Susan Y. Schwartz
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
ThesisFault zone heterogeneity and earthquake occurrence in subduction zones (1988)

Susan Y. Schwartz is a scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz known for her research on earthquakes, through field projects conducted in locations in Costa Rica and the San Andreas Fault.

Education and career

Schwartz has an Sc.B. from Brown University (1981) and an M.S. (1983)[1] and a Ph.D. (1988) from the University of Michigan.[2][3] During her Ph.D., she worked on the occurrence of earthquakes in subduction zones, including the Solomon Islands, the 1968 Tokachi earthquake, and the southern Kuril Islands.[4] At the University of California in Santa Cruz, Schwartz was first a postdoctoral fellow from 1988 until 1990, followed by four years as an assistant research seismologist, and then in 1994 she was hired as an assistant professor and was subsequently promoted to professor in 2002.[3]

In 2016 Schwartz was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for fundamental work that places subduction zone earthquakes in tectonic context".[5]

Research

Schwartz's research interests center on the mechanics of earthquakes in subduction zones and variations in earthquakes on regional scales. While at the University of Michigan, she worked on paleomagnetism in the Wyoming-Idaho region[6] and the folding of the Appalachian Mountains.[7] Her research has taken her to multiple field locations including the Southern Kurile Islands,[8][9] New Zealand,[10][11] and Costa Rica.[12][13] Her research on the 2012 Costa Rica earthquake relied on instrumentation installed in the region prior to the earthquake[13][14] which allowed her to define spatial variability in the fluids beneath the plate that impact the formation of earthquakes in the region.[15] She has also examined the seismology of the 1971 Solomon Islands earthquakes.[16] Schwartz was a postdoc working in California during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake[17][18] and in 2014 she recalled her feelings during the day of the earthquake and her realization of the importance of the "human element" of her research in seismology.[19]

Selected publications

  • Wallace, Laura M.; Webb, Spahr C.; Ito, Yoshihiro; Mochizuki, Kimihiro; Hino, Ryota; Henrys, Stuart; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Sheehan, Anne F. (2016-05-06). "Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand". Science. 352 (6286): 701–704. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..701W. doi:10.1126/science.aaf2349. PMID 27151867. S2CID 206647253.
  • Bilek, Susan L.; Schwartz, Susan Y.; DeShon, Heather R. (2003-05-01). "Control of seafloor roughness on earthquake rupture behavior". Geology. 31 (5): 455–458. Bibcode:2003Geo....31..455B. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0455:COSROE>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0091-7613.
  • Schwartz, Susan Y.; Rokosky, Juliana M. (2007). "Slow slip events and seismic tremor at circum-Pacific subduction zones". Reviews of Geophysics. 45 (3). Bibcode:2007RvGeo..45.3004S. doi:10.1029/2006RG000208. ISSN 1944-9208. S2CID 128205122.

Awards and honors

  • Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2016)[5]

References

  1. ↑ Schwartz, Susan Y; Van der Voo, R; University of Michigan; Department of Geological Sciences (1983). A paleomagnetic study of the thrust sheet rotations in response to foreland impingement in the Wyoming-Idaho overthrust belt: [manuscript in lieu of thesis, Master of Science in Geology. OCLC 1019536020.
  2. ↑ "Earth & Planetary Sciences Faculty". eps.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  3. 1 2 "Susan Schwartz | IRIS". www.iris.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  4. ↑ SCHWARTZ, SUSAN Y (1988). Fault zone heterogeneity and earthquake occurrence in subduction zones (Thesis). OCLC 244028973.
  5. 1 2 "Schwartz". Honors Program. Retrieved 2021-09-06.
  6. ↑ Schwartz, Susan Y.; Voo, Rob Van der (1984). "Paleomagnetic study of thrust sheet rotation during foreland impingement in the Wyoming-Idaho overthrust belt". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 89 (B12): 10077–10086. Bibcode:1984JGR....8910077S. doi:10.1029/JB089iB12p10077. ISSN 2156-2202.
  7. ↑ Schwartz, Susan Y.; Voo, Rob Van der (1983). "Paleomagnetic evaluation of the Orocline Hypothesis in the central and southern Appalachians". Geophysical Research Letters. 10 (7): 505–508. Bibcode:1983GeoRL..10..505S. doi:10.1029/GL010i007p00505. ISSN 1944-8007.
  8. ↑ Schwartz, Susan Y.; Dewey, James W.; Lay, Thorne (1989). "Influence of fault plane heterogeneity on the seismic behavior in the Southern Kurile Islands Arc". Journal of Geophysical Research. 94 (B5): 5637. Bibcode:1989JGR....94.5637S. doi:10.1029/JB094iB05p05637. ISSN 0148-0227.
  9. ↑ Schwartz, Susan Y.; Ruff, Larry J. (1987). "Asperity distribution and earthquake occurrence in the southern Kurile Islands arc". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 49 (1–2): 54–77. Bibcode:1987PEPI...49...54S. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(87)90132-4. hdl:2027.42/26509.
  10. ↑ Wallace, L. M.; Webb, S. C.; Ito, Y.; Mochizuki, K.; Hino, R.; Henrys, S.; Schwartz, S. Y.; Sheehan, A. F. (2016-05-06). "Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand". Science. 352 (6286): 701–704. Bibcode:2016Sci...352..701W. doi:10.1126/science.aaf2349. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 27151867. S2CID 206647253.
  11. ↑ Todd, Erin K.; Schwartz, Susan Y. (December 2016). "Tectonic tremor along the northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, between 2010 and 2015". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 121 (12): 8706–8719. doi:10.1002/2016JB013480.
  12. ↑ Hagerty, M.T.; Schwartz, S.Y.; Garcés, M.A.; Protti, M. (2000). "Analysis of seismic and acoustic observations at Arenal Volcano, Costa Rica, 1995–1997". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 101 (1–2): 27–65. Bibcode:2000JVGR..101...27H. doi:10.1016/S0377-0273(00)00162-1.
  13. 1 2 Brown, K; Tryon, M; Deshon, H; Dorman, L; Schwartz, S (2005-09-30). "Correlated transient fluid pulsing and seismic tremor in the Costa Rica subduction zone". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 238 (1–2): 189–203. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.055.
  14. ↑ Malservisi, Rocco; Schwartz, Susan Y.; Voss, Nicholas; Protti, Marino; Gonzalez, Victor; Dixon, Timothy H.; Jiang, Yan; Newman, Andy V.; Richardson, Jacob; Walter, Jacob I.; Voyenko, Denis (2015). "Multiscale postseismic behavior on a megathrust: The 2012 Nicoya earthquake, Costa Rica". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 16 (6): 1848–1864. Bibcode:2015GGG....16.1848M. doi:10.1002/2015GC005794. ISSN 1525-2027. S2CID 54812854.
  15. ↑ Audet, Pascal; Schwartz, Susan Y. (2013). "Hydrologic control of forearc strength and seismicity in the Costa Rican subduction zone". Nature Geoscience. 6 (10): 852–855. Bibcode:2013NatGe...6..852A. doi:10.1038/ngeo1927. ISSN 1752-0894.
  16. ↑ Schwartz, Susan Y.; Lay, Thorne; Ruff, Larry J. (1989). "Source process of the great 1971 Solomon Islands doublet". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 56 (3–4): 294–310. Bibcode:1989PEPI...56..294S. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(89)90164-7. hdl:2027.42/27784.
  17. ↑ Zhang, Zhi; Schwartz, Susan Y. (1994). "Seismic anisotropy in the shallow crust of the Loma Prieta segment of the San Andreas Fault System". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 99 (B5): 9651–9661. Bibcode:1994JGR....99.9651Z. doi:10.1029/94JB00241. ISSN 2156-2202.
  18. ↑ Schwartz, S. Y.; Orange, D. L.; Anderson, R. S. (1990). "Complex fault interactions in a restraining bend on the San Andreas Fault, southern Santa Cruz Mountains, California". Geophysical Research Letters. 17 (8): 1207–1210. Bibcode:1990GeoRL..17.1207S. doi:10.1029/GL017i008p01207. ISSN 1944-8007.
  19. ↑ "Loma Prieta Earthquake — Collective Museum". www.iascollectivemuseum.com. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
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