Marin Kristen Clark | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet (2003) |
Marin Kristen Clark is an American earth scientist who is Chair for Earth and Environmental Sciences at theUniversity of Michigan. Her research considers lithospheric deformation. She was awarded the 2003Geological Society of America Doris M. Curtis Award.
Clark was a graduate student at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology where she studied the uplift of southeastern Tibet.[1] She worked alongsideLeigh Royden on lower crustal flows and their role in building the eastern margins of Tibet.[2][3]
Clark studies the topography ofPlanet Earth and its relation to deformation of thelithosphere. She is particularly interested in the evolution of rivers as these provide information about the deformation-induced vertical movement of the Earth. To study these processes, Clark makes use of topographic measurements such as field geology andgeographic information system modelling.[4] Clark has developed (U-Th)/He thermochronology to study minerals.[5] She was awarded the 2003Geological Society of America Doris M. Curtis Award.[6]
After theApril 2015 Nepal earthquake, Clark visitedNepal to monitor the co-seismic landslides.[7] Making use of pre- and post-earthquake satellite imagery, she identified that the landslides were more concentrated in the North of the transition between the Lesser and Greater Himalayas.[7][8]
