Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University
Palisades NY 10964
(845) 365-8380 FAX:(845)365-8150
shaw.at.ldeo.columbia.edu
At the heart of my research is the attempt to understand
the physics of earthquakes.
What happens when the earth suddenly ruptures? How does it move?
What equations describe this?
What underlies the variety of earthquake behaviors? Both observations
alone and theory alone
are too underconstrained to answer these questions by themselves.
It is only through an active
interplay between observations and theory that we can crack this problem,
and it is this interaction
which forms the central focus of my research.
I also maintain broader research
interests in Nonlinear Dynamics in the Earth Sciences