In 2009 Rowe was appointed an National Science Foundation-MARGINS postdoctoral scholar at the University of California , Santa Cruz , where she worked on geophysical observations . She studied the transient fluidisation of granular fault rocks in Alaska and Namibia with Emily Brodsky . In 2011 Rowe joined McGill University as a Wares Scholar in economic geology . Rowe works on earthquake processes , including research in seismology , structural geology and mineralogy . She has investigated fossilised earthquakes , including studying the fault that caused the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami . Rowe was a member of the science party for Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 on the scientific drilling vessel , the Chikyū , to study the fault under the Japan Trench that slipped in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake . Rowe is a member of the Southern California Earthquake Center , and has studied the Marin Headlands and other rocks of the Franciscan Complex
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Christie D. Rowe