Please see my CV for more details.

Education

  • March 2022 - Current: postdoc at the Laboratoire de Géologie at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
  • 2016-Feb 2022: Doctor of Philosophy in geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.
  • 2016: Master of Science in geophysics, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
  • 2014: Bachelor of Science: double major in physics and geosciences,Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Publications

  • Oryan, B., Olive, J., Malatesta, L. C. & Jolivet, R. How elastic earthquake cycles generate inelastic deformation? (in prep.)
  • Oryan, B., et al., (2022, in review), New GNSS and geological data from the Indo-Burman subduction zone indicate active convergence on both a locked megathrust and the Kabaw Fault, JGR solid earth.
  • Steckler, M. S., Oryan, B., et al., (2022). Synthesis of the distribution of subsidence of the lower Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh. Earth- Science Reviews, 224, 103887.
  • Oryan, B., & Savage, H., (2021) Regional heat flow analysis reveals frictionally weak Dead Sea fault. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
  • Oryan, B., & Buck, W. R. (2020). Larger tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes where slab dip is reduced. Nature Geoscience, 1-6.
  • Oryan, B., Villinger, H., Lazar, M., Schwab, M. J., Neugebauer, I., & Ben-Avraham, Z. (2019). Heat flow in the Dead Sea from the ICDP boreholes and its implication for the structure of the basin. Quaternary Science Reviews, 210, 103-112.
  • Malinverno, A., Cook, A. E., Daigle, H., & Oryan, B. (2018). Glacial cycles influence marine methane hydrate formation. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(2), 724-732.

Awards & Grants

  • NASA Earth Surface and Interior grant. GNSS and InSAR Surface Deformation Constraints on a 3-D Geodetic Model of the IndoBurma Subduction Zone. Steckler M., Lindsey E, Oryan B. , et al.
  • AGU 2020 Outstanding Student Presentation Award.
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Climate Center. Temporal dynamics of tree-growth and photosynthesis and their environmental drivers in the Lamont Sanctuary Forest Preserve. Rao M., Pacheco-Solana B., Oryan, B., et al.
  • Chevron Student Incentive Fund. Developing the LDEO PhenoCam network to track the fate of forest carbon from photosynthesis to growth. Oryan, B. and Rao M.
  • Chateaubriand Fellowship. Finical support to work with Dr. Jean-Arthur Olive at the Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS).
  • Stork Fund. Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences graduate student fieldtrip to Peru. Oryan, B. and Myers, E.
  • Dean’s fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University.
  • M.Sc. excellence scholarship, Tel Aviv University.

Recent Presentations

  • JpGU (2022, invited talk): Recorded shallow upper plate earthquakes during the interseismic period indicate non- recoverable forearc deformation and produce long-term coastal uplift.
  • EGU (2022, talk): Long-term coastal uplift due to non-recoverable forearc deformation during the interseismic phase of the subduction earthquake cycle.
  • AGU Fall (2021, invited union talk): Using InSAR and GNSS velocities to constrain the Indo-Burma Detachment Geometry.
  • AGU Fall (2021, poster): Non-recoverable deformation during the interseismic phase of the subduction earthquake cycle.
  • Caltech Seismo Lab Seminar (2021, invited talk): Permanent deformation across various time scales: Accounting for subduction upper plate failure over “purely elastic” seismic cycles.
  • Hebrew University, Institute of Earth Sciences Seminar, online (2021, talk): Larger tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes where slab dip is reduced.
  • Weizmann Institute of science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Seminar, online (2021, talk): Larger tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes where slab dip is reduced.
  • AGU Fall , online (2020, poster): The Indo-Burma Detachment Geometry Constrained by an Updated Vertical and Horizontal GPS Velocity Field in Bangladesh.
  • International Geodynamics Series, online (2020, talk): Larger tsunamis from megathrust earthquakes where slab dip is reduced.
  • UC Santa Cruz Seismo Coffee Hour, online (2020, talk): Locally-observed frictional heating shows evidence of a weak Dead Sea transform fault
  • Lamont-Doherty MGG Seamier, online (2020, talk): Deviation from the standard subduction earthquake cycle model and its effect on upper plate deformation.

Field and lab work

  • HT-RESIST EM research cruise, New Zealand.
  • Borehole temperature profile measurements, Dead Sea, Israel.
  • Thermal conductivity measurements of the ICDP Dead Sea cores, IODP core repository, Bremen, Germany.
  • Thermal conductivity measurements of the ICDP Dead Sea cores, Leibniz Institute For Applied Geophysics, Hannover, Germany.

Outreach