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Matthew R. AgiusBSc(Hons)(Melit.), MSc(Melit.), PhD(Dubl.)
Research Support Officer III
Dipartiment tal-Ġeoxjenza
Fakultà tax-Xjenza
L-Università ta' Malta
E: matthew.agius@um.edu.mt
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Research interest
- Automated detection and location of earthquakes (single station)
- Surface waves, ambient noise, anisotropy
- Lithospheric dynamics (Tibet, Mediterranean)
- Seismicity in the central Mediterranean
- Seismic networks
- Real-time monitoring
- Earthquake cataloging
Publications
In preparation
- Agius, M. R. & Lebedev S. Multi-layered azimuthal anisotropy and crustal and mantle deformation beneath Tibet. In preparation.
- Agius, M. R., Galea, P., and D'Amico, S. The seismic bulletin of the Maltese Islands and the surrounding region (Sicily Channel): 1995-2014. In preparation.
- Agius, M. R., Galea, P., and D'Amico, S. The Malta Seismic Network: A new, real-time, broadband network in the Central Mediterranean. In preparation.
In peer-reviewed journals
- Agius, M. R., Sebastiano D’Amico, and Pauline Galea. The Easter Sunday 2011 Earthquake Swarm Offshore Malta: Analysis on Felt Reports. In Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society, pp. 631-645. Springer International Publishing, 2016. [PDF 1.5 MB]
- Agius, M. R., & Lebedev S. (2014). Shear-velocity structure, radial anisotropy and dynamics of the Tibetan crust. Geophysical Journal International, 199(3):1395-1415. [PDF 10.4 MB]
- Vozar, J., Jones, A., Fullea, J., Agius, M. R., Lebedev, S., Le Pape, F., & Wei, W. Integrated geophysical-petrological modeling of lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary in central Tibet using electromagnetic and seismic data. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15, 3965–3988. [PDF 2 MB]
- Agius, M. R., D’Amico, S., Galea, P., & Panzera, F. (2014). Performance evaluation of Wied Dalam (WDD) seismic station in Malta. Xjenza, 04/2014; 2(1):78-86. [PDF 4.1 MB]
- Agius, M. R., & Lebedev, S. (2013). Tibetan and Indian lithospheres in the upper mantle beneath Tibet: Evidence from broadband surface‐wave dispersion. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(10), 4260-4281. [PDF 2.2 MB]
- Fullea, J., Lebedev, S., Agius, M. R., Jones, A. G., & Afonso, J. C. (2012). Lithospheric structure in the Baikal–central Mongolia region from integrated geophysical‐petrological inversion of surface‐wave data and topographic elevation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 13(8). [PDF 1 MB]
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Organisations
2014 – present |
Young Scientist representative of the European Geosciences Union Seismology Division |
2010 – 2011 |
President of the Digital Arts Society, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. |
2010 |
Member of the organising committee for the Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS) workshop in Ireland. |
2006 |
Member of the organising committee for the Reduction of Earthquake Losses in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (RELEMR) meeting in Malta. |
2003 – 2004 |
Founding member of the Science Student Society (S3) (http://www.scubed.org.mt). |
Outreach
2014 – present |
Launch of the EGU Seismology Division Facebook fan page. |
2013 – present |
Seismoblog – a blog dedicated to the young seismologists of the European Geosciences Union. |
2013 – present |
Quake Watch – a monthly seismic report published on the Sunday Times of Malta. |
2009 – 2012 |
Participation in the Seismology in Schools programme run by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. |
2009 – 2012 |
Participation in the annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in Ireland. |
2007 |
Launch of the Seismic Monitoring and Research Unit (SMRU) website: http://seismic.research.um.edu.mt. |
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