Lindsay Lowe WorthingtonTelephone: Graduate student seeking a PhD
Career goal: to complete PhD degree and work as a researcher or professor in the areas of tectonics and geophysics.
Subject of Thesis: Structural evolution and geodynamic processes in the Gulf of Alaska: Implications for tectonic-climatic interactions |
|
|
Academic Supervisor: Dr. Sean Gulick
UTIG Supervisor: Dr. Sean Gulick
Prior Education: BA, University of California at Berkeley, 2005
Awards
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Jackson School of Geosciences, 2007-2008
Ewing Worzel Fellowship, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, Fall 2006
Publications
Berger, A., . Gulick, S., Spotila, J., Jaeger, J., Chapman, J., Lowe, L., Pavils, T., . Ridgway, K., and Willems, W., 2008, Tectonic response in a glaciated orogenic wedge to late Cenozoic climate change, Nature Geoscience, vol. 1, pp. 793-799, doi: 10.1038/ngeo334.
Chapman, J.B., Pavlis, T.L., Gulick, S.P.S., Berger, A.L., Lowe, L., Spotila, J.A., Bruhn, R., Vorkink, M., Koons, P., Barker, A., Picornell, C., Ridgway, K.D., Hallet, B., Jaeger, J., and McCalpin, J., 2008, Neotectonics of the Yakutat collision; changes in deformation driven by mass redistribution, Active tectonics and seismic potential of Alaska, Freymueller, J.T., Haeussler, P.J., Wesson, R.L., and Ekstrom, G. (editors), Geophysical Monograph, vol. 179, pp. 65-81.
Worthington, L. L., Gulick, S.P.S., and Pavlis, T.L., 2008, Identifying active structures in the Kayak Island and Pamplona zones; implications for offshore tectonics of the Yakutat Microplate, Gulf of Alaska, Active tectonics and seismic potential of Alaska, Freymueller, J.T., Haeussler, P.J., Wesson, R.L., and Ekstrom, G. (editors), Geophysical Monograph, vol. 179, pp. 257-268.Gulick, S. P. S., L. A. Lowe, T. L. Pavlis, J. V. Gardner, and L. A. Mayer, 2007, Geophysical insights into transition fault debate: Propagating strike-slip in response to stalling Yakutak block subduction in the Gulf of Alaska, Geology, vol. 35, pp. 763-766, doi:10.1130/G23585A.
Presentations
Worthington, Lindsay Lowe, Gulick, S.P., Pavlis, T.L., Christeson, G., and Reece, R.S., Structural Evolution of the Submarine Pamplona Zone Fold-thrust Belt, St. Elias Orogen, GSA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 2009.
Worthington, Lindsay Lowe, S.P. Gulick, G. Christeson, H. van Avendonk, R. Reece, R. Elmore, and T. Pavlis, Crustal Structure and Deformation of the Yakutat Microplate: New Insights From STEEP Marine Seismic Reflection Data, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 2008.