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2025

• Omojola J.* and P. Persaud (2025), Detecting Urban Earthquakes with the San Fernando Valley Nodal Array and Machine Learning, (Accepted 6 July 2025 at Seismological Research Letters - submitted 15 April 2025).
• Islam M.^{^}, P. Persaud, M. Thant, K. Win and E. Sandvol (2025), Estimating site amplification variability in Yangon, Myanmar from a dense nodal seismic array, (Accepted 9 June 2025 at Earthquake Spectra - submitted 5 November 2024).
• Juarez-Zuñiga A.⁺, P. Persaud (2025), New Insights into the Crustal Structure of the San Fernando Valley, California, from a Dense Nodal Seismic Array, (Accepted 23 April 2025 at Seismological Research Letters - submitted 4 December 2024).
• Carchedi C., J. Gaherty, J. Byrnes, S. Rondenay, M. Steckler, R. Ajala, P. Persaud, E. Sandvol, M. Samiul Alim, S. Singha, and S. Akhter (2025), Evolving Sediment Structure and Lithospheric Architecture across the Indo-Burman Forearc Margin from the Joint Inversion of Surface- and Scattered-Wave Seismic Constraints (Accepted 27 May 2025 at Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - submitted 2 August 2024).

In review
• Sadler B.⁺, P. Persaud, J. Pulliam, J. Gaherty, E. Sandvol, M. Steckler, S. Akhter (2025), Nature of the crust in the superdeep Bengal basin using teleseismic P waves, (Under revision at Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - submitted 31 January 2025).

In preparation
• Villa V.^{^}, R. Clayton, P. Persaud (2025), Receiver Functions in the San Fernando Valley, California: Graph-Regularized Bayesian Approach for Gravity-Informed Mapping, (In preparation for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - for submission November 2025).
• Sadler B.⁺, P. Persaud, F. Di Luccio, C. Piromallo, L. Valoroso, L. Improta, et al. (2025), Complex crustal structure and seismic anisotropy driven by subduction processes in South-Central Italy, (In preparation for Geophysical Journal International - for submission December 2025).
• Persaud P. and J. Kain* (2025), Abrupt Stress Changes Near Faults Offshore Los Angeles, California: Implications for Earthquake Rupture Scenarios, (In preparation for Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - for submission July 2025).
• Juarez-Zuñiga A.⁺, P. Persaud (2025), Seismic Structure of Active Faults in the US Gulf Coastal Plain: Implications for Groundwater Flow and Fault Slip Behavior, (In preparation for Science of The Total Environment - for submission September 2025).
• Islam M.^{^}, P. Persaud, and E. Sandvol (2025), Site Amplification and Attenuation Structure of Northern Los Angeles Using Local and Regional Seismic Phases from Dense Arrays, (In preparation for Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth).
• Persaud P., E. Ferré, S. Straub, H. Kitajima, M. Dorais, A. Gomez Tuena, S. Mallick and J. Stock (2025), Implications for Rift Initiation in the South China Sea from the Anisotropic Properties of Paleozoic Mylonites, (In preparation for Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems).

2024
• Omojola J.* and P. Persaud (2024), Monitoring Salt Domes Used for Energy Storage with Microseismicity: Insights for a Carbon-Neutral Future https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011573 (Accepted 28 October 2024 at Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems).
• Persaud P., A. Schneida* , H. Shepard*, S. Rios*, L. Franklin, C. Nardoni⁺, A. Juarez-Zuñiga⁺, A. Goseyun*, B. Sadler, E. Ferre, R. Ghose*, R. Gottardi, K. Luttrell, K. Poku-Agyemang, D. Samuel*, S. Yang, N. Ajah, M. Attia, B. Brockamp, A. Coulibaly, R. Kgoadi, S. Kumar, R. Mahatsente, S. Meaux, L. Muñoz-Santos, J. Omojola*, S. Rosero-Rueda, J. Pulliam (2024), Volunteer-led, short-term, geophysical field experiment: lessons for inviting broader participation, building public trust and communicating science https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG590GW.1 (Published online at GSA Today - 5 September 2024).
• Nardoni C.⁺ and P. Persaud (2024), Evidence for faulting and fluid-driven earthquake processes from seismic attenuation variations beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, Scientific Reports 14, 17595. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67872-3 (Accepted - 16 July 2024).
• Islam M.^{^}, S. Wei, P. Persaud, M. Steckler, F. Tilmann, J. Ni, J. Gaherty, K. Oo, O. Than, Y. Htw and E. Sandvol (2024), Mantle Deformation in the Highly Oblique Indo-Burma Subduction System Inferred from Shear Wave Splitting Measurements, Earth and Planetary Science Letters https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118895 (Accepted 17 July 2024).
• Maneerat P., P. Rungskunroch, P. Persaud (2024), Seismic Hazard Analysis and Financial Impact Assessment of Railway Infrastructure in the US West Coast: A Machine Learning Approach (Accepted at PLOS One - 2 August 2024).

2023
• Ghose R.*, P. Persaud and R. Clayton (2023), Basin Structure for Earthquake Ground Motion Estimates in Urban Los Angeles Mapped with Nodal Receiver Functions, Geosciences 2023, 13, 320. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13110320
• Villa V.^{^}, Y. Li, R. Clayton and P. Persaud (2023), Three-Dimensional Basin Depth Map of the Northern Los Angeles Basins from Gravity and Seismic Measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 128, e2022JB025425. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025425
• Li Y.^{^}, V. Villa, R. Clayton and P. Persaud (2023), Shear Wave Velocities in the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins, California, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - 128, e2023JB026488. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JB026488
• Ferré E., S. Satolli, H. Wu, P. Persaud, D. Cukur, S. Bowden (2023), “Red or green”: Overprinting of the climatic signal in Miocene sediments, South China Sea (IODP Expedition 368, Hole U1502A) Terra Nova, 00, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12670
• Wang Z.^{^}, M. Behm, P. Persaud, and X. Chen (2023), New Insights on Moho Depths and Regional Crustal Structure of Central Oklahoma Based on Receiver Function Analysis from Dense Seismic Networks, Tectonophysics, vol 854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2023.229818
• Calo M., F. Di Luccio, P. Persaud and G. Ventura (2023), Ambient Noise Tomography of the Lipari Volcanic Island (Southern Italy) from a Dense Nodal Array, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101022. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101022

2022
• Di Luccio F., P. Palano, G. Chiodini, L. Cucci, C. Piromallo, F. Sparacino, G. Ventura, L. Improta, C. Cardellini, P. Persaud, L. Pizzino and 35 others (2022), Geodynamics, geophysical and geochemical observations, and the role of CO₂ degassing in the Apennines, Earth Science Reviews 234, 104236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104236
• Ajala R.* and P. Persaud (2022), Ground Motion Evaluation of Hybrid Seismic Velocity Models, The Seismic Record. 2(3), 186–196, https://doi.org/10.1785/0320220022.
• Ajala R.*, P. Persaud and A. Juarez (2022), Earth Model Space Exploration in Southern California: Influence of Topography, Geotechnical Layer, and Attenuation on Wavefield Accuracy, Frontiers in Earth Science, vol 10, 10.3389/feart.2022.964806

2021
• Ajala R.* and P. Persaud (2021), Effect of Merging Multiscale Models on Seismic Wavefield Predictions near the Southern San Andreas Fault, (Accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - September 2, 2021.)
• Hosseinzadehsabeti E.^{^}, E. Ferré, P. Persaud, O. Fabbri and J.W. Geissman (2021), The Rupture Mechanisms of Intraslab Earthquakes: A Multiscale Review and Re-Evaluation, (Accepted in Earth-Science Reviews - August 20, 2021.)
• Wang, X., Z. Zhan, M. Zhong, P. Persaud and R. Clayton (2021), Urban Basin Structure Imaging based on Dense Arrays and Bayesian Array-based Coherent Receiver Functions, (Accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - August 09, 2021.)
• Di Luccio F., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, A. Esposito, R. Carniel, G. Cortés, D. Galluzzo, R. W. Clayton and G. Ventura (2021), The seismicity of Lipari, Aeolian Islands (Italy) from one-month recording of the LIPARI array, (Accepted in Frontiers in Science special topic issue: "Multidisciplinary Investigations for Determining the Structure and Dynamics of Active Volcanic Systems" - June 30, 2021.)
• Wang B., J. Sharma, J. Chen and P. Persaud (2021), Ensemble Machine Learning Assisted Reservoir Characterization using Field Production Data-An Offshore Field Case Study, (Accepted in Energies - February 13, 2021.).

2020
• Persaud P., E. H. Pritchard* and J. Stock (2020), Scales of Stress Heterogeneity Near Active Faults in the Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2019GC008744. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008744
• Farangitakis G.P.^{^}, K.J.W. McCaffrey, E. Willingshofer, M.B. Allen, L.M. Kalnins, J. van Hunen, P. Persaud and D. Sokoutis (2020), The structural evolution of pull-apart basins in response to changes in plate motion, (Accepted in Basin Research - Nov 12, 2020.) https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bre.12528.

2019
• Clayton R., P. Persaud, M. Denolle and J. Polet (2019). Exposing Los Angeles's Shaky Geologic Underbelly, Eos (Accepted: August 13, 2019)
• Ajala R.*, P. Persaud, J. Stock, G. Fuis, J. Hole, M. Goldman and D. Scheirer (2019), Three-Dimensional Basin and Fault Structure From a Detailed Seismic Velocity Model of Coachella Valley, Southern California, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, 4728– 4750. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB016260
**The 3-D basement and Z_2.5 surfaces, and the P-wave velocity model are provided at our downloads page.**
• Van Wijk J., S. Heyman, G. Axen and P. Persaud (2019), Nature of the crust in the northern Gulf of California and Salton Trough, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02082.1 (Accepted in Geosphere: June 26, 2019.)
• Di Luccio, F., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, A. Esposito, G. Ventura and R. Clayton (2019). Seismic Sensors Probe Lipari’s Underground Plumbing, (Available online in Eos: July 15, 2019.)
• Netto A.^{^}, J. Pulliam, and P. Persaud (2019),Synoptic view of lithospheric velocity structure in the southern United States: A comparison of 3-D seismic tomographic models, GSA Today. (Published online: Feb 13, 2019.)
  **Click here for Flip PDF with Cover Page.**

2018
• Larsen, H.-C., Mohn, G., Nirrengarten, M., Sun, Z., Stock, J., Jian, Z., Klaus, A., et al., incl. P. Persaud, Rapid transition from continental breakup to ocean crust at South China Sea rifted margin. Nature Geoscience. (Published online: August 20, 2018.)
• Liu, G.*, P. Persaud and R. W. Clayton (2018), Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from Short-term Nodal Seismic Arrays. Seismological Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220180071 (Published online: August 1, 2018.)
  **SRL Press release - "Urban Geophone Array Offers New Look at Los Angeles Basin"**
• Janecke, S., D. Markowski, J. Evans, P. Persaud and M. Kenney (2018), The Durmid ladder structure and its implications for the nucleation sites of the next M>7.5 earthquake along the San Andreas Fault or Brawley Seismic Zone in southern California. Lithosphere doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/L629.1
  **GSA Press release - "Site of the Next Major Earthquake on the San Andreas Fault?"**
• Jian, Z., Larsen, H.C., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 368 Scientists, (2018). Expedition 368 Preliminary Report: South China Sea Rifted Margin. International Ocean Discovery Program.
• Sun, Z., Jian, Z., Stock, J.M., Larsen, H.C., Klaus, A., Alvarez Zarikian, C.A., and the Expedition 367/368 Scientists, (2018). South China Sea Rifted Margin. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 367/368 : College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).

2017 and earlier
• Persaud P., E. Tan, J. Contreras and L. Lavier, (2017) A bottom-driven mechanism for distributed faulting in the Gulf of California Rift, Tectonophysics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.11.024 (Special Tectonophysics issue on the Gulf of California).
• Persaud P., Y. Ma, J. M. Stock, J. Hole, G. Fuis and L. Han (2016), Fault zone characteristics and basin complexity in the southern Salton Trough, California , Geology, 44(9), p. 747-750, doi:10.1130/G38033.1. Supplementary Material
• Persaud P., (2016) Integrated 3-D Seismotectonic-Velocity Model of the Salton Trough Region based on Seismicity and Explosive Shots from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project Final Technical Report to U.S. Geological Survey NEHRP, Award G15AP00062.
• Persaud, P., F. Di Luccio, and R. W. Clayton (2015), Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements reveal low velocity zones beneath the new crust in the Gulf of California, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL063420.
• Jammes S., P. Persaud, L. Lavier, and G. Manatschal (2014), Correction to “Extreme crustal thinning in the Bay of Biscay and the Western Pyrenees: From observations to modeling,” Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 15, 830–832, doi:10.1002/2013GC005051.
• Di Luccio F., Persaud P. and Clayton R. W. (2014), Seismic Structure of the Gulf of California: A contribution from group velocity measurements, Geophys. J. Int., 199, 3, 1861-1877, doi:10.1093/gji/ggu338.
• Jammes S., P. Persaud, L. Lavier, and G. Manatschal (2010), Extreme crustal thinning in the Bay of Biscay and the Western Pyrenees: From observations to modeling, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, vol. 11, issue 10, doi: 10.1029/2010GC003218.
• Baccheschi P., Margheriti L., Steckler M. S., Abruzzese L., Amato A., Armbruster J., Di Luccio F., Gervasi A., Guerra A., Lerner-Lam A., Persaud P., Seeber L. (2008), SKS splitting in southern Italy; anisotropy variations in a fragmented subduction zone, Tectonophysics 462.1-4: 49-67.
• Persaud, P., X. Perez-Campos, and R. Clayton (2007), Crustal thickness variations in the margins of the Gulf of California from receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., 170, 2, 687-699, doi:10.1111/j.1365-03412.x.
• Clayton R.W., J. Trampert, C. Rebollar, J. Ritsema, P. Persaud, H. Paulssen, X. Perez-Campos, A. van Wettum, A. Perez-Vertti and F. Di Luccio (2004), “The NARS-Baja Seismic Array in the Gulf of California Rift Zone”, MARGINS Newsletter, 13: 1-4.
• Persaud P.+, J. M. Stock, M. S. Steckler, A. Martín-Barajas, J. B. Diebold, A. González-Fernández, and G. S. Mountain (2003), Active deformation and shallow structure of the Wagner, Consag, and Delfín Basins, northern Gulf of California, Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 108 (B7), 2355, doi:10.1029/2002JB001937.
  
  +The entire seismic data set used in Persaud et al. (2003) can be accessed through GeoMapApp.

Abstracts since 2016

*UA/LSU student presenter; ^{^}Undergraduate intern presenter.

• Omojola*, J. B., Persaud, P., Catchings, R. D., & Goldman, M. R. (2021, 10). Monitoring Subsurface Changes in Salt Dome Caverns using fine-scale Microseismicity Variations. Oral Presentation at 2021 AGU Annual Meeting.
• Charles*, W., Persaud, P., Tsai, F., & Abdalla, A., Tracking Spatiotemporal Variations in Groundwater Storage in the Lower Mississippi Region with GRACE Satellite data, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2021, H25H-1130.
• Li, Y., Villa, V., Clayton, R., & Persaud, P., Shear wave velocity model for the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2021, S35B-0220.
• Villa, V., Li, Y., Clayton, R., & Persaud, P., 3D Basin Depth Map for the San Gabriel, Chino, and San Bernardino Basins, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2021, S15D-0270.
• Ajala, R., Persaud, P., & Juarez, A. (2021, 08). Beyond 1 Hz: Double-difference active source adjoint tomography of Salton Trough. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11547.
• Ghose*, R., Persaud, P., Li, Y., Villa, V., & Clayton, R. W. (2021, 08). High-Frequency Receiver Function Profiles Reveal Sedimentary Basin Structure Beneath the Northern Los Angeles Area. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11464.
• Villa, V., Li, Y., Ghose, R., Clayton, R. W., & Persaud, P. (2021, 08). 3D Basement-Depth Map for the San Gabriel, Chino, and San Bernardino Basins. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11459.
• Persaud, P., & Stock, J. M. (2021, 08). Borehole-Derived Stress Constraints for High-Risk Fault Systems in Southern California. Oral Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11157.
• Omojola*, J. B., Persaud, P., Catchings, R. D., & Goldman, M. R. (2021, 10). Analysis Of Microearthquakes to Identify Weak Points in the Subsurface as Observed from a Salt Dome Study. Oral Presentation at 2021 GSA Annual Meeting.
• Omojola*, J. B., Persaud, P., Catchings, R. D., & Goldman, M. R. (2021, 08) Searching for Hidden Microearthquakes using Data-based, Physics-based, and Hybrid Models: Implications for Salt Dome Monitoring. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11152.
• Ghose*, R., Persaud, P., Thant, M., Kyaw, Z. L., Oo, T. M., Win, Z. M., Lwin, P. P., Min, A. C., Thiha, T., Oo, T. N., Yadanar, T., Khant, M. and Paing P.(2020). Basin structure from a dense nodal seismic array in Yangon, Myanmar: Contributions to seismic hazard estimates. SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020. September 2020, 3336-3340
• Ghose*, R., Persaud, P., & Clayton, R. W. (2020, 08). Basin Structure Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from a Dense Nodal Seismic Array in the Northern Los Angeles Basins. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10769
• Kain*, J. O., & Persaud, P. (2020, 08). Detailed study of stress-related borehole features and the stress regime near the Wilmington Blind-Thrust Fault in the Los Angeles area. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10682
• Ajala*, R., Persaud, P., & Juarez, A. (2020, 08). Methodology for producing hybrid Earth models with improved waveform predictions near the southern San Andreas fault and updates to SCEC UCVM API. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10660
• Aguilar^{^}, B. J., Persaud, P., & Clayton, R. W. (2020, 08). Identifying the Moho and an intracrustal interface along a Nodal Seismic Line in the eastern San Bernardino Basin. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10612
• Li, Y., Clayton, R. W., & Persaud, P. (2020, 08). Scattering in the Ambient Noise Correlations in the San Gabriel Basin. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10599
• Rivera^{^}, K. M., Persaud, P., Clayton, R. W., Ghose, R., & Ajala, R. (2020, 08). Crustal Structure Along a Nodal Seismic Line in the San Bernardino Basin From Teleseismic Receiver Functions. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10559
• Villa^{^}, V., Clayton, R. W., & Persaud, P. (2020, 08). Using Seismic and Gravity Measurements to Map the 3D Structure of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10413
• Persaud, P., R. Clayton, R. Ghose, Y. Li, X. Wang, M. Denolle, J. Polet, Z. Zhan, N. Wang and K. Olsen (2020), Seismic Structure Beneath Los Angeles From the BASIN Experiment, 2020 SSA Annual Meeting.
• Persaud, P., E. H. Pritchard and J. Stock (2020), Scales of Stress Heterogeneity Near Active Faults in the Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California, 2020 SSA Annual Meeting.
• Farangitakis, G.P., K.J.W. McCaffrey, E. Willingshofer, M.B. Allen, L.M. Kalnins, J. van Hunen, P. Persaud and D. Sokoutis (2020), The structural evolution of pull-apart basins in response to relative plate rotations; A physical analogue modelling case study from the Northern Gulf of California, 2020 EGU Meeting.
• Kain* J., P. Persaud & J. Stock(2019). Insight into the Stress Field of the Southern Los Angeles Basin, California Determined from Borehole Breakout and Drilling Induced Fracture Analysis, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Zhuobo W., P. Persaud & M. Behm (2019). Investigation of the Crust in Oklahoma from Broadband Teleseismic Receiver Functions, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Persaud P., F. Di Luccio, R. W. Clayton, L. Cucci, A. Esposito & G. Ventura (2019). Imaging near a Subduction-Transform Edge Propagator Fault with Receiver Functions from the LIPARI Seismic Array, Southern Italy, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Di Luccio F., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, A. Esposito, G. Ventura & R. W. Clayton (2019). Analysis of the seismicity recorded by the LIPARI seismic array in southern Italy, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Van Wijk J., G. Axen & P. Persaud (2019). A New Type of Crust Marks the Continent-Ocean Transition in the Northern Gulf of California and Salton Trough, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Ajala*, R., P. Persaud, M. Steckler, E. Sandvol, M. Islam, J. Gaherty, O. Than, K. Oo, S. Akhter & J. Ni (2019). Indo-Burma Lithospheric Imaging Using Teleseismic Earthquakes Recorded by the Bangladesh-India-Myanmar (BIMA) Array, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Carchedi C., J. Gaherty, E. Sandvol, P. Persaud & M. Steckler (2019). Shear Velocity Structure Across the Indo-Burman Accretionary Margin from Ambient-Noise and Teleseismic Rayleigh Waves, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Islam M., P. Persaud, R. Ajala, M. S. Steckler, J. B. Gaherty, O. Than, K. Oo & E. Sandvol (2019). Anisotropy and Mantle Flow in the Indo-Burman Subduction Zone from Shear Wave Splitting Analysis, 2019 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Ajala*, R., P. Persaud, A. Juarez & G. Ayeni (2019), Evaluating seismic velocity models in the Salton Trough, Southern California using spectral-element wave simulation of validation events , Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Kain*, J., P. Persaud, & J. Stock (2019), Horizontal Principal Stress Orientations Near Long Beach, California from Borehole Breakouts , Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Persaud, P., R. W. Clayton, M. Denolle, & J. Polet (2019), Field Volunteers for the Los Angeles BASIN Seismic Experiment – Phase IV, Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Di Luccio, F., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, A. Esposito, G. Ventura and R. Clayton (2019). LipARi: A Novel Seismic Array to Characterize the Active Hydrothermal System Beneath Lipari Island, Italy, 2019 EGU Meeting.
• Ferré, E., S. Satolli, H. Wu, P. Persaud, D. Cukur and S. Bowden (2019). “Red or green”: magnetism, redox conditions and the true colors of Miocene marine sediments in the South China Sea (IODP Expedition 368), 2019 EGU Meeting.
• Persaud, P., G. Liu & R. W. Clayton (2018). Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins Revealed in Teleseismic Receiver Functions from Short-term Nodal Seismic Arrays, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Kain, J. O., P. Persaud, L. Cucci, F. Di Luccio, A. Esposito and G. Ventura (2018). New Technology and Methods for Characterizing the Seismic Hazard and Active Hydrothermal System beneath Lipari Island, Italy, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Pritchard, E. H., P. Persaud and J. Stock (2018). Implications of Borehole-Derived Stress Constraints for Fault Slip and Stress Heterogeneity beneath the Santa Barbara Channel, Offshore Southern California, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Ajala*, R., Persaud, P., Steckler, M., Sandvol, E., Akhter, S., Gaherty, J., Carchedi, C., Grall, C., & Seeber, L. (2018). Teleseismic Receiver Functions Constraint on the Structure of the Indo-Burma Subduction System, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Stein, S., C. A. Stein, R. Keller, S. Marshak, J. B. Hickman Jr, M. Barklage, P. Persaud, R. D. Hatcher Jr, & R. P. Elling (2018). BARscope - extending EarthScope Between the Appalachians and the Rockies, 2018 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Pritchard*, E. H., P. Persaud and J. Stock (2018), Using Industry Well Log Data to Provide New Borehole Breakout Derived Stress Constraints along High Risk Fault Systems in the Santa Barbara Channel, Offshore Southern California, Poster Presentation at 2018 AAPG Student Expo. [Second place winner.]
• Kain*, J. O., P. Persaud and E. H. Pritchard (2018), Borehole Breakout Determined Stress Regime in the Southern Los Angeles Basin, California, Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Ajala*, R., Persaud, P., Stock, J. M., Fuis, G. S., Hole, J. A., Goldman, M. R., & Scheirer, D. S. (2018), 3-D upper crustal velocity structure of the Coachella Valley, Southern California: results from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project, Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Pritchard, E. H., P. Persaud and J. Stock (2018), New Constraints on Stress Heterogeneity along High Risk Fault Systems in the Santa Barbara Channel, California from Borehole Breakouts, Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Persaud, P., G. Liu & R. Clayton (2018), Urban Nodal Array Maps Structure of the Northern Los Angeles Basins with Teleseismic Receiver Functions, Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Clayton, R.W., M. A. Denolle, K. B. Olsen, P. Persaud, & J. Polet (2018), Basin Amplification Seismic INvestigation: tracking the propagation of waves from the San Andreas Fault to Los Angeles, Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Ajala* R., P. Persaud, J. M. Stock, G. S. Fuis, J. A. Hole, M. R. Goldman, and D. S. Scheirer (2018), On Improving Seismic Risk Assessment for a Large Magnitude Rupture on the San Andreas Fault in the Northern Salton Trough, Southern California. Presentation at the 2018 IRIS Workshop, June 12-14, 2018.
• Persaud P. and J. M. Stock, (2018), Factors Controlling Plate Boundary Segmentation in the Gulf of California. Presentation at the 2018 Seismological Society of America Meeting, May 17, 2018.
• Pritchard* E.H. and P. Persaud, (2018) Using Industry Well Logs to Constrain the State of Stress Beneath Offshore Well Platforms in Seismically Active Southern California, Presentation at the Baton Rouge Geological Society, May 11, 2018.
• Ajala* R., P. Persaud, J. M. Stock, G. S. Fuis, J. A. Hole, M. R. Goldman, and D. S. Scheirer (2018), Basin, Fault Zones, and Adjacent Mountain Ranges: Seismic Velocity Structure of the Coachella Valley, Southern California. Presentation at the Student Seismology Workshop, Columbia University, March 13-14, 2018.
• Ajala* R., P. Persaud, J. M. Stock, G. S. Fuis, J. A. Hole, M. R. Goldman, and D. S. Scheirer (2017), Shallow crustal structure in the northern Salton Trough, California: Insights from a detailed 3-D velocity model, 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Friedman S. A., P. Persaud E. C. Ferre, F. Martín-Hernández and J. M. Feinberg (2017), Long wavelength magnetic anomalies over continental rifts in cratonic region, 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Persaud P., Eh Tan, Eunseo Choi, Juan Contreras and Luc Lavier (2017), A bottom-driven mechanism for distributed faulting: Insights from the Gulf of California Rift, 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Pritchard* E. H., P. Persaud and J.M. Stock (2017), Borehole Breakout Derived Constraints on Stress Regimes in the Santa Barbara Channel, Offshore Southern California, 2017 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Ajala* R., P. Persaud, J. M. Stock, G. S. Fuis, J. A. Hole, M. R. Goldman, and D. S. Scheirer (2017), 3-D velocity model of the Coachella Valley determined using P-wave first arrival times from the Salton Seismic Imaging Project and local earthquakes, Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Clayton, R. W., F. Lin, M. Denolle, P. Persaud and J. Polet (2017), Imaging the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Basins with short-term Nodal deployments, Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Pritchard* E. H., P. Persaud and J.M. Stock (2017), Using Borehole Breakouts in Deviated Offshore Wells to Constrain Stress Regimes Beneath The Santa Barbara Channel, Offshore Southern California, Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting.
• Le*, J., Burson* Jr., A., P. Persaud, (2017) Measuring Earthquake Ground Motion near the San Andreas Fault with an Urban Deployment of Modern Seismometers, Presentation at 2017 LSU Discover Day, April 2017.
• Farangitakis* G.-P., J. van Hunen, L. M. Kalnins, P. Persaud, and K. J. W. McCaffrey (2017), The evolution of shallow crustal structures in early rift-transform interaction: a case study in the northern Gulf of California Vol. 19, 2017 EGU Meeting.
• Persaud P., Y. Ma, J. M. Stock, J. Hole, G. Fuis and L. Han (2016), Active tectonics of the Imperial Valley, southern California: fault damage zones, complex basins and buried faults 2016 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Stock J. M., P. Persaud and J. Hole (2016), Tectónica activa del Valle Imperial, Sur de California: Fallas y Cuencas La Reunión Anual 2016 de la Unión Geofísica Mexicana (UGM) Meeting.
• Di Luccio F., P. Persaud, R. Clayton, D. Helmberger, N. A. Pino and D. Li (2016), Waveform modeling reveals important features of the subduction zone seismic structure beneath the Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy 2016 AGU Fall Meeting.
• Steckler M., L. Seeber, H. Akhter, P. Betka, M. Cai, C. Grall, D. Mondal, V. Gahalaut, J. Gaherty, P. Maung, J. Ni, P. Persaud, E. Sandvol and S. Tun(2016), Tectonics of the IndoBurma Oblique Subduction Zone 2016 AGU Fall Meeting.