Maggi Glasscoe is a Geophysicist in the Solid Earth Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She has experience working with a number of modeling codes, including viscoelastic finite element models (the JPL developed Geophysical Finite Element Simulation Tool, GeoFEST, in particular). Her research includes modeling deformation of the Earth's crust to study postseismic response to large earthquakes, numerical models of the rheological behavior of the lower crust, and simulations of interacting fault systems. She is is a researcher on the QuakeSim project and the Principal Investigator of E-DECIDER (Earthquake Data Enhanced Cyber-Infrastructure for Disaster Evaluation and Response)..

• BS, Geological Sciences, University of Southern California, Magna Cum Laude (1997)
• BA, Print Journalism, University of Southern California, Magna Cum Laude (1997)
• MS, Geology, University of California, Davis (2003)

• Crust-mantle interaction in southern California
• Development of the "drip" beneath the Transverse Ranges, southern California
• Block rotations of southern California crust and the development of the LA Basin
• Deformation in southern California and driving mechanisms
• Statistical analysis of synthetic earthquake catalogs
• Numerical methods and modeling
• Crustal rheology
• Long-term postseismic deformation following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
• Evolution of stress and strain due to postseismic mechanisms following large earthquakes
• Earthquake decision support

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996-present)
  • Science Researcher (Geophysicist), Solid Earth Group (2004-present)
  • Member of Technical Staff, Data Understanding Systems Group (2000-2004)
  • Research Assistant, Satellite Geodesy and Geodynamics Systems Group (1996-2000)

• JPL SPOT Award (2010)
• NASA Board Act Award: GeoFEST v. 4.8 (2008)
• JPL Outstanding Accomplishment Award: InSAR Workshop Report (2006)
• JPL Team Bonus Award: QuakeSim Parallel GeoFEST Development Team (2004)
• NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship (1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002)
• Sigma Xi Grants in aid of Research Award (June 2000)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention (1998)
• Southern California Earthquake Center Community Outreach Award (Education) (1998)
• JPL Notable Organizational Value Added (NOVA) Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1997, 1998)

1. Donnellan, A., Rundle, J., Fox, G., McLeod, D., Grant, L., Tullis, T., Pierce, M., Parker, J., Lyzenga, G., Granat, R., and Glasscoe, M., 2005, QuakeSim and the Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory, Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 163, pp. 2263-2279.
2. Donnellan, A., Glasscoe, M., and Zebker, H., 2005, Community InSAR Workshop calls for robust program and dedicated satellite mission, EOS Transactions AGU, v. 86, n. 8, p. 79.
3. Glasscoe, M.T., Granat, R.A., Rundle, J.B., Rundle, P.B., Donnellan, A., and Kellogg, L.H., 2009, Analysis of emergent fault element behavior in Virtual California, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1546.
4. Glasscoe, M.T., Donnellan, A., Kellogg, L.H., and Lyzenga, G.A., 2004, Evidence of strain partitioning between the Sierra Madre fault and the Los Angeles Basin, southern California from numerical models, Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 161, pp. 2343-2357.
5. Glasscoe, M.T., 2003, Assessing upper crustal rheology using numerical and theoretical models, Master's thesis, University of California, Davis.
6. Parker, J., Lyzenga, G., Norton, C., Zuffada, C., Glasscoe, M., Lou, J., and Donnellan, A., 2008, Geophysical Finite Element Simulation tool (GeoFEST): algorithms and validation for quasistatic regional faulted crust problems, Pure and Applied Geophysics, v. 165, pp. 497-521.
7. Turcotte, D.L. and Glasscoe, M.T., 2004, A damage model for the continuum rheology of the upper continental crust, Tectonophysics, 383, 71-80.