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Member Since 1981
Martha K. Savage
Professor, Victoria University of Wellington
Immediate Past President, Seismology Executive Committee
Martha Kane Savage is Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches Geophysics, Tectonics, and Seismology. Her research interests are seismology and its relation to tectonics, earthquake & volcanic hazards and geothermal development. Specific research contributions include determining the Earth’s velocity structure using earthquakes and seismic noise, using variations in seismic wave speed with direction.
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Victoria University of Wellington
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Education
University of Wisconsin Madison
Doctorate
1987
University of Wisconsin Madison
Masters
1984
Swarthmore College
Bachelors
1979
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Mantle Transition Zone Topography in New Zealand From Teleseismic P $P$‐Wave Receiver Functions
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
11 february 2026
Seismicity of a Remote, Young Subduction Zone and Its Relevance to Early Subduction Evolution: The Puysegur Subduction Zone, Fiordland, New Zealand
SUBDUCTION ZONES: THEIR INITIATION AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION POSTER
tectonophysics | 19 december 2025
Constraining Interactions between Partial Melt and the Lithosphere beneath the Auckland Volcanic Field and the North Island of New Zealand with Sp Receiver Functions
NEW VIEWS ON SUBMARINE AND TERRESTRIAL INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM II POSTER
volcanology, geochemistry and petrology | 18 december 2025
Regional Ground Motion Simulations of Alpine Fault (New Zealand) earthquakes using Ambient Seismic Noise toward Earthquake Early Warning.
EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS: PERFORMANCE, NEW DEVELOPMENTS, AND FUTURE PLANS II ORAL
seismology | 15 december 2025
Seismicity Extends from the Creeping to the Locked Zones in the Southern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
WHY DO WE HEAR SILENT SLIP? TOWARD AN INTEGRATED UNDERSTANDING OF SLOW SLIP AND ITS SEISMIC MANIFESTATION POSTER
seismology | 15 december 2025
Seismicity From Modern Magmatic Activity Beneath Taupō Volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
24 september 2025
Crustal and Lithospheric Structures Beneath an Ophiolite Nappe, Southern New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
21 may 2025
Cascading Earthquake Swarms in the Northern Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand
GEOCHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS, GEOSYSTEMS
26 april 2025
Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Immediate Past President
Seismology Executive Committee
2024 - 2026
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Seismology Gutenberg Lecture Committee
2023 - 2024
President
Seismology Executive Committee
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Union Fellow
Received December 2015
Citation
For groundbreaking work using seismic anisotropy to determine tectonic deformation in the crust and mantle and active deformation of volcanoes tied to their eruptive cycles.
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