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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Martha K. Savage is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research spans across the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on geophysics. They have contributed extensively to multiple subfields, including geophysics, clinical psychology, artificial intelligence, emergency medicine, and ocean engineering.

Their research topics include 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, and earthquake detection and analysis.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures" (2020, Science)
  • "Bringing together the World Health Organization's QualityRights initiative and the World Psychiatric Association's programme on implementing alternatives to coercion in mental healthcare: a common goal for action" (2024, BJPsych Open)
  • "Comparison of coercive practices in worldwide mental healthcare: overcoming difficulties resulting from variations in monitoring strategies" (2024, BJPsych Open)
  • "Volcanic Unrest at Taupō Volcano in 2019: Causes, Mechanisms and Implications" (2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
  • "Ethical challenges in contemporary psychiatry: an overview and an appraisal of possible strategies and research needs" (2024, World Psychiatry)

Frequent coauthors of Martha K. Savage include Finnigan Illsley-Kemp, Ian Hamling, Tomomi Okada, Richard Arnold, and Eleanor Mestel.

Their work is often published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Journal International
  • World Psychiatry
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships by notable organizations including the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2015, and the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Seismic anisotropy and mantle deformation: What have we learned from shear wave splitting?

    Martha S. Savage

  • The Interpretation of Shear‐Wave Splitting Parameters In the Presence of Two Anisotropic Layers

    Paul G. Silver;Martha K. Savage

  • Ambient noise Rayleigh wave tomography of New Zealand

    Fan Chi Lin;Michael H. Ritzwoller;John Townend;Stephen Bannister

  • Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures.

    Thomas Lecocq;Stephen P. Hicks;Koen Van Noten;Kasper van Wijk

  • Lower crustal anisotropy or dipping boundaries? Effects on receiver functions and a case study in New Zealand

    Martha Kane Savage

  • Mantle deformation and tectonics: constraints from seismic anisotropy in the western United States

    Martha Kane Savage;Paul G. Silver

  • Seismicity in the Western Great Basin Apparently Triggered by the Landers, California, Earthquake, 28 June 1992

    John G. Anderson;James N. Brune;John N. Louie;Yuehua Zeng

  • Shear-Wave Velocity Structure in the Northern Basin and Range Province from the Combined Analysis of Receiver Functions and Surface Waves

    Serdar Özalaybey;Martha K. Savage;Anne F. Sheehan;John N. Louie

  • Seismic anisotropy beneath Ruapehu volcano: a possible eruption forecasting tool.

    Alexander Gerst;Alexander Gerst;Martha K. Savage

  • Continuous Deformation Versus Faulting Through the Continental Lithosphere of New Zealand

    Peter Molnar;Helen J. Anderson;Helen J. Anderson;Etienne Audoine;Donna Eberhart-Phillips

  • Changes in Seismic Anisotropy After Volcanic Eruptions: Evidence from Mount Ruapehu

    Vicki Miller;Martha Savage

  • Shear wave anisotropy and stress direction in and near Long Valley Caldera, California, 1979–1988

    M. K. Savage;W. A. Peppin;U. R. Vetter

  • A seismic reflection image for the base of a tectonic plate

    T. A. Stern;Stuart A. Henrys;D. Okaya;John N. Louie

  • Stress and crustal anisotropy in Marlborough, New Zealand: evidence for low fault strength and structure‐controlled anisotropy

    N. J. Balfour;M. K. Savage;J. Townend

  • Frequency-dependent anisotropy in Wellington, New Zealand

    Katrina Marson-Pidgeon;Martha Kane Savage

  • Automatic measurement of shear wave splitting and applications to time varying anisotropy at Mount Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand

    MK Savage;A Wessel;Nicholas A Teanby;AW Hurst

  • Complex rupture process of the Mw 7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence

    Simone Cesca;Y. Zhang;V. Mouslopoulou;R. Wang

  • Extreme hydrothermal conditions at an active plate-bounding fault

    Rupert Sutherland;Rupert Sutherland;John Townend;Virginia Toy;Phaedra Upton

  • Shear-wave splitting beneath western United States in relation to plate tectonics

    Serdar Özalaybey;Martha K. Savage

  • Silver and Chan revisited

    E. Walsh;R. Arnold;M. K. Savage

  • Seismic anisotropy and mantle flow from the Great Basin to the Great Plains, western United States

    M. K. Savage;A. F. Sheehan

Frequent Co-Authors

John Townend
John Townend Victoria University of Wellington
Tim Stern
Tim Stern Victoria University of Wellington
Anne F. Sheehan
Anne F. Sheehan University of Colorado Boulder
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Rupert Sutherland
Rupert Sutherland Victoria University of Wellington
Laura M. Wallace
Laura M. Wallace The University of Texas at Austin
Tomomi Okada
Tomomi Okada Tohoku University
Euan G. C. Smith
Euan G. C. Smith Victoria University of Wellington
Simon Lamb
Simon Lamb Victoria University of Wellington

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