Current Post: Lecturer and Director of Environmental Geophysics Degrees

Room Number: 1.48

Telephone: +44 (0)1603 593086

Fax: +44 (0)1603 591327

Email: a.ferreira@uea.ac.uk  

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Course Director, BSc/MSci Environmental Geophysics

 

Research Interests

Global and regional seismology; seismic tomography; earthquake source; seismic instrumentation; inversion and modelling; seismic surface waves.
 

Biography

After obtaining my diploma in Physics Engineering from IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, I received my DPhil in geophysics (seismology) from the University of Oxford. Following postdoctoral work at Oxford, I started as a lecturer at UEA in September 2007. I am also currently a visiting associate professor at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France, and an associate researcher at IST, Technical University of Lisbon, the largest and most reputed school of Engineering, Science and Technology and Architecture in Portugal.

My main research interest is to address the linked problems of elucidating the source process of earthquakes and imaging the complex structure of the Earth's deep interior - seismic tomography. In order to address these problems I aim at following a complete approach by: (i) Using improved formulations of seismic propagation in heterogeneous media, exploring the potentialities of both purely numerical and asymptotic methods; (ii) Developing objective seismic inversion strategies to maximise the information extracted from the data and to quantify model uncertainties; (iii) Fully exploring the richness of the data, including the use of multidisciplinary data, notably from geodesy (tilt, strain, InSAR, ...), as well as from newly developed rotation ground motion sensors. The ultimate goals are to understand the large scale thermal and mechanical behaviour of the crust and mantle over geologic time, the nature of earthquake faulting and the associated hazards.


Research Group

	Sung-Joon Chang Post-doctoral Research Fellow (PDRA) Leverhulme project: Probing the Earth's deep mantle with multiscale seismology and geodynamics Website: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~ktf11dxu/index.htm
	Ana Domingues Portuguese Science Ministry (FCT) PhD Student (cotutelle with IST, Portugal) Project: Tomographic study of the East African Rift in Mozambique
	Kostas Lentas PhD student EU FP7 QUEST project: Analysis and modelling of long-period seismic data for earthquake and Earth structure characterisation
	Laura Parisi PhD student EU FP7 QUEST and UEA Project: Approximate vs. purely numerical approaches for full waveform modeling of global Earth structure
	Jennifer Weston NERC PhD student Project: Global investigation of large earthquakes using InSAR and long-period seismic data
	Maria Fernanda Nader-Nieto PhD student (based at LMU, University of Munich, with H. Igel) EU FP7 QUEST project: Investigation of long-period rotational signals

Selected Publications

• Weston, J., Ferreira, A.M.G. and Funning, G. J. (2012) Systematic comparisons of earthquake source models determined using InSAR and seismic data, Tectonophysics, invited review paper (in press).
• Ferreira, A.M.G., Weston, J. and Funning, G.J. (2011) Global compilation of interferometric synthetic aperture radar earthquake source models: 2. Effects of 3-D Earth structure. J. Geophys. Res., 116, B08409, doi:10.1029/2010JB008132.
• Weston, J., Ferreira, A.M.G. and Funning, G.J. (2011). Global compilation of interferometric synthetic aperture radar earthquake so urce models: 1. Comparisons with seismic catalogs. J. Geophys. Res., 116, B08408, doi:10.1029/2010JB008131.
• Igel, H., M.-F. Nader, D. Kurrle, A.M. Ferreira, J. Wassermann and K.U. Schreiber (2011), Observations of Earth's Toroidal Free Oscillations with a Rotation Sensor: The 2011 Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett. 38, L21303, doi:10.1029/2011GL049045.
• Vallée, M., Charléty, J., Ferreira, A.M.G., Delouis, B. and Vergoz, J. (2011). SCARDEC: a new technique for the rapid determination of seismic moment magnitude, focal mechanism and source time functions for large earthquakes using body-wave deconvolution. Geophysical Journal International, 184(1), 338-358.
• Ferreira, A.M.G., Woodhouse, J.H., Visser, K. and Trampert, J. (2010). On the robustness of global radially anisotropic surface wave tomography. J. Geophys. Res., 115, B04313, doi:10.1029/2009JB006716.
• Kurrle, D., Igel, H., Ferreira, A.M.G., Wassermann, J. and Schreiber, U. (2010). Can we estimate local Love wave dispersion properties from collocated amplitude measurements of translations and rotations? Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L04307, doi:10.1029/2009GL042215.
• Ferreira, A.M.G. and Igel, H. (2009). Rotational motions of seismic surface waves in a laterally heterogeneous Earth. Bull. Seismol. Soc. America, 99(2B), 1429-1436. doi: 10.1785/0120080149.
• Ferreira, A.M.G. and Woodhouse, J.H. (2007). Observations of long period Rayleigh wave ellipticity. Geophys. J. Int., 169, 161–169. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03276.x.
• Ferreira, A.M.G. and Woodhouse, J.H. (2007). Source, path and receiver effects on surface waves. Geophys. J. Int., 168, 109-232. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03092.x.
• Ferreira, A.M.G., d'Oreye, N.F., Woodhouse, J.H. and Zürn, W. (2006). Comparison of fluid tiltmeter data with long period seismograms: surface waves and Earth's free oscillations. J. Geophys. Res., 111, B11307. doi:10.1029/2006JB004311.
• Ferreira, A.M.G. and Woodhouse, J.H. (2006). Long period seismic source inversions using global tomographic models. Geophys. J. Int., 166(3), 1178-1192. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03003.x.

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