nnakata@mit.edu

Nori Nakata
  • Principal Research Scientist
  • PhD, Center for Wave Phenomena, Colorado School of Mines, 2013
  • MSc, Civil and Research Engineering, Kyoto U., 2010
  • BSc, Global Engineering, Kyoto U., 2008
Biographical Overview
Nori Nakata is a principal research scientist at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (2008) and Master of Engineering (2010) degrees from Kyoto University, and his PhD degree at Colorado School of Mines in 2013. He received the Mendenhall prize from the Colorado School of Mines for his PhD. Nori's research interests are extensive and include crustal/global seismology, exploration geophysics, volcanism, civil engineering, wave phenomena and earthquakes. Before he joined MIT in 2019, he was a postdoc fellow at Stanford University in 2013-2016 and an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma in 2016-2018.
In Press
M. C. A. White, Sharma, K. , Li, A. , Kumar, T. K. Satish, and Nakata, N. , “FastMapSVM: Classifying Complex Objects Using the FastMap Algorithm and Support-Vector Machines”, In Press.
2022
J. Chaput, Aster, R. , Karplus, M. , and Nakata, N. , “Ambient high-frequency seismic surface waves in the firn column of central west Antarctica”, Journal of Glaciology, pp. 1–14, 2022.
T. Bai, Lyu, B. , Li, F. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “Elastic geometric-mean Reverse-Time Migration for source imaging”, GEOPHYSICS, pp. 1 - 52, 2022.
M. C. A. White, Sharma, K. , Li, A. , Kumar, T. K. Satish, and Nakata, N. , “FastMapSVM: Classifying Complex Objects Using the FastMap Algorithm and Support-Vector Machines”. 2022.
H. Chang and Nakata, N. , “Investigation of Time-Lapse Changes with DAS Borehole Data at the Brady Geothermal Field Using Deconvolution Interferometry”, Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 185, 2022.
C. N. Pennington, Chang, H. , Rubinstein, J. L. , Abercrombie, R. E. , Nakata, N. , Uchide, T. , and Cochran, E. S. , “Quantifying the Sensitivity of Microearthquake Slip Inversions to Station Distribution Using a Dense Nodal Array”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2022.
T. Bai, Lyu, B. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “Receiver grouping strategies for hybrid geometric-mean reverse time migration”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. KS45 - KS55, 2022.
N. Nakata, Kim, Y. , Kono, A. , and Masaya, S. , “Usage of pre-stack vibroseis data before sweep correlation for noise removal and near-surface structural analysis”, 2022.
2021
H. Qiu, Nakata, N. , Pec, M. , Sánchez‐Pastor, P. , and Obermann, A. , “Ambient noise-based monitoring of seismic wave velocity modulations at the CarbFix reinjection site, SW-Iceland”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU, 2021.
M. Ichikawa, Mouri, T. , Shigematsu, A. , Kato, A. , Nakata, R. , Nakata, N. , and Xue, Z. , “Application of time-lapse acoustic FWI to cross-well seismic monitoring data sets in a CCS field ”, 82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2021.
M. C. A. White and Nakata, N. , “FastMapSVM: Classifying seismograms using FastMap and Support-Vector Machines”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU, 2021.
N. Gu, Zhang, H. , Nakata, N. , and Gao, J. , “Fault detection by reflected surface waves based on ambient noise interferometry”, Earthquake Research Advances, vol. 1, p. 100035, 2021.
V. A. Arroyo, Nakata, N. , and Estopier, M. , “Fracture Characterization Using CWI on Logging while Drilling Sonic Waveforms”, in Third EAGE Conference on Offshore Exploration and Development in Mexico, Online, 2021.
V. Johnson, Lipovsky, B. P. , Karplus, M. S. , Olinger, S. , Nakata, N. , and Booth, A. D. , “An Ice Sheet Aseismic Zone Inferred from the Absence of Icequakes in the Deep Interior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU, 2021.
B. Lyu, Bai, T. , Kurosawa, I. , and Nakata, N. , “Imaging source cloud in hydraulic fracturing using wavefield back-propagation methods”, in First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy, Denver, CO and virtual, 2021.
R. Ng, Nakata, N. , and Chen, X. , “Influence from wind and wind turbine on seismic noise observations in Oklahoma”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU, 2021.
R. Ng, Chen, X. , and Nakata, N. , “New analyses to legacy datasets reveal new insights on microseismicity source processes during hydraulic fracturing”, AGU Fall Meeting 2021. AGU, 2021.
H. Chang, Abercrombie, R. , Nakata, N. , Pennington, C. , Kemna, K. , Cochran, E. , and Harrington, R. , “Quantifying earthquake source parameter uncertainties associated with local site effects using a dense array”, Earth and Space Science Open Archive, p. 20, 2021.
N. Nakata and Abercrombie, R. , “Quantifying uncertainty in earthquake source parameters using the Large N LASSO Array”, U.S. Geological Survey, 2021.
T. Bai, Lyu, B. , Gao, F. , Williamson, P. , and Nakata, N. , “Receiver grouping strategies for a hybrid version of geometric-mean reverse-time migration”, in First International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy Expanded Abstracts, 2021, pp. 2046-2050.
A. Kono, Masaya, S. , and Nakata, N. , “Relationship between source performance and near-surface structure: An onshore Japan case study”, in Proceedings of the 14th SEGJ International Symposium, Online, 18–21 October 2021, 2021.
N. Nakata, “Stochastic Analysis of Random Heterogeneity of Bathymetry at Gulf of Mexico”, Examines in Marine Biology & Oceanography, vol. 4, no. 2, 2021.
2020
Z. Spica, Gualtieri, L. , Nakata, N. , and Retailleau, L. , “Ambient Noise Seismology II”, AGU Fall Meeting 2020. 2020.
R. Ng and Nakata, N. , “Classification and noise correlation of local anthropogenic noise sources in Oklahoma”, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2020.
J. A. Silva, Rokrok, M. K. , Damico, J. R. , Nakata, N. , Fehler, M. , Jiang, J. , Frailey, S. , and Juanes, R. , “Development of workflow using geologically constrained coupled flow and geomechanics simulations to predict pressure and stress at known microseismicity localities induced by CO2 injection”. 2020.

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