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Dr. Sean P. S. Gulick Research Professor, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological , Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin 10100 Burnet Rd Bldg. 196 (R2200) Austin, Texas 78758-4445 Phone: 512-471-0483, Fax: 512-471-0999, E-mail: [email protected]

Employment Co-Director, Center for Planetary Systems Habitability, UT Austin Jan. 2020 - Present Research Professor, University of Texas at Austin Sept. 2015 - Present Research Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Jan. 2012 - Aug. 2015 Research , University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Aug. 2007 - Jan. 2012 Research Associate, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Dec. 2001 - July 2007 Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics June 1999 - Nov. 2001

Education Ph.D. in Geological Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1999 Dissertation: “Seismic studies of the southern Cascadia zone near the Mendocino triple junction,” Advisor: Anne Meltzer Bachelor of in , Minor in Marine Sciences, University of North 1993 Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Advisor: Christine Powell.

Research Interests and Recent Experience • Tectonic processes, tectonic- interactions and geohazards of convergent margins and transitional tectonic environments; recent studies include SISIE (South Island Subduction Initiation Experiment) R/V Langseth, NSF, 2018, IODP Expedition 341 SE Alaska tectonics and climate, JOIDES Resolution, 2013, Yakutat Bay mapping, R/V Alaskan Gyre, USGS, 2012, REPONS (Rapid Enriquillo Plantain Offshore Neotectonic Study), R/V Endeaver, NSF 2010, STEEP (St. Elias /tectonics Project) R/V Langseth, NSF, 2008, Great earthquake rupture Sumatra, R/V Sonne, 2008. • Role of catastrophism in the including impact cratering, hurricanes, and tectonic events; recent studies include Icy Bay geohazards and Taan Fiord landslide R/V Alaska Gyre, NSF/USGS 2016, IODP Expedition 364 Chicxulub impact crater, L/B Myrtle, 2016, Chicxulub impact crater hazards assessment, R/V Justo Sierra, ESO 2013. • Marine at nested resolutions and ground truth through drilling, coring, logging, and submersibles; recent studies include TRIPP (Trinity River Paleochannel Project), R/V Trident, 2018, Rio Grande Fan, R/V Manta, 2015, Totten , RVIB Palmer, 2014, Gulf of Alaska Law of the Sea, R/V Langseth, 2013.

Example Publications (*student led, #postdoc led) Frederik, M.C.G.*, Gulick, S.P.S., and Miller, J.J., Effect on subduction of deeply buried seamounts offshore of Kodiak Island: Tectonics, published online 26 May 2020, doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005710, 2020. Collins, G. S., Patel, N., Davison, T. M., Rae, A. S. P., Morgan, J. V., Gulick, S. P. S., and IODP- ICDP Expedition 364 Science Party, A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact: Communications, 11, 1480, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15269-x, 2020. Patel, J.*, et al., Stratigraphic architecture of Solander Trough records Southern currents and subduction initiation beneath southwest New Zealand: Basin Research, published online 18 May 2020, doi.org/10.1111/bre.12473, 2020. Montelli, A.*, Gulick, S.P.S., et al., Seismic of the Sabrina Coast shelf, East : history of early dynamic glaciations: GSA Bull, 132, 545-561, doi.org/10.1130/B35100.1, 2020. Gulick, S.P.S., et al., and the Expedition 364 , First Day of the Cenozoic: Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, Published Sept. 6, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909479116, 2019. Zhang, J.*, and Gulick, S.P.S., Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Baranof Fan: Insights for Cordilleran Outflow to the Gulf of Alaska: GSA Bulletin, Published May 21, doi.org/10.1130/B35164.1, 2019. Walton, M.L.*, Walter, J., Gulick, S.P.S., Roland, E., Dotray, P., Seismic velocity structure across the 2013 Craig, Alaska rupture from aftershock : Implications for seismogenic conditions: & Planet. Sci. Lett., 507, 94-104, 2019. Gulick, S.P.S., K. Miller, P. Keleman, J. Morgan, J.-N. Proust, E. Takazawa. across the shoreline. 32, 157–159, doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.139, 2019. Gurnis, M., van Avendonk, H., Gulick, S.P.S., Stock, J., Sutherland, R., et al., Incipient subduction at the contact with stretched continental : The Puysegur Trench: Earth and Letters, 520, 212-219, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.05.044, 2019. Haeussler, P.J., S.P.S. Gulick, et al., Geophysical expression of submarine deposition of a subaerial landslide in Taan Fiord, Alaska: J. Geophys. Res.- Earth Surf., 123, 2443-2463, doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004608, 2018. Higman, B., et al., Preliminary investigations of a massive landslide and tsunami triggered by : Nature-Sci. Reports, 8, 12993, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30475-w, 2018. Riller, U., et al., Rock fluidisation during peak-ring formation of large impact structures: Nature, 562, p. 511–518, doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0607-z, 2018. Lowery, C.M.#, et al., Rapid Recovery of Life At Ground Zero of the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction: Nature, 558, p. 288-291, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0163-6, 2018. Christeson, G.L., S.P.S. Gulick, J.V. Morgan, et al., Unusual Physical Properties of the Peak Ring: Results from IODP/ICDP Expedition 364: Earth & Planet. Sci. Lett., 495, p. 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.013, 2018. Gulick, S.P.S., Shevenell, A., et al., Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet: Nature, 552, doi:10.1038/nature25026, 2017. Morgan, J., Gulick, S., et al., The formation of peak rings in large impact craters, Science, 354, 878-882, 2016. Gulick, S.P.S., Jaeger, J.M., Mix, A.C., et al., Rapid response of tectonics to changes in glacial erosion constrained by Gulf of Alaska sedimentary record: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 15042-15047, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512549112, 2015.

Awards and Honors Fellow of the Geological Society of America 2018 Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Fellow, Delmenhorst, Germany 2016 Jackson School Research Excellence Award 2015 UTIG Director’s Circle of Excellence 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Jackson School of Geosciences Research Achievement Award 2007-2009 Jackson School of Geosciences Research Fellowship 2006-2007 Jackson School of Geosciences Young Scientist Fellowship 2005-2006

Professional Affiliations American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Seismological Society of America, SEPM