EMILY K. MONTGOMERY-BROWN

EDUCATION

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
B.S. with High Honors in Geology with minor in Mathematics, May 2002
GPA: 3.6/4.0

Stanford University
M.S. in Geophysics Received, June 2005
Ph.D. in Geophysics Received, September 2008
Current GPA: 3.7/4.0
Thesis Title: Time dependent deformation of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii

RESEARCH INTERESTS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Montgomery-Brown, E. K., P. Segall, and A. Miklius (2009), Kilauea slow slip events: Identification, source inversions, and relation to seismicity, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B00A03, doi:10.1029/2008JB006074. (AGU)
• Segall, P., E.K. Desmarais, D. Shelly, A. Miklius, P. Cervelli (2006) Earthquakes triggered by silent slip Events on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, Nature Vol. 442, June, 6, 2006. (Nature)
• Desmarais , E.K. and P. Segall (2006) Transient deformation following the 30 January 1997 dike intrusion at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. J. of Volcanology and Geothermal Res. (Bulletin of Volcanology)
• E.K. Desmarais, P. Segall, A. Miklius, P. Cervelli (2005) A series of transient slip events on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. EOS Trans. AGU 87(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G53B-0878. INVITED (PDF) **Winner Geodesy Section Outstanding Student Paper Award.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• NSF Post-doctoral Fellow, April 2010 - Present: Geophysics Group, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Post-doctoral Researcher, January 2009 - November 2009: Crustal Deformation and Fault Mechanics Group, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University.
• Post-doctoral Researcher, Fall 2008 - Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan.
• Teaching Assistantships, Winter 2005 - Global Positioning Systems in Earth Sciences, Department of Geophysics, Stanford. Spring 2003: Freshman Seminar in Volcanic Eruption Prediction, Department of Geophysics, Stanford.
• Graduate Research Assistant, July 2002 to September 2008 - Crustal Deformation Group, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University.
• Undergraduate Research Assistant, May 2001 to May 2002 - Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Assisting with campaign and continuous GPS networks monitoring the deformation of Mount Erebus Volcano, Antarctica. Includes data processing, inversion, simple Mogi source modeling
• Resident Assistant, August 2000 to May 2002 - Residential Life Office, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Managing a residence hall on the New Mexico Tech campus, including establishing a healthy residence hall environment, providing direction to students, maintaining organized administrative files and assisting with individual student needs.
• Work Study, IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center, August 1999 to May 2001 - Socorro, NM, Assisting technicians with building, testing, maintenance and shipping of seismic monitoring stations. Group work and problem solving skills, basic electrical knowledge, using UNIX to test hardware.
• Student Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Summer 1999 and 2000 - Integrated Geosciences Group, Los Alamos, NM, Assisted with field operations, sample gathering and preparation, fusing and XRF analysis, literature searches, data gathering and analysis, and graphics editing for the Japanese volcanic hazards and radioactive waste disposal project, Also assisted with field operations for sediment transport experiments and ground truth for SAR interferometry study.
• Construction Laborer, June 1997 to August 1998 - Corporate Interiors, Ann Arbor, MI, Aided electricians, carpenters and masons as well as general labor oriented tasks.

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RELEVANT COURSE WORK

VOLUNTEERING

COMPLETE PUBLICATIONS, TALKS and POSTERS

Papers

• Montgomery-Brown, E. K., D. K. Sinnett, K. M. Larson, M. P. Poland, P. Segall, and A. Miklius (2011), Spatiotemporal evolution of dike opening and decollement slip at K.lauea Volcano, Hawai'i, J. Geophys. Res., 116, B03401, doi:10.1029/2010JB007762.
• (2010) - Geodetic evidence for en echelon dike emplacement and concurrent slow slip at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, June 17-19, 2007 - Montgomery-Brown, E.K. , D. Sinnett, M. Poland, T. Orr, P. Segall, H. Zebker, A. Miklius Vol. 115, B07405, 15 PP., 2010 doi:10.1029/2009JB006658
• (2009) - Montgomery-Brown, E. K. , P. Segall, and A. Miklius (2009), Kilauea slow slip events: Identification, source inversions, and relation to seismicity, J. Geophys. Res., 114, B00A03, doi:10.1029/2008JB006074.
• (2006) - Earthquakes triggered by silent slip events on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Segall, P, E.K. Desmarais , D. Shelly, A. Miklius, and P. Cervelli. Nature, v.442, June 6, 2006. (PDF)
• (2006) - Transient deformation following the 30 January 1997 dike intrusion at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Desmarais, E.K. and P. Segall. J. of Volcanology and Geothermal Res. v.69, pgs. 353363, 2006. (PDF)
• (2001) - Probabilistic assessment of volcanic hazard to radioactive waste repositories in Japan: Intersection by a dike from a nearby composite volcano. Perry, F.V., G.A. Valentine, E.K. Desmarais , and G. WoldeGabriel Geology, v. 29, 3, pgs. 255 258, 2001.

Invited Presentations

• (2009) . Geodetic evidence for en echelon dike emplacement and concurrent slow slip at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, June 17-19, 2007. Montgomery-Brown, E.K. , D. Sinnett, M. Poland, T. Orr, P. Segall, H. Zebker, A. Miklius. USGS Earthquake Hazards Team Seminar, Menlo Park, CA, July 15, 2009. (Click Here for Video and Slides, July 15)
• (2008) . Kilauea slow-slip events: Identification, source inversions, and relation to seismicity. E. Montgomery-Brown, P. Segall, A. Miklius, Earthquake Research Institute Seminar, University of Tokyo, October 10, 2008.
• (2006) - Seismicity triggered by slow earthquakes on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii E. Desmarais, P. Segall, A. Miklius, P. Okubo USGS Volcano Hazards Team Seminar, Menlo Park, CA, April 11, 2006. (Click here for Video, April 11)
• (2005) - (Nearly) Silent earthquakes on volcanoes P. Segall, E. Desmarais, A. Miklius, P. Okubo EOS Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G43A-01, 2006.

Posters

• (2010) - Montgomery-Brown, E.K., C.H. Thurber, E.M. Syracuse, C.J. Wolfe, P. Okubo, M.P. Poland, A Miklius (2010), Repeating earthquakes and prospecting for temporal change in rock properties associated with geodetic deformation at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii , Abstract S13B-1990 presented at 2010 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 13-17 Dec.
• (2007) - Source models of the June 17, 2007 intrusion at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii: Spatio-temporal evolution. E. Montgomery-Brown, D.K. Sinnett, P. Segall, A. Miklius, M. Poland and K.M. Larson. EOS, Trans., AGU 88(52) Fall Meet. Sup., Abs. V52A-1138, 2007
• (2007) - Modeling the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii slow slip events including the effects of topography and layered elastic structure. E.K. Desmarais and P. Segall. Seismological Research Letters, March 2007. Annual meeting abstract.
• (2006) - Automated identification and modeling aseismic slip events on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii Desmarais, E. , P. Segall, A. Miklius EOS Trans. AGU 87(52), Fall Meet. Sup., Abs. T54A-03, 2006.
• (2005) - A series of transient slip events on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Desmarais, E. P. Segall, A. Miklius, P. Cervelli EOS Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract G53B-0878, 2005. INVITED *** Recipient of the AGU Geodesy Section Outstanding Student Paper Award.
• (2004) - Transient deformation on the South Flank of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Desmarais, E.K. and P. Segall. EOS Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Sup., Abs. G51A-0052, 2004.
• (2003) - Transient deformation following the 30 January 1997 dike intrusion at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Desmarais, E.K. and P. Segall EOS Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Sup., Abs. V22C-0597, 2003.
• (2001) - In Search of Volcanic Deformation at Mt. Erebus, Antarctica. Kyle, P.R., C. Meertens, B. Johns, E.K. Desmarais, C. Kurnik, W.C. McIntosh Poster. UNAVCO, Inc. Annual Meeting. Boulder, CO, 2001.
• (2001) - Mount Erebus GPS Array: In Search of Volcanic Deformation Kyle, P.R., G. Meertens, B. Johns, E.K. Desmarais, C. Kurnik, R. Aster Antarctic Neotectonics Symposium, Sienna Italy, 2001.
• (1999) - High-level radioactive waste disposal and volcanic hazard in Japan: a natural analog study of the Summer Coon volcano, Colorado. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 31: A-478, 1999. (PDF)