Staff profiles
Laura WallaceResearch Associate
Qualifications
- PhD
- BS, with Highest Honors and Distinction, Geology
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Geodetic data analysis
- Geophysics: Crustal deformation and neotectonics
Major Publications
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- National seismic hazard model for New Zealand : 2010 update, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 102(4): p. 1514-1542. DOI: 10.1785/0120110170.
- Tsunami hazard posed to New Zealand by the Kermadec and southern New Hebrides subduction margins : an assessment based on plate boundary kinematics, interseismic coupling, and historical seismicity, Pure and Applied Geophysics 169(1/2): p. 1-36. DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0299-x.
- Volcano-tectonic interactions during rapid plate-boundary evolution in the Kyushu region, SW Japan, Geological Society of America Bulletin 123(11/12): p. 2201-2223. DOI: 10.1130/B30408.1.
- Diverse slow slip behavior at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 115: B12402. DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007717.
- Using global positioning system data to assess tectonic hazards, Volcanic and tectonic hazard assessment for nuclear facilities : p. 156-175.
- Collisional model for rapid fore-arc block rotations, arc curvature, and episodic back-arc rifting in subduction settings, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 10(5): Q05001. DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002220.
- Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust : Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 10(10): Q10006. DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002610.
- Enigmatic, highly active left-lateral shear zone in southwest Japan explained by aseismic ridge collision, Geology 37(2): p. 143-146. DOI: 10.1130/G25221A.1.
- Slow slip and frictional transition at low temperature at the Hikurangi subduction zone, Nature geoscience 1(5): p. 316-320. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo178.
- Temporal stability of deformation rates : comparison of geological and geodetic observations, Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258(3/4): p. 397-413. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.039.
- Numerical modeling of the growth and drowning of Hawaiian coral reefs during the last two glacial cycles (0-250 kyr), Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 8(3): Q03011. DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001415.
- Balancing the plate motion budget in the South Island, New Zealand using GPS, geological and seismological data, Geophysical Journal International 168(1): p. 332-352. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03183.x.
- A large slow slip event on the central Hikurangi subduction interface beneath the Manawatu region, North Island, New Zealand, Geophysical Research Letters 33: DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026009.
- Rapid microplate rotations and backarc rifting at the transition between collision and subduction, Geology 33(11): p. 857-860.
- Slow slip on the northern Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand, Geophysical Research Letters 32(16): L16305. DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023607.
- Coralgal composition of drowned carbonate platforms in the Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea : implications for lowstand reef development and drowning, Marine Geology 204(1/2): p. 59-89.
- Drowned carbonate platforms in the Huon Gulf, Papua New Guinea, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 5(11): Q11008. DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000726.
- Subduction zone coupling and tectonic block rotations in the North Island, New Zealand, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 109(B12): B12406. DOI: 10.1029/2004JB003241.
- GPS and seismological constraints on active tectonics and arc-continent collision in Papua New Guinea : implications for mechanics of microplate rotations in a plate boundary zone, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 109(B5): DOI: 10.1029/2003JB002481.