Emily Wolin
Ph.D. Candidate
Email: emilyw at
earth.northwestern.edu
847-491-8182
Location: Tech F482
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
B.A., Geology/Geophysics, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2009
Academic Awards
2009 Neal J. Harr Outstanding Student Award, Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
2008 Top Junior Award, University of Colorado Dept. of Geological Sciences
Funding Awards
University of Colorado Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (CU UROP) Summer Research Grant, summer 2008
CU UROP Research Assistantship Grant, spring 2008
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, summer 2007
Selected Publications
E. Wolin and S. Stein (2010), “Passive margin earthquakes as indicators of intraplate deformation”, Seismological Research Letters 81:2, SSA 2010 Annual Meeting Announcement and Technical Program
R.M. Flowers, A. Ault, E. Wolin, S. Kelley, and S.A. Bowring (2009), “From Texas to Kansas to the Northwest Territories: New radiation damage models for apatite He diffusion allow new constraints on the thermal history of the North American cratonic interior”, Eos Trans. AGU 90, Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V41D-2199
Teaching Assistantships
Earth 350: Physics of the Earth for ISP, 2010
Earth 105: Climate Catastrophes in Earth History, 2011
Community Service
Assisted with “Earthscope and Earthphones” presentation at Evanston Public Library’s Jr. Science Café, Sept. 2010
Various interviews with local news media about EarthScope Transportable Array siting, June-July 2010 (example: “National Earthquake Study Comes to Illinois”, http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/07/earthscope.html)
