Sarah Jo Brownlee (ex2432)

University information

Title: Associate Professor
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:

Environmental Science and Geology

Title: Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae: https://people.wayne.edu/profile/ex2432/1578/brownlee_profrec-faculty_1.doc 114688 1673543712 file
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: AB, 2003, Princeton University Ph.D., 2009, University of California, Berkeley
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

www.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

Sarah Jo Brownlee

Courses taught by Sarah Jo Brownlee

Winter Term 2024

Winter Term 2023

Fall Term 2022

Winter Term 2022

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