Research Areas: Geosciences
Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering
Education Background: • 1988- Ph.D. (Geophysics) from Columbia University
• 1987- M. Phil. (Geophysics) from Columbia University
• 1984- M.A. (Geophysics) from Columbia University
• 1981- B.A. (Geology) from Binghamton University
About:
Marone is a professor of geosciences. Marone received his B.A. in geology from Binghamton University, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in geophysics from Columbia University. Marone’s recent research has focused on earthquake physics, friction, and geomechanics. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, is an American Geophysical Union Outstanding Reviewer, won the Paul F. Robertson Award for the Breakthrough of the Year, the Research Achievement Award, Wilson Research Award, and the Outstanding Member of the Penn State Community from Penn State, and the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professorship from MIT. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Seismological Society of America, the European Geoscience Union, the Geological Society of America, and the American Physical Society.
Research Interests:
• Experimental geophysics
• Earthquake physics
• Rock mechanics
• Granular mechanics
• Friction and faulting
Memberships & Committees:
• Co-leader of the inter-laboratory comparison effort on studies of fault friction. The work is designed to allow comparison between labs working with core recovered during drilling into the San Andreas Fault (SAFOD). Fifteen labs from around the world are participating. Other details can be found under the link for “Core Samples” at: http://www.earthscope.org/data/safod
• 2010-present - Chair, AGU Mineral and Rock Physics Focus Group
• 2010-present - AGU Governing Council
• 2010 - Convenor The First EarthScope Institute on the Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors http://www.earthscope.org/workshops/fault_slip10
• 2009-present - Chair of the Advisory Committee for the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (UNAVCO)
• Associate Head of Graduate Programs and Research, Dept. of Geosciences
• Science Nation, NSF Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
• Earthquakes to the Core -- Researchers Drill Down at the Epicenter below
Honors & Awards:
• Research Achievement Award, Energy Institute, Pennsylvania State University, 2011
• Wilson Research Award, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2010
• Kerr-McGee Career Development Professorship, MIT 1993
Teaching:
• Geosc 040 - The Sea Around Uss
• Geosc 508 - Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
• Earthquakes
• Dynamic Testing of Mountaineering Equipment
• Physics and Chemistry of the Solid Earth
• Analysis of Geophysics Field Data
• Field Geophysics
• Earthquake Mechanics and Seismic Source Processes
• Earthquake Source Physics
• Earthquake and Faulting
• Earthquake Rupture Processes and Scaling Relations
• Geosc 203 - Physical Processes
Affinito, R., D. Elsworth, and C. Marone, (2023). The Stability Transition from Stable to Unstable Frictional Slip with Finite Pore Pressure, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-16777, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16777.
Wood, C., C.-Y. Ke, J. Rivière, D. Elsworth, C. Marone, and P. Shokouhi, (2023). Decoupling the poromechanics of particle remobilization and interface stiffness of dynamically stressed tensile fractured rock, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-17555, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-17555, 2023.
Wood, C., C.-Y. Ke, A. Rathbun, J. Rivière, D. Elsworth, C. Marone, and P. Shokouhi, (2022). Probing the micromechanical features of a fracture interface using a multi-physics approach: A numerical investigation relating asperity deformation with fluid flow, EGU General Assembly 2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-6760.
An, Mengke, F. Zhang, K.-B. Min, D. Elsworth, C. Marone, and C. He, (2021). The Potential for Low-Grade Metamorphism to Facilitate Fault Instability in a Geothermal Reservoir, Advancing Earth and Space Science, v.48 (11), doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093552.
Bolton, D. C., S. Shreedharan, J. Rivière, and C. Marone, (2021). Frequency-Magnitude Statistics of Laboratory Foreshocks Vary With Shear Velocity, Fault Slip Rate, and Shear Stress, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 126(11), [e2021JB022175], https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022175.
Collettini, C., T. Tesei, F. Trippetta, M. M. Scuderi, E. R. Marone, C. Marone, G. Pozzi, and C. Viti, (2021). The role of fabric in frictional properties of phyllosilicate-rich tectonic faults, Journal of Visualized Experiments, v. 177, [e62821], https://doi.org/10.3791/62821.
Japerson, H., D. C. Bolton, P. Johnson, R. Guyer, C. Marone, and M. V. de Hopp, (2021). Attention Network Forecasts Time-to-Failure in Laboratory Shear Experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, v. 126(11), [e2021JB022195], https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022195.
Johnson, P. A., B. Rouet-Leduc, L. J. Pyrak-Nolte, G. C. Beroza, C. J. Marone, C. Hulbert, A. Howard, P. Singer, D. Gordeev, D. Karaflos, C. J. Levinson, P. Pfeiffer, K. M. Puk, and W. Reade, (2021). Laboratory earthquake forecasting: A machine learning competition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 118(5), [e2011362118], https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011362118.
Li, Z., D. Elsworth, C. Wang, L. Boyd, Z. Frone, E. Metcalfe, A. Nieto, S. Porse, W. Vandermeer, R. Podgorney, H. Huang, T. McLing, G. Neupane, A. Chakravarty, P. J. Cook, P. F. Dobson, C. A. Doughty, Y. Guglielmi, C. Hopp, M. Hu, R. S. Jayne, S. E. Johnson, K. Kim, T. Kneafsey, S. Nakagawa, G. Newman, P. Petrov, J. C. Primo, M. Robertson, V. Rodriguez-Tribaldos, J. Rutqvist, M. Schoenball, E. L. Sonnenthal, F. A. Soom, S. Sprinkle, C. Ulrich, C. A. Valladao, T. Wood, Y. Q. Zhang, Q. Zhou, L. Huang, Y. Chen, T. Chen, B. Chi, Z. Feng, L. P. Frash, K. Gao, E. Jafarov, S. Karra, N. Makedonska, D. Li, J. Li, R. Pawar, N. Welch, P. Fu, R. J. Mellors, C. E. Morency, J. P. Morris, C. S. Sherman, M. M. Smith, D. Templeton, J. L. Wagoner, J. White, H. Wu, J. Moore, S. Brown, D. Crandall, P. Mackey, T. Paronish, S. Workman, B. Johnston, K. Beckers, J. Weers, Y. Polsky, M. Maceira, C. P. Chai, A. Bonneville, J. A. Burghardt, J. Horner, T. C. Johnson, H. Knox, J. Knox, B. Q. Roberts, P. Sprinkle, C. E. Strickland, J. N. Thomle, V. R. Vermeul, M. D. White, D. Blankenship, M. Ingraham, T. Myers, J. Pope, P. Schwering, A. Foris, D. K. King, J. Feldman, M. Lee, J. Su, T. Baumgartner, J. Heise, M. Horn, B. Pietzyk, D. Rynders, G. Vandine, D. Vardiman, T. Doe, J. McLennan, Y. S. Wu, J. Miskimins, P. Winterfeld, K. Kutun, M. D. Zoback, A. Singh, R. N. Horne, K. Li, A. Hawkins, Y. Zhang, E. Mattson, D. Elsworth, K. J. Im, Z. Li, C. J. Marone, E. C. Yildirim, J. Ajo-Franklin, A. Ghassemi, D. Kumar, V. Sesetty, A. Vachaparampil, H. F. Wang, H. Sone, K. Condon, B. Haimson, W. Roggenthen, C. Medler, N. Uzunlar, C. Reimers, and M. W. McClure, (2021). Constraining maximum event magnitude during injection-triggered seismicity, Nature Communications, v. 12, 1528, pp. 1-9, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20700-4.
Manogharan, P., C. Wood, C. J. Marone, D. Elsworth, J. Rivière, and P. Shokouhi, (2021). Experimental Investigation of Elastodynamic Nonlinear Response of Dry Intact, Fractured and Saturated Rock, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02552-6.
