Jillian M. Maloney
San Diego State University
Associate Professor
Expertise: Paleoseismology, marine geology
About Me
Publications
I combine geophysical data including seismic reflection, multibeam bathymetry, and sidescan sonar with sediment analysis to study a number of geologic research topics including sequence stratigraphy, neotectonics, paleoseismology, earthquake hazard, and submarine slide dynamics.
SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2022 - Present)
SCEC Participation
SCEC Executive Committee, Member (2024 - Present)SCEC Board of Directors, Core Institution Member (2022 - Present)
Fabbrizzi, A., & Maloney, J. M. (2026). Stratigraphic and structural controls on submarine mass wasting in Velero Basin, Outer California Borderland. Marine Geology, (awaiting publication). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2026.107822. SCEC Contribution 15049
Fabbrizzi, A., Maloney, J. M., Derosier, B., & Keith, B. (2026). Interplay Between Tectonics and Submarine Mass Transport Deposits in Cortes Basin: New High‐Resolution Geophysics in the Outer California Borderland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 131(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JB032100. SCEC Contribution 15048
Fabbrizzi, A., Maloney, J. M., & Alicia, S. (2025, 09). Paleoseismic Insights from Submarine Mass Transport Deposits in the San Nicolas Basin. Poster Presentation at 2025 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 14512
Fabbrizzi, A., Maloney, J. M., & Keith, B. (2024, 09). Geohazard at Velero Basin, Outer California Borderland: mapping seafloor mass wasting using new high-resolution marine geophysics. Poster Presentation at 2024 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13890
Fabbrizzi, A., Maloney, J. M., Derosier, B., Keith, B., Quintero, S. T., & Guerrero, H. (2023, 09). Quaternary Slope Failure History from Repeated Submarine Landslide Deposits at Cortes Basin, Outer California Borderland. Poster Presentation at 2023 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 13004
Fabbrizzi, A., Marquez, E. D., Singleton, D. M., Maloney, J. M., Rockwell, T. K., Driscoll, N. W., & Rugg, S. (2022, 09). Inner California Borderland High-Resolution Fault Mapping: Rose Canyon Fault Releasing Stepover in San Diego Bay Pull-apart Basin. Poster Presentation at 2022 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 11975
Singleton, D. M., Maloney, J. M., Brothers, D. S., Klotsko, S. A., Driscoll, N. W., & Rockwell, T. K. (2021). Recency of Faulting and Subsurface Architecture of the San Diego Bay Pull-Apart Basin, California, USA. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.641346. SCEC Contribution 14120
Maloney, J. M. (2019, 08). Mysteries of the Deep: Faulting in the offshore California Continental Borderlands. Oral Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9808
Singleton, D. M., Maloney, J. M., Brothers, D. S., Driscoll, N. W., Kluesner, J. W., & Sliter, R. W. (2019, 08). Recent faulting in south San Diego Bay: A Rose Canyon – San Miguel-Vallecitos fault connection?. Poster Presentation at 2019 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 9722
Singleton, D. M., Rockwell, T. K., Murbach, D., Murbach, M., Maloney, J. M., Freeman, T., & Levy, Y. (2019). Late-Holocene Rupture History of the Rose Canyon Fault in Old Town, San Diego: Implications for Cascading Earthquakes on the Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault System. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 109(3), 855-874. https://doi.org/10.1785/0120180236. SCEC Contribution 8057
Singleton, D. M., Rockwell, T. K., & Maloney, J. M. (2018, 08). Sequence of cascading earthquakes on the Newport-Inglewood-Rose Canyon Fault zone from paleoseismic observations. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8488
Klotsko, S. A., Maloney, J. M., & Watt, J. (2018, 08). Shallow fault mapping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Poster Presentation at 2018 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 8330
Singleton, D. M., Rockwell, T. K., Murbach, M., Murbach, D., Maloney, J. M., Levy, Y., Marquez, E., & Weidman, L. (2017, 08). Late-Holocene Earthquakes on the Rose Canyon Fault at Old Town, San Diego CA. Poster Presentation at 2017 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 7719
Weidman, L., Maloney, J. M., & Rockwell, T. K. (2016, 08). San Diego Earthquake Hazard: Geotechnical Data Synthesis. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6891
Marquez, E. D., Maloney, J. M., Rockwell, T. K., Driscoll, N. W., Rugg, S., & Babcock, J. M. (2016, 08). Paleoseismic investigation of the Rose Canyon fault zone, San Diego, CA. Poster Presentation at 2016 SCEC Annual Meeting. SCEC Contribution 6668
Maloney, J. M., Grupe, B. M., Pasulka, A. L., Dawson, K. S., Case, D. H., Frieder, C. A., Levin, L. A., & Driscoll, N. W. (2015). Transpressional segment boundaries in strike-slip fault systems offshore southern California: Implications for fluid expulsion and cold seep habitats. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(10), 4080-4088. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL063778. SCEC Contribution 6026
Dong, S., Ucarkus, G., Wesnousky, S. G., Maloney, J. M., Kent, G. M., Driscoll, N. W., & Baskin, R. L. (2014). Strike-slip Faulting along the Wassuk Range of the northern Walker Lane, Nevada. Geosphere, 10(1), 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES00912.1. SCEC Contribution 1839
Ucarkus, G., Dong, S., Wesnousky, S. G., Maloney, J. M., Kent, G. M., & Driscoll, N. W. (2013, 5). Strike-slip Faulting along the Wassuk Range of the northern Walker Lane. Oral Presentation at 2013 GSA Meeting . SCEC Contribution 1884
Last updated Jun 02, 2026.
