James R. Rice

  Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences
  and Geophysics

• Harvard University Center for the Environment
• Future of Energy at Harvard
• Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Interests

Earthquake source processes; fault and crack dynamics; lithospheric stressing and seismicity; hydrologic and surficial processes; pore fluid interaction with earth materials; landslides; episodic glacial motions

Environmental Courses

Applied Mathematics 331,332: Theoretical Mechanics in the Earth and Engineering Sciences
Applied Physics 347,348: Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science
EPS 363: Seismology and Tectonophysics: Geomechanics, Earthquake Source Physics
ES 162: Hydrology and Environmental Geomechanics
ES 262: Advanced Hydrology and Environmental Geomechanics
ES 337, 338: Mechanics of Solids and Fluids: Earthquake Seismology and Environmental Geomechanics

Related Publications

Possible mechanisms for glacial earthquakes. (2007)
Seismic fault rheology and earthquake dynamics. (2007)
Effective normal stress alteration due to pore pressure changes induced by dynamic slip propagation on a plane between dissimilar materials. (2006)
Does shear heating of pore fluid contribute to earthquake nucleation? (2006)
Thermal pressurization and onset of melting in fault zones. (2006)