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.
2018
Z. J. Spica, Nakata, N. , Liu, X. , Campman, X. , Tang, Z. , and Beroza, G. C. , “The Ambient Seismic Field at Groningen Gas Field: An Overview from the Surface to Reservoir Depth”, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 1450 - 1466, 2018.
Y. Kim and Nakata, N. , “Geophysical inversion versus machine learning in inverse problems”, The Leading Edge, vol. 3731, no. 12, pp. 894 - 901, 2018.
N. Nakata and Shelly, D. R. , “Imaging a Crustal Low-Velocity Layer Using Reflected Seismic Waves From the 2014 Earthquake Swarm at Long Valley Caldera, California: The Magmatic System Roof?”, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 3481 - 3488, 2018.
C. Li, Li, Z. , Peng, Z. , Zhang, C. , Nakata, N. , and Sickbert, T. , “Long‐Period Long‐Duration Events Detected by the IRIS Community Wavefield Demonstration Experiment in Oklahoma: Tremor or Train Signals?”, Seismological Research Letters, 2018.
Y. Sheng, Nakata, N. , and Beroza, G. C. , “On the Nature of Higher-Order Ambient Seismic Field Correlations”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, vol. 123, no. 9, pp. 7969 - 7982, 2018.
N. Nakata and Sleep, N. H. , “Nonlinear body waves in the shallow subsurface, implications of flow-law rheologies”, in Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, 2018.
Z. Spica, Perton, M. , Nakata, N. , Liu, X. , and Beroza, G. C. , “Shallow VS Imaging of the Groningen Area from Joint Inversion of Multimode Surface Waves and H/V Spectral Ratios”, Seismological Research Letters, vol. 89, no. 5, pp. 1720 - 1729, 2018.
N. Nakata and Kashima, T. , “Time-lapse changes in seismic response of building over 20 years due to earthquakes and aging”, in Eleventh U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, 2018.
2017
Z. J. Spica, Perton, M. , Nakata, N. , Liu, X. , and Beroza, G. C. , “Site characterization at Groningen gas field area through joint surface-borehole H/V analysis”, Geophysical Journal International, vol. 212, no. 1, pp. 412 - 421, 2017.
2016
N. Nakata, “Data-driven characterization of subsurface structure using Large-N array (video)”. 2016.

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