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Emily C. Roland University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 206-685-9617 [email protected]

Education Ph.D., Marine Geophysics 2006 - 2011 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Joint Program in Oceanography, Applied Ocean Science and Engineering Thesis topic: Behavior and Structure of Oceanic Transform Faults Advisor: Jeff McGuire Co-advisors: Dan Lizarralde, John Collins, Mark Behn

B.S., Geophysical Engineering 2001 - 2005 Colorado School of Mines Magna cum Laude, With Honors Minors in Geology and Public Affairs

Delft Technical University, Delft, The Netherlands Sept. 2004 - Jan. 2005 Visiting Student in Applied Geophysics M.Sc. Program

Professional Assistant Professor, School of Oceanography, Paros Faculty Fellow Sept 2014 - present Experience University of Washington

Research Geophysicist, Alaska Science Center Jan. 2012 - July 2014 United States Geological Survey

Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geology and Geophysics Oct.-Dec. 2011 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Teaching University of Washington, Exploration Seismology Spring 2016 Experience Co-listed Oceanography and Earth and Space Sciences Applied seismic reflection and refraction methods, acquisition and processing.

University of Washington, Seafloor Mapping Fall 2015 Team teaching Seafloor Mapping acquisition and processing Included 3 day research cruise, multibeam mapping and sampling in Puget Sound.

University of Washington, Geospatial Information Technology Fall 2015 Team teaching GIS and geospatial data analysis Contributed enhancement lectures in marine geology applications.

University of Washington, Field Investigations in Oceanography Spring 2015 Instructor for Marine Geology and Geophysics Marine magnetics fieldwork for student project data acquisition.

Colorado School of Mines, Introduction to Geophysics November 2012 Invited lecturer for GPGN 200 course, covering class topics Included marine seismology, and mechanics of and faulting.

WHOI Independent Activities Term Undergraduate Course January 2011 Lecturer for Geology and Geophysics section of undergraduate Course on Marine Science, hosted at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

MIT-WHOI 12.521 Computational Geodynamical Modeling Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant for graduate course at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, taught by Jian Lin, Mark Behn, and Olivier Marchal.

1 External Funding Wilcock W., Roland, E., MacCready, P., Schmidt D., “Collaborative Research: Constraints on and Grants Interseismic Deformation Offshore Oregon from Calibrated Continuous Pressure Records” NSF Proposal 1558477, $229,863, 3/1/2016-2/28/2018

Schmidt, D., Wilcock, W., Bodin, P., Delaney J., Gonzales, F., Harrington M., LeVeque, R., Roland, E., Vidale, J., “An Offshore Geophysical Network for Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning in the Pacific Northwest”, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant Award, $1M, 1/2016-12/2017

Roland, E., Gulick, S., Haeussler, P., “Offshore Rapid Response Investigation of Aftershocks Following January 5th, 2013 Mw 7.5 Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault Earthquake, South- east Alaska” Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas Austin, Internal Grant Award, $46,497, 2/2013-2/2014

Roland, E., “Sources of Seismic Heterogeneity and Segmentation along the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone”, USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 1/2012-6/2014

Awards Outstanding Student Poster, 2011 GeoPRISMS Alaska Primary Site Planning Workshop Deep Ocean Exploration Institute Graduate - WHOI 2009-2010 NSF WHOI Summer Student Fellowship 2004 Society of Exploration Geophysicists Scholarship 2002-2005 Baker Atlas Scholarship 2002-2003 Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, Geophysical Engineering 2005 Colorado School of Mines Academic Performance Awards: 2001-2005 CSM Presidential Scholarship Robert F. Aldredge Memorial Award Hutchinson Memorial Scholarship

Recent Field Geophysical characterization of the California Borderlands February 2016 Experience Seismic reflection imaging of crustal faults and sediment basins offshore San Diego and Las Ageles CA, in collaboration with the USGS Zone Chief Scientist, E. Roland RV Thomas G. Thompson

Calibrated and continuous seafloor pressure for geodesy cruise October 2015 ROV-assisted effort to deploy longterm seafloor pressure sensors and campaign calibrated pressure instrumentation , Offshore Oregon P.I. W. Wilcock, M. Zumberge RV Thomas G. Thompson

Methane Hydrates on the Cascadia continental slope October 2014 Joint geophysical (heat flow) and geochemical (coring) effort to sample methane hydrates Cascadia Subduction Zone, Offshore Washington P.I. E. Solomon, H.P. Johnson RV Thomas G. Thompson

ASCPR Absolute Self-calibrating Pressure Recorder test cruise October 2014 ROV-assisted effort to test seafloor geodetic instrumentation Cascadia Subduction Zone, Offshore Oregon P.I. W. Wilcock RV Thomas G. Thompson

Port Valdez Submarine Landslide Seismic Imaging August 2013 USGS high-resolution seismic reflection data aquisiton Valdez Fjord, Alaska USGS Coastal and Marine Group Team R/V Alaska Gyre

2 Field and Sea SouthEast Alaska Rapid Aftershock Experiment (SEA RAE) April-June 2013 Experience, Cheif Scientist on ocean bottom seismometer deployment continued Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault P.I. E. Roland, S Guilick and H. van Avendonk U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Maple

Cascadia Open-Access Seismic Transects (COAST) July 2012 Acquisition of 2D multichannel seismic reflection data offshore Grays Harbor, Washington Cascadia Subduction Zone trench and forearc P.I.: S. Holbrook, G. Kent, K. Keranen, A. Trehu, and P. Johnson RV Marcus G. Langseth (LDEO)

Cascadia OBS Deployment July 2010 OBS deployment, ship-board multibeam bathymetry, XBT Cascadia Subduction Zone P.I.: J. McGuire, J. Collins RV Wecoma (OSU)

Salton Trough, Obsidian Creep Project April 2010 Acquisition of controlled-source seismic data Obsidian Buttes Fault, Southern California Joint USGS, WHOI, Cornell, Pascal P.I.: R. Lohman, J. McGuire, USGS Team with R. Catchings

Quebrada, Discovery, Gofar Experiment 2008-2009 OBS deployment and recovery, ship-board multibeam bathymetry, XBT Acquisition of marine wide-angle refraction seismic data East Pacific Rise, 4 ◦S P.I.: J. McGuire, J. Collins RV Thomas Thompson (UW), RV Marcus G. Langseth (LDEO), RV Atlantis (WHOI)

Transects to Investigate the Composition and Origin of the Aug. 2005 Central American Volcanic Arc (TICO-CAVA) Deployment and recovery of geophones for seismic refraction/reflection data Costa Rica P.I.s: D. Lizarralde (WHOI), S. Holbrook (U. Wyoming), H. van Avendonk (U. Texas)

Publications Trehu, A. M., Scheidhauer, M., Rohr, K. M., Tikoff, B., Walton, M. A., Gulick, S. P., Roland, E. C. (2015). An abrupt transition in the mechanical response of the upper crust to transpression along the Queen Charlotte fault. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Walton, M. A., Gulick, S. P., Haeussler, P. J., Roland, E. C., Trhu, A. M. (2015). Basement and Regional Structure Along Strike of the Queen Charlotte Fault in the Context of Modern and Historical Earthquake Ruptures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Parsons, T., Geist, E. L., Ryan, H. F., Lee, H. J., Haeussler, P. J., Lynett, P., Roland, E. (2014). Source and progression of a submarine landslide and tsunami: The 1964 Great Alaska earthquake at Valdez. J.of Geophys. Res., 119(11), 8502-8516.

Froment, B., McGuire, J. J., Hilst, R. D., Goudard, P., Roland, E. C., Zhang, H., Collins, J. A. (2014). Imaging along-strike variations in mechanical properties of the Gofar transform fault, East Pacific Rise. J.of Geophys. Res., 119(9), 7175-7194.

Roland, E., D. Lizarralde, J. Collins, and J. J. McGuire. (2012) Seismic velocity constraints on the material properties that control earthquake behavior at the Quebrada-Discovery-Gofar transform faults, East Pacific Rise, J. Geophys. Res., 117, B11102, doi:10.1029/2012JB009422

McGuire, J. J., J. Collins, P. Goudard, E. Roland, D. Lizarralde, M. S. Boettcher, M. D. Behn, and R. van der Hilst. (2012) Variations in earthquake rupture properties along the Gofar trans- form fault, East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience, 5, 336-341 doi:10.1038/ngeo1454

3 Publications, Roland, E., M. D. Behn, and G. Hirth (2010) Thermal-mechanical behavior of oceanic transform continued faults: Implications for the spatial distribution of seismicity, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst, 11, Q07001, doi:10.1029/2010GC003034.

Roland, E., and J. J. McGuire, (2009) Earthquake swarms on transform faults, Geophys. J. Int., 178 3, p. 1677-1690.

Submitted Gomberg, J., Bodin, P., Borgeois J., Cashman, S., Cowan, D.S., Creager, K., Crowell, B., Duvall, Publications A., Frankel, A.D., Gonzalez, F., Houston, H., Johonson, H.P., Kelsey, H., Miller U., Roland, E., Schmidt, D., Staisch, L, Vidale, J., Willcock, W., and Wirth E., Building a Subduction Zone Observatory Submitted to EOS

Publications in Roland, E., Haeussler, P. J., Parsons, T., Hart, P., Long term record and mechanisms of mass Preparation wasting during earthquake-induced submarine landslides in Port Valdez, Alaska., In preparation for the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.

Roland, E., Walton, M.A., Gulick, S. P., Haeussler, P. J., Fault complexity hi lighted by after- shock distribution and mechanisms surrounding the 2013 Craig Earthquake in southeast Alaska., In preparation for Geophysical Research Letters.

Roland, E., R. von Huene, H. F. Ryan, J. J. Miller, D. W. Scholl, and P. Haeussler. A comparison between the eastern Aleutian (Semidi Islands) and Tohoku, Japan convergent margins with implications for Aleutian tsunami hazards. In preparation for Geosphere.

Recent Invited 1. “Fault behavior and margin structure along the Queen Charlotte Fault in Southeast Presentations Alaska”, Invited Seminar at Western Washington University, February 2015, 2. “The Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault in your backyard: Recent earthquakes and new research”, Sitka Science Series, University of Alaska, Southeast, November 2013 3. “Subduction zone earthquakes in Alaska: exploring megathrust structure with reflection seismology”, University of Alaska, Anchorage, December 2012 4. “Marine seismic imaging to characterize fault zone structure and material heterogeneity”, Geophysical Society of Alaska, December 2012 5. “Fault structure and earthquake rupture properties at the Gofar Fault, East Pacific Rise”, University of Oregon, November 2012 6. “Earthquake behavior and structure of oceanic transform faults”, USGS Earthquake Sci- ence Center Seminar - Menlo Park, California, March 2012 7. “Oceanic Transform Faults as a Natural Laboratory for Studying Fault Mechanics”, Uni- versity of Alaska, Fairbanks, March 2012 8. “Oceanic Transform Faults as a natural laboratory for exploring fault mechanics”, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, September 2011

Recent 1. Roland, E., “Opportunities for Amphibious Array science offshore Alaska, IRIS Future of Conference the Amphibious Array Workshop, September 2015 Presentations 2. Roland, E., Walton, A. L., Rupert, N. A., Gulick, S., Christeson, G., Haeussler, P., “Af- tershock source properties of events following the 2013 Craig Earthquake: new evidence for structural heterogeneity on the northern Queen Charlotte Fault.” EOS Trans. AGU, T11A4545, 2014 3. Roland E., Rupert, N. A., Gulick, S., Haeussler, P., Walton, A. L., “Aftershocks following the January 5th 2013 Queen Charlotte-Fairweather Fault Earthquake Near Craig Alaska from Offshore Seismic Observations.” 2014 SSA Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska 4. Roland, E., R. von Huene, H. Ryan, J. Miller, P. J. Haeussler, D. Scholl, S. Kirby “Forearc structure from legacy multichannel seismic data linked to mechanical variability and earth- quake segmentation on the central Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone.” T13A2590, 2012 5. Roland, E., J. J. McGuire, J. A. Collins, M. D. Behn, D. Lizarralde, Y. Liu. “Rupture process of oceanic transform faults linked to material variability: local observations and models of the Gofar Fault, EPR” EOS Trans. AGU, T31E..03R, 2011

4 Recent Synergistic Activities Co-chair for 2016 IRIS Workshop Plenary Session: Unlocking the Secrets of Subduction Zones IRIS Annual Meeting, Vancouver WA Planned for June 2016

National Earthquake Hazards Research Program, External Grant Review Panelist United States Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program June 2015

Participant in Eastern North America Multichannel Seismic Reflection Processing Workshop Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory June 2015

Field Trip leader for EarthScope Alaska-Yukon Regional Workshop for Interpretive Professionals Held at the Alaska Science Center, Anchorage 28-30 April, 2014

Volunteer instructor in Alaska geology and tectonics for Summer Middle School Academy The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) August 2013

Invited speaker for Southeast Alaska public Natural History Seminar Series Sitka Sound Science Center and University of Alaska Southeast November 2013

Participant on the Cascadia Open Access Seismic Transects (COAST) Young Scientist cruise R/V Marcus G. Langseth. July 2012

Journal article reviewer for Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America and Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Nature Geoscience, Geology.

Professional American Geophysical Union, Societies Seismologic Society of America, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Technical Wildland Fire Fighter Forestry Tech Summer 2001-2005 Skills/Work U.S. Forest Service Experience Ham Radio Operator Technician License: KC7ABE 1993-Present

Intermediate Spanish Language Skills 4.5 years of Spanish language education, including one year of college-level Spanish

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