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Eric Kirby
Professor and Department Head, Pennsylvania State University
Chair, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Fellows Committee; President-Elect, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Executive Committee; Section President-Elect, Council
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Pennsylvania State University
Professor and Department Head
2025 - Present
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department Chair, EMES
2021 - 2025
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Professor
2020 - 2025
Oregon State University
Associate Dean of Academic Programs
2017 - 2020
Oregon State University
Professor, R.S. Yeats Chair of Earthquake Geology and Active Tectonics
2017 - 2020
Oregon State University
Associate Professor, R.S. Yeats Chair of Earthquake Geology and Active Tectonics
2013 - 2017
Pennsylvania State University
Associate Professor
2008 - 2013
Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Professor
2002 - 2008
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
2001
University of New Mexico Main Campus
Masters
1994
Hamilton College
Bachelors
1992
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Complex Kinematics of Upper‐Plate Faulting Along the Central Cascadia Forearc Inferred From the Lateral Displacement of Marine Terraces
TECTONICS
05 february 2026
Building the Plate Boundary Structure of Northern California: Evidence and Implications of Transient Middle to Lower Crustal Flow
LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION: INSIGHTS FROM HIGH-DENSITY CONSTRAINTS AND MULTIPLE-DATASET APPROACHES II ORAL
tectonophysics | 18 december 2025
Quantifying permanent strain and surface uplift from relict topography of the Klamath Peneplain
THE CASCADIA MEGATHRUST AND BEYOND: FROM FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES TO SOCIETAL RESILIENCE II POSTER
tectonophysics | 18 december 2025
Pulsed Cenozoic Exhumation in the Hinterland of the Longmen Shan Thrust Belt and Implications for the Growth of the Eastern Tibetan Plateau
UNDERSTANDING EROSIONAL TO DEPOSITIONAL LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 16 december 2025
Orographic precipitation modulates landscape response to differential uplift across the southern Cascadia forearc
FLUVIAL DYNAMICS, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION IN MOUNTAIN RANGES I POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 11 december 2024
Four destructive October 2023 earthquakes in Herat, Afghanistan: A rare quadruplet of M6.3 earthquake sequence
TECTONIC SETTINGS AND EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL OF STRIKE-SLIP FAULT ZONES I POSTER
tectonophysics | 11 december 2024
Cryptic Evidence in the Landscape for Extreme Vertical Tectonism at the Mendocino Triple Junction
TECTONIC AND GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES ENCODED IN LANDSCAPES II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 10 december 2024
Influence of tectonics and lithology on topographic form spanning millennial and million-year timescales in the Santa Ynez Mountains, Transverse Ranges, CA
THE EARTH'S SURFACE AS A NATURAL LAB: ADVANCES IN ISOLATING LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION CONTROLS II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 10 december 2024
Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Chair
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Fellows Committee
2025 - 2026
President-Elect
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Executive Committee
2025 - 2026
Section President-Elect
Council
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