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Christie Rowe

Director, Nevada Seismological Laboratory and Professor She/her/hers

Summary

Christie's career has focused on the rock record of earthquakes and geological characteristics of the earthquake source. She completed her doctorate at UC Santa Cruz (Earth Sciences, 2007) after graduating from Smith College (Geology, 2000). She was a lecturer at the University of Cape Town (2006-2009), returned to UCSC as a researcher in the seismology group (2010-2011), and held the Wares Chair in Ore Forming Processes and Canada Research Chair in Earthquake Geology as a professor at McGill University (2011-2024). She joined the Nevada Seismological Laboratory in 2024.

Research interests

  • Earthquakes
  • Natural hazards
  • Tectonics
  • Structural geology
  • Mapping

Education

  • Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, 2007
  • A.B. in Geology, Smith College, 2000

Selected publications

  • *Angombe, M. T., Chien, J., Salomon, G., Liu, Y., Rowe, C. D., Sitali, M., and Shipena, S. (submitted) Seismic swarm and surface deformation in the Kamanjab Inlier, northern Namibia. Seismica.
  • *Gourdeau, A., *Prush, V. B., Rowe, C. D., Nackers, C., Mark, H., Morris, I., Rosset, P., Lamothe, M., Chouinard, L., and *Tarling, M. (accepted, 2024) Investigation of suspected Holocene fault scarp near Montréal, Québec: The first paleoseismic trench in eastern Canada. Seismica.
  • *Faber, C. and Rowe, C. D. (accepted, 2024) Lawsonite-eclogite records plate boundary rheology and slab detachment, Faro, Yukon-Tanana Terrane, Yukon Territory, Canada. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
  • *Das, M., Anfinson, O., Rowe, C. D., and Schroeder, N. (accepted, 2024) Age, sedimentology and deformation history of the Mesozoic Franciscan Accretionary Complex, Angel Island, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 
  • Malki, J., Vennes, I., Rowe, C. D., and Mitra, H. (2024) . Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering.
  • Mark, H., Ragon, T., Funning, G., Hicks, S. P., Rowe, C. D., Teplitzky, S., Convers, J., Karasozen, E., Corona-Fernandez, R. D., and Fagereng, A. (2023) . Seismica.
  • Rowe, C. D., Agius, M., Convers, J., Funning, G., Galasso, C., Hicks, S., Huynh, T., Lange, J., Lecocq, T., Mark, H., Okuwaki, R., Ragon, T., Rychert, C., Teplitzky, S., and van den Ende, M. (2022) . Seismica.
  • *Young, E. Y., Rowe, C. D. and Kirkpatrick, J. D. (2022) Shear zone evolution and the path of earthquake rupture. Solid Earth 13 1607-1629
  • *Williams, R. T., Rowe, C. D., Okamoto, K., Savage, H. M., *Eves, E. (2021) How fault rocks form and mature in the shallow San Andreas Fault. G-cubed 22 11