Pascal Audet is Professor in Geophysics in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa. He currently holds the University Research Chair in Solid Earth Geophysics. Prior to this he was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Interests
- Geophysics and Tectonics
- Earthquake Seismology
- Data analysis and modeling
- Open-source software development
Education
PhD in Geophysics, 2008
University of British Columbia
MSc in Earth Sciences, 2004
Université du Québec à Montréal
BSc in Physics, 2002
Université de Montréal
Awards
- 2020 David Elliott Best Paper Award from the Canadian Tectonics Group, Geological Association of Canada
- 2018 Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada
- 2018 Young Scientist of the Year, Canadian Geophysical Union
- 2017 Young Researcher of the Year Award, University of Ottawa
- 2016 Excellence in Media Relations Award, University of Ottawa
- 2016-2021 University Research Chair in Geophysics, University of Ottawa
- 2015-2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- 2015-2020 Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
- 2015 Personnalité de la semaine, Radio-Canada/Le Droit
- 2008-2011 Miller Research Fellowship, University of California Berkeley
Publications
- Dr. Zhezhe Lu, Pascal Audet, Jiabiao Li, Tao Zhang, Chun-Feng Li (2024). Strength of continental lithosphere governed by the time since the last orogeny. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
- Quan Zhang, Yunfeng Chen, Yu Jeffrey Gu, Claire Currie, Pascal Audet, Hersh Gilbert, Derek L. Schutt, Gabriela Fernandez-Viejo, Yangkang Chen (2024). A Reference Model of Crustal Thickness and Vp/Vs of Western Canada. Journal of Geophysical Researchl.
- Parviz Ajourlou, Fiona Darbyshire, Pascal Audet, Glenn A. Milne (2024). Structure of the crust and upper mantle in Greenland and northeastern Canada: insights from anisotropic Rayleigh-wave tomography. Geophysical Journal International.
- Kim Senger, Grace Shephard, Fenna Ammerlaan, Owen Anfinson, Pascal Audet, Bernard Coakley, Victoria Ershova, Jan Inge Faleide, Sten-Andreas Grundvag, Rafael Kenji Horota, Karthik Iyer, Julian Janocha, Morgan Jones, Alexander Minakov, Margaret Odlum, Anna M. R. Sartell, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Daniel Stockli, Marie A. Vander Kloet, Carmen Gaina (2024). Arctic Tectonics and Volcanism: a multi-scale, multidisciplinary educational approach. Geoscience Communication.
- Dr. Hao Mai, Pascal Audet, Claire C. K. Perry, S. Mousavi, Quan Zhang (2023). Blockly earthquake transformer: A deep learning platform for custom phase picking. Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences.
- Wasja Bloch, Michael G. Bostock, Pascal Audet (2023). A Cascadia slab model from receiver functions. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
- Jared Bryan, William B. Frank, Pascal Audet (2023). Capturing seismic velocity changes in receiver functions with optimal transport. Geophysical Journal International.
- A. Boyce, M. V. Liddell, S. Pugh, J. Brown, E. McMurchie, A. Parsons, Dr. Clément Estève, S. Burdick, F. A. Darbyshire, S. Cottaar, I. D. Bastow, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Pascal Audet, D. L. Schutt, R. C. Aster (2023). A New P-Wave Tomographic Model (CAP22) for North America: Implications for the Subduction and Cratonic Metasomatic Modification History of Western Canada and Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Derek L Schutt, Robert W Porritt, Dr. Clément Estève, Pascal Audet, Dr. Jeremy Gosselin, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Richard C Aster, Jeffrey T Freymueller, Joel F Cubley (2022). Lithospheric S‐wave velocity variations beneath the Mackenzie Mountains and Northern Canadian Cordillera. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Taylor Tracey Kyryliuk, Pascal Audet, Dr. Jeremy Gosselin, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer (2022). Crustal seismic anisotropy along the continental margin in western Canada from receiver function analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Dr. Clément Estève, Yajing Liu, Ivan Koulakov, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Pascal Audet (2022). Seismic evidence for a weakened thick crust at the Beaufort Sea continental margin. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Dr. Hao Mai, Pascal Audet (2022). QuakeLabeler: a fast seismic data set creation and annotation toolbox for AI applications. Seismological Research Letters.
- Andrew Bolton, Derek Schutt, Richard C. Aster, Pascal Audet, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Dr. Clément Estève, Jeff Freymueller, Joel Cubley (2021). Evidence for asthenospheric flow rotation in northwest Canada: insights from shear wave splitting. Geophysical Journal International.
- Dr. Stephen G. Mosher, Pascal Audet, Dr. Jeremy Gosselin (2021). Shear‐wave velocity structure of sediments on Cascadia's continental margin from probabilistic inversion of seafloor compliance data. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
- Dr. Stephen G. Mosher, Z. Eilon, H. Janiszewski, Pascal Audet (2021). Probabilistic inversion of seafloor compliance for oceanic crustal shear velocity structure using mixture density neural networks. Geophysical Journal International.
- Dr. Clément Estève, Dr. Jeremy Gosselin, Pascal Audet, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Derek Schutt, Richard C. Aster (2021). Surface-Wave Tomography of the Northern Canadian Cordillera Using Earthquake Rayleigh Wave Group Velocities. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Y. Lu, Dr. Zhezhe Lu, C.-F. Li, S. Zhu, Pascal Audet (2021). Lithosphere Weakening During Arctic Ocean Opening: Evidence From Effective Elastic Thickness. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Dr. Jeremy Gosselin, Pascal Audet, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Fiona A. Darbyshire, Dr. Clément Estève (2021). Azimuthal anisotropy in Bayesian surface-wave tomography: application to northern Cascadia and Haida Gwaii. Geophysical Journal International.
- Dr. Zhezhe Lu, Pascal Audet, C.-F. Li, S. Zhu, Z. Wu (2021). What controls effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere in the Pacific Ocean?. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Dr. Stephen G. Mosher, Pascal Audet (2020). Automatic detection and location of seismic events from time-delay projection mapping and neural network classification. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Pascal Audet, Derek Schutt, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Dr. Clément Estève, Richard C. Aster, Joel Cubley (2020). Moho variations across the northern Canadian Cordillera. Seismological Research Letters.
- Dr. Morgan McLellan, Pascal Audet (2020). Uncovering the physical controls of deep subduction zone slow slip using supervised classification of subducting plate features. Geophysical Journal International.
- Dr. Morgan McLellan, Pascal Audet (2020). Uncovering the physical controls of deep subduction zone slow slip using supervised classification of subducting plate features. Geophysical Journal International.
- Dr. Zhezhe Lu, Chun-Feng Li, Shuang Zhu, Pascal Audet (2020). Effective elastic thickness over the Chinese mainland and surroundings estimated from a joint inversion of Bouguer admittance and coherence. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.
- Dr. Clément Estève, Pascal Audet, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Derek Schutt, Richard C. Aster, Joel Cubley (2020). The upper mantle structure of northwestern Canada from teleseismic body wave tomography. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Pascal Audet, Colin J. Thomson, Michael G. Bostock, Tom Eulenfeld (2019). Telewavesim: Python software for teleseismic body wave modeling. Journal of Open Source Software.
- Pascal Audet, Claire A. Currie, Dr. Andrew Schaeffer, Alexander M. Hill (2019). Seismic evidence for lithospheric thinning and heat in the Northern Canadian Cordillera. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Dr. Élyse Gaudreau, Pascal Audet, David Schneider (2019). Mapping Curie depth across western Canada from a wavelet analysis of magnetic anomaly data. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Pascal Audet, Dr. Jeremy Gosselin (2019). Curie depth estimation from magnetic anomaly data: a re-assessment using multitaper spectral analysis and Bayesian inference. Geophysical Journal International.
- Katherine JE Boggs, Rick C Aster, Pascal Audet, Gilbert Brunet, Ron M Clowes, Catherine D de Groot-Hedlin, Eric Donovan, David W Eaton, Julie Elliott, Jeffrey T Freymueller, Michael AH Hedlin, Roy D Hyndman, Thomas S James, Paul J Kushner, Kristin D Morell, Christie D Rowe, Derek L Schutt, Michael G Sideris, Malaika Ulmi, Frank L Vernon, Nicole West (2018). EON-ROSE and the Canadian Cordillera Array–Building Bridges to Span Earth System Science in Canada. Geoscience Canada.
- Pascal Audet, Dr. Shutian Ma (2018). Deep crustal earthquakes in the Beaufort Sea, western Canadian arctic, from teleseismic depth phase analysis. Seismological Research Letters.
- Rebekka Steffen, Pascal Audet, Bjorn Lund (2018). Weakened Lithosphere Beneath Greenland Inferred From Effective Elastic Thickness: A Hot Spot Effect?. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Dr. Stephen G. Mosher, Pascal Audet (2017). Recovery of P Waves from Ambient‐Noise Interferometry of Borehole Seismic Data around the San Andreas Fault in Central California. Bulletin of the Seismological SOciety of America.
- Dr. Shutian Ma, Pascal Audet, Dr. Philippe Dales (2017). Source Properties of the 16 July 2014 Magnitude ∼4.5 Double Earthquakes in the Northern Canadian Cordillera. Seismological Research Letters.
- Dr. Philippe Dales, Pascal Audet, Gerrit Olivier (2017). Seismic Interferometry Using Persistent Noise Sources for Temporal Subsurface Monitoring. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Dr. Alizia Tarayoun, Pascal Audet, Stephane Mazzotti (2017). Architecture of the crust and uppermost mantle in the northern Canadian Cordillera from receiver functions. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Dr. Philippe Dales, Pascal Audet, Gerrit Olivier, Jean-Philippe Mercier (2017). Interferometric methods for spatio temporal seismic monitoring in underground mines. Geophysical Journal International.
- Andrew Reynen, Pascal Audet (2017). Supervised machine learning on a network scale: application to seismic event classification and detection. Geophysical Journal International.
- Dr. Shutian Ma, Pascal Audet (2017). Seismic velocity model of the crust in the northern Canadian Cordillera from Rayleigh wave dispersion data . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
- Elise Cossette, Pascal Audet, David Schneider, Bernhard Grasemann (2016). Structure and anisotropy of the crust in the Cyclades, Greece, using receiver functions constrained by in situ rock textural data. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Pascal Audet (2016). Receiver functions using OBS data: promises and limitations from numerical modelling and examples from the Cascadia Initiative. Geophysical Journal International.
- Alexandre P. Plourde, Michael G. Bostock, Pascal Audet, Amanda M. Thomas (2015). Low‐frequency earthquakes at the southern Cascadia margin. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Pascal Audet (2015). Layered crustal anisotropy around the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Clifford H. Thurber, Xiangfang Zeng, Amanda M. Thomas, Pascal Audet (2014). Phase‐Weighted Stacking Applied to Low‐Frequency Earthquakes. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
- Dr. Stephen G. Mosher, Pascal Audet, Ivan L’Heureux (2014). Seismic evidence for rotating mantle flow around subducting slab edge associated with oceanic microplate capture. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Dr. Shutian Ma, Pascal Audet (2014). The 5.2 magnitude earthquake near Ladysmith, Quebec, 17 May 2013: implications for the seismotectonics of the Ottawa–Bonnechere Graben. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
- Pascal Audet (2014). Toward mapping the effective elastic thickness of planetary lithospheres from a spherical wavelet analysis of gravity and topography. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.
- Pascal Audet, Susan Y. Schwartz (2013). Hydrologic control of forearc strength and seismicity in the Costa Rican subduction zone. Nature Geoscience.
- Pascal Audet (2013). Seismic anisotropy of subducting oceanic uppermost mantle from fossil spreading. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Magdala Tesauro, Pascal Audet, Mikhail K. Kaban, Roland Burgmann, Sierd Cloetingh (2012). The effective elastic thickness of the continental lithosphere: Comparison between rheological and inverse approaches. Geochemistryl, Geophysics, Geosystems.
- Pascal Audet, Roland Burgmann (2011). Dominant role of tectonic inheritance in supercontinent cycles. Nature Geoscience.
- Pascal Audet (2011). Directional wavelet analysis on the sphere: Application to gravity and topography of the terrestrial planets. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Pascal Audet (2010). Temporal Variations in Crustal Scattering Structure near Parkfield, California, Using Receiver Functions. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
- Pascal Audet, Michael G. Bostock, Devin C. Boyarko, Michael R. Brudzinski, Richard M. Allen (2010). Slab morphology in the Cascadia fore arc and its relation to episodic tremor and slip. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Jean-Philippe Mercier, Michael G. Bostock, Pascal Audet, James B. Gaherty, Ed J. Garnero, Justin Revenaugh (2008). The teleseismic signature of fossil subduction: Northwestern Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research.
- Pascal Audet, A. Mark Jellinek, Hideharu Uno (2007). Mechanical controls on the deformation of continents at convergent margins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
- Pascal Audet, Michael G. Bostock, Jean-Philippe Mercier (2007). Teleseismic waveform modelling with a one-way wave equation. Geophysical Journal International.
- Pascal Audet, Jean-Claude Mareschal (2007). Wavelet analysis of the coherence between Bouguer gravity and topography: application to the elastic thickness anisotropy in the Canadian Shield. Geophysical Journal International.
- Pascal Audet, Jean-Claude Mareschal (2004). Anisotropy of the flexural response of the lithosphere in the Canadian Shield. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Pascal Audet, Jean-Claude Mareschal (2004). Variations in elastic thickness in the Canadian Shield. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.