Publications

In print  (*means group member)

Callahan, R.P., Huang, M.-H., Donaldson, A., Hudson-Rasmussen, B.*, and Zimmer, M., 2024, Geologic and tectonic controls on deep fracturing, weathering, and water flow in the central California Coast Range, Geophysical Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109129 

Amatya, P., Scheip, C., Deprez, A., Malet, J.-P., Slaughter, S.S., Handwerger, A.L., Emberson, R., Kirschbaum, D., Jean-Baptiste, J., Huang, M.-H., Clark, M., Zekkos, D., Huang, J.-R., Pacini, F., and Boissier, E., 2023, Learnings from rapid response efforts to remotely detect landslides triggered by the August 2021 Nippes earthquake and Tropical Storm Grace in Haiti, Nat Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06096-6

Hudson Rasmussen, B.*, Huang, M.-H., Hahm, W.J., Rempe, D. M., Dralle, D. N., and Nelson, M.D., 2023, Mapping variations in bedrock weathering with slope aspect under a sedimentary ridge-valley system using near-surface geophysics and drilling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128, e2023JF007254. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007254

Donaldson, A.M., Zimmer, M., Huang, M.-H., Johnson, K., Hudson Rasmussen, B.*, Finnegan, N., Barling, N., and Callahan, R., 2023, Symmetry in hillslope steepness and saprolite thickness between hillslopes with opposing aspects, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128, e2023JF007076. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007076

Daud, N., Stamps, D.S., Battaglia, M., Huang, M.-H., Saria E., and Ji, K.-H., 2023, Elucidating the magma plumbing system of Ol Doinyo Lengai (Natron Rift, Tanzania) using satellite geodesy and numerical modeling. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 438, 107821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2023.107821 

Townsend, M., and Huang, M.-H., 2022, Timescales of dike growth and chamber deflation constrain magma storage and transport pathways during Kilauea’s 2018 lower east rift zone intrusion. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB025636. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025636 Featured by Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Franklin, K.R.*, and Huang, M.-H., 2022, Revealing crustal deformation and strain rate in Taiwan using InSAR and GNSS. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL101306. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101306

Bell, E., Schmerr, N., Porter, R., Bleacher, J., Young, K., Huang, M.-H., Lekic, V., and Pettit, D., 2022, Active seismic exploration along a human Lunar mission traverse analogue in the San Francisco Volcanic Field. The Leading Edge , 41:10, 690-699. https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41100690.1  

Huang, M.-H., Udell Lopez, K.*, and Olsen, K. G., 2022, Icequake-magnitude scaling relationship along a rift within the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL097961. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL097961

Hahm, W.J., Dralle, D.N., Sanders, M., Bryk, A.B., Fauria, K.E., Huang, M.-H., Hudson-Rasmussen, B.*, Nelson, M.D., Pedrazas, M.A., Schmidt, L., Whiting, J., Dietrich, W.E., and Rempe, D.M., 2022, Bedrock vadose zone storage dynamics under extreme drought: consequences for plant water availability, recharge, and runoff. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR031781. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031781

Huang, M.-H., K. Morell, A. Duvall, S. F. Gallen, and G. E. Hilley, 2022, Exploring subduction zone geohazards on land and at sea, Eos, 103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220159. 

Handwerger, A.L., Huang, M.-H., Jones, S.Y.*, Amatya, P., Kerner, H.R., and Kirschbaum, D.B., 2022, Generating landslide density heatmaps for rapid detection using open-access satellite radar data in Google Earth Engine. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 22, 753-773, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-753-2022 

Olsen, K.G., Hurford, T.A., Schmerr, N.C., Huang, M.-H., Brunt, K.M., Zipparo, S.*, Cole, H.M., and Aster, R.C., 2021, Projected Seismic Activity at the Tiger Stripe Fractures on Enceladus, Saturn from an Analog Study of Tidally Modulated Icequakes within the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets,  126, e2021JE006862. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006862 Highlighted by AGU

Huang, M.-H., Hudson-Rasmussen, B.*, Burdick, S., Lekic, V., Nelson, M. D., Fauria, K. E., and Schmerr, N., 2021, Bayesian seismic refraction inversion for critical zone science and near-surface applications. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2020GC009172, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009172 

Pedrazas, M.P., Hahm, W.J., Huang, M.-H., Dralle, D., Nelson, M., Fauria, K.E., Bryk., A.B., Dietrich, W.E., and Rempe, D.M., 2021, Patterns of Weathering in Sedimentary Bedrock Across a Sequence of Repeating Ridges and Valleys. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126, e2020JF005848. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005848 

Handwerger, A.L., Booth, A.M., Huang, M.-H., and Fielding, E.J., 2021, Inferring the subsurface geometry and strength of slow-moving landslides using 3D velocity measurements from the NASA/JPL UAVSAR. J. Geophys. Res: Earth Surface, 126, e2020JF005898 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005898 Highlighted by JGR Editor

Chong, J.-H.*, and Huang, M.-H., 2021, Refining the 2018 Mw 7.5 Papua New Guinea Earthquake Fault Slip Model Using Sub-Pixel Offset, accepted in Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 111, 1032-1042, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200250 

Hsu, Y.-F., Huang, H.-H., Huang, M.-H., Tsai, V. C., Chuang, R. Y., Feng, K.-F., and Lin, S.-H., 2020, Evidence for fluid migration during the 2016 Meinong Taiwan aftershock sequence, J. Geophys. Res: Solid Earth., 125, e2020JB019994.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019994 

Huang, M.-H. and Evans, E.L., 2019, Total variation regularization of geodetically constrained block models in southwest Taiwan. J. Geophys. Res: Solid Earth, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018076

Le Béon, M., Marc, O., Suppe, J., Huang, M.-H., Huang, S.‐T., & Chen, W.‐S., 2019, Structure and deformation history of the rapidly growing Tainan anticline at the deformation front of the Taiwan mountain belt. Tectonics, 38. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005510

Handwerger, A. L., Fielding, E. J., Huang, M.-H., Bennett, G. L., Liang, C., and Schulz, W., 2019, Widespread initiation, reactivation, and acceleration of landslides in the northern California Coast Ranges due to extreme rainfall, J. Geophys. Res: Earth Surface,  124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005035.         Highlighted by AGU EOS and JGR Editor

Handwerger, A.L., Huang, M.-H., Fielding, E.J., Booth, A.M., and Bürgmann, R., 2019, A shift from drought to extreme rainfall drives a stable landslide to catastrophic failure, Scientific Reports, 9, 1569, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38300-0.pdf.

Bekaert, D.P.S., Jones, C.E., An, K., and Huang, M.-H., 2019, Exploiting UAVSAR for a comprehensive analysis of subsidence in the Sacramento Delta, Remote Sensing of Environment, 220, 124-134. link

Huang, M.-H. and Huang, H.-H., 2018, The complexity of the 2018 Mw 6.4 Hualien earthquake in east Taiwan, Geophysics. Res. Lett., 45, 13249-13257, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080821.

Dickinson-Lovell, H., Huang, M.-H., Freed, A.M., Fielding, E.J., Bürgmann, R., and Andronicos, C., 2018, Inferred rheologic structure and mantle conditions from postseismic deformation following the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., 213, 1720-1730, doi:10.1093/gji/ggx546.

Liang, C., Fielding, E. J., and Huang, M.-H., 2017, Estimating azimuth offset with double-difference interferometric phase: The effect of azimuth FM rate error in focusing. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., doi:10.1109/TGRS.2017.2737955.

Le Béon, M., Huang, M.-H., Suppe, J., Huang, S.-T., Pathier, E., Huang, W.-J., and Baize, S., 2017, Shallow structures triggered during the Mw 6.4 Meinong earthquake, southwestern Taiwan. Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 28, 663-681, doi:10.3319/TAO.2017.03.20.02

Huang, M.-H., Fielding, E. J., Liang C., Milillo, P., Bekaert, D., Dreger, D., and Salzer, J., 2017, Coseismic deformation and triggered landslides of the 2016 Mw 6.2 Amatrice earthquake in Italy. Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL071687.

Huang, M.-H., Fielding, E. J., Dickinson, H., Sun, J., Freed, A. M., and Bürgmann, R., 2016, Fault Geometry Inversion and Slip Distribution of the 2010 Mw 7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake from Geodetic Data. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth: Solid Earth, 121, doi:10.1002/2016JB012858.

Huang, M.-H., Tung, H., Fielding, E. J., Huang, H.-H., Liang, C., Huang, C., and Hu, J.-C., 2016. Multiple fault slip triggered above the 2016 Mw 6.4 MeiNong earthquake in Taiwan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 7459-7467, doi:10.1002/2016GL069351.

Huang, M.-H., Bürgmann, R., and Hu, J.-C., 2016. Fifteen years of surface deformation in southwestern Taiwan: Insight from SAR interferometry, Tectonophys., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.021.

Huang, M.-H., Bürgmann, R., and Pollitz, F., 2016. Lithospheric rheology constrained from twenty-five years of postseismic deformation following the 1989 Mw 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 435, 147-158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.018.

Dreger, D., Huang, M.-H., Rodgers, A., Taira, T., and Wooddell, K., 2015. Kinematic finite-source model for the August 24, 2014 South Napa, CA earthquake from joint inversion of seismic, GPS and InSAR data, Seism. Res. Lett., 86, 327-334, doi:10.1785/0220140244.

Huang, M.-H., Bürgmann, R., and Freed, A., 2014. Probing the lithospheric rheology across the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 396, 88-96, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.04.003.

Huang, M.-H., Dreger, D., Bürgmann, R., Yoo, S.-H., and Hashimoto, M., 2013. Joint inversion of Seismic and Geodetic data for the source of the 4th March 2010 Mw 6.3 Jia-Shian, Taiwan, Earthquake, Geophys. J. Int., 193, 1608-1626, doi:10.1093/gji/ggt058.

Hsieh, C.-S., Shih, T.-Y., Hu, J.-C., Tung H., Huang, M.-H., and Angelier, J., 2011, Using differential SAR interferometry to map land subsidence: a case study in the Pingtung Plain of SW Taiwan, Natural Hazard, doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9734-7.

Lin, K.-C. , Hu, J.-C., Ching, K.-E., Angelier, J., Rau, R.-J., Yu S.-Bl, Tsai, C.-H., Shin, T.-C., Huang, M.-H., 2010. GPS crustal deformation, strain rate and seismic activity after the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan. J. Geophys. Res., 115, B07404, doi:10.1029/2009JB006417.

Suppe, J., Huang, M.-H., Carena, S., 2009. Mechanics of thrust belts and the weak-fault/strong-crust problem, Trabajos de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, 29, 61-65.

Huang, M.-H., Hu, J.-C., Hsieh, C.-S., Ching, K.-E., Rau, R-J., and Pathier, E., 2009. Active deformation of Tainan Tableland of southwestern Taiwan based on geodetic measurements and SAR interferometry. Tectonophysics, 466, 322-334.

Hu, J.-C., Hou, C.-S., Shen, L.-C., Chan, Y.-C., Chen, R.-F., Huang, C., Rau, R.-J., Lin, C.-W., Huang M.-H., and Nien, P.-F., 2007. Fault activity and lateral extrusion inferred from velocity field revealed by GPS measurements in the Pingtung area of southwestern Taiwan. J. Asian Earth Sci., 31, 287-302.

Huang, M.-H., Hu, J.-C., Hsieh, C.-S., Ching, K.-E., Rau, R-J., Pathier, E., Fruneau, B., and Deffontaines, B., 2006. A growing structure near the deformation front in SW Taiwan as deduced from SAR interferometry and geodetic observation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L12305, doi:10.1029/2005GL025613.