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Junle Jiang

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Junle Jiang

Associate Professor
Lissa and Cy Wagner Professorship

Junle Jiang.

jiang@ou.edu

Sarkeys Energy Center, 946

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About

My research aims to understand the dynamics and societal impacts of deformation and seismicity in the Earth’s crust due to natural processes or human activities, including microseismicity, fault creep, major earthquakes, ground uplift and subsidence, and their interactions in geothermal fields, crustal faults, and subduction zones. I combine analyses of geodetic datasets, e.g., Global Positioning System (GPS) and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), with seismological observations and laboratory-based computational modeling to study these geophysical processes over multiple time scales (from seconds to centuries) and their behavior under transient or steady environmental forcing. Through such interdisciplinary efforts, I hope to further our understanding and assessment of natural hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and improve the monitoring and mitigation of induced hazards during geo-energy explorations such as hydraulic fracturing and geothermal energy production.

Education

  • Ph.D., 2016, Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • Ph.D. minor, 2014, Computational Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • M.S., 2011, Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, USA
  • B.S., 2009, Physics, Peking University, China

Research Interests

  • Computational geophysics
  • Crustal dynamics
  • Earthquake physics
  • Rock mechanics
  • Space geodesy
  • Inverse theory

Courses Taught

  • Volcanoes and Earthquakes
  • Physical Geology for Scientists and Engineers
  • Global Geophysics
  • Computational Geophysics
  • Remote Sensing and Space Geodesy
  • Frontiers of Geophysics
  • Geophysical Journal Seminar
  • Mentored Research Experience

Selected Publications

Selected Publications
  • Zhao, X. and Jiang, J. (2026) Bayesian inference of fault slip heterogeneity and overlap: Application to 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes and afterslip, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 131, e2025JB033686. doi:10.1029/2025JB033686
  • Shodunke, G. O., Jiang, J., and Bodunde, S. (2026). Influences of layered heterogeneity on poroelastic behavior of geological reservoirs, Geophys. J. Int., 245(1), ggag026, doi:10.1093/gji/ggag026.
  • Thapa, M., Pradhan, A., Chamlagain, D., Jiang, J., and Regmi, N. (2026). Variability of landslide susceptibility models under different ground motion scenarios in Rasuwa District, Nepal, Nat. Hazards, 122, 61, doi:10.1007/s11069-025-07752-9.
  • Lambert, V. R., Erickson, B. A., Jiang, J., Dunham, E. M., Kim, T., Ampuero, J.-P., Ando, R., Cappa, F., Dublanchet, P., Elbanna, A., Fialko, Y., Gabriel, A.-A., Lapusta, N., Li, M., Marcum, J., May, D., Mia, M. S., Ozawa, S., Pranger, C., Romanet, P., van Dinther, Y., Yang, Y. & Yun, J. (2025). Community-driven code comparisons for simulations of fluid-induced aseismic slip, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 130, e2024JB030601, doi:10.1029/2024JB030601.
  • Regmi, N. R., Walter, J. I., Jiang, J., Orban, A. M., and Hayman, N. W. (2024). Spatial patterns of landslides in a modest topography of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, USA, Catena, 245, 108344, doi:10.1016/j.catena.2024.108344.
  • Materna, K., Barbour, A., Jiang, J., and Eneva, M. (2022). Detection of aseismic slip and poroelastic reservoir deformation at the North Brawley Geothermal Field from 2009 to 2019, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 127, e2021JB023335, doi:10.1029/2021JB023335.
  • Jiang, J., Y. Bock, and E. Klein (2021), Coevolving early afterslip and aftershock signatures of a San Andreas fault rupture, Science Advances, 7, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abc1606.
  • Jiang, J., & Lohman, R. B. (2021), Coherence-guided InSAR deformation analysis in the presence of ongoing land surface changes in the Imperial Valley, California, Remote Sens. Environ., 112160, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2020.112160.
  • Erickson, B., J. Jiang, M. Barall, N. Lapusta, E. M. Dunham, R. Harris, L. Abrahams, K. Allison, J.-P. Ampuero, S. Barbot, C. Cattania, A. Elbanna, Y. Fialko, B. Idini, J. Kozdon, V. Lambert, Y. Liu, Y. Luo, X. Ma, P. Segall, P. Shi, and M. Wei (2020), The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS), Seismol. Res. Lett, doi:10/ggj42s.
  • Jiang, J. and N. Lapusta (2017), Connecting depth limits of interseismic locking, microseismicity, and large earthquakes in models of long-term fault slip, J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 122, 6491–6523, doi:10.1002/2017JB014030.
  • Jiang, J., and N. Lapusta (2016), Deeper penetration of large earthquakes on seismically quiescent faults, Science, 352(6291), 1293–1297, doi:10.1126/science.aaf1496.
School of Geosciences
Sarkeys Energy Center
100 East Boyd Street, RM 710
Norman, Oklahoma 73019
Phone: (405) 325-3253
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