Christie D. Rowe

Christie D. Rowe (born 1978) is a Professor of Geology at McGill University. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Earthquake Geology and was awarded the 2017 Geological Association of Canada W. W. Hutchison Medal.

Christie D. Rowe
Born1978
Northern California
Alma materSmith College
University of California, Santa Cruz
AwardsW. W. Hutchison Medal (2017)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
University of Cape Town
McGill University

Early life and education

Rowe is from Northern California.[1] Rowe eventually studied geology at Smith College, where she worked on metamorphic rocks including blueschists and eclogites.[2][3] She was taught by John Brady and H. Robert (Bob) Burger.[2] In 2007, Rowe received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz.[4] Rowe's doctoral work with J. Casey Moore attempted to reconstruct the earthquake cycles in Kodiak Island.[5] Rowe moved to South Africa in 2007 where she taught structural geology and plate tectonics at the University of Cape Town.[6]

Research and career

In 2009 Rowe was appointed an National Science Foundation-MARGINS postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she worked on geophysical observations, including study of the transient fluidisation of granular fault rocks in Alaska and Namibia with Emily Brodsky.[7]

Deep-sea Drilling Vessel "CHIKYÜ".

In 2011 Rowe joined McGill University as a Wares Scholar in economic geology. Rowe works on earthquake processes, including research in seismology, structural geology and mineralogy.[8] She has investigated fossilised earthquakes, including studying the fault that caused the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Rowe was a member of the science party for Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 on the scientific drilling vessel, the Chikyū, to study the fault under the Japan Trench that slipped in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.[9] Rowe is a member of the Southern California Earthquake Center, and has studied the Marin Headlands and other rocks of the Franciscan Complex.[10][11]

Her work has included studying the vulnerability to destruction of pseudotachylites, which are described in her work as underreported when compared to earthquakes in active faults.[12] She has studied exhumed fault zones, including pseudotachylite as an indicator of fossilised earthquake ruptures.[13] Rowe's work has shown amorphous nanosilica as involved in the process of lubrication and healing of earthquakes.[14]

In 2017 Rowe was awarded the Geological Association of Canada W.W. Hutchison Medal.[15] That year she was also appointed a Canada Research Chair in earthquake geology.[16][17] Rowe serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Structural Geology and the Geological Society of America's journals Geology (journal) and Lithosphere.[18][19][20]

Awards and honours
  • 2020 Francis Birch lecturer for the Tectonophysics Division of the American Geophysical Union[21]
  • 2017 McGill University Principal's Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers[22]
  • 2016 Geological Society of America Outstanding Publication Award[23]

References
  1. "Christie Rowe: In Search of the Source of Earthquakes". McGill Reporter. 2012-09-11. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  2. "Smith College Newsletter" (PDF). Smith College. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  3. "Smith College Department of Geosciences Newsletter" (PDF). Smith College. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  4. Rowe, Christie D. (March 2007). Snapshots of the Earthquake Cycle: An Approach to Subduction Zone Paleo-Seismicity (Ph.D. thesis). University of California Santa Cruz. Document No.3250176 – via ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
  5. "Pseudo-what? Old Rocks Explain Future Earthquakes" (PDF). UCSC. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. "Postdoctoral and Affiliated Researchers | Department of Geological Sciences". www.geology.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  7. "MARGINS-NSF Program". www.nsf-margins.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  8. "Earthquake and Fault Processes Research at McGill University". eps.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  9. Rowe, Christie. "Why Are There Field Geologists on a Drilling Vessel?". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  10. "crowe | Southern California Earthquake Center". www.scec.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  11. Regalla, Christine A.; Rowe, Christie D.; Harrichhausen, Nicolas; Tarling, Matthew S.; Singh, Jyotsana (2018). "Styles of underplating in the Marin Headlands terrane, Franciscan complex, California". Geology and Tectonics of Subduction Zones: A Tribute to Gaku Kimura. doi:10.1130/2018.2534(10). hdl:2144/26906. ISBN 978-0-8137-2534-5.
  12. Kirkpatrick, James D.; Rowe, Christie D. (2013). "Disappearing ink: How pseudotachylytes are lost from the rock record". Journal of Structural Geology. 52: 183–198. Bibcode:2013JSG....52..183K. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2013.03.003.
  13. Rowe, Christie D.; Griffith, W. Ashley (2015). "Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip: A second opinion". Journal of Structural Geology. 78: 1–26. Bibcode:2015JSG....78....1R. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.725.8623. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2015.06.006.
  14. Aretusini, Stefano; White, Joseph Clancy; Toro, Giulio Di; Thomas M. Mitchell; Andrews, Mark; Rempe, Marieke; Lamothe, Kelsey; Rowe, Christie D. (2019-01-18). "Earthquake lubrication and healing explained by amorphous nanosilica". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 320. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10..320R. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08238-y. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 6338773. PMID 30659201.
  15. "W.W. Hutchison Medal". The Geological Association Of Canada. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  16. Government of Canada, Industry Canada (2012-11-29). "Canada Research Chairs". www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  17. "$9M for McGill research through CRC Program". McGill Reporter. 2017-12-06. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  18. "Geology". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  19. "Christie D. Rowe". www.journals.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  20. "Lithosphere". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  21. "Francis Birch Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
  22. "Emerging researchers feted during Convocation". McGill Reporter. 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  23. "Best Paper Award". rock.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2019-04-08.
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