Ph.D. Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2014
-Dissertation: “Mechanisms and Magnitude of Cenozoic Crustal Extension in the Vicinity of Lake Mead, Nevada and the Beaver Dam Mountains, Utah: Geochemical, Geochronological, Thermochronological and Geophysical Constraints”
M.Sc. Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, December 2007
-Thesis: “Sub-seismic Fracture Fabric of the San Andreas Fault Zone: SAFOD Borehole, Parkfield, California”
B.Sc. Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, June 2004
-Undergraduate Thesis: “Structural Analysis of the Paleozoic-Tertiary Contact near Mérida”
Almeida, R., Cai, Y., Hemming, S., Christie-Blick, N., and Neiswanger, L. (2016) Re-examination of the crustal boundary context of Mesoproterozoic granites in southern Nevada using chronology, Nd and Pb isotope composition. The Journal of Geology, 124, 313–329, DOI: 10.1086/685766.
Hubbard, J., Almeida, R., Foster, A., Sapkota, S., Burgi, P., and Tapponnier, P. (2016) Structural segmentation controlled the 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha earthquake rupture in Nepal. Geology, DOI:10.1130/G38077.1
Chan, C-H., Wang, Y., Almeida, R., and Yadav, R.B.S. (2016) Enhanced stress and changes to regional seismicity due to the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake on the neighbouring segments of the Main Himalayan Thrust. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.03.004
Feng, W., Lindsey, E., Barbot, S., Samsonov, S., Dai, K., Li, P., Li, Z., Almeida, R., Chen, J., and Xu, X. (2016) Source Characteristics of the 2015 MW 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake and its MW 7.2 Aftershock from Space Geodesy. Tectonophysics, doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.02.029
Feng, W., Tian, Y., Zhang, Y., Samsonov, S., Almeida, R., and Liu, P. (2017) A Slip Gap of the 2016 Mw 6.6 Muji, Xinjiang, China, Earthquake Inferred from Sentinel-1 TOPS Interferometry. Seismological Research Letters, 88, doi: 10.1785/0220170019
Li, Z., Liu-Zeng, J., Almeida, R., Hubbard, J., Sun, C., and Yi, G. (2017) Re-evaluating seismic hazard along the southern Longmen Shan, China: Insights from the 1970 Dayi and 2013 Lushan earthquakes. Tectonophysics, 717, p. 519-530.
Qian, Y., Ni, S., Wei, S., Almeida, R., and Zhang, H. (2017) The effects of core-reflected waves on finite fault inversions with teleseismic body wave data. Geophysical Journal International, 211, p. 958–973.
Almeida, R., Hubbard, J., Foster, A., Liberty, L., Sapkota, S. Seismic imaging of the Main Frontal Thrust in Nepal reveals a shallow décollement and blind thrusting. Submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Lindsey, E., Almeida, R., Hubbard, J., Bradley, K., Tsang, L., Mallick, R., Liu, Y., Burgmann, R., Hill, E. Structural control on downdip locking extent of the Himalayan megathrust. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.
Almeida, R., Lindsey, E., Bradley, K., Hubbard, J., Mallick, R., Hill, E. Geodesy cannot presently detect up-dip limit of frictional locking on megathrusts. To be submitted to Geophysical Research Letters.
Almeida, R., Christie-Blick, N., Hemming, S., Cai, Y., Thomson, S. and Anders, M. Reassessing the Magnitude and Mechanisms of Extension and the Role of Transfer Faults in the Lake Mead Region, Nevada: New Constraints from Frenchman Mountain and Gold Butte. To be submitted to GSA Bulletin