Overview

Rowena Lohman received her B.S. in Geology in 1998, and her Ph.D. in Geophysics in 2004, both from the California Institute of Technology. She followed her time at Caltech with postdoctoral positions at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) before joining the Cornell faculty in the summer of 2007.

Research Focus

Lohman studies the spatial and temporal distribution of strain along fault zones throughout the seismic cycle. Her two primary research areas are: 1: Developing new techniques that extract constraints on the temporal variability of strain from time series of GPS and InSAR data. 2: Improving methods for interpreting observations of deformation ? determining where seismicity occurs, what happens in an individual earthquake, or how a fault zone behaves in the time periods before and after an earthquake.

Instruction Focus

Active Tectonics

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Honors, Awards and Appointments

• Outstanding GPS Poster Presentation, Caltech Graduate Science Symposium - 2003
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship - 1999 - 2002
• AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award, Geodesy Section - 1999

Selected Publications

• Some thoughts on the use of InSAR data to constrain models of surface deformation: Noise structure and data downsampling, R. B. Lohman and M. Simons, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q01007, doi:10.1029/2004GC000841, 2005.
• Locations of selected small earthquakes in the Zagros mountains, R. B. Lohman and M. Simons, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q03001, doi:10.1029/2004GC000849, 2005.
• Location and mechanism of the Little Skull Mountain earthquake as constrained by radar interferometry and seismic waveform modeling, R. B. Lohman, M. Simons, and B. Savage, J. Geophys. Res., 107 (B6), 2118, doi:10.1029/2001JB000627, 2002.

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