Jafar Hadizadeh, Ph.D.

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Research Interests
Geologic Hazards (Neotectonics, Karst, Landslide hazards)

Teaching
GEOG 691 (Independent Studies in Applied Geography).
GEOG 641 (Research Design and Proposal Development in Applied Geography)
GEOS 565 (Natural Hazards)
GEOG 441 (Culminating Undergraduate Experience)
GEOG 361 (Sustainable Environment)
GEOS 301 (Geology for Scientists and Engineers)

Projects
2018 NSF EarthScope. PI: Jafar Hadizadeh (University of Louisville), Co-PI: Joseph White (University of New Brunswick), Andrea Gaughan (University of Louisville). Learning from core samples outside the SAFOD active creep zones: A study of microstructural processes leading to current and past aseismic creep in Central San Andreas Fault. $322,000 for September 2018 – August 2020.

Collaborative work with the University of Liverpool, UK:Boyle A., Hadizadeh J. Evidence from pyrite microstructure for earlier higher temperature deformation history in SAFOD. In preparation since 2014.

Collaborative work with the University of Grenoble, France; UC Santa Cruz, USA: Hadizadeh J., Candela T., Renard F., Williams R. Roughness of Grain-Scale Frictional Sliding Surfaces in the Actively Creeping Gouge of the San Andreas Fault. In preparation since 2014

Collaborative work with U Oklahoma, Norman; University College , London UK; University of Rome Italy: Hadizadeh1 J., Carpenter B., Mitchell T., Creel R., Di Toro G. Microstructural response of naturally velocity-strengthening gouge material to high sliding velocities. In preparation since 2013.

Education

Ph. D., Structural Geology & Rock Mechanics, Imperial College, London, UK (1980)

Recent Publications

Mittempergher S., Di Toro G., Gratier J-P., Hadizadeh J., Smith S. A., and Spiess R., (2011). Evidence of transient increases of fluid pressure in SAFOD phase III cores. Geophysical Research Letters 38, L03301.

Gratier, J. P., J. Richard, F. Renard, S. Mittempergher, M.-L. Doan, G. Di Toro, J. Hadizadeh, J., Boullier, A-M. (2011). Aseismic sliding of active faults by pressure solution creep: Evidence from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth. Geology 39, 1131-1134.

Hadizadeh J., Mittempergher S., Di Toro G., Gratier J-P., Richard J., and Babaie H. (2011). Fluid pressure spikes in SAFOD rocks as evidence of microseismicity. Insights the EarthScope 5, 2-5.

Spencer, J. Q.G., Hadizadeh, J., Gratier, J-P., Doan M-L. (2012). Dating deep? Luminescence studies of fault gouge from the San Andreas Fault Zone 2.6 km beneath Earth’s surface. Quaternary Geochronology 10, 280-284.

Hadizadeh J., Mittempergher S., Gratier J-P., Renard F, Di Toro G., Richard J., Babaie H. A. (2012). A microstructural study of fault rocks from the SAFOD: Implications for the deformation mechanisms and strength of the creeping segment of the San Andreas Fault. Journal of Structural Geology 42, 246-260.

Babaie, H. A., M. Broda Cindi., Hadizadeh, J., Kumar, A. (2013). SAFOD brittle microstructure and mechanics knowledge base (BM2KB). Computers & Geosciences 56, 83-91.

Hadizadeh, J., Tullis, T. E., White, J. C. (2015). Shear localization, velocity weakening behavior, and development of cataclastic foliation in experimental granite gouge. Journal of Structural Geology 71, 86-99.

Professor of Geography and Geosciences

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