Eric A Hetland, Associate Professor
Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Michigan
The research in the Quantitative Earthquake and lithospheric Dynamics (QED@UM) group is broadly concerned with the deformation of the crust and uppermost mantle: earthquake mechanics, dynamics of the earthquake cycle & the lithosphere. Our work in Probabilistic Inference & Estimation in the Earth & Environmental Sciences (pie-EES or πEES) encompasses machine learning and data science tools. Our πEES work connects to several facets of our ongoing QED@UM projects, but we also address questions in climatology, glaciology, and the socioeconomics of disasters. Aside from just a case branding, group members tend to work under either the QED@UM of πEES banners, with graduate students and postdocs falling more under the former and undergraduate students falling under the latter.
Jan 2021: QED@UM bids farewell to Meredith Calogero (front left), Olivia Walbert (front center), Eric H (right), and Eric Szymanski (back).
Research
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake ruptured over 200 km of the Beichuan fault, which is at the transition from the Sichuan basin to the Longmen Shan…
We used several published coseismic slip models, and found that all of the considered model were consistent with a fairly narrow range of directions…
Teachings
EARTH/ENVIRON 230: Natural & Environmental Hazards
EARTH 468: Data Analysis, Estimation, & Inference
