Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Logo Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Logo
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Logo
Menu
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Organizational Charts
    • Virtual Tours
    • EESA Strategic Vision
  • Our People
    • A-Z People
    • Alumni Network
    • Area Offices
    • Committees
    • Directors
    • IDEA Working Group
    • Paul A. Witherspoon
    • Postdocs & Early Careers
    • Search by Expertise
  • Careers & Opportunities
    • Careers
    • Intern Pilot w/CSUEB
    • Mentorship Program
    • Recognition & Funding Opps
    • EESA Mini Grants
    • S&E Metrics for Performance and Promotion
    • Student Opportunities
    • Supervisor EnRichment (SupER) Program
    • Promotion Metrics (Scientific)
  • Research
    • Area-Wide Program Domain
      • Earth AI & Data
    • Our Divisions
    • Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division
      • Environmental & Biological Systems Science
        • Programs
        • Environmental Remediation & Water Resources
        • Ecosystems Biology Program
        • Bioenergy
      • Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
        • Programs
        • Climate Modeling
        • Atmospheric System Research
        • Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
      • Climate & Atmosphere Processes
        • Programs
        • Climate Modeling
        • Atmospheric System Research
      • Earth Systems & Society
        • Programs
        • Climate Modeling
    • Energy Geosciences Division
      • Discovery Geosciences
        • Programs
        • Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Geophysics
        • Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Geochemistry
        • Basic Energy Sciences (BES) Isotope
      • Energy Resources and Carbon Management
        • Programs
        • Carbon Removal & Mineralization Program
        • Carbon Storage Program
        • Geothermal Systems
        • Hydrocarbon Science
        • Nuclear Energy & Waste
      • Resilient Energy, Water & Infrastructure
        • Programs
        • Water-Energy
        • Critical Infrastructure
        • Environmental Resilience
        • Grid-Scale Subsurface Energy Storage
        • National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI)
    • Projects
    • Research at a Glance
    • Publication Lists
    • Centers and Resources
    • Technologies & National User Programs
  • Departments
    • Climate Sciences
    • Ecology
    • Geochemistry
    • Geophysics
    • Hydrogeology
    • Operations
  • News & Events
    • News
    • Events
    • Earth & Environment Newsletter
  • Intranet
  • Safety
    • EESA Safety
  • FoW
  • Search

  • all
  • people
  • events
  • posts
  • pages
  • projects
  • publications

Nori Nakata

Staff Scientist

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-6346

nnakata@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Boards & Committees
  • Committee & Organizers

Biography

Dr. Nori Nakata is a Staff Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his Bachelor of Engineering (2008) and Master of Engineering (2010) degrees from Kyoto University, and his PhD degree at Colorado School of Mines in 2013. He received the Mendenhall prize from the Colorado School of Mines for his PhD. Nori’s research interests are extensive and include crustal/global seismology, exploration geophysics, volcanism, civil engineering, wave phenomena and earthquakes and microseismicity. Before he joined LBL in 2020, he was a postdoc fellow at Stanford University in 2013-2016, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma in 2016-2018, and a principal research scientist at MIT since 2018.

 

Research Interests

Nori has extensive expertise in seismic imaging, microseismic monitoring, induced seismicity and subsurface utilization. He developed new techniques of analyzing continuous seismic data, and was an editor of the book on seismic ambient noise published in 2019. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers related to the topics listed above.

Education

  • Ph.D., Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Wave Phenomena, 2012-2013
  • M.Eng., Kyoto University, Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, 2008-2010
  • B.Eng., Kyoto University, Global Engineering, 2004-2008

Experience

  • Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2020-Present
  • Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019-Present
  • Lissa and Cy Wagner Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma, 2016-2018
  • George Thompson Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2013-2016
  • Research Assistant, Colorado School of Mines, 2012-2013
  • Visiting Researcher, Colorado School of Mines, 2010-2011
  • Visiting Researcher, Colorado School of Mines, 2009

Awards

  • Young Scientist Award, Seismological Society of Japan, 2017
  • Mendenhall prize (outstanding graduating PhD student), Dept. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, 2013
  • Outstanding student presentation award, 2013 Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, Chiba, 2013
  • Research highlight by Nature about the paper, Nakata and Snieder, J. Geophys. Res., 2012
  • SLS travel grant for SEG 80th Annual Meeting from SEG Foundation, 2010
  • Kyoto-university travel grant for visiting Colorado School of Mines, 2009
  • Outstanding presentation award, Idea Competition in SEGJ 60th anniversary, Tokyo, 2008

Advisory Boards, Committees, and Councils

  • Associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2018-Present
  • Associate editor, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 2016-2018
  • Guest editor, Focus Section of Seismological Research Letter, 2017
  • Guest editor, August 2016 special issue of INTERPRETATION, 2016
  • Guest editor, August 2015 special issue of The Leading Edge, 2015

Committee & Organizers

  • Science Committee for the fifth international conference on applied geophysics in Czech Republic, 2019
  • Organizer for a post-convention workshop at EAGE Near-surface geophysics (Geophysics for geohazards workshop), 2019
  • Passive Seismic Section Committee in the SEG annual meeting, 2018
  • Local committee for the ICDP workshop on Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma, 2018
  • Science committee in Eastern Section SSA annual meeting, 2017
  • Organizer for a post-convention workshop at the 2014 annual meeting of SEG (Microseismic source mechanisms), 2014
  • Our People
    • Area Offices
    • Committees
    • Directors
    • Organizational Charts
    • Postdocs
    • Staff Only
    • Search by Expertise
  • Departments
    • Climate Sciences
    • Ecology
    • Geochemistry
    • Geophysics
    • Hydrogeology
  • Research
    • Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division
    • Energy Geosciences Division
    • Program Domains
      • Programs
    • Projects
  • Contact
    • 510 486 6455
    • eesawebmaster@lbl.gov
    • Our Identity

Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Logo DOE Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Logo UC

A U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory Managed by the University of California

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Earth and Environmental Sciences Area · Privacy & Security Notice