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Marin K. Clark is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Within these broad fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as management, monitoring, policy and law, geophysics, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered on natural hazards and earth system processes. Key topics include landslides and related hazards, earthquake and tectonic studies, cryospheric studies and observations, flood risk assessment and management, fire effects on ecosystems, geological and geochemical analysis, and dam engineering and safety.

Recent publications highlight the breadth of their research interests and academic contributions. These include:

  • Data-Driven Landslide Nowcasting at the Global Scale, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Characteristic landslide distributions: An investigation of landscape controls on landslide size, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Volume Characteristics of Landslides Triggered by the MW 7.8 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake, New Zealand, Derived From Digital Surface Difference Modeling, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface
  • The Cenozoic Evolution of Crustal Shortening and Left-Lateral Shear in the Central East Kunlun Shan: Implications for the Uplift History of the Tibetan Plateau, 2020, Tectonics
  • Quantifying Near-Surface Rock Strength on a Regional Scale From Hillslope Stability Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Clark has frequently published in journals and conferences such as the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Tectonics, Engineering Geology, and Geo-Extreme 2021.

Collaborations have been a significant component of their career, with frequent co-authors including Dimitrios Zekkos, Nathan A. Niemi, Kirk F. Townsend, Weibing Gong, and A. Joshua West.

In addition to journal papers, Clark has contributed to the literature on dam engineering through a book publication titled Edenville and Sanford Dam Failures, released in 2021 by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Best Publications

  • Topographic ooze: Building the eastern margin of Tibet by lower crustal flow

    Marin Kristen Clark;Leigh Handy Royden

  • Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large-scale drainage patterns

    M. K. Clark;M. K. Clark;L. M. Schoenbohm;L. H. Royden;K. X. Whipple

  • Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet

    M.K. Clark;M.K. Clark;M.A. House;M.A. House;L.H. Royden;K.X Whipple

  • Early Cenozoic faulting of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin from apatite (U–Th)/He ages

    Marin K. Clark;Kenneth A. Farley;Dewen Zheng;Zhicai Wang

  • The size, distribution, and mobility of landslides caused by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal

    Kevin Roback;Marin K. Clark;A. Joshua West;Dimitrios Zekkos

  • The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large‐scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies

    Dao Yang Yuan;Wei Peng Ge;Zhen Wei Chen;Chuan You Li

  • Bright Spots, Structure, and Magmatism in Southern Tibet from INDEPTH Seismic Reflection Profiling

    L. D. Brown;Wenjin Zhao;K. D. Nelson;M. Hauck

  • Dynamic topography produced by lower crustal flow against rheological strength heterogeneities bordering the Tibetan Plateau

    Marin K. Clark;John W. M. Bush;Leigh H. Royden

  • Erosion, fault initiation and topographic growth of the North Qilian Shan (northern Tibetan Plateau)

    Dewen Zheng;Marin K. Clark;Peizhen Zhang;Wenjun Zheng

  • Low-temperature thermochronometry along the Kunlun and Haiyuan Faults, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence for kinematic change during late-stage orogenesis

    Alison R. Duvall;Marin K. Clark;Eric Kirby;Eric Kirby;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Middle Miocene reorganization of deformation along the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

    Richard O. Lease;Douglas W. Burbank;Marin K. Clark;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Direct dating of Eocene reverse faulting in northeastern Tibet using Ar-dating of fault clays and low-temperature thermochronometry

    Alison R. Duvall;Marin K. Clark;Ben A. van der Pluijm;Chuanyou Li

  • Use of a regional, relict landscape to measure vertical deformation of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

    Marin K. Clark;Marin K. Clark;L. H. Royden;K. X. Whipple;B. C. Burchfiel

  • Erosional response of South China to arc rifting and monsoonal strengthening; a record from the South China Sea

    Peter Clift;Jae Il Lee;Marin K. Clark;Jerzy Blusztajn

  • Development of the Indus Fan and its significance for the erosional history of the Western Himalaya and Karakoram

    P.D. Clift;N. Shimizu;G.D. Layne;J.S. Blusztajn

  • The non-equilibrium landscape of the southern Sierra Nevada, California

    Marin K. Clark;Gweltaz Maheo;Jason Saleeby;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Miocene rise of the Shillong Plateau and the beginning of the end for the Eastern Himalaya

    Marin K. Clark;Roger Bilham

  • Dissipation of fast strike-slip faulting within and beyond northeastern Tibet

    Alison R. Duvall;Marin K. Clark

  • Far‐field lithospheric deformation in Tibet during continental collision

    Katherine E. Dayem;Peter Molnar;Marin K. Clark;Gregory A. Houseman

  • Continental collision slowing due to viscous mantle lithosphere rather than topography

    Marin Kristen Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan A. Niemi
Nathan A. Niemi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology
Eric Kirby
Eric Kirby Oregon State University
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Jonathan W. Godt
Jonathan W. Godt United States Geological Survey
A. Joshua West
A. Joshua West University of Southern California
Jerzy S. Blusztajn
Jerzy S. Blusztajn Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Graham D. Layne
Graham D. Layne Memorial University of Newfoundland
Nobumichi Shimizu
Nobumichi Shimizu Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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