Martha Savage

Martha Kane Savage is a New Zealand geology academic, and as of 2018, is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington.[1]

Martha Kane Savage
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Scientific career
FieldsGeology / seismology
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington
Thesis

Academic career

After an undergraduate degree at Swarthmore College and a 1987 PhD thesis titled 'Spectral properties of Hawaiian microearthquakes : source, site, and attenuation effects' at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, she moved to the Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.[1]

Savage was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2013 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2015.[2] As part of her fieldwork,Savage has over-wintered at the South Pole.[3][4]

Personal life

In 2017 Savage's son died in a Japanese hospital after being restrained for 10 days, and she has since campaigned for an end to the practice.[5][6][7]

Selected works

  • Savage, M. K. (1999). "Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation: What have we learned from shear wave splitting?". Reviews of Geophysics. 37 (1): 65–106. Bibcode:1999RvGeo..37...65S. doi:10.1029/98RG02075.
  • Silver, Paul G.; Savage, Martha K. (1994). "The Interpretation of Shear-Wave Splitting Parameters in the Presence of Two Anisotropic Layers". Geophysical Journal International. 119 (3): 949–963. Bibcode:1994GeoJI.119..949S. doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.1994.tb04027.x.
  • Savage, Martha Kane (1998). "Lower crustal anisotropy or dipping boundaries? Effects on receiver functions and a case study in New Zealand". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 103 (B7): 15069–15087. Bibcode:1998JGR...10315069S. doi:10.1029/98JB00795.
  • Anderson, John G., James N. Brune, John N. Louie, Yuehua Zeng, Martha Savage, Guang Yu, Qingbin Chen, and Diane dePolo. "Seismicity in the western Great Basin apparently triggered by the Landers, California, earthquake, 28 June 1992." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 84, no. 3 (1994): 863-891.
  • Savage, Martha Kane; Silver, Paul G. (1993). "Mantle deformation and tectonics: Constraints from seismic anisotropy in the western United States". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 78 (3–4): 207–227. Bibcode:1993PEPI...78..207S. doi:10.1016/0031-9201(93)90156-4.
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