems to estimate locations of active strain energy accumulation. These approaches enable the deconvolution of tectonic and earthquake cycle signals, in actively deforming regions like the Japanese Islands, where they identified the coupled subduction zone interface that ruptured during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake​. The group also conducts research on statistical earthquake generation models, climate tectonic coupling in mountain belts, boundary element methods for quasi-static elasticity, coarse-grained models of post-seismic deformation, and time-dependent imaging of fault system activity.