About me:I am a grad
student at USC since 2005, working with Prof. Yehuda Ben-Zion. I am
currently working on several aspects of surface fault-zone damage,
using GIS and Remote Sensing, as well as geochemistry, petrology and
micro-textures analysis. I am collaborating with Prof.
Tom
Rockwell from San Diego State University and Prof. Judi Chester
from Texas A&M. My research
interests are: Fault zone geology and Neotectonics, Paleoseismology and
Archeoseismology, Remote-sensing and topographic modeling, GIS uses in
geology. I was a teaching assistant in the following courses for the USC Earth Dept: *
'Geol 450 -
Geosystems' during Fall 2006, taught by Prof.
Thomas Jordan. Won a departmental TA award for teaching this course.
Academic history:August, 2005 Master of Science in geophysics from the Tel-Aviv University. Advisor: Prof. Shmuel Marco. Thesis: Paleoseismology of the Kinnarot Basin, Dead Sea Transform. Received 2 excellence scholarships, 1st and 2nd years. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.
July, 2002 Bachelor of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, double major in Computer Science and Geology. Received 1st year excellence scholarship. Graduated with Distinction.
Publications:Wechsler, N, Ben-Zion, N., and Christofferson, S., 2010, Evolving geometrical heterogeneities of fault trace data, submitted to Geophysical Journal International (link to pdf version) Wechsler,
N, Rockwell, T. K., and Ben-Zion, N., 2009, Analysis
of rock damage asymmetry from geomorphic signals along the trifurcation
area of
the San-Jacinto Fault, Geomorphology, Vol. 113(1-2), pp. 82-96, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.007 Rockwell,
T.
K.,
Sisk, M., Girty, G. G., Dor, O., Wechsler,
N. and
Ben-Zion, Y., 2009, Chemical and Physical Characteristics of
Pulverized
Tejon Lookout Granite Adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock Faults:
Implications for Earthquake Physics, Pure and Applied Geophysics,
Vol. 166, pp. 1725-1746, doi: 10.1007/s00024-009-0514-1 Wechsler, N., Katz, O., Dray, Y. Gonen, I., and Marco, S., 2009, Estimating location and size of historical earthquake by combining archaeology and geology in Um-El-Kanatir, Dead Sea Transform, Natural Hazards , Vol. 50(1), pp. 27-43. doi: 10.1007/s11069-008-9315-6
Wechsler, N., 2005, Paleoseismologyof the Kinnarot Basin,
Dead-Sea Transform, Thesis, submitted as part
of the requirements for a Master of Science in Tel-Aviv University,
Tel-Aviv,
Israel. Meetings: (Invited) Application of LiDAR and SRTM Data in the analysis of fault zone damage, Wechsler, N., Rockwell, T. K., and Ben-Zion, N., 2009, Seismological Society of America Annual meeting, Seismological Research Letters, Volume 80, No. 2, page 304. Quantifying Heterogeneity of Active Fault Zones Using Fault Trace Data, Wechsler, N., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2009, Seismological Society of America Annual meeting, Seismological Research Letters, Volume 80, No. 2, page 319. Characterization
of
Pulverized
Granite from a Traverse and a Shallow Drill along the San
Andreas Fault, Little Rock, CA, Wechsler, N.,
Allen,
E.
E., Rockwell, T. K.,
Chester, J., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2009a, Seismological Society of America Annual
meeting, Seismological Research Letters, Volume 80, No. 2, page 319. Physical and chemical characterization of pulverized granite from a shallow drill along the San Andreas Fault, Little Rock, CA, Wechsler, N, Allen, E E, Rockwell, T K, Chester, J S, Girty, G H, Ben-Zion, Y, 2008, Eos Trans. AGU, Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T51A-1861 A shallow borehole study of pulverized
granite along the San Andreas Fault, Little Rock, CA, Wechsler, N.,
Allen,
E.
E., Rockwell, T. K.,
Chester, J. S., and Ben-Zion, Y., 2008, Gordon Research Conference on rock mechanics,
Tilton, NH Damage
asymmetry from hydro-geomorphic signals along the trifurcation area of
the San-Jacinto Fault, Wechsler N.,
Rockwell,
T.
K., Ben-Zion Y.,
2007,Eos
Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H43E-1676 Identifying pulverized rocks at the macro
scale using Thermal Remote Sensing, a test case from the Mojave section
of the San-Andreas fault, Wechsler N., Eneva, M.,
Ben-Zion Y., 2006, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall
Meet. Suppl., Abstract T21C-0437 Quantifying heterogeneities in the surface traces of strike-slip faults. Wechsler N, Ben-Zion Y, Christofferson S, in the SSA annual meeting 2006, Seismological Research Letters, V. 77 (2), p. 253. [Abstract, word] Estimating historical earthquakes parameters using archeology and geology in Um-el-Kanatir, Dead Sea Transform. Wechsler N, Marco S, Katz O, in the SSA annual meeting 2006, Seismological Research Letters, V. 77 (2), p. 247. [Abstract, word] Evidence of post Lisan faulting at the eastern margin of the Kinnarot Basin. Wechsler N, Marco S, in the Geological Society of Israel Annual Meeting, Mashabim 2005. An earthquake-induced landslide offset of an archaeological site near the Sea of Galilee, Dead Sea Transform. Wechsler N, Marco S and Zingboim O, in International Workshop on the North Anatolian, East Anatolian and Dead Sea Fault Systems, METU, Ankara, Turkey, September 2003. Web: Um-el-Kanatir - an Archaeoseismology project in the Golan Heights, Israel. Personal:
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