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Education
The Pennsylvania State University | PhD Geosciences | 2022
Advisor: Prof Kevin Furlong
Thesis title: Studies of Upper-Plate Deformation at Subduction Zones
University of St Andrews | 1st Class BSc (Honours) Geology | 2016
Research Dissertation: Modal Layering in the Carna Pluton, Connemara, Ireland
Employment
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Postdoctoral Research Associate | 2022-present
The Pennsylvania State University | Graduate Research Assistant | 2019-2022
The Pennsylvania State University | Graduate Teaching Assistant | 2017-2019
Publications
Furlong, K.P., Villaseñor, A., Benz, H.M., McKenzie, K.A. (accepted). Formation and Evolution and Pacific - North America (San Andreas) Plate Boundary: Constraints from Crustal Architecture of Northern California.
McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Kelsey, H.M., Kirby, E. (in prep). Complex Upper-Plate Faulting in Subduction Zones: A Case Study from the Cascadia Forearc
McKenzie, K.A., Kirby, E. (in prep). Topographic Inferences of Uplift Rates in the Siwaliks Hills and Implications for Fault Slip Rates in Western Nepal
Awards & Funding
GSA's Geophysics and Geodynamics Division Outstanding Student Presentation Award | 2021
Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) AGU Fall Meeting | 2020
Scholten-Williams-Wright Scholarship in Field Geology | 2020
AGeS2 Geochronology Research Award | 2019
Penn State Graduate Exhibition Poster Award | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Spring 2018/9
Charles E. Knopf St. Memorial Scholarship | Fall 2017
Highly Commended Entrant of the Undergraduate Awards | 2016
Irvine Prize for Best Field Based Research Project in Earth & Environmental Sciences | 2015/6
Irving Prize for Excellence in Field Work in Earth Sciences | 2015/6
The Principal’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 2013/4 and 2014/5 | 2015
Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain Mapping Award | 2014/5
BP Field Mapping Prize for Excellence in Field Mapping | 2013/4/5
First-Author Conference Abstracts
The Pennsylvania State University | PhD Geosciences | 2022
Advisor: Prof Kevin Furlong
Thesis title: Studies of Upper-Plate Deformation at Subduction Zones
University of St Andrews | 1st Class BSc (Honours) Geology | 2016
Research Dissertation: Modal Layering in the Carna Pluton, Connemara, Ireland
Employment
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Postdoctoral Research Associate | 2022-present
The Pennsylvania State University | Graduate Research Assistant | 2019-2022
The Pennsylvania State University | Graduate Teaching Assistant | 2017-2019
Publications
- McKenzie, K.A., Kelsey, H.M., Kirby, E., Rittenour, T.M., Furlong, K.P (2022). Differential coastal uplift quantified by luminescence dating of marine terraces, central Cascadia forearc, Oregon. Quaternary Science Reviews, v298(107853)
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Herman, M.W. (2022). Regional and local patterns of upper-plate deformation in Cascadia: the importance of the down-dip extent of locking relative to upper-plate strength contrasts, Tectonics, v41(1)
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Kirby, E. (2022). Mid-Miocene to present upper-plate deformation of the southern Cascadia Forearc: Effects of the superposition of subduction and transform tectonics. Frontiers in Earth Science, v10
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., (2021) Isolating Non-Subduction-Driven Tectonic Processes in Cascadia, Geoscience Letters, v8 (10)
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Herman, M.W. (2020) Bidirectional Loading of the Subduction Interface: Evidence From the Kinematics of Slow Slip Events. Geochemsitry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v21(9)
Furlong, K.P., Villaseñor, A., Benz, H.M., McKenzie, K.A. (accepted). Formation and Evolution and Pacific - North America (San Andreas) Plate Boundary: Constraints from Crustal Architecture of Northern California.
McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Kelsey, H.M., Kirby, E. (in prep). Complex Upper-Plate Faulting in Subduction Zones: A Case Study from the Cascadia Forearc
McKenzie, K.A., Kirby, E. (in prep). Topographic Inferences of Uplift Rates in the Siwaliks Hills and Implications for Fault Slip Rates in Western Nepal
Awards & Funding
GSA's Geophysics and Geodynamics Division Outstanding Student Presentation Award | 2021
Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) AGU Fall Meeting | 2020
Scholten-Williams-Wright Scholarship in Field Geology | 2020
AGeS2 Geochronology Research Award | 2019
Penn State Graduate Exhibition Poster Award | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Spring 2018/9
Charles E. Knopf St. Memorial Scholarship | Fall 2017
Highly Commended Entrant of the Undergraduate Awards | 2016
Irvine Prize for Best Field Based Research Project in Earth & Environmental Sciences | 2015/6
Irving Prize for Excellence in Field Work in Earth Sciences | 2015/6
The Principal’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 2013/4 and 2014/5 | 2015
Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain Mapping Award | 2014/5
BP Field Mapping Prize for Excellence in Field Mapping | 2013/4/5
First-Author Conference Abstracts
- McKenzie, K.A., Kirby, E. (2023). Topographic Inferences of Uplift Rates along Growing Folds in the Himalayan Foreland. AGU Fall Meeting
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Kirby, E., Hefner, W. (2023). Mountain Building via Crustal Flow in a Subduction Forearc. AGU Fall Meeting
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K., Kirby, E., Hefner, W. (2022). Upper-plate deformation in southern Cascadia in response to the NNW-migration of non-subduction tectonic processes over the past 6 million years. AGU Fall Meeting
- McKenzie, K.A., Kelsey, H.M., Kirby, E., Furlong, K.P., Rittenour, T.M. (2022). Rapid, temporally variable slip rates on an upper-plate fault above the Cascadia subduction zone. GSA Connects
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K., Kirby, E. (2021) Mid-Miocene to Present Deformation of the Southern Cascadia Forearc: the Effects of a Migrating Triple Junction. AGU Fall Meeting, AGU Union Session Invited Paper
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K., Kirby, E., Villasenor, A., Benz, H. (2021) Lower Crustal Flow and Injection within the Southern Cascadia Forearc from ~5 Ma to Present. AGU Fall Meeting
- McKenzie, K.A., Kirby, E., Kelsey, H.M., Rittenour, T.M. (2021) Long-term Slip Across the Yaquina Bay Fault Revealed by IRSL Dating of Uplifted Marine Terraces. GSA Connects
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P., Kirby, E. (2021) Mid-Miocene to Present Upper-Plate Deformation of the Southern Cascadia Forearc: Effects of the Superposition of Subduction and Transform Tectonics. GSA Connects
- McKenzie, K.A., Furlong, K.P. (2021). Stress-cycle driven evolution of faulting in a plate boundary transition zone, EGU General Assembly
- McKenzie.K.A., Furlong, K.P., Herman, M.W. (2020) What is Causing (Permanent) Uplift in Southern Cascadia?, AGU General Assembly
- McKenzie.K.A., & Furlong, K.P. (2020). Implications of an Evolving Stress Field on faulting behavior in southern Cascadia, GSA Connects Online
- McKenzie.K.A., Furlong, K.P., Herman, M.W. (2019) Decomposing the decadal scale Cascadia GPS velocity field and associated implications for plate interface locking, AGU General Assembly
- McKenzie.K.A., & Furlong, K.P. (2018). The effects of episodic tremor and slip in the Cascadia subduction zone on upper plate deformation and stress accumulation during the earthquake cycle, AGU General Assembly
- McKenzie.K.A., & Furlong, K.P. (2017). Links between Subduction Megathrust Earthquakes and Brittle Deformation in the Pacific Northwest, GSA Annual Meeting
- McKenzie.K.A., McCarthy, W. & Hunt, E. (2016). Development of modal layering in granites: a case study from the Carna Pluton, Connemara, Ireland, EGU General Assembly
- McKenzie.K.A., McCarthy, W. & Hunt, E. (2016). Modal layering in granites: a new model for understanding mineralisation, North Atlantic Craton (NAC+) meeting