Nicholas Davatzes

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Nicholas Davatzes

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Earth and Environmental Science

      • Associate Professor

      • Chair

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

EES 2051

Introduction to Data Visualization and Analysis for Earth and Environmental Science

Undergraduate

EES 4101

Structural Geology

Undergraduate

SCTC 1001

CST First Year Seminar

Undergraduate

SCTC 1003

Fragile Futures

Undergraduate

EES 5101

Structural Geology (Graduate)

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Choi, C., Ravi, S., Siregar, I., Dwiyanti, F., Macknick, J., Elchinger, M., & Davatzes, N. (2021). Combined land use of solar infrastructure and agriculture for socioeconomic and environmental co-benefits in the tropics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 151. doi: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111610.

  • Callahan, O., Eichhubl, P., & Davatzes, N. (2020). Mineral precipitation as a mechanism of fault core growth. Journal of Structural Geology, 140. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104156.

  • Callahan, O., Eichhubl, P., Olson, J., & Davatzes, N. (2020). Experimental investigation of chemically aided fracture growth in silicified fault rocks. Geothermics, 83. doi: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2019.101724.

  • Callahan, O., Eichhubl, P., Olson, J., & Davatzes, N. (2019). Fracture Mechanical Properties of Damaged and Hydrothermally Altered Rocks, Dixie Valley-Stillwater Fault Zone, Nevada, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(4), 4069-4090. doi: 10.1029/2018JB016708.

  • Ali, S., Reinisch, E., Moore, J., Plummer, M., Warren, I., Davatzes, N., & Feigl, K. (2018). Geodetic measurements and numerical models of transient deformation at Raft River geothermal field, Idaho, USA. Geothermics, 74, 106-111. doi: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2018.02.007.

  • Cardiff, M., Lim, D., Patterson, J., Akerley, J., Spielman, P., Lopeman, J., Walsh, P., Singh, A., Foxall, W., Wang, H., Lord, N., Thurber, C., Fratta, D., Mellors, R., Davatzes, N., & Feigl, K. (2018). Geothermal production and reduced seismicity: Correlation and proposed mechanism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 482, 470-477. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.037.

  • Swyer, M., Cladouhos, T., Forson, C., Steely, A., & Davatzes, N. (2018). Simulating local sources of crustal deformation for Washington state geothermal prospects using geomechanical models. 52nd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium.

  • Feigl, K., Reinisch, E., Patterson, J., Jreij, S., Parker, L., Nayak, A., Zeng, X., Cardiff, M., Lord, N., Fratta, D., Thurber, C., Wang, H., Robertson, M., Coleman, T., Miller, D., Spielman, P., Akerley, J., Kreemer, C., Morency, C., Matzel, E., Trainor-Guitton, W., & Davatzes, N. (2018). Overview of results and lessons learned from the PoroTomo project at Brady Hot Springs, Nevada: Poroelastic tomography by adjoint inverse modeling of data from seismology, geodesy, and hydrology. Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council, 42, 599-622.

  • Schoenball, M. & Davatzes, N. (2017). Quantifying the heterogeneity of the tectonic stress field using borehole data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 122(8), 6737-6756. doi: 10.1002/2017JB014370.

  • Lindsey, N., Kaven, J., Davatzes, N., & Newman, G. (2017). Compartmentalization of the Coso East Flank geothermal field imaged by 3-D full-tensor MT inversion. Geophysical Journal International, 208(2), 652-662. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggw408.

  • Forson, C., Steely, A., Cladouhos, T., Swyer, M., Davatzes, N., Anderson, M., Ritzinger, B., Glen, J., Peacock, J., Schermerhorn, W., Burns, E., & Stelling, P. (2017). Geothermal play-fairway analysis of Washington state prospects: Phase 2 results. Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council, 41, 2265-2311.