Mark Zoback
Born
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
University of Arizona
AwardsWalter H. Bucher Medal (2008)
Louis Néel Medal (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
InstitutionsStanford University

Mark D. Zoback is an American geophysicist and Emeritus Faculty at Stanford University.[1] He is also a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering,[2] and he directs or co-directs the Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity (SCITS), the Stanford Natural Gas Initiative (NGI), and the Stanford Rock Physics and Borehole Geophysics program (SRB). Zoback is the author of the textbook Reservoir Geomechanics.[3] Zoback is the author of over 300 peer-reviewed publications and he holds seven patents.[4] He is married to the American geophysicist Mary Lou Zoback.

Selected publications

  • John Townend; Mark D. Zoback (2000). "How faulting keeps the crust strong". Geology. 28 (5): 399–402. Bibcode:2000Geo....28..399T. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<399:HFKTCS>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0091-7613. Wikidata Q57850245.
  • Mary Lou Zoback; Mark Zoback (10 November 1980). "State of stress in the conterminous United States". Journal of Geophysical Research. 85 (B11): 6113–6156. Bibcode:1980JGR....85.6113Z. doi:10.1029/JB085IB11P06113. ISSN 0148-0227. Wikidata Q97855966.
  • Mary Lou Zoback; Mark D. Zoback; J. Adams; et al. (September 1989). "Global patterns of tectonic stress". Nature. 341 (6240): 291–298. Bibcode:1989Natur.341..291Z. doi:10.1038/341291A0. ISSN 1476-4687. Wikidata Q56610367.

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Zoback". Stanford Earth Faculty Directory Emeritus. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Zoback, Mark". aaas.org. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Zoback, Mark D. (2010). Reservoir Geomechanics (Pbk. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521146197.
  4. ↑ "Mark Zoback's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu.


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