Publications


Standards & Rubrics

As members of the scientific community, we strive to meet best practices in research communication and reproducibility. The following resources provide guidelines and standards that we apply to our work:

Publication Standards

  • Best Practices for ML in Geophysics – A comprehensive checklist for machine learning papers in geophysics, developed from editorial experience at GJI. Covers imaging, data processing, and Earth-system discovery studies.

Research & Writing Guidelines

  • Undergraduate Literature Review Guide – Guidelines for conducting structured literature reviews, including how to find sources, read strategically, and synthesize findings across traditional and ML approaches.

Additional rubrics and standards for presentations and dissertation writing are under development and will be linked here.


Dissertations

Group Ph.D. dissertations are available here:


Presentations

Recent group presentations at conferences and workshops:

A comprehensive archive of presentations with PDFs and video recordings is being compiled.


Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

For a more up-to-date list of publications: Google Scholar


Probing the Seattle Basin Edge Using a Dense Urban Nodal Array in 100 Backyards

Toghramadjian, Natasha, Denolle, Marine A., Ermert, Laura, Jiang, Chengxin

Seismological Research Letters (Jan 2026) DOI: 10.1785/0220250241

Seismological Analysis of Contemporary and Future Alpine Fault Earthquakes Using the Southern Alps Long Skinny Array (SALSA)

Townend, John, Del Carmen Juarez-Garfias, Ilma, Pita-Sllim, Olivia, Chamberlain, Calum J., Warren-Smith, Emily, Holden, Caroline, van Wijk, Kasper, Denolle, Marine, Curtis, Andrew, Miyake, Hiroe

in press in Seismological Research Letters (2026) DOI: XX

The Seismic Wavefield Common Task Framework

Yermakov, Alexey, Zhao, Yue, Denolle, Marine, Ni, Yiyu, Wyder, Philippe M., Goldfeder, Judah, Riva, Stefano, Williams, Jan, Zoro, David, Rude, Amy Sara, Tomasetto, Matteo, Germany, Joe, Bakarji, Joseph, Maierhofer, Georg, Cranmer, Miles, Kutz, J. Nathan

arXiv (2026) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2512.19927

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Records of Earthquakes and Surface Processes at Mount Rainier Volcano

Gaete-Elgueta, Veronica, Köpfli, Manuela, Gräff, Dominik, Lipovsky, Bradley P, Denolle, Marine A., Thelen, Weston A., Pratt, Brendan, Kenyon, Taylor R.

in review in Seismica (2026) DOI: XX

Agroseismology: unraveling the impact of farming practices on soil hydrodynamics

Shi, Qibin, Montgomery, David, Swann, Abigail L.S., Cristea, Nicoleta C., Williams, Ethan, You, Nan, Collins, Joe, Prada Barrio, Ana, Jeffrey, Simon, Misiewicz, Ana, Nissen-Meyer, Tarje, Denolle, Marine A.

in review in Science - preprint on Arxiv (2026) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.09821

A Decadal Survey of the Near-Surface Seismic Velocity Response to Hydrological Variations in Utah, United States

Feng, Kuan-Fu, Denolle, Marine, Lin, Fan-Chi, van Dam, Tonie

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131(1), pp e2024JB030689 (2026) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030689

A Global-scale Database of Seismic Phases from Cloud-based Picking at Petabyte Scale

Ni, Yiyu, Denolle, Marine, Thomas, Amanda, Hamilton, Alex, Münchmeyer, Jannes, Wang, Yinzhi, Bachelot, Loïc, Trabant, Chad, Mencin, David

Seismica, 4(2) (Sep 2025) DOI: 10.26443/seismica.v4i2.1738

A Review of Cloud Computing and Storage in Seismology

Ni, Yiyu, Denolle, Marine A, Münchmeyer, Jannes, Wang, Yinzhi, Feng, Kuan-Fu, Suarez, Carlos Garcia Jurado, Thomas, Amanda M, Trabant, Chad, Hamilton, Alex, Mencin, David

Geophysical Journal International, pp ggaf322 (Aug 2025) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggaf322

Training the Next Generation of Seismologists: Delivering Research‐Grade Software Education for Cloud and HPC Computing Through Diverse Training Modalities

Denolle, Marine A., Tape, Carl, Bozdağ, Ebru, Wang, Yinzhi, Waldhauser, Felix, Gabriel, Alice‐Agnes, Braunmiller, Jochen, Chow, Bryant, Ding, Liang, Feng, Kuan‐Fu, Ghosh, Ayon, Groebner, Nathan, Gupta, Aakash, Krauss, Zoe, McPherson, Amanda M., Nagaso, Masaru, Niu, Zihua, Ni, Yiyu, Örsvuran, Rıdvan, Pavlis, Gary, Rodriguez‐Cardozo, Felix, Sawi, Theresa, Schaff, David, Schliwa, Nico, Schneller, David, Shi, Qibin, Thurin, Julien, Wang, Chenxiao, Wang, Kaiwen, Wong, Jeremy Wing Ching, Wolf, Sebastian, Yuan, Congcong

Seismological Research Letters, 96(5), pp 3265-3279 (Jun 2025) DOI: 10.1785/0220240413

Multiplexed Distributed Acoustic Sensing Offshore Central Oregon

Shi, Q., Williams, E. F., Lipovsky, B. P., Denolle, M. A., Wilcock, W. S. D., Kelley, D. S., Schoedl, K.

Seismological Research Letters, 96(2A), pp 784–800 (2025) DOI: 10.1785/0220240460

Exploration of Machine Learning Methods to Seismic Event Discrimination in the Pacific Northwest

Kharita, Akash, Denolle, Marine, Hutko, Alexander R, Hartog, J Renate, Malone, Stephen D

accepted in Seismica, pre-print on Arxiv (2025) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.23795

Ambient field seismology in critical zone hydrological sciences

Denolle, Marine A., Shi, Qibin, Clements, Tim, Viens, Lo"\ic, Rodriguez-Tribaldos, Veronica, Cotton, Fabrice

Comptes Rendus. G'eoscience, 357, pp 425–451 (2025) DOI: 10.5802/crgeos.310

Denoising Offshore Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Masked Auto-Encoders to Enhance Earthquake Detection

Shi, Q., Denolle, M. A., Ni, Y., Williams, E. F., You, N.

JGR: Solid Earth, 130, pp e2024JB029728 (2025) DOI: 10.1029/2024JB029728

Analysing Volcanic, Tectonic, and Environmental Influences on the Seismic Velocity from 25 Years of Data at Mount St. Helens

Makus, P., Denolle, M. A., Sens-Schonfelder, C., Kopfli, M., Tilmann, F.

Seismological Research Letters, 95(5), pp 2674–2688 (2024) DOI: 10.1785/0220240088

Wavefield reconstruction of distributed acoustic sensing: Lossy compression, wavefield separation, and edge computing

Ni, Y., Denolle, M. A., Shi, Q., Lipovsky, B. P., Pan, S., Kutz, J. N.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation, 1, pp e2024JH000247 (2024) DOI: 10.1029/2024JH000247

Examining 22 Years of Ambient Seismic Wavefield at Mount St. Helens

Kopli, M., Denolle, M. A., Thelen, W., Makus, P., Malone, S.

Seismological Research Letters, 95(5), pp 2622–2636 (2024) DOI: 10.1785/0220240079

Impact of Temperature and Relative Humidity Variations on Coda Waves in Concrete

Diewald, F., Denolle, M., Timothy, J. J., Gehlen, C.

Scientific Reports, 14, pp 18861 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-69564-4

Monitoring velocity change over 20 years at Parkfield

Okubo, K., Delbridge, B., Denolle, M.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 129, pp e2023JB028084 (2024) DOI: 10.1029/2023JB028084

Extended crack propagation by local nucleation and rapid transverse expansion

Cochard, T., Svetlizky, I., Albertini, G., Viesca, R. C., Rubinstein, S. M., Spaepen, F., Yuan, C., Denolle, M., Song, Y.-Q., Xiao, L., Weitz, D. A.

Nature Physics (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02365-0

An Object Storage for Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Ni, Yiyu, Denolle, Marine A., Fatland, Rob, Alterman, Naomi, Lipovsky, Bradley P., Knuth, Friedrich

Seismological Research Letters, 95(1), pp 499-511 (Oct 2023) DOI: 10.1785/0220230172

Laboratory hydrofracture as analogs to tectonic tremors

Yuan, C., Cochard, T., Denolle, M., Gomberg, J., Wech, A., Xiao, L., Weitz, D.

AGU Advances, 5, pp e2023AV001002 (2023) DOI: 10.1029/2023AV001002

The Seismic Signature of California’s Earthquakes, Droughts, and Floods

Clements, T., Denolle, M. A.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(1), pp e2022JB025553 (2023) DOI: 10.1029/2022JB025553

Improved observations of deep earthquake ruptures using machine learning

Shi, Q., Denolle, M.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, pp e2023JB027334 (2023) DOI: 10.1029/2023JB027334

Better Together: Ensemble Learning for Earthquake Detection and Phase Picking

Yuan, Congcong, Ni, Yiyu, Lin, Youzuo, Denolle, Marine

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 61(), pp 1-17 (2023) DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3320148

Research areas:
Predictive models;Data models;Earthquakes;Estimation;Training;Ensemble learning;Broadband communication;Deep learning (DL);earthquake detection;ensemble learning;seismic phase picking

Seismology in the cloud: guidance for the individual researcher

Krauss, Z., Ni, Y., Henderson, S., Denolle, M.

Seismica, 2(2) (2023) DOI: 10.26443/seismica.v2i2.979

Curated Pacific Northwest AI-ready Seismic Dataset

Ni, Y., Hutko, A., Skene, F., Denolle, M., Malone, S., Bodin, P., Hartog, R., Wright, A.

Seismica, 2(1) (2023) DOI: 10.26443/seismica.v2i1.368

Probing environmental and tectonic changes underneath Ciudad de M'exico with the urban seismic field

Ermert, L., Cabral-Cano, E., Chaussard, E., Solano-Rojas, D., Quintanar, L., Morales Padilla, D., Fernandez-Torres, E. A., Denolle, M. A.

Solid Earth (EGU) (2023) DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-1361

Ocean Coupling Limits Rupture Velocity of Fastest Observed Ice Shelf Rift Propagation Event

Olinger, S., Lipovsky, B., Denolle, M.

AGU Advances, 5, pp e2023AV001023 (2023) DOI: 10.1029/2023AV001023

Discrimination between icequakes and earthquakes in southern Alaska: an exploration of waveform features using random forest algorithm

Kharita, A., Denolle, M., West, M.

Geophysical Journal International (2023) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggae106

Detecting Elevated Pore Pressure due to Wastewater Injection Using Ambient Noise Monitoring

Yang, Z., Yuan, C., Denolle, M. A.

The Seismic Record, 2(1), pp 38–49 (2022) DOI: 10.1785/0320210036

A multitask encoder–decoder to separate earthquake and ambient noise signal in seismograms

Yin, J., Denolle, M. A., He, B.

Geophysical Journal International, 231(3), pp 1806–1822 (2022) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac290

Pronounced Seismic Anisotropy in Kanto Sedimentary Basin: A Case Study of Using Dense Arrays, Ambient Noise Seismology, and Multi-Modal Surface-Wave Imaging

Jiang, C., Denolle, M. A.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(8), pp e2022JB024613 (2022) DOI: 10.1029/2022JB024613

Imaging the Kanto Basin seismic basement with earthquake and noise autocorrelation functions

Viens, L., Jiang, C., Denolle, M. A.

Geophysical Journal International, 230(2), pp 1080–1091 (2022) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggac101

Tracking the Cracking: a Holistic Analysis of Rapid Ice Shelf Fracture Using Seismology, Geodesy, and Satellite Imagery on the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, West Antarctica

Olinger, S. D., Lipovsky, B. P., Denolle, M. A., Crowell, B. W.

Geophysical Research Letters, pp e2021GL097604 (2022) DOI: 10.1029/2021GL097604

The Earth’s Surface Controls the Depth-Dependent Seismic Radiation of Megathrust Earthquakes

Yin, J., Denolle, M. A.

AGU Advances, 2(3), pp e2021AV000413 (2021) DOI: 10.1029/2021AV000413

SeisNoise.jl: Ambient Seismic Noise Cross Correlation on the CPU and GPU in Julia

Clements, T., Denolle, M. A.

Seismological Research Letters, 92(1), pp 517–527 (2021) DOI: 10.1785/0220200192

Comparing approaches to measuring seismic phase variations in the time, frequency, and wavelet domains

Yuan, C., Bryan, J., Denolle, M. A.

Geophysical Journal International, 226(2), pp 828–846 (2021) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggab140

Source time function clustering reveals patterns in earthquake dynamics

Yin, J., Li, Z., Denolle, M. A.

Seismological Research Letters, 92(4), pp 2343–2353 (2021) DOI: 10.1785/0220200403

NoisePy: A new high-performance python tool for ambient-noise seismology

Jiang, C., Denolle, M. A.

Seismological Research Letters, 91(3), pp 1853–1866 (2020) DOI: 10.1785/0220190364

Quiet Anthropocene, quiet Earth

Denolle, M. A., Nissen-Meyer, T.

Science, 369(6509), pp 1299–1300 (2020) DOI: 10.1126/science.abd8358

SeisIO: A Fast, Efficient Geophysical Data Architecture for the Julia Language

Jones, J. P., Okubo, K., Clements, T., Denolle, M. A.

Seismological Research Letters, 91, pp 2368–2377 (2020) DOI: 10.1785/0220190295

Earthquakes Within Earthquakes: Patterns in Rupture Complexity

Danr'e, P., Yin, J., Lipovsky, B., Denolle, M.

Geophysical Research Letters, 43(13), pp 7352–7360 (2019) DOI: 10.1029/2019GL083093

Long-period ground motions from past and virtual megathrust earthquakes along the Nankai Trough, Japan

Viens, L., Denolle, M.

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(4), pp 1312–1330 (2019) DOI: 10.1785/0120180320

Energetic Onset of Earthquakes

Denolle, M.

Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), pp 2458–2466 (2019) DOI: 10.1029/2018GL080687

Relating teleseismic backprojection images to earthquake kinematics

Yin, J., Denolle, M.

Geophysical Journal International, 217(2), pp 729–747 (2019) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggz048

Geometric Controls on Pulse-like Rupture in a Dynamic Model of the 2015 Gorkha Earthquake

Wang, Y., Denolle, M., Day, S. M.

Journal of Geophysical Research, 124(2), pp 1544–1568 (2019) DOI: 10.1029/2018JB016602

Tracking groundwater levels using the ambient seismic field

Clements, T., Denolle, M. A.

Geophysical Research Letters, 45, pp 6459–6465 (2018) DOI: 10.1029/2018GL077706

Tracking ground water using the ambient seismic field

Clements, T., Denolle, M.

(User text suggests possible mismatch of volume/issue) Geophysical Research Letters, 123(4), pp 2923–294 (2018) DOI: 10.1029/2018GL077706

Complex near-surface rheology inferred from the response of greater Tokyo to strong ground motions

Viens, L., Denolle, M., Hirata, N., Nakagawa, S.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(7), pp 5710–5729 (2018)

Strong Shaking Predicted in Tokyo From an Expected M7+ Itoigawa-Shizuoka Earthquake

Denolle, M. A., Bou'e, P., Hirata, N., Beroza, G. C.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(5), pp 3968–3992 (2018)

Improved model fitting for the empirical Green’s function approach using hierarchical models

Van Houtte, C., Denolle, M.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(4), pp 2923–2942 (2018)

Convolutional neural network for earthquake detection and location

Perol, T., Gharbi, M., Denolle, M.

Science Advances, 4(2), pp e1700578 (2018)

Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Earthquake Dynamics: Case Study of the Mw 8.3 Illapel Earthquake, Chile

Yin, J., Denolle, M. A., Yao, H.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123(1), pp 344–367 (2018) DOI: 10.1002/2017JB014265

Retrieving impulse response function amplitudes from the ambient seismic field

Viens, L., Denolle, M., Miyake, H., Sakai, S., Nakagawa, S.

Geophysical Journal International, 210(1), pp 210–222 (2017) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggx155

Multicomponent C3 Green’s Functions for Improved Long-Period Ground-Motion Prediction

Sheng, Y., Denolle, M. A., Beroza, G. C.

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 107(6), pp 2836–2845 (2017) DOI: 10.1785/0120170053

Beyond Basin Resonance: Characterizing Wave Propagation Using a Dense Array and the Ambient Seismic Field

Boue, P., Denolle, M., Hirata, N., Nakagawa, S., Beroza, G. C.

Geophysical Journal International, 206(2), pp 1261–1272 (2016) DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggw205

New perspective on self-similarity of shallow thrust earthquakes

Denolle, M., Shearer, P. M.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121(9), pp 6533–6565 (2016) DOI: 10.1002/2016JB013105

Dynamics of the M7.8 2015 Nepal Earthquake

Denolle, M., Fan, W., Shearer, P. M.

Geophysical Research Letters, 42(18), pp 7467–7475 (2015) DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065336

Long-period seismic amplification in the Kanto Basin from the ambient seismic field

Denolle, M., Miyake, H., Nakagawa, S., Hirata, N., Beroza, G. C.

Geophysical Research Letters, 41(18), pp 7467–7475 (2014) DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059425

Full 3D Tomography (F3DT) for Crustal Structure in Southern California Based on the Scattering-Integral (SI) and the Adjoint-Wavefield (AW) Methods

Lee, E.-J., Chen, P., Jordan, T. H., Maechling, P. B., Denolle, M., Beroza, G. C.

Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(8), pp 6421–6451 (2014) DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011236

Strong Ground Motion Prediction using Virtual Earthquakes

Denolle, M., Dunham, E. M., Prieto, G. A., Beroza, G. C.

Science, 343(6169), pp 399–403 (2014) DOI: 10.1126/science.1245678

Ground Motion Prediction of Realistic Earthquake Sources Using the Ambient Seismic Field

Denolle, M., Dunham, E. M., Prieto, G. A., Beroza, G. C.

Journal of Geophysical Research, 118(5), pp 2102–2118 (2013) DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009603

A numeric evaluation of attenuation from ambient noise correlation functions

Lawrence, J. F., Denolle, M., Seats, K. J., Prieto, G.

Journal of Geophysical Research, 118(12), pp 6134–6145 (2013) DOI: 10.1002/2012JB009513

Solving the Surface-Wave Eigenproblem with Chebyshev Spectral Collocation

Denolle, M., Dunham, E. M., Beroza, G. C.

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 102(3), pp 1214–1223 (2012) DOI: 10.1785/0120110183

On amplitude carried by the ambient seismic field

Prieto, G. A., Denolle, M., Lawrence, J. F., Beroza, G. C.

Comptes Rendus Geoscience (Thematic Issue: Imaging and Monitoring with Seismic Noise), 343, pp 600–614 (2011) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2011.03.006

Evidence of active backthrusting at the NE Margin of Mentawai Islands, SW, Sumatra

Singh, S., Hananto, N., Chauhan, A., Permana, H., Denolle, M., Hendriyana, A., Natawidjaja, D.

Geophysical Journal International, 180(2), pp 703–714 (2010) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04458.x

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