Scott W. French

[about] [research]

As a Computational Seismologist in the Global Seismology Research Group at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, my research focused on development and application of new methods for whole-Earth seismic imaging.

Here you can find an overview of my research interests and relevant publications from that time.

Interests

• Full-waveform seismic imaging (e.g., numerical wavefield simulation, inverse problems)
• Novel parallel languages and runtimes (e.g., partitioned global address space model)
• Application performance analysis (e.g., methodologies, tools)

Conference Proceedings

• Scott French, Yili Zheng, Barbara Romanowicz, Katherine Yelick, "Parallel Hessian Assembly for Seismic Waveform Inversion Using Global Updates", 29th IEEE Int. ‘Parallel and Distributed Processing’ Symp., 2015, doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2015.58

Journal Articles

• Barbara Romanowicz, Li-Wei Chen, Scott French, "Accelerating full waveform inversion via source stacking and cross-correlations", Geophysical Journal International, 2020, 220, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggz437
• Scott French, Barbara Romanowicz, "Broad plumes rooted at the base of the Earth’s mantle beneath major hotspots", Nature, 2015, 525, doi: 10.1038/nature14876
• Scott French, Barbara Romanowicz, "Whole-mantle radially anisotropic shear velocity structure from spectral-element waveform tomography", Geophysical Journal International, 2014, 199, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggu334
• Huaiyu Yuan, Scott French, Paul Cupillard, Barbara Romanowicz, "Lithospheric expression of geological units in central and eastern North America from full waveform tomography", Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2014, 402:176, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.057
• Scott French, Vedran Lekic, Barbara Romanowicz, "Waveform Tomography Reveals Channeled Flow at the Base of the Oceanic Asthenosphere", Science, 2013, 342:227, doi: 10.1126/science.1241514
• Vedran Lekic, Scott French, Barbara Romanowicz, "Lithospheric Thinning Beneath Rifted Regions of Southern California", Science, 2011, 334:783, doi: 10.1126/science.1208898
• David Abt, Karen Fischer, Scott French, Heather Ford, Huaiyu Yuan, Barbara Romanowicz, "North American lithospheric discontinuity structure imaged by Ps and Sp receiver functions", Journal of Geophysical Research, 2010, 115, doi: 10.1029/2009JB006914
• Scott French, Linda Warren, Karen Fischer, Geoffrey Abers, Wilfried Strauch, J. Marino Protti, Victor Gonzalez, "Constraints on upper plate deformation in the Nicaraguan subduction zone from earthquake relocation and directivity analysis", Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2010, 11, doi: 10.1029/2009GC002841
• Scott French, Karen Fischer, Ellen Syracuse, Michael Wysession, "Crustal structure beneath the Florida-to-Edmonton broadband seismometer array", Geophysical Research Letters, 2009, 35, doi: 10.1029/2008GL036331