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Member Since 2007
Whitney M. Behr
Associate Professor, ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Professional Experience
ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Associate Professor
Education
Doctorate
2011
Current Roles
Editor
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Honors & Awards
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Received 2016
Whitney Behr has distinguished herself as a leading researcher in the field of lithospheric deformation. She is a great scientist with a keen ability to identify important problems and stands out in the breadth of her research, spanning investigation...
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Publications
Tectonic Evolution of the Condrey Mountain Schist: An Intact Record of Late Jurassic to Early Cretac...

The Klamath Mountains in northern California and southern Oregon are thought to record 200+ m.y. of subduction and terrane accretion, whereas the o...

March 04, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Transient permeability of a deep-seated subduction interface shear zone
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS VI ORAL
tectonophysics | 15 december 2023
Whitney M. Behr, Jesús Muñoz-Montecinos
Slow slip and tremor is observed along many subduction margins and is commonly linked to fluid pressure variations and migration. Accurate estimates o...
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Timing, structural style and kinematics of underplating sediment sequences in the Chugach accretionary prism, southern Alaska
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS II POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Ismay V. Akker, Whitney M. Behr, Luiz Morales, zoe...
The Chugach accretionary complex along the Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska records several hundred million years of subduction along the Alaskan-Al...
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Evaluating Slow Slip and Tremor Sources in the Rock Record: Rheological Evolution of Serpentinite Lenses in the Condrey Mountain Schist, Northern California
SUBDUCTION TOP TO BOTTOM (ST2B): THE NATURE OF THE SUBDUCTION INTERFACE, EARTHQUAKES, AND THE ROLES OF FLUIDS I POSTER
tectonophysics | 14 december 2023
Carolyn M. Tewksbury-Christle, Patrick Walston, Wh...
Although slow slip and tremor (SST) are documented downdip of seismogenic zones in modern subduction margins, SST source(s) remain enigmatic. In one m...
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Volunteer History
2020 - 2025
Editor
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2021 - 2022
Member
Tectonophysics Jason Morgan Early Career Award Committee
2016 - 2019
Associate Editor
Tectonics
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