Josie Nevitt
Josie Nevitt (Full name: Johanna M. Nevitt) is a Research Geophysicist with the Earthquake Science Center.
Awards
2016 Mendenhall Fellowship, US Geological Survey
2015 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University
2015 Excellence in Mentoring Award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
2013 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship, completed at University of Otago, New Zealand
2011 Outstanding Student Paper Award, Tectonophysics Section, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2009 William Wallace Peery Medalist, Tulane University
2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Professional Experience
2019-present Research Geophysicist, US Geological Survey
2019 Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
2016-2019 Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, US Geological Survey
2015-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University
Education and Certifications
2015 PhD Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
2009 BS Geology, Tulane University
Science and Products
High-resolution seismic imaging data acquired in 2021 across a trace of the San Andreas Fault at Mee Ranch, Monterey County, California
In April of 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a high-resolution seismic survey at Mee Ranch in Monterey County, California. Both passive- and active-source seismic data were acquired using DTCC SmartSolo 3-component nodal seismograph systems ("nodes"), which continuously recorded data at rates up to 2000 samples per second. For passive-source acquisition, a 6x5 grid of nodes was...
High-resolution seismic imaging of the West Napa Fault Zone at Buhman Avenue, Napa, California
In November 2016, the U.S. Geological Survey acquired high resolution P- and S-wave seismic data across the trace of the West Napa Fault zone near Buhman Avenue in Napa, California. The primary goal of the seismic survey was to image the subsurface damage from the 2014 MW 6.0 South Napa earthquake to assist in a near-surface fault slip and deformation investigation. We acquired seismic...
High-resolution seismic imaging of the West Napa Fault Zone at Saintsbury Winery, Napa, California
In November 2016, the U.S. Geological Survey acquired high resolution P- and S-wave seismic data across the trace of the West Napa Fault zone in Saintsbury winery in Napa, California. The primary goal of the seismic survey was to image the subsurface damage from the 2014 MW 6.0 South Napa earthquake to assist in a near-surface fault slip and deformation investigation. We acquired seismic...
Rapid shallow megathrust afterslip from the 2021 M8.2 Chignik, Alaska earthquake revealed by seafloor geodesy
The shallower portions of subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth’s most hazardous tsunamigenic earthquakes, yet understanding how and when they slip remains elusive because of challenges making seafloor observations. We performed Global Navigation Satellite System Acoustic seafloor geodetic surveys before and ~2.5 months after the 29 July 2021 Mw (moment magnitude) 8.2 Chignik...
Authors
Benjamin A. Brooks, Dara Elyse Goldberg, John DeSanto, Todd Ericksen, Spahr Webb, Scott Nooner, C. David Chadwell, James H. Foster, Sarah E. Minson, Robert Witter, Peter J. Haeussler, Jeffery T. Freymueller, William D. Barnhart, Johanna Nevitt
Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground‐Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence
The MwMw 6.4 and MwMw 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence occurred on 4 and 5 July 2019 within the eastern California shear zone of southern California. Both events produced extensive surface faulting and ground deformation within Indian Wells Valley and Searles Valley. In the weeks following the earthquakes, more than six dozen scientists from government, academia, and the private sector...
Authors
Daniel J. Ponti, J. Luke Blair, Rosa Carla M, Kate Thomas, Alexandra J. Pickering, Sinan Akçiz, Stephen J. Angster, Jean-Philipe Avouac, Jeffrey Bachhuber, Steven N. Bacon, Nicolas C. Barth, Scott E.K. Bennett, Kelly Blake, Stephan Bork, Benjamin A. Brooks, Thomas Bullard, Paul A. Burgess, Colin Chupik, Timothy E. Dawson, Michael DeFrisco, Jaime E. Delano, Stephen B. DeLong, James F. Dolan, Andrea Donnellan, Christopher DuRoss, Todd Ericksen, Erik Frost, Gareth J. Funning, Ryan D. Gold, Nicholas Graehl, Carlos I. Gutierrez, Elizabeth Haddon, Alexandra Elise Hatem, John Helms, Janis L. Hernandez, Christopher S. Hitchcock, Peter J. Holland, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Katherine J. Kendrick, Richard D Koehler, Ozgur Kozaci, Tyler C. Ladinsky, Robert Leeper, Christopher Madugo, Maxime Mareschal, James McDonald, Devin McPhillips, Christopher W. D. Milliner, Daniel Mongovin, Alexander E. Morelan, Stephanie Nale, Johanna Nevitt, Matt O'Neal, Brian J. Olsen, Michael E. Oskin, Salena Padilla, Jason R. Patton, Belle E. Philibosian, Ian Pierce, Cynthia L. Pridmore, Nathaniel Roth, David Sandwell, Katherine M. Scharer, Gordon G. Seitz, Drake Moore Singleton, Bridget Smith-Konter, Eleanor Spangler, Brian J. Swanson, Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe, Jerome A. Treiman, Francesca Valencia, Jeremy VanDerWal, Alana Williams, Xiaohua Xu, Judith Zachariasen, Jade Zimmerman, Robert Zinke
Kinematics of fault slip associated with the July 4-6 2019 Ridgecrest, Californai earthquakes sequence
The 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence produced observable crustal deformation over much of central and southern California, as well as surface rupture over several tens of kilometers. To obtain a detailed picture of the fault slip involved in the 4 July M 6.4 foreshock and 6 July M 7.1 mainshock, we combine strong‐motion seismic waveforms with crustal deformation...
Authors
Frederick Pollitz, Jessica R. Murray, Jerry L. Svarc, Charles W. Wicks, Evelyn A. Roeloffs, Sarah E. Minson, Katherine M. Scharer, Katherine J. Kendrick, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Johanna Nevitt, Benjamin A. Brooks, David Mencin
Rapid geodetic observations of spatiotemporally varying postseismic deformation following the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence: The U.S. Geological Survey response
The U.S. Geological Survey’s geodetic response to the 4–5 July 2019 (Pacific time) Ridgecrest earthquake sequence comprised primarily the installation and/or reoccupation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) monumentation. Our response focused primarily on the United States’ Navy’s China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station base (NAWSCL). This focus was because much of the surface...
Authors
Benjamin A. Brooks, Jessica R. Murray, Jerry L. Svarc, Eleyne L. Phillips, Ryan Clayton Turner, Mark Hunter Murray, Todd Ericksen, Kang Wang, Sarah E. Minson, Roland Burgmann, Frederick Pollitz, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Johanna Nevitt, Evelyn A. Roeloffs, Janis L. Hernandez, Brian P.E. Olson
Mechanics of near-field deformation during co- and post-seismic shallow fault slip
Poor knowledge of how faults slip and distribute deformation in the shallow crust hinders efforts to mitigate hazards where faults increasingly intersect with the expanding global population at Earth’s surface. Here we analyze two study sites along the 2014 M 6.0 South Napa, California, earthquake rupture, each dominated by either co- or post-seismic shallow fault slip. We combine mobile...
Authors
Johanna Nevitt, Benjamin A. Brooks, Rufus D. Catchings, Mark Goldman, Todd Ericksen, Craig L. Glennie
Using geologic structures to constrain constitutive laws not accessible in the laboratory
In this essay, we explore a central problem of structural geology today, and in the foreseeable future, which is the determination of constitutive laws governing rock deformation to produce geologic structures. Although laboratory experiments provide much needed data and insights about constitutive laws, these experiments cannot cover the range of conditions and compositions relevant to...
Authors
Johanna Nevitt, Jessica M. Warren, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, David D. Pollard
Buried shallow fault slip from the South Napa earthquake revealed by near-field geodesy
Earthquake-related fault slip in the upper hundreds of meters of Earth’s surface has remained largely unstudied because of challenges measuring deformation in the near field of a fault rupture. We analyze centimeter-scale accuracy mobile laser scanning (MLS) data of deformed vine rows within ±300 m of the principal surface expression of the M (magnitude) 6.0 2014 South Napa earthquake...
Authors
Benjamin A. Brooks, Sarah E. Minson, Craig L. Glennie, Johanna Nevitt, Timothy E. Dawson, Ron S. Rubin, Todd Ericksen, David Lockner, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Victoria Langenheim, Andrew Lutz, Jessica R. Murray, David P. Schwartz, Dana Zaccone
Non-USGS Publications**
Hilley, G.E., R.M. Sare, F. Aron, C.W. Baden, D.W. Caress, C.M. Castillo, S.C. Dobbs, J.T. Gooley, S.A. Johnstone, F. Liu, T. McHargue, J.M. Nevitt, C.K. Paull, L. Shumaker, M.M. Traer, and H.H. Young, 2020. Coexisting seismic behavior of transform faults revealed by high-resolution bathymetry, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46663.1
Nevitt, J.M., J.M. Warren, K. Kumamoto, & D.D. Pollard, 2019. Using geologic structures to constrain constitutive laws not accessible in the laboratory, Journal of Structural Geology, 125, 55-63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.06.006
Cruz, L., J.M. Nevitt, G. Seixas, and G.E. Hilley, 2017. What do kinematic models imply about the constitutive properties of rocks deformed in flat-ramp-flat folds?, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 9581-9588, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074397
Nevitt, J.M., D.D. Pollard, and J.M. Warren, 2017. Testing constitutive equations for brittle-ductile deformation associated with faulting in granitic rock, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 122(8), 6269-6293, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014000
Nevitt, J.M., and D.D. Pollard, 2017. Impacts of off-fault plasticity on fault slip and interaction at the base of the seismogenic zone, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(4), 1714–1723, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071688
Nevitt, J.M., D.D. Pollard, J.M. Warren, and S.B. Kidder, 2017. Temperature evolution during late Cretaceous jointing and faulting in the Mount Abbot Quadrangle, Sierra Nevada, CA, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(3), 1270-1297, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GC006655
Nevitt, J.M., D.D. Pollard, and J.M. Warren, 2014. Evaluation of transtension and transpression within contractional fault steps: Comparing kinematic and mechanical models to field data, Journal of Structural Geology, 60, 55-69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2013.12.011
Li, Y.-X., T.E. Törnqvist, J.M. Nevitt, and B. Kohl (2011), Synchronizing a sea-level jump, final Lake Agassiz drainage, and abrupt cooling 8200 years ago, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 315-316, 41-50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.034
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
High-resolution seismic imaging data acquired in 2021 across a trace of the San Andreas Fault at Mee Ranch, Monterey County, California
In April of 2021, the U.S. Geological Survey conducted a high-resolution seismic survey at Mee Ranch in Monterey County, California. Both passive- and active-source seismic data were acquired using DTCC SmartSolo 3-component nodal seismograph systems ("nodes"), which continuously recorded data at rates up to 2000 samples per second. For passive-source acquisition, a 6x5 grid of nodes was...
High-resolution seismic imaging of the West Napa Fault Zone at Buhman Avenue, Napa, California
In November 2016, the U.S. Geological Survey acquired high resolution P- and S-wave seismic data across the trace of the West Napa Fault zone near Buhman Avenue in Napa, California. The primary goal of the seismic survey was to image the subsurface damage from the 2014 MW 6.0 South Napa earthquake to assist in a near-surface fault slip and deformation investigation. We acquired seismic...
High-resolution seismic imaging of the West Napa Fault Zone at Saintsbury Winery, Napa, California
In November 2016, the U.S. Geological Survey acquired high resolution P- and S-wave seismic data across the trace of the West Napa Fault zone in Saintsbury winery in Napa, California. The primary goal of the seismic survey was to image the subsurface damage from the 2014 MW 6.0 South Napa earthquake to assist in a near-surface fault slip and deformation investigation. We acquired seismic...
Rapid shallow megathrust afterslip from the 2021 M8.2 Chignik, Alaska earthquake revealed by seafloor geodesy
The shallower portions of subduction zone megathrust faults host Earth’s most hazardous tsunamigenic earthquakes, yet understanding how and when they slip remains elusive because of challenges making seafloor observations. We performed Global Navigation Satellite System Acoustic seafloor geodetic surveys before and ~2.5 months after the 29 July 2021 Mw (moment magnitude) 8.2 Chignik...
Authors
Benjamin A. Brooks, Dara Elyse Goldberg, John DeSanto, Todd Ericksen, Spahr Webb, Scott Nooner, C. David Chadwell, James H. Foster, Sarah E. Minson, Robert Witter, Peter J. Haeussler, Jeffery T. Freymueller, William D. Barnhart, Johanna Nevitt
Documentation of Surface Fault Rupture and Ground‐Deformation Features Produced by the 4 and 5 July 2019 Mw 6.4 and Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence
The MwMw 6.4 and MwMw 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence occurred on 4 and 5 July 2019 within the eastern California shear zone of southern California. Both events produced extensive surface faulting and ground deformation within Indian Wells Valley and Searles Valley. In the weeks following the earthquakes, more than six dozen scientists from government, academia, and the private sector...
Authors
Daniel J. Ponti, J. Luke Blair, Rosa Carla M, Kate Thomas, Alexandra J. Pickering, Sinan Akçiz, Stephen J. Angster, Jean-Philipe Avouac, Jeffrey Bachhuber, Steven N. Bacon, Nicolas C. Barth, Scott E.K. Bennett, Kelly Blake, Stephan Bork, Benjamin A. Brooks, Thomas Bullard, Paul A. Burgess, Colin Chupik, Timothy E. Dawson, Michael DeFrisco, Jaime E. Delano, Stephen B. DeLong, James F. Dolan, Andrea Donnellan, Christopher DuRoss, Todd Ericksen, Erik Frost, Gareth J. Funning, Ryan D. Gold, Nicholas Graehl, Carlos I. Gutierrez, Elizabeth Haddon, Alexandra Elise Hatem, John Helms, Janis L. Hernandez, Christopher S. Hitchcock, Peter J. Holland, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Katherine J. Kendrick, Richard D Koehler, Ozgur Kozaci, Tyler C. Ladinsky, Robert Leeper, Christopher Madugo, Maxime Mareschal, James McDonald, Devin McPhillips, Christopher W. D. Milliner, Daniel Mongovin, Alexander E. Morelan, Stephanie Nale, Johanna Nevitt, Matt O'Neal, Brian J. Olsen, Michael E. Oskin, Salena Padilla, Jason R. Patton, Belle E. Philibosian, Ian Pierce, Cynthia L. Pridmore, Nathaniel Roth, David Sandwell, Katherine M. Scharer, Gordon G. Seitz, Drake Moore Singleton, Bridget Smith-Konter, Eleanor Spangler, Brian J. Swanson, Jessica Ann Thompson Jobe, Jerome A. Treiman, Francesca Valencia, Jeremy VanDerWal, Alana Williams, Xiaohua Xu, Judith Zachariasen, Jade Zimmerman, Robert Zinke
Kinematics of fault slip associated with the July 4-6 2019 Ridgecrest, Californai earthquakes sequence
The 2019 Ridgecrest, California, earthquake sequence produced observable crustal deformation over much of central and southern California, as well as surface rupture over several tens of kilometers. To obtain a detailed picture of the fault slip involved in the 4 July M 6.4 foreshock and 6 July M 7.1 mainshock, we combine strong‐motion seismic waveforms with crustal deformation...
Authors
Frederick Pollitz, Jessica R. Murray, Jerry L. Svarc, Charles W. Wicks, Evelyn A. Roeloffs, Sarah E. Minson, Katherine M. Scharer, Katherine J. Kendrick, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Johanna Nevitt, Benjamin A. Brooks, David Mencin
Rapid geodetic observations of spatiotemporally varying postseismic deformation following the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence: The U.S. Geological Survey response
The U.S. Geological Survey’s geodetic response to the 4–5 July 2019 (Pacific time) Ridgecrest earthquake sequence comprised primarily the installation and/or reoccupation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) monumentation. Our response focused primarily on the United States’ Navy’s China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station base (NAWSCL). This focus was because much of the surface...
Authors
Benjamin A. Brooks, Jessica R. Murray, Jerry L. Svarc, Eleyne L. Phillips, Ryan Clayton Turner, Mark Hunter Murray, Todd Ericksen, Kang Wang, Sarah E. Minson, Roland Burgmann, Frederick Pollitz, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Johanna Nevitt, Evelyn A. Roeloffs, Janis L. Hernandez, Brian P.E. Olson
Mechanics of near-field deformation during co- and post-seismic shallow fault slip
Poor knowledge of how faults slip and distribute deformation in the shallow crust hinders efforts to mitigate hazards where faults increasingly intersect with the expanding global population at Earth’s surface. Here we analyze two study sites along the 2014 M 6.0 South Napa, California, earthquake rupture, each dominated by either co- or post-seismic shallow fault slip. We combine mobile...
Authors
Johanna Nevitt, Benjamin A. Brooks, Rufus D. Catchings, Mark Goldman, Todd Ericksen, Craig L. Glennie
Using geologic structures to constrain constitutive laws not accessible in the laboratory
In this essay, we explore a central problem of structural geology today, and in the foreseeable future, which is the determination of constitutive laws governing rock deformation to produce geologic structures. Although laboratory experiments provide much needed data and insights about constitutive laws, these experiments cannot cover the range of conditions and compositions relevant to...
Authors
Johanna Nevitt, Jessica M. Warren, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, David D. Pollard
Buried shallow fault slip from the South Napa earthquake revealed by near-field geodesy
Earthquake-related fault slip in the upper hundreds of meters of Earth’s surface has remained largely unstudied because of challenges measuring deformation in the near field of a fault rupture. We analyze centimeter-scale accuracy mobile laser scanning (MLS) data of deformed vine rows within ±300 m of the principal surface expression of the M (magnitude) 6.0 2014 South Napa earthquake...
Authors
Benjamin A. Brooks, Sarah E. Minson, Craig L. Glennie, Johanna Nevitt, Timothy E. Dawson, Ron S. Rubin, Todd Ericksen, David Lockner, Kenneth W. Hudnut, Victoria Langenheim, Andrew Lutz, Jessica R. Murray, David P. Schwartz, Dana Zaccone
Non-USGS Publications**
Hilley, G.E., R.M. Sare, F. Aron, C.W. Baden, D.W. Caress, C.M. Castillo, S.C. Dobbs, J.T. Gooley, S.A. Johnstone, F. Liu, T. McHargue, J.M. Nevitt, C.K. Paull, L. Shumaker, M.M. Traer, and H.H. Young, 2020. Coexisting seismic behavior of transform faults revealed by high-resolution bathymetry, Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46663.1
Nevitt, J.M., J.M. Warren, K. Kumamoto, & D.D. Pollard, 2019. Using geologic structures to constrain constitutive laws not accessible in the laboratory, Journal of Structural Geology, 125, 55-63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.06.006
Cruz, L., J.M. Nevitt, G. Seixas, and G.E. Hilley, 2017. What do kinematic models imply about the constitutive properties of rocks deformed in flat-ramp-flat folds?, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 9581-9588, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074397
Nevitt, J.M., D.D. Pollard, and J.M. Warren, 2017. Testing constitutive equations for brittle-ductile deformation associated with faulting in granitic rock, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 122(8), 6269-6293, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014000
Nevitt, J.M., and D.D. Pollard, 2017. Impacts of off-fault plasticity on fault slip and interaction at the base of the seismogenic zone, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(4), 1714–1723, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071688
Nevitt, J.M., D.D. Pollard, J.M. Warren, and S.B. Kidder, 2017. Temperature evolution during late Cretaceous jointing and faulting in the Mount Abbot Quadrangle, Sierra Nevada, CA, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(3), 1270-1297, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GC006655
Nevitt, J.M., D.D. Pollard, and J.M. Warren, 2014. Evaluation of transtension and transpression within contractional fault steps: Comparing kinematic and mechanical models to field data, Journal of Structural Geology, 60, 55-69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2013.12.011
Li, Y.-X., T.E. Törnqvist, J.M. Nevitt, and B. Kohl (2011), Synchronizing a sea-level jump, final Lake Agassiz drainage, and abrupt cooling 8200 years ago, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 315-316, 41-50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.034
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.