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Eric Kirby

Department of Geosciences

Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802

email – ******@*****.***.***

Education: B.A. Geology 1992 Hamilton College (with honors, Magna Cum Laude)

M.S. Geology 1994 University of New Mexico (with distinction)

Ph.D. Geology 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisors: Prof. B.C. Burchfiel, Prof. Kelin X. Whipple

Professional Positions:

2008 – present: Associate Professor – The Pennsylvania State University

2002 - 2008: Assistant Professor – The Pennsylvania State University

2001 - 2002: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow – UCSB (Dr. Douglas W. Burbank)

2000 – 2001: Postdoctoral Associate – MIT (Dr. Kelin X. Whipple)

Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, 1992

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship – Honorable Mention; 1992, 1993

NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2000

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Interaction of surficial and tectonic processes in landform evolution. Current research activities focus on: 1) fault system evolution over timescales scales of 104 to 106 yrs. and implications for intracontinental deformation (Kunlun Fault, Tibet; Eastern California Shear Zone); 2) landscape response to spatial and temporal variations in rock uplift (Siwalik Hills, Nepal; California); 3) growth and evolution of the Tibetan Plateau - processes, rates, and linkages to climatic change; and 4) transient evolution of topography in mountain ranges during the approach to steady-state (Kyrgyz Tien Shan, California, Appalachians, Costa Rica).

Related interests include: the evolution of topographic relief in response to climate change (expressed in continuing investigations along the Himalayan arc), fluvial terrace generation and the interpretation of terrace deformation (Sichuan Basin/Yangtze River, China), linkages between physical and chemical weathering, applications of remote sensing to geologic mapping and geomorphology, and the thermal evolution of orogenic belts (Eastern Tibet, southwestern U.S.).

ONGOING RESEARCH EFFORTS

2007 – present Shortening and mass budgets in convergent plate boundaries, NE Japan

2007 – present Strain transfer across the Garlock Fault

2006 – present Fluvial incision across the western slope of the Rocky Mountains: deconvolving the effects of climate, drainage integration, and epirogenic uplift

2005 – present Transient fluvial incision in response to tectonic forcing (Costa Rica; California; Tibet)

2005 – present Fluvial incision and relief generation in the lower Yangtze River

2004 – present Growth of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

2000 – present Channel response to spatially variable rock uplift (Siwalik Hills, India/Nepal; California)

2001 – present Displacement partitioning along the Owens Valley Fault System; Implications for interpretations of geodetic data (California)

2001 – present Slip rate gradients near the eastern termination of the Kunlun Fault (China/Tibet)

1995 – present Investigation of the interaction between surface and crustal processes during Quaternary tectonism along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau (Sichuan Province, China)

1997 – present Active slip above a low-angle normal fault, Panamint Valley, CA

Editorships

2002 – 2005 Associate Editor, Geology

2004 – 2009 Associate Editor, Tectonics

2007 – 2010 Associate Editor, Geologic Society of America Bulletin

2009 – 2012 Associate Editor, Geology

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Advisory Groups:

Panel Member – NSF Tectonics program (Spring, 2006)

Member – NSF GeoEarthscope Working Group on Geochronology (2006-2007)

Member – Terrestrial Working Group of the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (2007 - present)

Member – AGU Tectonophysics Program Committee (2009–2010)

Workshops/Conferences Organized:

Convened AGU special session – Beyond steady-state: The dynamics of transient landscapes (2005). The session received the greatest number of submitted abstracts of any session within Hydrology section of AGU (second only to the General Hydrology). A special volume of JGR – Earth Surface evolved from this session.

Co-Convener – NSF Earthscope workshop on LiDAR in northern California (March, 2006)

Co-Convener – NSF Earthscope GeoFrame workshop on the Eastern California Shear Zone/Walker Lane (May, 2006)

Co-Convener – GSA special session – Deformation and the landscape: Quantitative approaches to tectonic geomorphology (Oct. 2007)

Co-Convener – AGU special session – Wrinkles are not just skin deep:

Co-Convener – AGU special session – Growth and evolution of the Tibetan Plateau:

Short Courses:

Co-organized New tools for Quantitative Geomorphology: Extraction and interpretation of stream profiles from digital topographic data (Oct. 2007)

Field trips:

Co-leader of GSA field trip Active tectonics of the Eastern California Shear Zone (March, 2008)

Reviews:

Citation for outstanding reviewer for GSA Bulletin - 2007

2002-2008: Reviewed 105 manuscripts for professional journals, monographs and special papers including:

American Journal of Science, Basin Research, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Geol. Ecolgae Helvetae, Geografica Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, Geology, Geosphere, GSA Special Papers (2), GSA Today, GSA Bulletin, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, Journal of the Geologic Society, Journal of Geology, Journal of Structural Geology, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Quaternary Research, Tectonics, Tectonophysics, and Terra Nova

2002-2008: Reviewed 48 proposals for NSF, NASA, PFR-ACS, IODP, and IGPP

Membership in Professional Societies:

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Geophysical Union

Geological Society of America

University Service

Pennsylvania State University, Department of GeosciencesCollege of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Environment Committee (2002-2005)Departmental Executive Committee (2003-2004, 2009-2010)Undergraduate Program Committee (2003-2005, 2008-2010)Faculty Search Committee (2003-2004, 2004-2005)Graduate Admissions Committee (2005-2006)

PUBLICATIONS

Articles in refereed journals

Johnson, C. B., Furlong, K.P., and Kirby, E., 2009, Integrated geomorphic and geodynamic modeling of a potential blind thrust in the San Francisco Bay area, California: Teconophysics, v. 471, p. 319-328.

Parsons, T., Ji, C., and Kirby, E., 2008, Stress changes from the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake and increased hazard in the Sichuan basin: Nature, v. 454, doi: 10.1038/nature07177

Burchfiel, B.C., Royden, L.H., van der Hilst, R.D., Chen, Z., King, R.W., Li, C., Lu, J., Yao, H., and Kirby, E., 2008, A geological and geophysical context for the Wenchuan earthquake of 12 May 2008, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China: GSA Today, v. 18, no. 7, doi: 10.1130/GSATG18A.1

*Harkins, N. and Kirby, E., 2008, Fluvial terrace riser degradation and determination of slip rates on strike-slip faults: An example from the Kunlun fault, China: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, L05406, doi:10.1029/2007GL033073.

Kirby, E., Anadakrishnan, S., Phillips, F., Marrero, S., 2008, Late Pleistocene slip rate along the Owens Valley fault, eastern California: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, L01304, doi: 10.1029/2007GL031970.

Frankel, K.L., Glazner, A.F., Kirby, E., Monastero, F.C., Strane, M.D., Oskin, M.E., Unruh, J.R., Walker, J.D., Anandakrishnan, S., Bartley, J.M., Coleman, D.S., Dolan, J.F., Finkel, R.C., Greene, D., Kylander-Clark, A., Marrero, S., Owen, L.A., and Phillips, F., 2008, Active tectonics of the eastern California shear zone, in Duebendorfer, E.M., and Smith, E.I., eds., Field Guide to Plutons, Volcanoes, Faults, Reefs, Dinosaurs, and Possible Glaciation in Selected Areas of Arizona, California, and Nevada: Geological Society of America Field Guide 11, p. 43–81, doi: 10.1130/2008.fl d011(03).

Kirby, E., Harkins, N., Wang, E., and Burbank, D., 2007, Slip rate gradients on the eastern Kunlun Fault: Tectonics, 26, TC2010, doi:10.1029/2006TC002033.

Kirby, E., Johnson, C., Furlong, K., and Heimsath, A., 2007, Transient channel incision along Bolinas Ridge, California: Evidence for differential rock uplift adjacent to the San Andreas fault: Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 112, F03S07, doi: 10.1029/2006JF000559.

*Harkins, N., Kirby, E., Heimsath, A., Robinson, R., and Reiser, U., Transient fluvial incision in the headwaters of the Yellow River, northeastern Tibet, China: Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 112, F03S04, doi:10.1029/2006JF000570.

*Numelin, T., Kirby, E., Walker, J.D., and Didericksen, B., Late Pleistocene slip on a low-angle normal fault, Searles Valley, California: Geosphere, 3, pg. 163-176, doi: 10.1130/GES00052.1.

*Numelin, T., Marone, C., and Kirby, E., 2007, Frictional properties of natural fault gouge from a low-angle normal fault, Panamint Valley, California: Tectonics, v. 26, TC2004, doi:10.1029/2005TC001916.

*Miller, S.R., Slingerland, R.L., and Kirby, E., 2007, Characteristics of steady-state fluvial topography above fault-bend folds: Journal of Geophysical Research, Earth Surface, 112, F04004, doi:10.1029/2007JF000772

Kirby E., Burbank, D., Phillips, F., and Reheis, M., 2006, Temporal variations in slip rate of the White Mountain Fault Zone, eastern California: EPSL, v. 248, p. 168-185.

Walker, J.D., Kirby, E., and Andrew, J.A., 2005, Strain transfer and partitioning between the Panamint Valley, Searles Valley, and Ash Hill fault systems, California: Geosphere, v. 1, no. 3; doi: 10.1130/GES00014.1

*Duvall, A., Kirby, E., and Burbank, D., Tectonic and lithologic controls on channel profiles and processes in coastal California: Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, v. 109, F03002, doi:10.1029/2003JF000086

Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., Tang, W., and Chen, Z., 2003, Distribution of active rock uplift along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from bedrock river profiles: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.108, 2217, doi:10.1029/2001JB000861, 2003.

Kirby, E., Reiners, P.W., Krol, M.A., Hodges, K.V., Whipple, K.X., Farley, K.A., Chen, Z., and Tang, W., 2002, Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology, Tectonics, v. 21, 1001, doi:10.1029/2000TC001246, 2002.

Kirby, E. and Whipple, K.X., 2001, Quantifying differential rock-uplift rates via stream profile analysis: Geology, v. 29, pp. 415-418.

Kirby, E., Burchfiel, B.C., Whipple, K.X., Tang, W., Berger, G., Sun, Z., and Chen, Z., 2000, Neotectonics of the Min Shan, China: Implications for mechanisms driving Quaternary deformation along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: GSA Bulletin, v. 112, pp. 375-393.

Whipple, K.X., Kirby, E. and Brocklehurst, S.H., 1999, Geomorphic limits to climatically induced increases in topographic relief: Nature, v. 401, pp. 39-43.

Kirby, E., Karlstrom, K.E., Andronicos, C.L., and Dallmeyer, R.D., 1994, Tectonic setting of the Sandia pluton: an orogenic 1.4 Ga granite in New Mexico: Tectonics, v. 14, pp. 185-201.

Nyman, M.W., Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., and Graubard, C., 1994, 1.4 Ga contractional orogeny in western North America: evidence from ca. 1.4 Ga plutons: Geology, v. 22, pp. 901-904.

* denotes student author

Parts of Books

Koons, P. and Kirby, E., 2007, Topography, Denudation, and Deformation: The role of surface processes in fault evolution, in, Handy, M.R., Hirth, G., and Hovius, N., eds., Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., pg. 205-230.

Buck, W.R., Densmore, A.L., Fredrich, A.F., Hovius, N., Kirby, E., Koons, P.O., Nagel, T., Schlunegger, F., Strecker, M., anc von Blanckenburg, F., 2007, Environmental Effects of Faulting, in, Handy, M.R., Hirth, G., and Hovius, N., eds., Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., p. 273-294.

Wobus, C., Whipple, K., Kirby, E., Snyder, N., Johnson, J., Spyropolou, K., Crosby, B., Sheehan, D., 2006, Tectonics from Topography: Procedures, promise, and pitfalls, in, Willett, S.D., Hovius, N., Brandon, M.T., and Fisher, D., eds., Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution: Geologic Society of America Special Paper 398, p. 55-74, doi:10.1130/2006.2398(04).

Clift, P.D., Carter, A., Krol, M., and Kirby, E., 2002, Constraints on India-Eurasia collision in the Arabian Sea region taken from the Indus Group, Ladakh Himalaya, India, in, Clift, P.D., Kroon, D., Gaedicke, C. and Craig, J., eds., The Tectonic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region: Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 195, p. 97-116.

Other Articles

Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., and Harkins, N., 2008, Topography reveals seismic hazard: Nature Geoscience, v. 1, p. 485-487, doi: 10.1038/ngeo265.

Niemann, J.D. and Kirby, E., 2003, Geomorphology: Geotimes Annual Highlights Issue, v. 48, no. 7, p. 14-15.

Kirby, E., Karlstrom, K.E., and Andronicos, C.L., 1995, Structural and thermal setting during emplacement of the Sandia pluton: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 46, pp. 219-225.

Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., Connell, S., Read, A.S., Ferguson, C., Osburn, G.R., Ilg, B., Abbott, J., Hitchcock, C., Kelson, K., Noller, J., Sawyer, T., Bauer, P., Ralser, S., Love, D., and Nyman, M., 1994 (latest revision: 22, September, 1999), Geology of the Tijeras 7.5-min quadrangle, Bernalillo County, New Mexico: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Open-file Digital Geologic Map OF-DGM 4, scale 1:24,000.

Read, A.S., Connell, S., Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., Ferguson, C., Ilg, B., Pazzaglia, F., Osburn, G.R., Van Hart, D., 1995 (latest revision: 20 September, 1999) Geology of the Sandia Crest quadrangle, Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico, Open-file Digital Geologic Map OF-DGM 6: New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, scale 1:24,000.

Timmons, J.M., Karlstrom, K.E., and Kirby, E., 1995, Geology of the Monte Largo Hills area, New Mexico: Structural and metamorphic study of the eastern aureole of the Sandia pluton: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 46, p. 227-232.

Manuscripts accepted for publication

Manuscripts submitted for publication

Sheehan, T.P., Dawers, N.H., Kirby, E., and Robinson, R., in review, Temporal variation in extensional strain rate within northern Owens Valley, California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Regalla, C., Fisher, D., and Kirby, E., in review, Timing and magnitude of shortening within the inner forearc of the Japan Trench: Journal of Geophysical Research

GRANTS AWARDED

Completed

NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (1/1/01 – 6/15/02) $72K

Displacement rates and paleoseismicity of the Eastern Kunlun Fault: Implications for the dynamical role of strike-slip faults during intracontinental deformation

US Navy (1/1/02 – 7/1/02) $7K

Integrated study of the Slate Range Crossing Tectonic Zone

(Subcontract with University of Kansas, P.I. – J. Doug Walker)

USGS NEHERP (1/1/03 – 12/31/03) $13K

Rates of vertical deformation above blind and poorly exposed faults: developing a geomorphic tool for hazards analysis

(Collaborative research w/ D. Burbank)

NSF Tectonics/SGER (5/15/03 – 4/30/05) $15K

Fluvial incision rates in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

NSF Tectonics (2/15/03 – 1/31/08) $248K + $8K REU

Extrusion and rotation during intracontinental deformation: the role of the Kunlun Fault in the Indo-Asian collision

(Collaborative research w/ D. Burbank)

NASA (1/1/03 – 12/31/05) $40K

Tectonic-climatic interactions in orogenic belts: Quantification of the approach to steady-state topography with SRTM data

(Collaborative research w/ D. Burbank)

NSF Tectonics (7/1/04 – 6/30/08) $157K

Reconciling Geologic and Geodetic Rates of Deformation: The Role of Distributed Strain in the Upper Crust

(Collaborative w/ N. Dawers, D. Burbank)

In Progress

NSF Continental Dynamics $334K

Upward and Outward: Growth of the Tibetan Plateau and climatic consequences

(Collaborative with P. Molnar, D. Burbank, M. Clark, K. Farley, C. Garzione, and G. Roe)

NSF Continental Dynamics $200K

Colorado Rockies Seismic Experiment and Transect (CREST): Time-space patterns of Cenozoic uplift-magmatism and their correspondence to the Aspen Anomaly

(Collaborative with K. Deuker, R. Aster, L. Crossey, M. Heizler, K. Karlstrom, S. Kelley, and C. Shaw)

NSF Earthscope $136K

How is strain of the Eastern California Shear Zone transferred across the Garlock Fault

(Collaborative with J. Doug Walker)

NSF Critical Zone Observatory $4.5M

Regolith and the critical zone in the Susquehanna River Basin

(Collaborative with C. Duffy and 10 co-PIs)

NSF Tectonics $335K

Inner forearc deformation along an erosive convergent margin, Northeastern Japan

(Collaborative with D. Fisher and K. Furlong)

TEACHING

Courses Taught (Y indicates taught yearly or every second year, L indicates laboratory exercise)

(* indicates course initiated/developed by E. Kirby)

Penn State University

Geosc 340 *Geomorphology (Y, L) Geosc 597 *Paleoelevation in mountain belts

Geosc 472 Field School (Y) Geosc 597 *Isotopes and erosion rates

Geosc 402 Natural Disasters (Y, L) Geosc 597 *Strain reconstruction in orogens

Geosc 500 Issues in Geosciences Geosc 597 *Active tectonics

Geosc 548 Advanced Surface Processes (Y) Geosc 597 *Evolution of Taiwan

Geosc 565 *Tectonic Geomorphology (Y)

Recent Teaching Activities (2003-2008)

Year

Spring

Summer

Fall

2003

Geosc 402 (4), Geosc 597 (3)

Geosc 472 (6)

Geosc 340 (3), Geosc 548 (4)

2004

Geosc 565 (3)

Geosc 472 (6)

Geosc 340 (3), Geosc 597 (3)

2005

Geosc 472 (6)

Geosc 340 (3), Geosc 500 (3), Geosc 548 (4)

2006

Geosc 565 (3)

(teaching release)

2007

Geosc 597 (3)

Geosc 472 (6)

Geosc 340 (3), Geosc 597 (3)

2008

Geosc 565 (3), Geosc 402 (4)

Geosc 472 (6)

Geosc 340 (3), Geosc 548 (4)

2009

Geosc 597 (3)

Geosc 472 (6)

SUPERVISION OF STUDENT RESEARCH

Penn State University

Ph.D.

Nathan Harkins (2008) - Millennial slip-rates along the eastern Kunlun fault and rapid evolution of channel morphology in the Yellow River headwaters, northeastern Tibet, China

William Craddock (in progress) - Structural, stratigraphic, and geomorphic archives of the growth of Tibet

Christine Regalla (in progress)– Neogene uplift inboard of the Japan Trench and implications for the mass balance of the northeastern Japan margin (co-advised with D. Fisher)

M.S.

Tye Numelin (2005) - Slip rates on an active low-angle normal fault, Searles Valley, California

Charlie Angerman (2005) – Rates and timing of shortening at the northeastern margin of Tibet

Andrea Mullen (2007) – Calibrating post-glacial fluvial incision, Finger Lakes region, New York State

David Greene (expected, 2009) – Distributed extension across Owens Valley, California

William Hoffman (in progress) - Slip rates along the Panamint Valley fault zone, eastern California

Shi Xuhua (in progress) - Geomorphic response to evolution of a transcurrent plate boundary, northern California

B.S.

Aaron Bini (2004) - Reconciling discrepancies between measured fault slip rates and GPS modeled fault slip rates in Owens Valley, CA

Kimberly Kline (2005) – Relationships between erosion rate and landscape relief in the Anyemaqen Shan, eastern Tibet

Keith Trasko (2005) – Tectonic implications of stream profiles in the Fila Costena fold and thrust belt, Pacific Coast, Costa Rica (co-advised with D. Fisher)

Matthew Rogers (2006) – Fluvial Incision in the Upper Reaches of the Yellow River, China (Honors thesis)

Matthew Rogers (2006) – Long-term slip rate on the Owens Valley fault, California

Adam Donovan (2009) - The geomorphic signature of active deformation in the Himalayan foreland

Post-Doctoral Researchers Supported

Dr. William Ouimet (2007-2008)

Other institutions

Alison Duvall – M.S. UCSB (2003) – Bedrock channel response to variability in rock strength and rock-uplift rate in the Santa Ynez Mountains, California (co-advised with D. Burbank)

Jessica Jager – M.S. UCSB (2002) – Patterns of Quaternary deformation in the Waucobi embayment, Owens Valley, California (co-advised with D. Burbank)

Andy Darling – M.S. (in progress) UNM (external committee member)

Xiaofei Hu – Ph.D. (in progress) Lanzhou University, China (co-advised with Baotian Pan)

INVITED LECTURES

2001 Franklin and Marshall College

Active mountain building in East Tibet: A consequence of lower crustal flow?

University of California, Berkeley

Building a plateau: Tectonics and topography in Eastern Tibet

2002 University of Kansas

Stream gradients, exhumation, topography, and rock uplift: Patterns and processes of topographic evolution in eastern Tibet

2003 GSA Penrose Conference on Tectonics, Climate, and Landscape Evolution

Channel Response to Differential Rock Uplift

2004 Tulane University

Tectonics and topography in eastern Tibet

Cornell University

Tectonics from topography: Bedrock channel response to differential rock uplift

Texas A&M University

Bedrock channel response to differential rock uplift

2005 Dahlem Conference (Germany) on the Dynamics of Faulting (invited participant)

GSA Penrose Conference on Kinematics and Dynamics of Intraplate Dextral Shear in Eastern California and Western Nevada

Tectonic inference from topographic observation

Stanford University

Reading the record of earth deformation in the landscape

2006 University of Rochester

Tectonics from topography: Reading the landscape record

International Conference on Continental Dynamics and Environmental Change of the Tibetan Plateau

Slip-rate gradients along the eastern Kunlun fault

China Earthquake Administration, Institute for Geology (Beijing)

Slip-rate gradients along the eastern Kunlun fault

2007 Bi-lateral workshop on the evolution of the Asian Monsoon and growth of the Tibetan Plateau

Late Cenozoic growth of eastern Tibet: Patterns, processes, and key unknowns

Hamilton College

Landscapes and Active Deformation: Insights into fault behavior from geomorphic records

University of Wyoming

Patterns and Process of Fluvial Incision: The role of tectonics in landscape evolution

Chinese Earthquake Administration (Lanzhou, Gansu Province)

Slip-rate gradients along the eastern Kunlun fault

Lehigh University

A Tale of Two Rivers: Fluvial incision in the headwaters of the Yellow and Yangtze watersheds

2008 Southern California Earthquake Center, Fault System Evolution/SoSAFE workshop

Late Pleistocene slip rate along the Owens Valley fault

Dickinson College

Tectonic and geomorphic context of the great Sichuan earthquake

2009 University of Vermont

Reading signatures of active tectonics in landscape topography

Papers presented at professional meetings:Kirby, E., 2008, Geomorphic insights into the growth of eastern Tibet and implications for the recurrence of great earthquakes: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2008 Fall Meeting (INVITED)Kirby, Eric, Walker, D., Reheis, M., Phillips, F., and Burbank, D., 2008, Pace and tempo of deformation in Eastern California over the past 3 Ma: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of right-lateral shear along the western margin of the Basin and Range: Geologic Society of America Abstract with Programs, v. 40., no. 6, 263-6. (INVITED)Kirby, E., Craddock, W., and Harkins, N., 2007, Transient incision of the Yellow River: A response to drainage basin integration across the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2007 Fall MeetingKirby, E. and Greene, D., 2007, Temporal variations in fault slip revealed by stream profile analysis: An example from Saline Valley, California: Geologic Society of America Abstract with Programs, v. 39., no. 6, pg. 262. Kirby, E., 2007, Late Cenozoic growth of the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, processes and key unknowns: China-USA Bi-lateral workshop on Evolution of the Asian Monsoon and desertification and growth of the Tibetan Plateau (INVITED)Kirby, E., 2006, Slip rate gradients and the termination of the eastern Kunlun fault: Implications for the mechanics of intracontinental deformation: EGU Annual Meeting (INVITED)Kirby, E. and Goldstein, E., 2004, Testing models of fluvial incision under conditions of differential rock uplift: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2004 Fall Meeting.Kirby, E., Walker, J D., McDonald, E. and Gosse, J., 2004, Late Quaternary to Recent slip on a low-angle normal fault: Inferences from alluvial deposits along the Panamint Valley fault system: Geological Society of America Annual MeetingKirby, Eric, Snyder, Noah, Whipple, Kelin, Walker, J Doug, and Andrew, Joe, 2003, Neotectonics of the Panamint Valley fault zone: Active slip on a low-angle normal fault system: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2003 Fall Meeting*Harkins, N., Kirby E., Burbank, D., and Wang, E., 2003, Displacement gradients on the eastern Kunlun Fault: Implications for the kinematics of deformation in Tibet: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2003 Fall MeetingKirby, E., 2002, How does the Kunlun Fault end?: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2002 Fall Meeting.Kirby, Eric, Burbank, Douglas, Jager, Jessica, Reheis, Marith, and Sarna-Wojcicki, Andrei, 2002, Pleistocene slip rate on the White Mountain Fault Zone: Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.Kirby, E., Hodges, K.V., Bowring, S.B., and Karlstrom, K.E., 2001, New geochronologic data from the Sandia pluton, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 33, no.5.Kirby, E. and Whipple, K.X., 2000, Patterns of exhumation and rock uplift along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau inferred from thermochronology and bedrock river incision: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2000 Fall Meeting.Kirby, E. and Whipple, K.X., 2000, Interpreting spatial variations in active deformation from river profile concavity: an example from the Siwalik Hills, central Nepal: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2000 Fall Meeting. (INVITED)Kirby, E. and Whipple, K.X., 2000, The effect of spatially variable rock uplift on river profile concavity: A new tool for neotectonic analysis of topography: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 32, no.7.Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., Tang, W., Burchfiel, B.C., Chen, Z., 2000, Neotectonics along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from bedrock river incision patterns: Earth Science Frontiers (15th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop), v. 7 (suppl.), p. 281-282.Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., Burchfiel, B.C., Royden, L.H., Berger, G., Tang, W., and Chen, Z., 1999, Rates and patterns of Quaternary surface deformation in the Min Shan, China: Implications for the dynamics of mountain building along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 1999 Fall MeetingKirby, E., Reiners, P., Farley, K., Krol, M., Liu, Y., Chen, Z., Tang, W., 1999, Late Cenozoic uplift and landscape evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40/39 Ar and U-Th-He thermochronology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7.Kirby, E., Whipple, K.X., and Tucker, G., 1999, Transient concavity increase of bedrock channels in response to climate change: implications for relief evolution in active orogens: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 1999 Spring MeetingKirby, E., Whipple, K.X., Burchfiel, B.C., Tang, W., and Chen, Z., 1998, Tectonic and topographic evolution of the Min Shan, Eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 1998 Fall MeetingKirby, Eric and Karlstrom, Karl, 1995, Comparison of the use of shear band and porphyroclast systems for evaluating general shear: An example from the Mesoproterozoic Sandia pluton, New Mexico: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 6, p. 71.Kirby, Eric and Karlstrom, Karl, 1994, Middle Proterozoic tectonism in central New Mexico: implications for deformational provinces in the Southwest: Geologic Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 26, no. 6, p. 23.Kirby, Eric and Karlstrom, Karl, 1994, New geologic map of Precambrian rocks of the Tijeras 7.5' quadrangle: implications from the Proterozoic to the Tertiary: New Mexico Geologic Society Abstracts with Programs, p. 46.Kirby, Eric and Karlstrom, Karl, 1993, Emplacement of the 1.42 Ga Sandia pluton: a record of Middle Proterozoic tectonism: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 304.Karlstrom, K.E., Kirby, E., Andronicos, C., and Cortwright, R., 1993, Syn-extensional emplacement of the1.42 Ga Sandia Granite, NM: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no.1, pp. 17.Kirby, E., Karlstrom, K.E., and Andronicos, C., 1993, Synchronous pluton emplacement and deformation: the 1.42 Ga Sandia Granite: New Mexico Geologic Society Abstracts with Programs, p.19.Kirby, Eric, and Tewksbury, Barbara, 1992, Structural analysis of the Dodds Creek leucogranitic gneiss body, Muskellunge Lake Quadrangle, New York: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 3, pp. 32.

Other Abstracts*Harkins, N.W. and Kirby, E., 2008, Channel width adjustments to a transient increase in fluvial erosion rates: EOS (American Geophysical Union Transactions), 2008 Fall Meeting*Craddock, W.H., Kirby, E., Harkins, N. and Zhang, H., 2008, Timing and magnitude of upper crustal shortening in the Gonghe basin region of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: EOS (American Geoph

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