Kasey W. Schultz, PhD
Junior Data Scientist at Scoutible
GitHub: kwschultz
Research Impact: Research Gate
Projects: GitHub, Virtual Quake, Tsunami Squares
Email: kwschultz@ucdavis.edu, Advisor: Prof. John Rundle
I recently completed my PhD in Physics working with Prof. John Rundle developing and analyzing simulations of complex physical systems. I am now a Junior Data Scientist at Scoutible. In graduate school I was lead developer for the Virtual Quake project (formerly known as Virtual California), a physics-based earthquake simulation code originally developed by Prof. John Rundle. I added the ability to model the gravity changes associated with simulated earthquakes, and used these simulated signals to assess the feasibilty of gravity-based monitoring of the California fault system. I developed a Python module for simulation data analysis and visualizations. Our goal was to provide an independent, physics-based method for assessing seismic hazard on known faults, in addition to providing the computational infrastructure for generating ensembles of geodetic surface patterns; e.g. surface displacements, gravity changes, sea level changes. I also built a tsunami simulator to couple to Virtual Quake. This will allow the generation of a simulated tsunami catalog for tsunami early warning applications. Click [RESEARCH EXAMPLES] above for more information.
LINKS
GitHub repository (VQ, PyVQ)
Virtual Quake download page
Rundle research group page
QuakeSim home page
EDUCATION
| 2016 | Univ. of Calfiornia, Davis | Ph.D. in Physics |
| 2013 | Univ. of Calfiornia, Davis | M.S. in Physics |
| 2012 | University of Miami | B.S. in Physics, Math |
PUBLICATIONS
K. W. Schultz, M. R. Yoder, J. M. Wilson, E. M. Heien, M. K. Sachs, J. B. Rundle, and D. L. Turcotte.
Parametrizing Physics-Based Earthquake Simulations. Pure and Applied Geophysics, [under review] 2016
A. Khodaverdian, H. Zafarani, K. W. Schultz, M. Rahimian.
Recurrence Time Distributions of Large Earthquakes in Eastern Iran. Seismological Research Letters, under review 2016
J. M. Wilson, M. R. Yoder, J. B. Rundle, D. L. Turcotte, K. W. Schultz.
Spatial Evaluation and Verification of Earthquake Simulators, Pure and Applied Geophysics, [accepted] 2016
K. W. Schultz, E. M. Heien, M. K. Sachs, J. M. Wilson, M. R. Yoder, J. B. Rundle, and D. L. Turcotte.
Virtual Quake User Manual, Version 2.1.2. Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics, Davis, California, USA, 2016. URL: https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/vq/vq_manual_2.1.2.pdf
K.W. Schultz, M.K. Sachs, E.M. Heien, M.R. Yoder, J.B. Rundle, D.L. Turcotte, and Andrea Donnellan,
Virtual Quake: Statistics, Co-Seismic Deformations and Gravity Changes for Driven Earthquake Fault Systems, International Association of Geodesy Symposia, [in press] 2015, doi:10.1007/1345_2015_134
M.R. Yoder, K.W. Schultz, M.K. Sachs, E.M. Heien, M.R. Yoder, J.B. Rundle, D.L. Turcotte, and Andrea Donnellan,
Forecasting earthquakes with the Virtual Quake simulator: Regional and fault-partitioned catalogs, International Association of Geodesy Symposia, [under review] 2015
M.R. Yoder, K.W. Schultz, M.K. Sachs, E.M. Heien, M.R. Yoder, J.B. Rundle, D.L. Turcotte, and Andrea Donnellan,
The Virtual Quake earthquake simulator: A simulation based forecast of the El Mayor-Cucapah region and evidence of earthquake predictability in simulated earthquake sequences , Geophysical Journal International 203 (3): 1587-1604. 2015. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggv320
K.W. Schultz, M.K. Sachs, E.M. Heien, J.B. Rundle, D.L. Turcotte, and Andrea Donnellan,
Simulating Gravity Changes in Topologically Realistic Driven Earthquake Fault Systems: First Results, Pure and Applied Geophysics, 173(3):827–838, 2014. doi:10.1007/s00024-014-0926-4
K.W. Schultz and K.M. Huffenberger,
Stacking catalogue sources in WMAP data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 424, Issue 4, pp. 3028-3036. 2012. [arXiv], [MNRAS]