Tylerđź”—Newton

Data-driven research

Research

The degree to which this page is out of date may correlate with my degree of attention toward a current project. Status: ~2 years out of date with a steepening gradient (i.e. captivating projects abound!)

Principal Stress Analyses

Investigating stress orientations within Earth’s crust through stress inversions of fault slip vectors.
Publication: Newton, T. J., Thomas, A. M. (2020). Stress orientations in the Nankai Trough constrained using seismic and aseismic slip. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019841
Impact: Combined traditional earthquake data with model-derived data (slow slip earthquakes) to better constrain the solutions to stress tensor inversions, revealing the presence of intrinsically weak fault materials in the Nankai Trough of Japan.

Poster: Newton, T. J. and Thomas, A. M. (2019) Principal stress orientations of the Nankai Trough megathrust constrained by seismic and aseismic slip. Poster at MCS RCN Megathrust Modeling Workshop.

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Constraining Vertical Land Movement

1. Multi-parameter model of vertical land movement in the Pacific Northwest.
Publications: Newton, T. J., Weldon, R. Miller, I. M., Schmidt, D., Mauger, G., Morgan, H., Grossman, E. (2021). An Assessment of Vertical Land Movement to Support Coastal Hazards Planning in Washington State. Water 13, no. 3: 281. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13030281
Miller, I.M., Morgan, H., Mauger, G., Newton, T., Weldon, R., Schmidt, D., Welch, M., Grossman, E. (2018) Projected Sea Level Rise for Washington State – 2018 Assessment Prepared for the Washington Coastal Resilience Project. https://cig.uw.edu/resources/special-reports/sea-level-rise-in-washington-state-a-2018-assessment
Impact: Quantified vertical land movement and relative sea level change throughout coastal Washington to inform risk management planning.
Vertical velocity model: click to download .asc file

2. Separating Cascadia subduction zone locking from other sources of vertical land motion.
Publication: Newton, T. J., Weldon, R. Miller, I. M., Schmidt, D., Mauger, G., Morgan, H., Grossman, E. (2021). An Assessment of Vertical Land Movement to Support Coastal Hazards Planning in Washington State. Water 13, no. 3: 281. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13030281
Impact: Quantified and removed a convolved signal (assumed to be GIA) within our Miller et al. (2018) dataset to reduce model error by 2%.
Poster: Newton, T. J., Weldon R. J., Schmidt D. A., Miller I. M. (2019) Vertical Land Motion in Western Washington: Separating Cascadia Locking from Other Sources. Poster at Seismological Society of America meeting.

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Optimizing Nodal Seismometers

Status: Protyping v2 and field testing. I have designed, developed, and tested positioning devices for Fairfield Nodal 5 Hz 3-component seismometers that allow users to accurately and quickly deploy nodes and quantify the sensor orientation. v2 contains an accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer to quantify orientation, while v1 incorporated a bubble level and compass.


Durability tested by Atlas the dog.