Eric Kirby 
EESI Associate
Eric Kirby
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
Contact Information:
Department of Geosciences
218 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-0732
email: exk26@psu.edu
Dept. website:http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/ekirby/index.html
Current Research Interests:
Tectonic geomorphology, surface processes and landform evolution
Selected Publications:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Wobus, C., Whipple, K., Kirby, E., Snyder, N., Johnson, J., Spyropolou, K., Crosby , B., Sheehan, D., Tectonics from Topography: Procedures, promise, and pitfalls: GSA Penrose Conference Volume (in press)
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.
Kirby, E. and Whipple, K.X., 2001, Quantifying differential rock-uplift rates via stream profile analysis: Geology, v. 29, pp. 415-418.
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. , 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.