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Juliet Biggs

Rosensteil Postdoctoral Fellow
Lindemann Postdoctoral Fellow

Marine Geology and Geophysics (MGG)
Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
University of Miami
4600, Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, 33149
Florida
United States

tel: (+1) 305 361 4683
e-mail: jbiggs [AT] rsmas.miami.edu

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Research Interests:

The use of satellite data, in particular, InSAR, to study tectonic processes such as earthquakes, interseismic strain accumulation, postseismic deformation, volcanic and other magmatic processes

Publications

Biggs, J.,Robinson, D.,Dixon, T. Submitted June 2008 ,The 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake (M8.0): Seismology and Geodesy Geophysical Journal International

Biggs, J., Burgman, R., Freymueller, J. , Lu, Z., Parsons, B., Ryder, I., Schmalzle, G., Wright, T. Submitted Feb 2008 , The postseismic response to the 2002 M7.9 Denali Fault Earthquake: Constraints from InSAR. Geophysical Journal International

Elliott, J.R. Biggs, J., Parsons, B. and Wright, T. Accepted May 2008 , InSAR Slip Rate Determination on the Altyn Tagh Fault, N Tibet, in the Presence of Topographically Correlated Atmospheric Delays Geophysical Research Letters

Biggs, J., Wright, T., Lu, Z., Parsons, B. 2007 , Multi-interferogram method for measuring interseismic deformation: Denali Fault, Alaska Geophysical Journal International 170 1165-1179

Rowland, J., Baker, E., Ebinger, C., Keir, D., Kidane, T., Biggs, J., Hayward, N. 2007 , Brittle strain associated with the 2005 Dabbahu rifting event, Afar: Implications for fault growth at a nascent spreading ridge Geophysical Journal International 171 1226-1246, doi 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03584.x

Biggs, J. , Bergman, E., Emmerson, B., Funning, G., Jackson, J., Parsons, B., Wright, T. 2006 , Fault Identification for Buried Strike-Slip Earthquakes using InSAR: The 1994 and 2004 Al Hoceima, Morocco Earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International 166 1347-1362

Wright, T., Ebinger, C., Biggs, J.,, Ayele, A., Yirgu, G., Keir, D., Stork, A. 2006, Dyke-maintained segmentation during continental rupture on the Afar rift in 2005. Nature 442 doi:10.1038/nature04978

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 Dahuiyeh (Zarand) earthquake of 2005 February 22 in central Iran: reactivation of an intra-mountain thrust, Geophysical Journal International., 164 137-148

B.J. Murton, Biggs, J. 2003, Numerical modelling of mud volcanoes and their flows using constraints from the Gulf of Cadiz, Mar. Geol., 3274, 1-14.


Current Position

I would like to thank the following organisations for funding:
Rosensteil Postdoctoral Fellowship, [
Rosensteail School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences]
Lindemann Postdoctoral Fellowship, [English Speaking Union]
Centre for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing [CSTARS]

Academic background

Academic Qualifications

2003-2007 DPhil in Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
Thesis: "Measuring Interseismic Strain Accummulation Using InSAR "
Supervisors: Tim Wright and Barry Parsons
Supported by Natural Environmental Research Council UK (NERC)

1999-2003 MSci/BA in Geological Sciences, University of Cambridge
Supervisor: James Jackson

Research Positions

Jan 2007 Visiting Scientist, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Supervisor: Roland Burgmann
Sep-Nov 2004 Visiting Scientist, EROS Data Centre, USGS, South Dakota
Supervisor: Zhong Lu
Jun-Aug 2003 Visiting Scientist, California Institute of Technology
Supervisor: Mark Simons
Jun-Aug 2002 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology
Supervisor: Mark Simons
Jun-Aug 2000 Summer Research Fellowship, National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton (formely Southampton Oceanography Centre)
Supervisor: Bramley Murton

Awards and Honours

2007 MPLS Division Symposium Award (University of Oxford)
2005 2005 AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award (Geodesy Section)
2005 Geological Remote Sensing Group Student Award (Sponsored by Nigel Press Associates)
2003 Harkness Prize (University of Cambridge)
2003 Dr. Stonley's Prize (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
2001 Dr. Stonley's Prize (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
2001 Foundation Scholarship (Pembroke College, Cambridge)


Photos from Recent Travels

Mar-Apr 2006 Castellane (Undergrad Mapping Trip)
Mar-Apr 2006 Ethiopia (GPS Fieldwork)
Dec 2005 San Francisco (AGU)
Oct-Nov 2005 New Zealand (Paleomag Fieldwork)
July 2005 Sicily (Holiday)
May 2005 Vienna (EGU)
Dec 2004 Barcelona (Holiday)
Oct-Nov 2004 South Dakota (Visiting Scientist at USGS EROS Data Center)
Sep 2004 Alaska (IGARSS Conference, Anchorage; Visit to University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
Apr-May 2004 New Zealand (Paleomag Fieldwork)


Last Updated August-2007