Sarah Jo Brownlee (ex2432)
University information
Title: Department Chair
Unit: Environmental Science & Geology
Department: College of Liberal Arts & Science
Contact information
4841 Cass Ave
Department of Geology
0224 Old Main
Detroit, 48202
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department:
Title:
Associate Professor
Email:
sarah.brownlee@wayne.edu
Curriculum Vitae:
https://people.wayne.edu/profile/ex2432/1578/brownlee_profrec-faculty_1.doc
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Youtube Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVKDTmP3thI&ab_channel=JennaGroves
Research interest(s)/area of expertise:
Elastic properties of crustal materials
Research:
I study how the mineralogy and microstructure of rocks contributes to elastic anisotropy in an effort to improve our understanding of the composition and structure of the middle and lower continental crust.
Education – Degrees, Licenses, Certifications:
A.B., Princeton University, 2003
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2009
Awards and grants:
2018 CLAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring
2018 University Career Development Chair Award
Selected publications:
- Brownlee, S.J., V. Schulte-Pelkum, K. Mahan, C. Condit, A. Raju, Characteristics of deep crustal seismic anisotropy from a collection of rock elasticity tensors and their expression in receiver functions, Tectonics, DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004625, 2017, agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017TC004625
- Brownlee, S.J., B.R. Hacker, G.E. Harlow, and G. Seward. Seismic signatures of a hydrated mantle from antigorite crystal-preferred orientation (CPO), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 375, p. 395-407, 2013, sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X13003191
- Brownlee, S.J., Hacker, B.R., Salisbury, M., Seward, G., Little, T.A., Baldwin, S.L., and Abers, G.A. Predicted velocity and density structure of the Papua New Guinea ultrahigh pressure terrane, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, vol. 116, B08206, DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008195, 2011, agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2011JB008195
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