Member Since 1981
Martha K. Savage
Professor, Victoria University of Wellington
Martha Kane Savage is Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches Geophysics, Tectonics, and Seismology. Her research interests are seismology and its relation to tectonics, earthquake & volcanic hazards and geothermal development. Specific research contributions include determining the Earth’s velocity structure using earthquakes and seismic noise, using variations in seismic wave speed with direction.
Professional Experience
Victoria University of Wellington
Professor
Education
University of Wisconsin Madison
Doctorate
1987
University of Wisconsin Madison
Masters
1984
Swarthmore College
Bachelors
1979
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Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2015
Citation
For groundbreaking work using seismic anisotropy to determine tectonic deformation in the crust and mantle and active deformation of volcanoes tied to their eruptive cycles.
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Publications
Time Varying Crustal Anisotropy at Whakaari/White Island Volcano
Whakaari/White Island has been the most active New Zealand volcano in the 21st century, producing small phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruptions, whi...
June 08, 2024
A Novel Method to Determine Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Usi...
November 29, 2023
Earthquakes and Seismic Hazard in Southern New Caledonia, So...
December 08, 2022
Using Seafloor Geodesy to Detect Vertical Deformation at the...
November 29, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Insights into the occurrence and characteristics of near-trench megathrust slip behavior at the Hikurangi subduction zone from almost a decade of seafloor geodetic experiments
RECENT APPLICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN SEAFLOOR GEODESY I ORAL
geodesy | 14 december 2023
Laura M. Wallace, Spahr C. Webb, John B. DeSanto, ...
Resolving the distribution of interseismic coupling and transient slow slip event (SSE) processes at offshore subduction zones is hampered by the diff...
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Bulk Elastic Anisotropy of the Damage Zone of the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand, from Combined DAS/Geophone Borehole Seismic Travel-time Tomography
BRIDGING FIELD AND LABORATORY STUDIES TO UNVEIL THE MECHANISMS OF UNSTABLE FAULT SLIP II POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Oumeng Zhang, Douglas R. Schmitt, Vera Lay, Stefan...
The damage zones of major faults influence initiation and propagation of earthquakes, fluid flows within the crust, and the long-term evolution of fau...
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Using Deep Learning Algorithms to Create a Microseismicity Catalogue of the Central Hikurangi Margin to Understand SSE Episodicity
SLOW-TO-FAST EARTHQUAKES FROM SHALLOW TO DEEP: OBSERVATIONS, EXPERIMENTS, AND NUMERICAL MODELING IV POSTER
tectonophysics | 13 december 2023
Stephen Kwong, Martha K. Savage, Emily Warren-Smit...
Slow slip events (SSEs) occur every ~5 years in the Pōrangahau region on the Central Hikurangi Margin. However, the permanent seismic instrumentation ...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2026
Member
Seismology Gutenberg Lecture Committee
2023 - 2024
President
Seismology Executive Committee
2023 - 2024
Section President
Council
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