Corné Kreemer, Research Professor

Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology / MS 178
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557-0178, USA

Office location: Scrugham Engineering/ Mines, Room 315

Phone: 1 (775) 682-8780
Fax: 1 (775) 784-1709

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Corné's Interests:

"I am mostly interested in using geodetic techniques to quantify how and how fast the Earth's crust deforms and, ultimately, to use that information in order to understand what drives the deformation. I work on these questions on global and regional scales. When doing so, all sorts of interesting questions arise:

How does the geodetically inferred deformation relate to seismic deformation and the seismic cycle?

When we know how the crust deforms on the surface, how does that relate to what happens in the lower crust or within the lithosphere as a whole?

Can we use our knowledge of the present-day deformation to place constraints on the deformation field in the (recent) past?

How can we use our geodetic constraints on the deformation rates to constrain or improve seismic hazard estimates?

Here in the Nevada Geodetic Laboratory we look at some specific questions:

Can we use geodetically inferred strain rate tensor fields to understand high geothermal activity in the Basin & Range province?

How are the relative high strain rates in the Walker Lane Belt accommodated seismically and geologically?

To what order constrain the Sierra Nevada mountains the complex deformation in the Walker Lane?

Is the future Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository teconically stable?

I also have a strong interest in the accuracy and stability of geodetic reference frames. As our geodetic measurements have become more precise, the accuracy and stability of any reference frame in which you want to analyze the inferred velocities (both globally as well regionally) has become very important"