Staff profiles
Susan EllisPrincipal Scientist, Geodynamic Modeller
Qualifications
- BSc
- PhD, Geological Oceanography
Areas of expertise
- Geophysics: Geodetic data analysis
- Geophysics: Crustal deformation and neotectonics
- Geophysics: Modelling
- Geophysics: Geodynamics
- Geophysics: Finite element analysis
- Geophysics: Code development
Major Publications
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- Sounding out the nest : unobtrusive localisation of North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) incubation burrows, New Zealand Journal of Ecology 46(1): article 3463. DOI: 10.20417/nzjecol.46.19.
- Heterogeneous material properties as inferred from seismic attenuation - influenced multiple fault rupture and ductile creep of the Kaikoura Mw 7.8 earthquake, New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 227(2): p. 1204-1227. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggab272.
- Volcanic unrest at Taupo volcano in 2019 : causes, mechanisms and implications, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 22: e2021GC009803. DOI: 10.1029/2021GC009803.
- Mechanical implications of creep and partial coupling on the world's fastest slipping low-angle normal fault in southeastern Papua New Guinea, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 125(10): e2020JB020117. DOI: 10.1029/2020JB020117.
- Coupled evolution of deformation, pore fluid pressure, and fluid flow in shallow subduction forearcs, Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 125(3): e2019JB019101. DOI: 10.1029/2019JB019101.
- Mechanical and hydrological effects of seamount subduction on megathrust stress and slip, Nature geoscience 13: p. 249-255. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0542-0.
- Tectonic inheritance following failed continental subduction : a model for core complex formation in cold, strong lithosphere, Tectonics 38(5): p. 1742-1763. DOI: 10.1029/2018TC005383.
- Fracture and weakening of jammed subduction shear zones, leading to the generation of slow slip events, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 20(11): p. 4869-4884. DOI: 10.1029/2019GC008481.
- Evolution of a rapidly slipping, active low-angle normal fault, Suckling-Dayman metamorphic core complex, SE Papua New Guinea, Geological Society of America Bulletin 131(7/8): p. 1333-1363. DOI: 10.1130/B35051.1.
- The contemporary force balance in a wide accretionary wedge : numerical models of the southcentral Hikurangi margin of New Zealand, Geophysical Journal International 219: p. 776-795. DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggz317.
- Strength of strained two-phase mixtures : application to rapid creep and stress amplification in subduction zone melange, Geophysical Research Letters 46(1): p. 169-178. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081252.
- Triggered slow slip and afterslip on the southern Hikurangi subduction zone following the Kaikoura earthquake, Geophysical Research Letters 45(10): p. 4710-4718. DOI: 10.1002/2018GL077385.
- "Virtual shear box" experiments of stress and slip cycling within a subduction interface mélange, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 488: p. 27-35. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.01.035.
- Modelling of hydrothermal fluid flow and structural architecture in an extensional basin, Ngakuru Graben, Taupo Rift, New Zealand, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 357: p. 134-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.04.010.
- The role of protothrusts in frontal accretion and accommodation of plate convergence, Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, Geosphere 14(2): p. 440-468. DOI: 10.1130/GES01552.1.
- Detecting hazardous New Zealand faults at depth using seismic velocity gradients, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 463: p. 333-343. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.038.
- Rapid evolution of subduction-related continental intraarc rifts : the Taupo Rift, New Zealand, Tectonics 36(10): p. 2250-2272. DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004715.
- New Zealand GPS velocity field : 1995-2013, New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 59(1): p. 5-14. DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1112817.