Teaching
I plan to teach seminars on earthquakes and earthquake hazards.
Research Overview
Much of my past research has focused on the physics of deformation of mantle minerals
and aggregates at seismic frequencies and elevated pressures and temperatures. Some
of my more recent work has been in the measurement and interpretation of seismic
attributes in the lithospheric mantle beneath mountain ranges and large strike-slip
faults. My current research involves many aspects of probabilistic seismic hazard
analysis (PSHA) including time-dependent earthquake probabilities, ground motion
relationships, and seismic clustering.
Current and Recent Research Projects
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Incorporation of foreshocks and aftershocks into time-independent PSHA
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Stress changes in northern Sumatra due to recent subduction zone events.
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Probabilistic seismic hazard map of Afghanistan
Selected Publications (full list)
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Boyd, O. S., F. Pollitz, Y. Zeng, J. Hardebeck, C. G. Bufe, and R. L. Wesson, Time-dependent Probabilistic Hazard Maps for Alaska, AGU Monograph on Tectonics of Alaska, in press.
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Boyd, O. S., M. K. Savage, C. H. Jones, and A. F. Sheehan, Illuminating upper mantle structure beneath Cook Strait, New Zealand, with receiver functions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2007.
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Wesson, R. L., and O. S. Boyd, Stress before and after the 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L07303, doi:10.1029/2007GL029189, 2007.
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Boyd, O. S., C. S. Mueller, and K. S. Rukstales, Preliminary probabilistic seismic hazard map for Afghanistan, U. S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2007-1137, 2007.
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Boyd, O. S., An efficient Matlab script to calculate heterogeneous anisotropically elastic wave propagation in three dimensions, Computers and Geosciences, 32 (2), 259-264, 2006.
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