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.
2020
F. Li, Bai, T. , Nakata, N. , Lyu, B. , and Song, W. Z. , “Efficient Seismic Source Localization Using Simplified Gaussian Beam Time Reversal Imaging”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp. 1 - 7, 2020.
J. Jian, Snieder, R. , and Nakata, N. , “Extracting the Response of the Bay Bridge, California, from the Application of Multichannel Deconvolution to Earthquake-Induced Shaking”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 556 - 564, 2020.
B. Lyu and Nakata, N. , “Iterative passive-source location estimation and velocity inversion using geometric-mean reverse-time migration and full-waveform inversion”, Geophys J Int, vol. 223, no. 3, pp. 1935 - 1947, 2020.
N. Nakata, “Normalization strategy for seismic interferometry with scattered waves”, in AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2020.
N. Nakata, “Pseudo arrivals generated by frequency normalization for seismic interferometry with scattered waves ~ stationary-phase analysis ~”, SEG Annual Meeting 2020. 2020.
N. Nakata, “Pseudo arrivals generated by frequency normalization for seismic interferometry with scattered waves - Stationary-phase analysis”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2020, pp. 2085-2089.
M. C. A. White, Fang, H. , Nakata, N. , and Ben‐Zion, Y. , “PyKonal: A Python Package for Solving the Eikonal Equation in Spherical and Cartesian Coordinates Using the Fast Marching Method”, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 91, no. 4, pp. 2378 - 2389, 2020.
R. Nakata, Matonti, C. , Nakata, N. , Guglielmi, Y. , and Viseur, S. , “Seismic imaging of a carbonate rock block with fracture-induced anisotropy”, SEG Annual Meeting 2020. 2020.
R. Nakata, Matonti, C. , Nakata, N. , Guglielmi, Y. , and Viseur, S. , “Seismic imaging of a carbonate rock block with fracture-induced anisotropy”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2020, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2020, pp. 1905-1909.
R. Nakata, Lumley, D. , Hampson, G. , Nihei, K. , and Nakata, N. , “Waveform-based estimation of Q and scattering properties for zero-offset vertical seismic profile data”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 857, no. 4, pp. R365 - R379, 2020.
R. Nakata, Lumley, D. , Hampson, G. , Nihei, K. , and Nakata, N. , “Waveform-based estimation of Q and scattering properties for zero-offset vertical seismic profile data”, Geophysics, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. R365 - R379, 2020.
2019
R. Czarny, Pilecki, Z. , Nakata, N. , Pilecka, E. , Krawiec, K. , Harba, P. , and , , “3D S-wave velocity imaging of a subsurface disturbed by mining using ambient seismic noise”, Engineering Geology, vol. 251, pp. 115 - 127, 2019.
C. W. Johnson, Vernon, F. , Nakata, N. , and Ben‐Zion, Y. , “Atmospheric Processes Modulating Noise in Fairfield Nodal 5 Hz Geophones”, Seismological Research Letters, 2019.
Y. Kim and Nakata, N. , “A comparison of geophysical inversion and machine learning in inverse problems”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, San Antonio, Texas, 2019.
J. Yin and Nakata, N. , “Diffraction imaging using Geometric-mean Reverse-Time Migration and Common Reflection Surface”, GEOPHYSICS, vol. 83, pp. 1 - 39, 2019.
R. Nakata, Lumley, D. , Hampson, G. , Nihei, K. , and Nakata, N. , “Estimation of Q in the presence of full waveform scattering effects in VSP data”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, San Antonio, Texas, 2019.
N. Nakata, Nakata, R. , and Xue, Z. , “Estimation of scatterer locations and subsurface velocities using scattered tube waves observed during a crosswell survey”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, San Antonio, Texas, 2019.
A. Fichtner, Gualtieri, L. , and Nakata, N. , “Introduction: Seismic Ambient Noise”, in Seismic Ambient Noise, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
X. Liu, Beroza, G. C. , and Nakata, N. , “Isolating and Suppressing the Spurious Non‐Diffuse Contributions to Ambient Seismic Field Correlations”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 1248438, no. 91, pp. 9653 - 9663, 2019.
Y. Wang, Nakata, N. , Kumano, Y. , and Shimizu, H. , “Microseismic imaging of real passive data with GmRTM”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, San Antonio, Texas, 2019.
N. H. Sleep and Nakata, N. , “Nonlinear Rheology at Shallow Depths with Reference to the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes”, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, vol. 109, no. 6, pp. 2674 - 2690, 2019.
N. Nakata, Gualtieri, L. , and Fichtner, A. , Seismic Ambient Noise, 1st ed. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
N. Nakata and Nishima, K. , “Seismic Ambient Noise: Body Wave Exploration”, 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 239 - 266.
X. Chen, Pennington, C. , Ng, R. , Nakata, N. , and Zhang, J. , “Source parameter analysis of microseismicity during hydraulic fracture: Pinning stress distributions within fracture zone”, in SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2019, San Antonio, Texas, 2019.
N. Nakata, “Towards high-resolution seismic imaging and monitoring using ambient noise, machine learning, and microseismic events”. 2019.

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