Dr Sylvain Barbot studied earthquake physics and geodesy at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France and at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. As a graduate, his research focused on transient lithosphere deformation following earthquakes on strike-slip faults. During his postdoc at the California Institute of Technology, he studied the dynamics of earthquake cycles. Sylvain was a Nanyang Assistant Professor at the Earth Observatory of Singapore and the Asian School of the Environment. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. His research focus is to understand the physics of crustal and lithosphere dynamics across many temporal and spatial scales. His main interests are to understand the role of geometry and chemistry and of fault and off-fault deformation in the generation of earthquakes.
SCEC Participation
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2019 - Present)
Barbot, S. D., & Wang, L. (2020, 08). Excitation of San Andreas tremors by thermal instabilities below the seismogenic zone. Poster Presentation at 2020 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 10285
Rollins, C., Argus, D. F., Landry, W., Barbot, S. D., & Avouac, J. (2016, 08). Strain accumulation on faults beneath Los Angeles: a geodesy-based picture accounting for the effects of sedimentary basins and anthropogenic surface deformation. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6654
Barbot, S. (2020). Mantle flow distribution beneath the California margin. Nature Communications, 11(1). doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18260-8. SCEC Contribution 10870
Wang, L., & Barbot, S. (2020). Excitation of San Andreas tremors by thermal instabilities below the seismogenic zone. Science Advances, 6(36). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abb2057. SCEC Contribution 10869
Rollins, J. C., Barbot, S. D., & Avouac, J. (2015). Postseismic Deformation Following the 2010 M=7.2 El Mayor–Cucapah Earthquake: Observations, Kinematic Inversions, and Dynamic Models. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 172, 1305-1358. doi: 10.1007/s00024-014-1005-6. SCEC Contribution 1862
Bruhat, L., Barbot, S. D., & Avouac, J. (2011). Evidence for postseismic deformation of the lower crust following the 2004 Mw6.0 Parkfield earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(B08401), 11. doi: 10.1029/2010JB008073. SCEC Contribution 1584
Barbot, S. D., & Fialko, Y. (2010). A Unified Continuum Representation of Postseismic Relaxation Mechanisms: Semi-Analytic Models of Afterslip, Poroelastic Rebound and Viscoelastic Flow. Geophysical Journal International, 182, 1124-1140. SCEC Contribution 1336
Barbot, S. D., & Fialko, Y. (2010). Fourier-Domain Green Function for an Elastic Semi-Infinite Solid under Gravity, with Applications to Earthquake and Volcano Deformation. Geophysical Journal International, 182, 568-582. SCEC Contribution 1335
Barbot, S. D., Fialko, Y., & Bock, Y. (2009). Postseismic deformation due to the Mw6.0 2004 Parkfield earthquake: Stress-driven creep on a fault with spatially variable rate-and-state friction parameters. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, B07405. SCEC Contribution 1270
Barbot, S. D., Fialko, Y., & Sandwell, D. T. (2009). Three-dimensional models of elasto-static deformation in heterogeneous media, with applications to the Eastern California Shear Zone. Geophysical Journal International, 179, 500-520. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04194.x. SCEC Contribution 1266