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Edwin Nissen – Curriculum Vitae
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Golden, CO 80403, USA
Phone: (+1) 480 297 2092
Email: [email protected]
Employment
Colorado School of Mines, August 2012 – present
Assistant Professor, Department of Geophysics (tenure track faculty appointment)
Arizona State University, September 2011 – August 2012
Exploration Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Earth and Space Exploration
Advisors: Prof. J Ramon Arrowsmith, Dr Srikanth Saripalli
University of Cambridge, September 2008 – September 2011
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences
Advisor: Prof. James Jackson
Education
University of Oxford, 2004 – 2008
Ph. D. in Earth Sciences, University College: “Active mountain building in Mongolia and Iran”
Supervised by Prof. Barry Parsons, Prof. Philip England and Dr Richard Walker
University of Cambridge, 2000 – 2004
M. Sc. in Geological Sciences (First Class Honours), Fitzwilliam College
B. A. in Geological Sciences (First Class Honours), Fitzwilliam College
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2016
(*student advisee)
• *Karasozen, E., Nissen, E., Bergman, E. A., *Johnson, K. L., & Walters, R. J. (in review). Reassessment
of fifty years of seismicity in the Simav graben of western Turkey based on calibrated earthquake
relocations. Journal of Geophysical Research, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB012828.
• Nissen, E., Elliott, J. R., Sloan, R. A., Craig, T., Funning, G., Hutko, A., Parsons, B., & Wright, T. (2016).
Limitations of rupture forecasting exposed by instantaneously triggered earthquake doublet, Nature
Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo2653.
2015
• Walker, R. T., Wegmann, K.W., Bayasgalan, A., Carson, R. J., Elliott, J., Fox, M., Nissen, E., Sloan, R. A.,
Williams, J. M., & Wright, E. (2015). The Egiin Davaa rupture, central Mongolia: a large-magnitude
prehistoric normal faulting earthquake from a slowly-deforming continental interior. “Seismicity, Fault
Rupture and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions” (eds. Landgraf, A., Stein, S. and
Hintersbergen, E.), Special Publication of the Geological Society of London, 432, doi:10.1144/SP432.4.
• Elliott, J. R., Bergman, E. A., Copley, A. C., Ghods, A. R., Nissen, E. K., Oveisi, B., Tatar, M., Walters, R.
J., & Yamini-Fard, F. (2015). The 2013 Mw 6.2 Khaki-Shonbe (Iran) Earthquake: insights into seismic
and aseismic shortening of the Zagros sedimentary cover, Earth and Space Science, 2, 435-471.
• Copley, A., *Karasozen, E., Elliott, J. R., Oveisi, B., Samsonov, S., & Nissen, E. (2015). Seismogenic
faulting of the sedimentary sequence and laterally variable material properties in the Zagros
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Mountains (Iran) revealed by the August 2014 Murmuri (E. Dehloran) earthquake sequence.
Geophysical Journal International, 203, 1436-1459.
2014
• Nissen, E., Maruyama, T., Arrowsmith, J. R., Elliott, J. R., Krishnan, A. K., Oskin, M. E. & Saripalli, S.
(2014). Coseismic fault zone deformation revealed with differential lidar: examples from Japanese Mw
~7 intraplate earthquakes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 405, 244-246.
• *Johnson, K., Nissen, E., Saripalli, S., Arrowsmith, J. R., McGarey, P, Scharer, K., Williams, P., &
Blisniuk, K. (2014). Rapid mapping of ultra-fine fault zone topography with Structure from Motion.
Geosphere, 10 (5), 969-986.
• Glennie, C. L., Hinojosa-Corona, A., Nissen, E., Kusari, A., Oskin, M. E., Arrowsmith, J. R., & Borsa, A.
(2014). Optimization of legacy LiDAR datasets for measuring near-field earthquake displacements.
Geophysical Research Letters, 41 (10), 3494-3501.
• Nissen, E., Jackson, J., Jahani, S., & Tatar, M. (2014). Zagros “phantom earthquakes” reassessed —
the interplay of seismicity and deep salt flow in the Simply Folded Belt?. Journal of Geophysical
Research, 119 (4), 3561-3583.
2013
• Allen, M. B., Saville, C., Blanc, E., Talebian, M., & Nissen, E. (2013). Orogenic plateau growth:
Expansion of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt. Tectonics, 32 (2), 171190.
• Krishnan, A. K., Nissen, E., Saripalli, S., Arrowsmith, R., & Corona, A. H. (2013). Change detection
using airborne Lidar: Applications to Earthquakes. In Experimental Robotics (pp. 733-743). Springer
International Publishing.
2012
• Nissen, E., Krishnan, A. K., Arrowsmith, J. R., & Saripalli, S. (2012). Three-dimensional surface
displacements and rotations from differencing pre- and post-earthquake LiDAR point clouds.
Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L16301.
• Elliott, J. R., Nissen, E. K., England, P. C., Jackson, J. A., Lamb, S., Li, Z., Oehlers, M. & Parsons, B.
(2012). Slip in the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research,
117, B03401.
2011
• Nissen, E., Tatar, M., Jackson, J. A. & Allen, M.B. (2011). New views on earthquake faulting in the
Zagros fold-and-thrust belt of Iran. Geophysical Journal International, 186 (3), 928-944.
2010
• Walker, R. T., Claisse, S., Telfer, M., Nissen, E., England, P., Bryant, C. & Bailey, R. (2010). Preliminary
estimate of Holocene slip rate on active normal faults bounding the southern coast of the Gulf of Evia,
central Greece. Geosphere, 6, 583-593.
• Nissen, E., Yamini-Fard, F., Tatar, M., Gholamzadeh, A., Bergman, E., Elliott, J., Jackson, J. & Parsons,
B. (2010). The vertical separation of mainshock rupture and microseismicity at Qeshm island in the
Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296, 181-194.
• Biggs, J., Nissen, E., Craig, T., Jackson, J. & Robinson, D. P. (2010). Breaking up the hanging wall of a
rift border fault: the 2009 Karonga earthquakes, Malawi. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L11305.
• *Roustaei, M., Nissen, E., Abbassi, M., Gholamzadeh, A., Ghorashi, M., Tatar, M., Yamini-Fard, F.,
Bergman, E., Jackson, J. & Parsons, B. (2010). The 25 March 2006 Fin earthquakes – insights into the
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vertical extents of faulting in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt. Geophysical Journal International, 181,
1275-1295.
2009
• Nissen, E., Walker, R., Molor, E., Fattahi, M. & Bayasgalan, A. (2009). Late Quaternary rates of uplift
and shortening at Baatar Hyarhan – implications for mountain building in the Mongolian Altai.
Geophysical Journal International, 177, 259-278.
• Nissen, E., Walker, R., Bayasgalan, A., Carter, A., Fattahi, M., Molor, E., Schnabel, C., West, A. J., &
Xu, S. (2009). The late Quaternary slip-rate of the Har-Us-Nuur fault (Mongolian Altai) from
Cosmogenic 10Be and Luminescence dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 286, 467-478.
2007
• Nissen, E., Ghorashi, M., Jackson, J., Parsons, B. & Talebian, M. (2007). The 2005 Qeshm Island
earthquake (Iran) – a link between buried reverse faulting and surface folding in the Zagros Simply
Folded Belt? Geophysical Journal International, 171, 326-338.
• Walker R., Nissen, E., Molor, E. & Bayasgalan, A. (2007). Reinterpretation of the active faulting in
central Mongolia. Geology, 35, 759-762.
• Nissen, E., Emmerson, B., Funning, G., Mistrukov, A., Parsons, B., Robinson, D., Rogozhin, E. &
Wright, T. (2007). Combining InSAR and seismology to study the 2003 Siberian earthquakes: dextral
strike-slip and anticlockwise rotations in the northern India-Eurasia collision zone. Geophysical Journal
International, 169, 216-232.
2006
• Talebian, M., Biggs, J., Bolourchi, M., Copley, A., Ghassemi, A., Ghorashi, M., Hollingsworth, J.,
Jackson, J., Nissen, E., Oveisi, B., Parsons, B., Priestley, K. & Saiidi, A. (2006). The Dahiuyeh (Zarand)
earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation of an intramountain reverse fault.
Geophysical Journal International, 164, 137-148.
Teaching
Colorado School of Mines (Department of Geophysics)
• GPGN555 – Earthquake Seismology: graduate elective course, 2013 –
• GPGN471 – Satellite Remote Sensing: senior undergraduate/graduate elective course, 2015 –
• GPGN200 – Intro to Geophysics: sophomore undergraduate required course, 2015 –
• GPGN598 – Induced Seismicity: senior undergraduate/graduate seminar class, 2014
• GPGN598 – Strong Motion Seismology: senior undergraduate/graduate seminar class, 2014 (cotaught with David Wald and Eric Thompson)
• GPGN486 – Geophysics Field Camp: senior undergraduate required course, 2014 – (co-taught with
several other department faculty)
• Main advisor for three Ph.D. students: Kendra Johnson (started 2012), Ezgi Karasozen (started 2013)
and Lia Lajoie (started 2015)
University of Cambridge (Department of Earth Sciences)
• Masters project supervision, Examination Marking and Tutor in Continental Tectonics, 2009–2010
• Demonstrator on undergraduate basic geology field trip to Arran, Scotland, 2011; on tectonics field
trip to Betic Mountains, Spain, 2010; and on tectonics field trip to Gulf of Corinth, Greece, 2009
University of Oxford (Department of Earth Sciences)
• Teaching assistant (course tutorials and laboratory classes) for Geological Maps, 2004–2008
• Teaching assistant (course tutorials and laboratory classes) for Structural Geology, 2004–2008
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• Teaching assistant (course tutorials and laboratory classes) for Remote Sensing, 2005–2008
• Demonstrator on undergraduate tectonics and volcanology geology field trip to Gulf of
Corinth/Santorini, Greece, 2008; on geological mapping field trip to Castellane, France, 2006–2007;
and on basic geology field trip to Assynt, Scotland, 2005
Research Funding
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
• PI, National Science Foundation, $244,000, Seismotectonics of the Zagros (Iran) from orogen-wide
earthquake relocations
• PI, Air Force Research Laboratory, $360,000, A two-tiered approach to event calibration across Iran
• PI, Newmont Mining Corporation grant, $15,000, “InSAR deformation along the Carlin Trend, NV”
• PI, Southern California Earthquake Center grant, $20,000, “The 1992 Landers rupture re-examined
using topography generated from legacy air-photos”
• PI, Newmont Mining Corporation grant, $98,000, “Monitoring pit slope deformation with multitemporal, multi-spectral photography”
• Co-PI, National Science Foundation RAPID grant, $16,000 to CSM, “Collaborative Research: Low-cost
imaging and analysis of the August 24, 2014 M6.1 South Napa California earthquake surface rupture”
• PI, Southern California Earthquake Center grant, $50,000, “Advances in imaging shallow fault zone
deformation with differential LiDAR: a VISES Collaboration”
• PI, Southern California Earthquake Center grant, $36,000, “Earthquake behavior of the San
Andreas and San Jacinto Faults with Structure from Motion topography”
• PI, USGS Cooperative grant, $100,000, “High-resolution mapping of faults and earthquakes using
topography derived from LiDAR”
• PI, Southern California Earthquake Center grant, $32,000, “Centimeter-resolution fault topography
and earthquake displacements from UAV photogrammetry”
• PI, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales grant for SPOT satellite imagery, “Fault segmentation and
earthquake magnitude: lessons from the Simav graben, Turkey”
• SESE Exploration Fellowship, Arizona State University, $55,000 (additional $55,000 declined),
“Rapid collection of topographic data from UAVs: applications for earthquake faulting and Earth
surface processes”
• PI, Natural Environmental Research Council Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis Facility grant, “Exploiting
systematic changes in rock uplift rate along a strike-slip restraining bend: what drives mountain
erosion?”
• Co-PI, European Space Agency Category 1 grant for Ikonos satellite imagery, “Quantifying Crustal
Deformation and Lithosphere Rheology with Optical Satellite Imagery and Digital Topography”
• PI, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales grant for SPOT satellite imagery, “Slip-rate determinations
and past earthquakes in the Altay mountains of Mongolia”
Awards
2011
2007
2005
2004
• Exploration Postdoctoral Fellowship, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University
• Guralp Prize, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, awarded annually for outstanding
progress in graduate studies
• Roger Short Memorial Scholarship, University College, University of Oxford
• NERC algorithm Ph. D. studentship, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
• 1912 Senior Scholarship, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
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2003
• Thomas Walker Scholarship and Humphrey Prize, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge
• Undergraduate Mapping Project Award, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Professional Service
Conferences
• Co-organizer, 2015 Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion meeting: “Geology from Space:
Tectonic Applications of High-resolution Topography and Imagery”
• Convener, 2014 AGU Fall Meeting: “The Earthquake Cycle: Linking observations from satellite
geodesy, high resolution topography and paleoseismology”
• Convener, 2014 GSA Annual Meeting: “Geological and Geomorphological Applications of Digital
Terrain Analysis”
• Convener, 2014 UNAVCO Science Workshop Special Topic Session: “Near-Field Geodetic Imaging: the
Now and the Future”
• Convener, 2013 AGU Fall Meeting: “4D Topography: Detecting Changes to the Earth's Surface with
Multi-Temporal, High-Resolution Topographic Data”
• Convener, 2012 AGU Fall Meeting: “4D LiDAR Topography and Geodetic Imaging”
Education and Outreach
• NAGT/NSF Early Career Geoscience Faculty workshop, University of Maryland, 2014
Internal Service
• Department representative at Colorado School of Mines’ Undergraduate Council (in charge of
undergraduate affairs and curriculum), 2013–present
• Chair, Department of Geophysics Undergraduate Affairs Committee (in charge of Geophysics
curriculum), 2013–present
• Chair, Heiland Committee (in charge of weekly department seminars), 2013–present
• Faculty hire Search Committees in 2013, 2014 and 2015
• (University of Cambridge) Organized weekly Bullard Laboratories research colloquia, 2009–2011
Paper Reviews
• Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America • Earth and Planetary Science Letters • Geophysical
Journal International • Geophysical Research Letters • Geosphere • Journal of Geodynamics • Journal
of Geophysical Research • Lithosphere • Nature Geoscience • Quaternary Geochronology •
Tectonics • Tectonophysics • Terra Nova
Professional Memberships
• American Geophysical Union (2006–present) • Geological Society of America (2009–present)
• National Association of Geoscience Teachers (2014–present)
Review Panels and Proposal Reviews
• National Science Foundation review panelist, 2014; and ad-hoc reviewer, 2014 – 2015
• USGS National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program review panelist, 2014
• National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping seed proposal review panelist, 2014 – 2015
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada ad-hoc reviewer, 2015
Steering Committees
• Colorado Geological Survey Advisory Group, 2013–present
• National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping Steering Committee, 2013–present
• UNAVCO Terrestrial Imaging Geodesy Working Group, 2014–present
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Science workshops
• Instructor, “Large crustal earthquakes: fault geometry, dynamic rupture, and strong ground motion”,
SCEC-ERI-DPRI International Summer School on Earthquake Science, 24 – 27 July 2016, Lake
Arrowhead Resort, California
• Instructor, “Imaging and Analyzing Southern California's Active Faults with High Resolution
Topography”, OpenTopography short course, 25 – 25 January 2016, Arizona State University
• Instructor, “LIDAR Derived DEMs applied to Landslide, Fault, Earthquake Rupture, and Landscape
Changes”, OpenTopography short course, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, 23
– 24 March 2015
• Co-organizer and instructor, “High Resolution Topography Applied to Earthquake Studies”, Open
Topography short course, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 16-19 September 2013
• Instructor, “Imaging and Analyzing Southern California’s Active Faults with Lidar”, OpenTopography
short course, San Diego Supercomputing Center, 4-6 November 2013
Conference abstracts
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
(† invited/plenary talk * student advisee)
• *Johnson et al., SSA Annual Meeting • *Karasozen et al., SSA Annual Meeting • *Lajoie et al., SSA
Annual Meeting • Nissen et al., SSA Annual Meeting • Nissen et al., SSA Annual Meeting
• Nissen et al., SCEC Annual Meeting • Hudnut et al., SSA Annual Meeting • Arrowsmith et al.,
Hokudan International Symposium on Active Faulting (Awaji, Japan)
• †Nissen, Plenary Lecture, SCEC Annual Meeting • †Nissen et al., AGU Fall Meeting • Nissen et al.,
AGU Fall Meeting • Elliott et al., AGU Fall Meeting • †Nissen, 10th Joint Meeting of the United StatesJapan Panel on Earthquake Research (Sendai, Japan) • †Nissen et al., GSA Annual Meeting • †Nissen,
“Gazing at the Solar System” workshop, Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech • *Haugen et al., AEG
Annual Conference • Allen and Nissen, EGU General Assembly, EGU2014-2218
• *Johnson et al., AGU Fall Meeting, G33A-0965 • *Karasozen et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T31E-2567 •
Hinojosa-Corona et al., AGU Fall Meeting, G22A-04 • *Johnson et al., SCEC Annual Meeting • Borsa et
al., SCEC Annual Meeting • Hinojosa-Corona et al., SCEC Annual Meeting
• Gregory et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T31E-05 • Walker et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T31E-04 • HinojosaCorona et al., AGU Fall Meeting, G23-0904 • Krishnan et al., AGU Fall Meeting, G23-0903 • Nissen et
al., AGU Fall Meeting, G23-0882 • Parks et al., AGU Fall Meeting, G22A-03 • Elliott et al., EGU General
Assembly, EGU2012-12258
• Nissen et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T54B-08 • Elliott et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T34C-02
• Walker et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T53C-2151 • Biggs et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T22C-05 • †Nissen et
al., EGU General Assembly (EGU2010-1980)
• Nissen et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T51C-1543 • †Nissen et al., International Symposium on Historical
Earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Istanbul Technical University (Istanbul, Turkey)
• Walker et al., AGU Fall Meeting, G21C-0666 • Nissen et al., 50th Anniversary earthquake conference
commemorating the 1957 Gobi-Altay earthquake (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
• Nissen et al., AGU Fall Meeting, T43D-1660
• Nissen et al., Geological Society of London Conference on strike-slip restraining and releasing bends
(London, UK)
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Invited departmental research seminars
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
• School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria • School of Civil Engineering and
Geosciences, Newcastle University • Geophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego • Nevada Bureau of Mines and
Geology, University of Nevada Reno
• Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming • Department of Earth Science and
Engineering, Imperial College London • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University
of St Andrews • School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds • Department of Geology,
Colorado School of Mines
• Department of Geosciences, Colorado State University • Department of Geological Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder • Center for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo •
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo • UNAVCO, Boulder • SmartGeo, Department of
Civil Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford • Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of
Mines • Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles • Department
of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California
• School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University • Department of Geophysics,
Colorado School of Mines • Department of Geography, Durham University • National Oceanographic
Centre, University of Southampton • Department of Geology, University of Otago • School of Earth
and Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff • Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Michigan • Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
• Geological Survey of Norway, Tondhiem • Institut fur Geologie, Leibniz Universitat Hannover •
Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
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