Staff profiles
Kate ClarkPaleoecologist/Earthquake Geologist
Qualifications
- PhD, Geology
- BSc, Earth Science/geography
- MSc, Earth Science
Areas of expertise
- Geology: Active fault studies
- Geology: Earthquake Geology
- Geology: Holocene neotectonic activity
- Geology: Micropaleontology
- Geology: Paleoceanography
- Geology: Paleoseismology
- Geology: Paleotsunami Studies
- Geology: Quaternary geology
- Geology: tectonic geomorphology
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Comprehensive update of marine reservoir values for New Zealand coastal waters to inform coastal hazard research, Radiocarbon 65(6): p. 1253-1279. DOI: 10.1017/RDC.2023.120. p. 1253-1279
- The paleotsunami record of the Auckland region and implications for understanding tsunami hazards, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 65(4): p. 507-528. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2021.1969956. p. 507-528
- Spatiotemporal clustering of great earthquakes on a transform fault controlled by geometry, Nature Geoscience 14: p. 314-320. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-021-00721-4. p. 314-320
- Paleotsunamis on the southern Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, show regular recurrence of large subduction earthquakes, The Seismic Record 1(2): p. 75-84. DOI: 10.1785/0320210012. p. 75-84
- Three-dimensional surface displacements during the 2016 MW 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake (New Zealand) from photogrammetry-derived point clouds, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 125(1): e2019JB018739. DOI: 10.1029/2019JB018739. e2019JB018739
- Marine terraces reveal complex near-shore upper-plate faulting in the northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 110(2): p. 825-849. DOI: 10.1785/0120190208. p. 825-849
- Geological evidence for past large earthquakes and tsunamis along the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, Marine Geology 412: p. 139-172. DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2019.03.004. p. 139-172
- Highly variable coastal deformation in the 2016 MW7.8 Kaikoura earthquake reflects rupture complexity along a transpressional plate boundary, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 474: p. 334-344. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.06.048. p. 334-344
- A plate boundary earthquake record from a wetland adjacent to the Alpine fault in New Zealand refines hazard estimates, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 464: p. 175-188. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.026. p. 175-188