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]

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]

Selected works

• Savage, M. K. "Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation: what have we learned from shear wave splitting?." Reviews of Geophysics 37, no. 1 (1999): 65-106.
• Silver, Paul G., and Martha K. Savage. "The interpretation of shear‐wave splitting parameters in the presence of two anisotropic layers." Geophysical Journal International 119, no. 3 (1994): 949-963.
• Savage, Martha Kane. "Lower crustal anisotropy or dipping boundaries? Effects on receiver functions and a case study in New Zealand." Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 103, no. B7 (1998): 15069-15087.
• 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, and Paul G. Silver. "Mantle deformation and tectonics: constraints from seismic anisotropy in the western United States." Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 78, no. 3-4 (1993): 207-227.

References

External links

• Martha Savage publications indexed by Google Scholar