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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Laura M. Wallace is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialized emphasis on Geophysics. Additional subfields of study include Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Chemistry, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Geology.

Wallace's main topics of research encompass earthquake and tectonic studies, seismic waves and analysis, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geological and geochemical analysis, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, seismology and earthquake studies, as well as methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Recent publications by Laura M. Wallace include:

  • Slow Slip Events in New Zealand, 2020, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Slow slip source characterized by lithological and geometric heterogeneity, 2020, Science Advances
  • The occurrence and hazards of great subduction zone earthquakes, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand National Seismic Hazard Model: Process, Overview, and Results, 2023, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • A Snapshot of New Zealand's Dynamic Deformation Field From Envisat InSAR and GNSS Observations Between 2003 and 2011, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors of Laura Wallace include:

  • Ian Hamling
  • D. M. Saffer
  • Philip M. Barnes
  • H. M. Savage
  • C. A. Williams

Wallace's work has appeared in several prominent publication venues, such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

In 2018, Laura M. Wallace was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Best Publications

  • Subduction zone coupling and tectonic block rotations in the North Island, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan;Robert McCaffrey;Desmond Darby

  • Complex multifault rupture during the 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand

    Ian J. Hamling;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Kate Clark;John Elliott

  • National Seismic Hazard Model for New Zealand: 2010 Update

    Mark Stirling;Graeme McVerry;Matthew Gerstenberger;Nicola Litchfield

  • Diverse slow slip behavior at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan

  • Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand.

    Laura M. Wallace;Spahr C. Webb;Yoshihiro Ito;Kimihiro Mochizuki

  • The frictional, hydrologic, metamorphic and thermal habitat of shallow slow earthquakes

    Demian M. Saffer;Laura M. Wallace

  • Recurring and triggered slow-slip events near the trench at the Nankai Trough subduction megathrust

    Eiichiro Araki;Demian M. Saffer;Achim J. Kopf;Laura M. Wallace;Laura M. Wallace

  • Balancing the plate motion budget in the South Island, New Zealand using GPS, geological and seismological data

    Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan;Robert McCaffrey;Kelvin Berryman

  • Simultaneous long‐term and short‐term slow slip events at the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: Implications for processes that control slow slip event occurrence, duration, and migration

    Laura M. Wallace;Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan;Stephen Bannister;Charles Williams

  • The kinematics of a transition from subduction to strike‐slip: An example from the central New Zealand plate boundary

    Laura Wallace;P. Barnes;J. Beavan;R. Van Dissen

  • Tectonic evolution of the active Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, since the Oligocene

    Andrew Nicol;Colin Mazengarb;Frank Chanier;Geoff Rait

  • Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;Martin Reyners;Ursula Cochran;Stephen Bannister

  • Do great earthquakes occur on the Alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand?

    R. Sutherland;D. Eberhart‐Phillips;R. A. Harris;T. Stern

  • The 2016 Kaikōura, New Zealand, Earthquake: Preliminary Seismological Report

    A. Kaiser;N. Balfour;B. Fry;C. Holden

  • Seismic reflection character of the Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand, in the region of repeated Gisborne slow slip events

    Rebecca Bell;Rupert Sutherland;Daniel H. N. Barker;Stuart Henrys

  • Slow slip on the northern Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand

    Annie Douglas;J. Beavan;L. Wallace;J. Townend

  • 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

    Laura M. Wallace;Laura M. Wallace;Colleen Stevens;Eli Silver;Rob McCaffrey

  • Rapid microplate rotations and backarc rifting at the transition between collision and subduction

    Laura M. Wallace;Robert McCaffrey;John Beavan;Susan Ellis

  • Large-scale dynamic triggering of shallow slow slip enhanced by overlying sedimentary wedge

    Laura M. Wallace;Laura M. Wallace;Yoshihiro Kaneko;Sigrún Hreinsdóttir;Ian Hamling

  • Episodic stress and fluid pressure cycling in subducting oceanic crust during slow slip

    E. Warren-Smith;B. Fry;L. Wallace;L. Wallace;E. Chon

  • Slow Slip Events in New Zealand

    Laura M. Wallace;Laura M. Wallace

  • Slow slip and frictional transition at low temperature at the Hikurangi subduction zone

    Robert McCaffrey;Laura M. Wallace;John Beavan

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Susan Ellis
Susan Ellis GNS Science
John Beavan
John Beavan GNS Science
Philip M. Barnes
Philip M. Barnes National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Spahr C. Webb
Spahr C. Webb Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rebecca E. Bell
Rebecca E. Bell Imperial College London
Demian M. Saffer
Demian M. Saffer The University of Texas at Austin
Ryota Hino
Ryota Hino Tohoku University
Timothy A. Little
Timothy A. Little Victoria University of Wellington

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