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Welcome on my personal Webpage! Here you will find some informations about my career as a geophysicist and more specifically as a seismologist.

Analysis of earthquakes helps considerably in the comprehension of complex tectonic and volcanic processes taking place in ocean ridges, subduction zones and hot spots for example. Naturally, a better understanding of earthquakes mechanisms is of major importance to population directly concerned by seismic and volcanic risks. This research gave me the opportunity to study geological objects in regions all around the world such as Iceland, Azores, Australia, Vanuatu, Nepal and US.

I'm currently working as a Post-Doc in seismology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Contact details: baillard@uw.edu ; christian.c.baillard@gmail.com

List of Publications

Hoste-Colomer, R., Bollinger, L., Lyon-Caen, H., Adhikari, L.B., Baillard, C., Benoit, A., Bhattarai, M., Gupta, R.M., Jacques, E., Kandel, T., Koirala, B.P., Letort, J., Maharjan, K., Matrau, R., et al., 2018, Lateral variations of the midcrustal seismicity in western Nepal: Seismotectonic implications: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 504, p. 115–125, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.09.041.

Baillard, C., Crawford, W.C., Ballu, V., Pelletier, B., and Garaebiti, E. (2018), Tracking subducted ridges through intermediate-depth seismicity in the Vanuatu subduction zone. Geology, doi: 10.1130/G45010.1.

Wilcock, W.S.D., Dziak, R.P., Tolstoy, M., Chadwick, W.W., Nooner, S.L., Bohnenstiehl, D.R., Caplan-Auerbach, J., Waldhauser, F., Arnulf, A.F., Baillard, C., Lau, T.-K., Haxel, J.H., Tan, Y.J., Garcia, C., Levy, S., Mann, M.E. (2018). The recent volcanic history of Axial Seamount: Geophysical insights into past eruption dynamics with an eye toward enhanced observations of future eruptions. Oceanography

Baillard, C., Lyon-Caen, H., Bollinger, L., Rietbrock, A., Letort J. & Adhikari, L.B. (2017). Automatic analysis of the Gorkha earthquake aftershock sequence: evidences of structurally-segmented seismicity. Geophysical Journal International, 209(2), 1111–1125.

Letort, J., Bollinger, L., Lyon-Caen, H., Guilhem, A., Cano, Y., Baillard, C., & Adhikari, L. B. (2016). Teleseismic depth estimation of the 2015 Gorkha−Nepal aftershocks. Geophysical Journal International, 207(3), 1584–1595. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggw364

Baillard, C., Crawford, W. C., Ballu, V., Regnier, M., Pelletier, B., & Garaebiti, E. (2015). Seismicity and shallow slab geometry in the central Vanuatu subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth, 120(8). https://doi.org/10.1002/2014JB011853

Hibert, C., Mangeney, A., Grandjean, G., Baillard, C., Rivet, D., Shapiro, N.M.M., Satriano, C., Maggi, A., Boissier, P., Ferrazzini, V. and Crawford, W.C. (2014). Automated identification, location, and volume estimation of rockfalls at Piton de la Fournaise volcano: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 119, p. 1082– 1105, doi: 10.1002/2013JF002970.

Baillard, C., Crawford, W. C., Ballu, V., Hibert, C., & Mangeney, A. (2014). An Automatic Kurtosis-Based P- and S-Phase Picker Designed for Local Seismic Networks. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 104(1), 394–409. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120120347

Ballu, V., Bonnefond, P., Calmant, S., Bouin, M.-N., Pelletier, B., Laurain, O., Crawford, W.C., Baillard, C. & De Viron, O. (2013). Using altimetry and seafloor pressure data to estimate vertical deformation offshore: Vanuatu case study. Advances in Space Research, 51(8), 1335–1351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2012.06.009

Olsen-Kettle, L., Muhlhaus, H., Baillard, C., Mühlhaus, H., & Baillard, C. (2010). A study of localization limiters and mesh dependency in earthquake rupture. Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 368(1910), 119–30. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2009.0190

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