Sarah Brownlee
Associate Professor
Department
Environmental Science and Geology
Sarah Brownlee
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Elastic properties of crustal materials
Research
I study how the mineralogy and microstructure of rocks contributes to elastic anisotropy in an effort to improve our understanding of the composition and structure of the middle and lower continental crust.
Education
- AB, 2003, Princeton University
- Ph.D., 2009, University of California, Berkeley
Awards and grants
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2018 CLAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring
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2018 University Career Development Chair Award
Selected publications
Brownlee, S.J., V. Schulte-Pelkum, K. Mahan, C. Condit, A. Raju, Characteristics of deep crustal seismic anisotropy from a collection of rock elasticity tensors and their expression in receiver functions, Tectonics, DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004625, 2017
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004625
Brownlee, S.J., B.R. Hacker, G.E. Harlow, and G. Seward. Seismic signatures of a hydrated mantle from antigorite crystal-preferred orientation (CPO), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 375, p. 395-407, 2013
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X13003191
Brownlee, S.J., Hacker, B.R., Salisbury, M., Seward, G., Little, T.A., Baldwin, S.L., and Abers, G.A. Predicted velocity and density structure of the Papua New Guinea ultrahigh pressure terrane, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 116, B08206, DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008195, 2011
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011JB008195