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Demian (Michael) Saffer is an American geophysicist based at The University of Texas at Austin[ citation needed] where he is director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and professor at the Department of Geological Sciences of the Jackson School of Geosciences[ citation needed] . He studies the role of fluids and friction in the mechanics of subduction megathrust earthquakes.
Saffer is an alumnus (geology) of Williams College in Massachusetts. He earned a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz. [1]
After finishing grad school, Saffer was briefly at USGS before joining the University of Wyoming in 2001 followed by Pennsylvania State University in 2005.[ citation needed] At Penn State, he was appointed Professor in 2012, head of graduate programs in 2016, then head of the department of geosciences in 2018. He left Penn State in 2020 to become director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.[ citation needed]
Saffer is heavily involved in the scientific ocean drilling community and has been co-chief scientist of five [2] major scientific ocean drilling expeditions to investigate large earthquake faults at the Pacific “ Ring of Fire”, including the deepest scientific drilling of a subduction zone. [3] His discoveries include previously undetected shallow slow-slip events [4] at Japan's Nankai fault, lower than expected stresses at Nankai, [5] and that clay minerals in fault gouge play a much smaller role [6] in fault slip behavior than previously thought. He is also an executive steering committee member of Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions (SZ4D), [7] a multinational initiative to investigate the processes that underlie subduction zone hazards and was one of the architects of its latest report. [8] From 2016 until 2020, when it wound up, he chaired the GeoPRISMS program — an international, cross-disciplinary effort to bring terrestrial and marine scientists together to investigate continental margins. [9]
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Demian (Michael) Saffer is an American geophysicist based at The University of Texas at Austin[ citation needed] where he is director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and professor at the Department of Geological Sciences of the Jackson School of Geosciences[ citation needed] . He studies the role of fluids and friction in the mechanics of subduction megathrust earthquakes.
Saffer is an alumnus (geology) of Williams College in Massachusetts. He earned a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz. [1]
After finishing grad school, Saffer was briefly at USGS before joining the University of Wyoming in 2001 followed by Pennsylvania State University in 2005.[ citation needed] At Penn State, he was appointed Professor in 2012, head of graduate programs in 2016, then head of the department of geosciences in 2018. He left Penn State in 2020 to become director of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.[ citation needed]
Saffer is heavily involved in the scientific ocean drilling community and has been co-chief scientist of five [2] major scientific ocean drilling expeditions to investigate large earthquake faults at the Pacific “ Ring of Fire”, including the deepest scientific drilling of a subduction zone. [3] His discoveries include previously undetected shallow slow-slip events [4] at Japan's Nankai fault, lower than expected stresses at Nankai, [5] and that clay minerals in fault gouge play a much smaller role [6] in fault slip behavior than previously thought. He is also an executive steering committee member of Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions (SZ4D), [7] a multinational initiative to investigate the processes that underlie subduction zone hazards and was one of the architects of its latest report. [8] From 2016 until 2020, when it wound up, he chaired the GeoPRISMS program — an international, cross-disciplinary effort to bring terrestrial and marine scientists together to investigate continental margins. [9]
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