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Kirstie L Haynie, PhD

I am a developmental geophysicist working with the HazDev and NEIC teams at the Geologic Hazards Science Center at the USGS in Golden, Colorado. 

Kirstie L Haynie is currently a developmental geophysicist working on subduction zone related research and in Geoinformatics, where she is specifically focused on how to best leverage the Cloud for computationally-expensive workflows such as the USGS Slab2 subduction zone geometry model and ShakeMap. Kirstie finished her Ph.D. at the University at Buffalo, SUNY in Geodynamics. Her Ph.D. work focused on numerical modeling of subduction in south-central Alaska where she studied how flat slab and oceanic plateau subduction drive deformation in the overriding plate. Kirstie's research interests include subduction zone science, forearc slivers, great earthquakes, slab geometries, as well as numerical modeling, HPC, and cloud computing.

 

Education and Certifications

  • Ph.D. Geodynamics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, September 2019

        Dissertation Title: Controls of Flat Slab Versus Oceanic Plateau Subduction on Overriding Pl

  • B.S. Geophysics, University of Houston, May 2014

          Thesis Title: Shallow subsurface detection of buried weathered hydrocarbons using an integrated geophysical technique

  • B.S. Mathematics, University of Houston, May 2014

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Ready for real time: Performance of Global Navigation Satellite System in 2019 Mw 7.1 Ridgecrest, California, rapid response products

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) have undergone notable advancement in the last few decades, leading to the availability of a dataset with capabilities well beyond its original intended purpose. The proliferation of high‐rate (1 Hz or greater) GNSS receivers in areas of seismological interest now allows for routine consideration of dynamic earthquake ground motions, with centimeter‐leve
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Dara Elyse Goldberg, Kirstie Lafon Haynie
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Geologic Hazards Science Center

The US Geological Survey ground failure product: Near-real-time estimates of earthquake-triggered landslides and liquefaction

Since late 2018, the US Geological Survey (USGS) ground failure (GF) earthquake product has provided publicly available spatial estimates of earthquake-triggered landslide and liquefaction hazards, along with the qualitative hazard and population exposure-based alerts for M > 6 earthquakes worldwide and in near real time (within ∼30 min). Earthquake losses are oftentimes greatly aggravated by the
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Kate E. Allstadt, Eric M. Thompson, Randall W. Jibson, David J. Wald, Mike Hearne, Edward J. Hunter, Jeremy Fee, Heather Schovanec, Daniel Slosky, Kirstie Lafon Haynie
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Geologic Hazards Science Center

Regional Finite-Fault Models of the 2019 Mw7.1 Ridgecrest, California, Earthquake

This dataset complements the following publication: Goldberg, D.E. & Haynie, K.L (2021) Ready for real-time: Performance of Global Navigation Satellite Systems in 2019 Mw7.1 Ridgecrest, California, rapid response products, Seismological Research Letters, doi: 10.1785/0220210278. The availability of low-latency, high-rate Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) waveforms makes it possible to com
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Earthquake Hazards Program, Geologic Hazards Science Center
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Announcement: Subduction Zone Science Workshop - January 10–11, 2023

The U.S. Geological Survey invites you to a Subduction Zone Science workshop in Seattle at the University of Washington from January 10-11, 2023.

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