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Daniel S. Brothers

Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
United States Geological Survey

Research Geophysicist

Expertise: Marine Seismology, Active Tectonics, Submarine Slope Stability

About Me Publications

I received my Ph.D. in 2009 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, then moved to Woods Hole, MA, for a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2013, I moved to Santa Cruz, CA, where I currently work as a Research Geophysicist at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center. I grew up in Colorado and spent four years at CU Boulder for undergraduate studies in geophysics.

My research is focused on the following topics:
-Development and application of geophysical approaches to offshore earthquake, landslide and tsunami hazard assesments
-Marine paleoseismology
-Understanding the interplay between tectonic, sedimentary, climatic processes along continental margins.
-Combining basic and applied research to study the geomorphic development of continental margins, including substrate fluid flow

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Bazán Flores, L. I., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., & Brothers, D. S. (2023, 09). Normal Fault Displacement History Provides Clues on Ruptures Along the Southern San Andreas Fault . Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12988

Alongi, T. V., Brodsky, E. E., Kluesner, J. W., & Brothers, D. S. (2023, 09). What Controls the Shallow Fault Damage Zone and Fluid Flow? Insights from New High-Resolution Seismic Imaging . Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12904

Bazán Flores, L. I., Kyriakopoulos, C., Oglesby, D. D., Meltzner, A. J., Rockwell, T. K., Fletcher, J. M., & Brothers, D. S. (2022, 09). Exploring the Dynamic Interactions Between the Southern San Andreas Fault and Normal Faults under the Salton Sea. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12565

Alongi, T. V., Brodsky, E. E., Kluesner, J. W., & Brothers, D. S. (2022, 09). Using Active Source Seismology to Image the Palos Verdes Fault Damage Zone as a Function of Distance, Depth, and Geology. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 12236

Alongi, T. V., Brodsky, E. E., Kluesner, J. W., & Brothers, D. S. (2021, 08). Using Active Source Seismology to Image a Strike-Slip Fault Damage Zone as a Function of Depth, Distance, and Geology. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11130

Singleton, D. M., Maloney, J. M., Brothers, D. S., Driscoll, N. W., Kluesner, J. W., & Sliter, R. W. (2019, 08). Recent faulting in south San Diego Bay: A Rose Canyon – San Miguel-Vallecitos fault connection?. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9722

Alongi, T. V., Brodsky, E. E., Kluesner, J. W., & Brothers, D. S. (2019, 08). Fault Damage Zones in 3D with Active-Source Seismic Data. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9334

Alongi, T. V., Brodsky, E. E., Kluesner, J. W., & Brothers, D. S. (2019, 12). Fault Damage Zones in 3D with Active-Source Seismic Data. Poster Presentation at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11000

Conrad, J., Brothers, D. S., Walton, M. L., Sliter, R. W., & Dartnell, P. (2018, 08). Seafloor scarps, stepover geometry, and kinematics of the Newport-Inglewood fault zone offshore Oceanside, California. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8732

Kluesner, J. W., Brothers, D. S., Wright, A., & Johnson, S. (2018, 08). 3D insights into active deformation, stratigraphic architecture, and submarine slope failure in the Santa Barbara Channel, southern California. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8659

Walton, M. L., Brothers, D. S., Conrad, J. E., Maier, K. L., Roland, E. C., & Kluesner, J. W. (2017, 08). Fault and depositional architecture of the Catalina Basin, southern California Inner Continental Borderland: implications for hazards and basin evolution. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7827

Brothers, D. S., Driscoll, N. W., Kent, G. M., Harding, A. J., Babcock, J. M., & Baskin, R. L. (2010). Late-Holocene earthquake and sedimentary histories beneath the Salton Sea, California: relationship between lake flooding and fault rupture. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, (under review). SCEC Contribution 1348

Alongi, T. V., Brodsky, E. E., Kluesner, J. W., & Brothers, D. S. (2022). Using Active Source Seismology to Image the Palos Verdes Fault Damage Zone as a Function of Distance, Depth, and Geology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117871. SCEC Contribution 13373

Kilb, D. L., Brothers, D. S., Luttrell, K. M., Driscoll, N. W., & Kent, G. M. (2011). Loading of the San Andreas fault by flood-induced rupture of faults beneath the Salton Sea. Nature Geoscience,. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1184. SCEC Contribution 1353

Brothers, D. S., Driscoll, N. W., Kent, G. M., Harding, A. J., Babcock, J. M., & Baskin, R. L. (2009). Tectonic evolution of the Salton Sea inferred from seismic reflection data. Nature Geoscience,. doi: 10.1038/NGEO590. SCEC Contribution 1347

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