Research Interests

 

I am a research scientist in the Seismology Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). My work focuses on issues of seismological and geomechanical interest in support of LLNL’s energy and national security missions. My interests include earthquake seismology, microseismic analysis, induced seismicity, seismic hazard and risk management, earthquake detection and source inversion, distributed acoustic sensing, geologic carbon sequestration, engineered geothermal systems, integrated yield determination, tunnel threat assessment, and geologic waste repository system integrity. I am also committed to developing, sustaining, and celebrating a broad range of talents in STEM through active recruitment, mentoring, community engagement, and educational outreach.

 

Selected Service Activities

• LLNL Amigos Unidos ERG Leadership Team (2021 – Jan. 2025)
• Physical and Life Sciences Workforce & Communications Committee Chair (2019 – 2023)
• Board of Directors, AWG San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (2018 – 2020)
• LLNL Directors Diversity and Inclusion Award Committee (2020-2021)
• DEI Task Force, Seismological Society of America (2020-2021)
• Board of Directors, Association of Women Geoscientists (2012 – 2017)
• LLNL WinSAR Institutional Representative Committee (2008 - 2014)

Ph.D., Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley, 2007

M.Sc., Geophysics, University of California at Berkeley, 2004

B.A., Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, 1999

Gok, R., W. R. Walter, J. Barno, C. Downey, R. J. Mellors, K. Mayeda, J. Roman-Nieves, D. Templeton and J. Ajo-Franklin (2024). Reliable Earthquake Source Parameters Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data Derived from Coda Envelopes, Seismol. Res. Lett., 95, 2208-2220, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220230270.

 

Templeton, D. C., Schoenball, M., Layland-Bachmann, C. E., Foxall, W., Guglielmi, Y., Kroll, K. A., Burghardt, J. A., and White, J. A. (2022), A Project Lifetime Approach to the Management of Induced Seismicity Risk at Geologic Carbon Storage Sites, Seismol. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210284

 

Ajo-Franklin, J., Rodriguez Tribaldos, V., Nayak, A., Cheng, F., Mellors, R., Chi, B., Wood, T., Robertson, M., Rotermund, C., Matzel, E., Templeton, D. C., Morency, C., Wu, K., Dong, B., and Dobson, P. (2022), The Imperial Valley Dark Fiber Project: Towards Seismic Studies Using DAS and Telecom Infrastructure for Geothermal Applications, Seismol. Res. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220220072

 

Velasco, A. A., Aderhold, K., Alfaro-Diaz, R., Brown, W., Brudzinski, M., Fraiser, M., Holt, M., Mori, J., Noriega, G., Scharer, K., Templeton, D., Terra, F., and William-Stroud, S. (2021), News and Notes: SSA Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Toward a Changing, Inclusive Future in Earthquake Science, Seismol. Res. Lett., 92, 3267–3275, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220210170

 

Nayak, A., Ajo-Franklin, J., and the Imperial Valley Dark Fiber Team (2021), Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Dark Fiber for Array Detection of Regional Earthquakes, Seismol. Res. Lett., 92, 2441-2452, https://doi.org/10.1785/0220200416

 

Li, Z., D. Elsworth, C. Wang, and EGS-Collab (2021), Constraining maximum event magnitude during injection-triggered seismicity, Nature Communications, 12, 1528, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20700-4

 

Kaven, J. O., Templeton, D.C., and Bathija, A.P. (2020), Introduction to this special section: Geothermal energy, The Leading Edge, 39, 855-856, https://doi.org/10.1190/tle39120855.1

 

M. Schoenball, Ajo-Franklin, J.B., Blankenship, D., Chai, C., Dobson, P., Kneafsey, T.J., Knox, H.A., Maceira, M., Robertson, M.C., Sprinkle, P., Strickland, C., Templeton, D., Schwering, P.C., Ulrich, C., Wood, T.J., and the EGS Collab Team (2020), Creation of a mixed-mode fracture network at meso-scale through hydraulic fracturing and shear stimulation. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth, 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JB019807

 

Condon, K. J., Sone, H., Wang, H. F., and EGS Collab Team (2020), Low Static Shear Modulus Along Foliation and Its Influence on the Elastic and Strength Anisotropy of Poorman Schist Rocks, Homestake Mine, South Dakota, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 53, 5257-5281, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-020-02182-4

 

Templeton, D. C., J. Wang, M. K. Goebel, D. B. Harris, and T. T. Cladouhos (2020), Induced seismicity during the 2012 Newberry EGS stimulation: Assessment of two advanced earthquake detection techniques at an EGS site, Geothermics, 83, 101720, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2019.101720

 

Templeton, D. C., A. J. Rodgers, S. R. Ford, P. E. Harben, A. L. Ramirez, W. Foxall, and R. E. Reinke (2018), Seismic models for near-surface explosion yield estimation in alluvium and sedimentary rock, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 108, 1384 – 1398, https://doi:10.1785/0120170145

 

Wang, J., Templeton, D.C., and Harris, D.B. (2015), Discovering new events beyond the catalogue—application of empirical matched field processing to Salton Sea geothermal field seismicity, Geophys. J. Int., 203, 22 – 32, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv260

 

Ford, S.R., Rodgers, A.J., Xu, H., Templeton, D.C., Harben, P., Foxall, W., and Reinke, R.E. (2014), Partitioning of Seismoacoustic Energy and Estimation of Yield and Height-of-Burst / Depth-of-Burial for Near-Surface Explosions, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 104, 608 - 623, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120130130

 

Rolandone, F., Bürgmann, R., Agnew, D.C., Johanson, I.A., Templeton, D.C., d'Alessio, M.A., Titus, S.J., DeMets, C., and Tikoff, B. (2009), Reply to Comment by J. C. Savage on Aseismic slip and fault-normal strain along the central creeping section of the San Andreas fault, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L13306, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009GL039167

 

Templeton, D. C., R. M. Nadeau, and R. Bürgmann (2009), Distribution of postseismic slip on the Calaveras fault, California, following the 1984 M6.2 Morgan Hill earthquake, Earth Planet. Sci. Let.. 277, 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.09.024

 

Rolandone, F., Bürgmann, R., Agnew, D.C., Johanson, I.A., Templeton, D.C., d'Alessio, M.A., Titus, S.J., DeMets, C., and Tikoff, B. (2008), Aseismic slip and fault-normal strain along the central creeping section of the San Andreas fault, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L14305, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008GL034437

 

Templeton, D. C., R. M. Nadeau, and R. Bürgmann (2008), Behavior of repeating earthquake sequences in central California and the implications for subsurface fault creep, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 98, 52-65, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120070026

 

Templeton, D. C., and D. S. Dreger (2006), Non-double-couple earthquakes in the Long Valley volcanic region, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 96, 69-79, https://doi.org/10.1785/0120040206

 

Henning, A., Sawyer, D.S., and Templeton, D.C. (2004), Exhumed upper mantle within the ocean-continent transition on the northern west Iberia margin: Evidence from prestack depth migration and total tectonic subsidence analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 109, B05103, https://doi.org/10.1029/2003JB002526

• Laboratory Director’s SPOT Award (2024)
• Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division Stand Out Award (2024)
• Physical and Life Sciences Directorate DEI and Culture Award for supporting DEI mini moments (2022)
• Global Security Directorate E Program Silver Award for National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) efforts (2021)
• Global Security Directorate Gold Award for Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) Collab efforts (2020)
• Global Security Directorate Gold Award for border security efforts (2018)
• Association for Women Geoscientists Special Recognition Award (2014)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory SPOT Award for care of an associate (2013)
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director’s Certificate of Appreciation for emergency response efforts (2012)
• UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Opportunity Diversity Fellowship
• Houston Geological Society Undergraduate Scholarship
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Undergraduate Scholarship
• Texaco Academic Scholarship