Eric G. Daub

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Geophysics Group and Center for Nonlinear Studies
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mail Stop D443
Los Alamos, NM 87545

Office: TA-03-472-115
Phone: 505-665-8498
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I am a postdoctoral researcher with Paul Johnson at Los Alamos in the Geophysics Group and the Center for Nonlinear Studies. I did my Ph.D. with Jean Carlson in the complex systems group in the UCSB Physics Department.

My research focuses on problems at the intersection of physics, geophysics, seismology, and materials science. This includes studying the dynamics of amorphous materials, such as glasses, colloids, emulsions, foams, and granular materials such as the crushed up rock that fills earthquake faults. Most of my work has focused on using these models to study earthquake rupture, using our models to improve our understanding of the frictional interactions that govern rupture propagation. The physics of the earthquake source is poorly constrained, and we aim to better understand how the physics that operates at small scales can produce different seismic dynamics that might be observed at the scale of faults.

At Los Alamos, I am studying laboratory data for stick-slip, the effect of acoustic waves on fault materials, stick-slip in bulk metallic glasses, and connections between laboratory data and constitutive models. I'm also developing a model for the frictional properties deep in the earth's crust where recent observations have shown that faults slip via small tremor events rather than earthquakes.


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Last updated: 10/30/11