Kate Scholz

BIOGRAPHY:

Kate Scholz is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics Division of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. At Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, She is working with Einat Lev and Roger Buck to explore how magmatic sill formation in extensional tectonic settings including at midocean ridges and contintinental rifts. During her Ph.D. at University of Oregon, Kate was advised by Meredith Towsend and Amanda Thomas. The through-line of her work is an interest in developing and utilizing physics-based models of magmatic processes to understand how compositional, mechanical, and thermal conditions interact and modulate the mechanisms and timescales by which magma and other magmatic fluids are stored and moved through the crust.