I am a geophysicist with interests in seismology and geomechanics, fluid-solid interactions in Earth systems, theoretical glaciology, and environmental seismology. I have worked on modeling of earthquakes, debris flows, tsunamis, and subglacial hydrology and friction. I also have interest in understanding wave propagation, particularly for ground motion amplification using simplified models and imaging with ambient noise.
| Lee, Jaeseok, Tsai, Victor C., Hirth, Greg, Chatterjee, Avigyan, Trugman, Daniel T. "Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour." Nature, vol. 631, no. 8019, 2024, pp. 106-110. |
| Fichtner, Andreas, Kennett, Brian L. N., Tsai, Victor C., Thurber, Clifford H., Rodgers, Arthur J., Tape, Carl, Rawlinson, Nicholas, Borcherdt, Roger D., Lebedev, Sergei, Priestley, Keith, Morency, Christina, Bozdağ, Ebru, Tromp, Jeroen, Ritsema, Jeroen, Romanowicz, Barbara, Liu, Qinya, Golos, Eva, Lin, Fan-Chi. "Seismic Tomography 2024." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 114, no. 3, 2024, pp. 1185-1213. |
| Yan, Peng, Holland, David M., Tsai, Victor C., Vaňková, Irena, Xie, Surui. "Tidally Modulated Glacial Slip and Tremor at Helheim Glacier, Greenland." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 51, no. 1, 2024. |
| Tsai, Victor C, Sager, Korbinian, Bowden, Daniel C. "Towards limited-domain full waveform ambient noise inversion." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 237, no. 2, 2024, pp. 965-973. |
| Zhao, Boyang, Russell, James M., Tsai, Victor C., Blaus, Ansis, Parish, Meredith C., Liang, Jie, Wilk, Alexander, Du, Xiaojing, Bush, Mark B. "Evaluating global temperature calibrations for lacustrine branched GDGTs: Seasonal variability, paleoclimate implications, and future directions." Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 310, 2023, pp. 108124. |
| Hua, Junlin, Wu, Mengxi, Mulholland, Jake P., Neelin, J. David, Tsai, Victor C., Trugman, Daniel T. "High-resolution precipitation monitoring with a dense seismic nodal array." Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023. |
| Tsai, Victor C. "The Future of Earth Imaging." Seismological Research Letters, vol. 94, no. 5, 2023, pp. 2119-2128. |
| Tsai, Victor C, Huber, Christian, Dalton, Colleen A. "Towards the geological parametrization of seismic tomography." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 234, no. 2, 2023, pp. 1447-1462. |
| Zhao, Jiaju, Tsai, Victor C., Huang, Yongsong. "A nonlinear model for resolving the temperature bias of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) temperature proxies." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 327, 2022, pp. 158-169. |
| Muir, Jack B., Clayton, Robert W., Tsai, Victor C., Brissaud, Quentin. "Parsimonious Velocity Inversion Applied to the Los Angeles Basin, CA." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 127, no. 2, 2022. |
| Labedz, Celeste R., Bartholomaus, Timothy C., Amundson, Jason M., Gimbert, Florent, Karplus, Marianne S., Tsai, Victor C., Veitch, Stephen A. "Seismic Mapping of Subglacial Hydrology Reveals Previously Undetected Pressurization Event." Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 127, no. 3, 2022. |
| Smith, Kyle, Tape, Carl, Tsai, Victor C. "Seismic Response of Nenana Sedimentary Basin, Central Alaska." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 113, no. 2, 2022, pp. 762-781. |
| Meyers, Patrick M., Prestegard, Tanner, Mandic, Vuk, Tsai, Victor C., Bowden, Daniel C., Matas, Andrew, Pavlis, Gary, Caton, Ross. "A Linear Inversion Approach to Measuring the Composition and Directionality of the Seismic Noise Field." Remote Sensing, vol. 13, no. 16, 2021, pp. 3097. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Smith, Laurence C., Gardner, Alex S., Seroussi, Helene. "A unified model for transient subglacial water pressure and basal sliding." Journal of Glaciology, 2021, pp. 1-11. |
| Trugman, Daniel T., Chu, Shanna X., Tsai, Victor C. "Earthquake Source Complexity Controls the Frequency Dependence of Near‐Source Radiation Patterns." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 17, 2021. |
| Chu, Shanna X., Tsai, Victor C., Trugman, Daniel T., Hirth, Greg. "Fault Interactions Enhance High‐Frequency Earthquake Radiation." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, no. 20, 2021. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Hirth, Greg, Trugman, Daniel T., Chu, Shanna X. "Impact Versus Frictional Earthquake Models for High‐Frequency Radiation in Complex Fault Zones." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 126, no. 8, 2021. |
| Lognonné, Philippe, Kedar, Sharon, Tsai, Victor C. "Introduction to the Special Issue on Mars Seismology." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 111, no. 6, 2021, pp. 2883-2888. |
| Sager, Korbinian, Tsai, Victor C, Sheng, Yixiao, Brenguier, Florent, Boué, Pierre, Mordret, Aurélien, Igel, Heiner. "Modelling P waves in seismic noise correlations: advancing fault monitoring using train traffic sources." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 228, no. 3, 2021, pp. 1556-1567. |
| Haney, Matthew M, Tsai, Victor C. "Rayleigh-wave ellipticity in weakly heterogeneous layered media." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 228, no. 2, 2021, pp. 1313-1323. |
| Tsai, Victor C, Sager, Korbinian. "The relationship between cross correlations and Green’s functions in ambient noise interferometry with Bayesian constraints." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 228, no. 2, 2021, pp. 816-825. |
| Gestrich, Julia E., Fee, David, Tsai, Victor C., Haney, Matthew M., Van Eaton, Alexa R. "A Physical Model for Volcanic Eruption Tremor." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 125, no. 10, 2020. |
| Haney, Matthew M., Ward, Kevin M., Tsai, Victor C., Schmandt, Brandon. "Bulk Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle beneath Alaska from an Approximate Rayleigh-Wave Dispersion Formula." Seismological Research Letters, vol. 91, no. 6, 2020, pp. 3064-3075. |
| Muir, Jack B., Tsai, Victor C. "Did Oldham Discover the Core After All? Handling Imprecise Historical Data with Hierarchical Bayesian Model Selection Methods." Seismological Research Letters, 2020. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Hirth, Greg. "Elastic Impact Consequences for High‐Frequency Earthquake Ground Motion." Geophysical Research Letters, 2020. |
| Hsu, Y.‐F., Huang, H.‐H., Huang, M.‐H., Tsai, V. C., Chuang, R. Y., Feng, K.‐F., Lin, S.‐H. "Evidence for Fluid Migration During the 2016 Meinong, Taiwan, Aftershock Sequence." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 125, no. 9, 2020. |
| Brissaud, Quentin, Bowden, Daniel C., Tsai, Victor C. "Extension of the Basin Rayleigh-Wave Amplification Theory to Include Basin-Edge Effects." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 110, no. 3, 2020, pp. 1305-1322. |
| Muir, Jack B, Tsai, Victor C. "Geometric and Level Set Tomography using Ensemble Kalman Inversion." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 220, 2020, pp. 967-980. |
| Allstadt, Kate E., Farin, Maxime, Iverson, Richard M., Obryk, Maciej K., Kean, Jason W., Tsai, Victor C., Rapstine, Thomas D., Logan, Matthew. "Measuring Basal Force Fluctuations of Debris Flows Using Seismic Recordings and Empirical Green's Functions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 125, no. 9, 2020. |
| Haney, Matthew M., Tsai, Victor C. "Perturbational and nonperturbational inversion of Love-wave velocities." GEOPHYSICS, vol. 85, no. 1, 2020, pp. F19-F26. |
| Lambert, Valère, Tsai, Victor C. "Time-Dependent Stresses From Fluid Extraction and Diffusion With Applications to Induced Seismicity." Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 87, no. 8, 2020. |
| Farin, Maxime, Tsai, Victor C., Lamb, Michael P., Allstadt, Kate E. "A physical model of the high‐frequency seismic signal generated by debris flows." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 44, 2019, pp. 2529-2543. |
| Coughlin, M., Harms, J., Bowden, D. C., Meyers, P., Tsai, V. C., Mandic, V., Pavlis, G., Prestegard, T. "Coherence‐Based Approaches for Estimating the Composition of the Seismic Wavefield." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 124, no. 3, 2019, pp. 2941-2956. |
| Meyers, Patrick, Bowden, Daniel C., Prestegard, Tanner, Tsai, Victor C., Mandic, Vuk, Pavlis, Gary, Caton, Ross. "Direct Observations of Surface‐Wave Eigenfunctions at the Homestake 3D Array." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 109, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1194-1202. |
| Park, Sunyoung, Tsai, Victor C., Ishii, Miaki. "Frequency‐Dependent P Wave Polarization and Its Subwavelength Near‐Surface Depth Sensitivity." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 46, no. 24, 2019, pp. 14377-14384. |
| Fichtner, Andreas, Tsai, Victor C. "Theoretical Foundations of Noise Interferometry." Seismic Ambient Noise, 2019, pp. 109-143. |
| Brissaud, Quentin, Tsai, Victor C. "Validation of a fast semi-analytic method for surface-wave propagation in layered media." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 219, no. 2, 2019, pp. 1405-1420. |
| Mandic, Vuk, Tsai, Victor C., Pavlis, Gary L., Prestegard, Tanner, Bowden, Daniel C., Meyers, Patrick, Caton, Ross. "A 3D Broadband Seismometer Array Experiment at the Homestake Mine." Seismological Research Letters, vol. 89, no. 6, 2018, pp. 2420-2429. |
| Robel, Alexander A., Tsai, Victor C. "A Simple Model for Deglacial Meltwater Pulses." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 45, no. 21, 2018, pp. 11,742-11,750. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Ruan, Xiaozhou. "A simple physics-based improvement to the positive degree day model." Journal of Glaciology, vol. 64, no. 246, 2018, pp. 661-668. |
| Panning, M.P., Stähler, S.C., Huang, H.-H., Vance, S.D., Kedar, S., Tsai, V.C., Pike, W.T., Lorenz, R.D. "Expected Seismicity and the Seismic Noise Environment of Europa." Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, vol. 123, no. 1, 2018, pp. 163-179. |
| Chen, Haichao, Tsai, Victor C., Niu, Fenglin. "Observations and Modeling of Long-Period Ground-Motion Amplification Across Northeast China." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 45, no. 12, 2018, pp. 5968-5976. |
| Gimbert, Florent, Fuller, Brian M., Lamb, Michael P., Tsai, Victor C., Johnson, Joel P. L. "Particle transport mechanics and induced seismic noise in steep flume experiments with accelerometer-embedded tracers." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, vol. 44, no. 1, 2018, pp. 219-241. |
| Lai, Voon Hui, Tsai, Victor C., Lamb, Michael P., Ulizio, Thomas P., Beer, Alexander R. "The Seismic Signature of Debris Flows: Flow Mechanics and Early Warning at Montecito, California." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 45, no. 11, 2018, pp. 5528-5535. |
| Vance, S.D., Kedar, S., Panning, M.P., Stähler, S.C., Bills, B.G., Lorenz, R.D., Huang, H.-H., Pike, W.T., Castillo, J.C., Lognonné, P., Tsai, V.C., Rhoden, A.R. "Vital Signs: Seismology of Icy Ocean Worlds." Astrobiology, vol. 18, no. 1, 2018, pp. 37-53. |
| Bowden, Daniel C., Tsai, Victor C., Lin, Fan-Chi. "Amplification and Attenuation Across USArray Using Ambient Noise Wavefront Tracking." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 122, no. 12, 2017, pp. 10,086-10,101. |
| Bowden, Daniel C., Tsai, Victor C. "Earthquake ground motion amplification for surface waves." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 44, no. 1, 2017, pp. 121-127. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Bowden, Daniel C., Kanamori, Hiroo. "Explaining extreme ground motion in Osaka basin during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 44, no. 14, 2017, pp. 7239-7244. |
| Haney, Matthew M., Tsai, Victor C. "Perturbational and nonperturbational inversion of Rayleigh-wave velocities." GEOPHYSICS, vol. 82, no. 3, 2017, pp. F15-F28. |
| Muir, Jack B., Tsai, Victor C. "Rayleigh‐Wave H/V via Noise Cross Correlation in Southern California." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 107, no. 5, 2017, pp. 2021-2027. |
| Schmandt, B., Gaeuman, D., Stewart, R., Hansen, S.M., Tsai, V.C., Smith, J. "Seismic array constraints on reach-scale bedload transport." Geology, vol. 45, no. 4, 2017, pp. 299-302. |
| Aso, Naofumi, Tsai, Victor C., Schoof, Christian, Flowers, Gwenn E., Whiteford, Arran, Rada, Camilo. "Seismologically Observed Spatiotemporal Drainage Activity at Moulins." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 122, no. 11, 2017, pp. 9095-9108. |
| Robel, Alexander A., Tsai, Victor C., Minchew, Brent, Simons, Mark. "Tidal modulation of ice shelf buttressing stresses." Annals of Glaciology, vol. 58, no. 74, 2017, pp. 12-20. |
| Huang, Hsin-Hua, Aso, Naofumi, Tsai, Victor C. "Toward automated directivity estimates in earthquake moment tensor inversion." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 211, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1062-1076. |
| Hough, Susan E., Tsai, Victor C., Walker, Robert, Aminzadeh, Fred. "Was the Mw 7.5 1952 Kern County, California, earthquake induced (or triggered)?." Journal of Seismology, vol. 21, no. 6, 2017, pp. 1613-1621. |
| Lin, Yen-Yu, Ma, Kuo-Fong, Kanamori, Hiroo, Song, Teh-Ru Alex, Lapusta, Nadia, Tsai, Victor C. "Evidence for non-self-similarity of microearthquakes recorded at a Taiwan borehole seismometer array." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 206, no. 2, 2016, pp. 757-773. |
| Bowden, D. C., Kohler, M. D., Tsai, V. C., Weeraratne, D. S. "Offshore Southern California lithospheric velocity structure from noise cross-correlation functions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 121, no. 5, 2016, pp. 3415-3427. |
| Gimbert, Florent, Tsai, Victor C., Amundson, Jason M., Bartholomaus, Timothy C., Walter, Jacob I. "Subseasonal changes observed in subglacial channel pressure, size, and sediment transport." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 43, no. 8, 2016, pp. 3786-3794. |
| Adhikari, S., Tsai, V. C. "A model for subglacial flooding through a preexisting hydrological network during the rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 120, no. 3, 2015, pp. 580-603. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Gudmundsson, G. Hilmar. "An improved model for tidally modulated grounding-line migration." Journal of Glaciology, vol. 61, no. 226, 2015, pp. 216-222. |
| Huang, Hsin-Hua, Lin, Fan-Chi, Tsai, Victor C., Koper, Keith D. "High-resolution probing of inner core structure with seismic interferometry." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 24, 2015, pp. 10,622-10,630. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Stewart, Andrew L., Thompson, Andrew F. "Marine ice-sheet profiles and stability under Coulomb basal conditions." Journal of Glaciology, vol. 61, no. 226, 2015, pp. 205-215. |
| Dow, C. F., Kulessa, B., Rutt, I. C., Tsai, V. C., Pimentel, S., Doyle, S. H., van As, D., Lindbäck, K., Pettersson, R., Jones, G. A., Hubbard, A. "Modeling of subglacial hydrological development following rapid supraglacial lake drainage." Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 120, no. 6, 2015, pp. 1127-1147. |
| Haney, Matthew M., Tsai, Victor C. "Nonperturbational surface-wave inversion: A Dix-type relation for surface waves." GEOPHYSICS, vol. 80, no. 6, 2015, pp. EN167-EN177. |
| Gimbert, Florent, Tsai, Victor C. "Predicting short-period, wind-wave-generated seismic noise in coastal regions." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 426, 2015, pp. 280-292. |
| Chao, Wei-An, Wu, Yih-Min, Zhao, Li, Tsai, Victor C., Chen, Chi-Hsuan. "Seismologically determined bedload flux during the typhoon season." Scientific Reports, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015. |
| Bowden, D. C., Tsai, V. C., Lin, F. C. "Site amplification, attenuation, and scattering from noise correlation amplitudes across a dense array in Long Beach, CA." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, no. 5, 2015, pp. 1360-1367. |
| Huang, H.-H., Lin, F.-C., Schmandt, B., Farrell, J., Smith, R. B., Tsai, V. C. "The Yellowstone magmatic system from the mantle plume to the upper crust." Science, vol. 348, no. 6236, 2015, pp. 773-776. |
| Rice, James R., Tsai, Victor C., Fernandes, Matheus C., Platt, John D. "Time Scale for Rapid Draining of a Surficial Lake Into the Greenland Ice Sheet." Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 82, no. 7, 2015, pp. 071001. |
| Lin, F.-C., Tsai, V. C., Schmandt, B. "3-D crustal structure of the western United States: application of Rayleigh-wave ellipticity extracted from noise cross-correlations." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 198, no. 2, 2014, pp. 656-670. |
| Gimbert, Florent, Tsai, Victor C., Lamb, Michael P. "A physical model for seismic noise generation by turbulent flow in rivers." Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 119, no. 10, 2014, pp. 2209-2238. |
| Aso, Naofumi, Tsai, Victor C. "Cooling magma model for deep volcanic long-period earthquakes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 119, no. 11, 2014, pp. 8442-8456. |
| Tsai, V. C., Atiganyanun, S. "Green's Functions for Surface Waves in a Generic Velocity Structure." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 104, no. 5, 2014, pp. 2573-2578. |
| Thompson, J., Simons, M., Tsai, V. C. "Modeling the elastic transmission of tidal stresses to great distances inland in channelized ice streams." The Cryosphere, vol. 8, no. 6, 2014, pp. 2007-2029. |
| Zhan, Zhongwen, Kanamori, Hiroo, Tsai, Victor C., Helmberger, Donald V., Wei, Shengji. "Rupture complexity of the 1994 Bolivia and 2013 Sea of Okhotsk deep earthquakes." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 385, 2014, pp. 89-96. |
| Zhan, Zhongwen, Tsai, Victor C., Jackson, Jennifer M., Helmberger, Don. "Ambient noise correlation on the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 196, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1796-1802. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Ampuero, Jean-Paul, Kanamori, Hiroo, Stevenson, David J. "Estimating the effect of Earth elasticity and variable water density on tsunami speeds." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, no. 3, 2013, pp. 492-496. |
| Lin, Fan-Chi, Tsai, Victor C., Schmandt, Brandon, Duputel, Zacharie, Zhan, Zhongwen. "Extracting seismic core phases with array interferometry." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, no. 6, 2013, pp. 1049-1053. |
| Ma, Yiran, Clayton, Robert W., Tsai, Victor C., Zhan, Zhongwen. "Locating a scatterer in the active volcanic area of Southern Peru from ambient noise cross-correlation." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 192, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1332-1341. |
| Schmandt, Brandon, Aster, Richard C., Scherler, Dirk, Tsai, Victor C., Karlstrom, Karl. "Multiple fluvial processes detected by riverside seismic and infrasound monitoring of a controlled flood in the Grand Canyon." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, no. 18, 2013, pp. 4858-4863. |
| Lin, Fan-Chi, Tsai, Victor C. "Seismic interferometry with antipodal station pairs." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 40, no. 17, 2013, pp. 4609-4613. |
| Zhan, Zhongwen, Tsai, Victor C., Clayton, Robert W. "Spurious velocity changes caused by temporal variations in ambient noise frequency content." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 194, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1574-1581. |
| Duputel, Zacharie, Tsai, Victor C., Rivera, Luis, Kanamori, Hiroo. "Using centroid time-delays to characterize source durations and identify earthquakes with unique characteristics." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 374, 2013, pp. 92-100. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Minchew, Brent, Lamb, Michael P., Ampuero, Jean-Paul. "A physical model for seismic noise generation from sediment transport in rivers." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, no. 2, 2012, pp. L02404. |
| Zhan, Z., Helmberger, D., Simons, M., Kanamori, H., Wu, W., Cubas, N., Duputel, Z., Chu, R., Tsai, V. C., Avouac, J.-P., Hudnut, K.W., Ni, S., Hetland, E., Ortega Culaciati, F.H. "Anomalously steep dips of earthquakes in the 2011 Tohoku-Oki source region and possible explanations." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 353-354, 2012, pp. 121-133. |
| Meng, L., Ampuero, J.- P., Stock, J., Duputel, Z., Luo, Y., Tsai, V. C. "Earthquake in a Maze: Compressional Rupture Branching During the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra Earthquake." Science, vol. 337, no. 6095, 2012, pp. 724-726. |
| Lin, Fan-Chi, Schmandt, Brandon, Tsai, Victor C. "Joint inversion of Rayleigh wave phase velocity and ellipticity using USArray: Constraining velocity and density structure in the upper crust." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 39, no. 12, 2012. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Rice, James R. "Modeling Turbulent Hydraulic Fracture Near a Free Surface." Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 79, no. 3, 2012, pp. 031003. |
| Duputel, Zacharie, Kanamori, Hiroo, Tsai, Victor C., Rivera, Luis, Meng, Lingsen, Ampuero, Jean-Paul, Stock, Joann M. "The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence." Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 351-352, 2012, pp. 247-257. |
| Lin, Fan-Chi, Tsai, Victor C., Ritzwoller, Michael H. "The local amplification of surface waves: A new observable to constrain elastic velocities, density, and anelastic attenuation." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 117, no. B6, 2012, pp. B06302. |
| Tsai, Victor C. "A model for seasonal changes in GPS positions and seismic wave speeds due to thermoelastic and hydrologic variations." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 116, no. B4, 2011. |
| Love, Jeffrey J., Mursula, Kalevi, Tsai, Victor C., Perkins, David M. "Are secular correlations between sunspots, geomagnetic activity, and global temperature significant?." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 38, no. 21, 2011, pp. L21703. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Hayes, Gavin P., Duputel, Zacharie. "Constraints on the long-period moment-dip tradeoff for the Tohoku earthquake." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 38, no. 7, 2011, pp. L00G17. |
| Tsai, Victor C., McNamara, Daniel E. "Quantifying the influence of sea ice on ocean microseism using observations from the Bering Sea, Alaska." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 38, no. 22, 2011, pp. L22502. |
| Tsai, Victor C. "Understanding the amplitudes of noise correlation measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 116, no. B9, 2011. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Rice, James R. "A model for turbulent hydraulic fracture and application to crack propagation at glacier beds." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 115, no. F3, 2010. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Moschetti, Morgan P. "An explicit relationship between time-domain noise correlation and spatial autocorrelation (SPAC) results." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 182, 2010, pp. 454-460. |
| Love, J. J., Tsai, V. C., Gannon, J. L. "Averaging and sampling for magnetic-observatory hourly data." Annales Geophysicae, vol. 28, no. 11, 2010, pp. 2079-2096. |
| Tsai, Victor C. "The relationship between noise correlation and the Green's function in the presence of degeneracy and the absence of equipartition." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 182, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1509-1514. |
| Tsai, Victor C. "On establishing the accuracy of noise tomography travel-time measurements in a realistic medium." Geophysical Journal International, vol. 178, no. 3, 2009, pp. 1555-1564. |
| Joughin, Ian, Howat, Ian, Alley, Richard B., Ekstrom, Goran, Fahnestock, Mark, Moon, Twila, Nettles, Meredith, Truffer, Martin, Tsai, Victor C. "Ice-front variation and tidewater behavior on Helheim and Kangerdlugssuaq Glaciers, Greenland." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113, no. F1, 2008. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Rice, James R., Fahnestock, Mark. "Possible mechanisms for glacial earthquakes." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 113, no. F3, 2008. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Ekström, Göran. "Analysis of glacial earthquakes." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, no. F3, 2007. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Wettlaufer, J. S. "Star patterns on lake ice." Physical Review E, vol. 75, no. 6, 2007. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Stevenson, David J. "Theoretical constraints on true polar wander." Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 112, no. B5, 2007. |
| Ekstrom, G., Nettles, M., Tsai, V. C. "Seasonality and Increasing Frequency of Greenland Glacial Earthquakes." Science, vol. 311, no. 5768, 2006, pp. 1756-1758. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Nettles, Meredith, Ekström, Göran, Dziewonski, Adam M. "Multiple CMT source analysis of the 2004 Sumatra earthquake." Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 32, no. 17, 2005. |
| Tsai, Victor C., Kanamori, Hiroo, Artru, Juliette. "The morning glory wave of southern California." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 109, no. B2, 2004. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | PhD | Harvard University |
| 2006 | AM | Harvard University |
| 2004 | BS | California Institute of Technology |
2015: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2014: Seismological Society of America Charles F. Richter Award
2012: American Geophysical Union Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award
2009: Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellowship, U.S. Geological Survey
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Dalton, Colleen | Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences |
| Hirth, Greg | Interim Vice President for Research, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences |
| Huber, Christian | Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences |
| Smith, Laurence | John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies |
| Professor. Brown Unversity , 2023-Present |
| Associate Professor. Brown Univeristy , 2019-2023 |
| Professor. California Institute of Technology, 2017-2019 |
| Assistant Professor. California Institute of Technology, 2011-2017 |
| EEPS 1620 - Continuum Physics of the Solid Earth |
| EEPS 1630 - Introduction to Quantitative Glaciology |
| EEPS 1690 - Introduction to Methods in Data Analysis |
| EEPS 1960A - Earthquakes and the Rheology of the Crust and Mantle |
| EEPS 1960L - Foundational Readings in the Earth Sciences |
| GEOL 1620 - Continuum Physics of the Solid Earth |
