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Ellis Geodynamics: Lower Hutt, Wellington, NZ

2025-04-01 to present | Principal Research Scientist
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Susan Ellis

GNS Science: Lower Hutt, NZ

1999-10-01 to 2025-01-14 | Principal Scientist (Earth Structures & Processes)
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Susan Ellis

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Dalhousie University: Halifax, NS, CA

1988-09-01 to 1995-03-01 | PhD (Oceanography)
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Strength of Strained Two‐Phase Mixtures: Application to Rapid Creep and Stress Amplification in Subduction Zone Mélange

Geophysical Research Letters
2019-01-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081252
Contributors: Adam Beall; Åke Fagereng; Susan Ellis
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Fluid-related deformation processes at the up-and downdip limits of the subduction thrust seismogenic zone: What do the rocks tell us?

2018 | Journal article
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Susan Ellis

How fast can low-angle normal faults slip? Insights from cosmogenic exposure dating of the active Mai’iu fault, Papua New Guinea

Geology
2018 | Journal article
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Susan Ellis

Modelling of hydrothermal fluid flow and structural architecture in an extensional basin, Ngakuru Graben, Taupo Rift, New Zealand

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
2018 | Journal article
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Susan Ellis

Rapid creep and simultaneous fracturing of modelled subduction melange at low stress

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts
2018 | Conference paper
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Susan Ellis

The role of protothrusts in frontal accretion and accommodation of plate convergence, Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

Geosphere
2018 | Journal article
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Susan Ellis

Triggered slow slip and afterslip on the southern Hikurangi subduction zone following the Kaikōura earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters
2018 | Journal article
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Susan Ellis

“Virtual shear box” experiments of stress and slip cycling within a subduction interface mélange

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2018 | Journal article
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Susan Ellis

Detecting hazardous New Zealand faults at depth using seismic velocity gradients

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.01.038
EID:

2-s2.0-85013387811
Contributors: Ellis, S.; Van Dissen, R.; Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Reyners, M.; Dolan, J.F.; Nicol, A.
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Rapid Evolution of Subduction-Related Continental Intraarc Rifts: The Taupo Rift, New Zealand

Tectonics
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004715
EID:

2-s2.0-85032261550
Contributors: Villamor, P.; Berryman, K.R.; Ellis, S.M.; Schreurs, G.; Wallace, L.M.; Leonard, G.S.; Langridge, R.M.; Ries, W.F.
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Calculating regional stresses for northern Canterbury: the effect of the 2010 Darfield earthquake

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1123740
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2-s2.0-84973902380
Contributors: Ellis, S.; Williams, C.; Ristau, J.; Reyners, M.; Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Wallace, L.M.
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New Zealand GPS velocity field: 1995–2013

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2015.1112817
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2-s2.0-84973890911
Contributors: Beavan, J.; Wallace, L.M.; Palmer, N.; Denys, P.; Ellis, S.; Fournier, N.; Hreinsdottir, S.; Pearson, C.; Denham, M.
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On the Coupling of Geodynamic and Resistivity Models: A Progress Report and the Way Forward

Surveys in Geophysics
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-015-9334-2
EID:

2-s2.0-84958765773
Contributors: Heise, W.; Ellis, S.
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The last 2 Myr of accretionary wedge construction in the central Hikurangi margin (North Island, New Zealand): Insights from structural modeling

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2016GC006341
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2-s2.0-84978401062
Contributors: Ghisetti, F.C.; Barnes, P.M.; Ellis, S.; Plaza-Faverola, A.A.; Barker, D.H.N.
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A phenomenological numerical approach for investigating grain size evolution in ductiley deforming rocks

Journal of Structural Geology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2015.04.001
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2-s2.0-84929464096
Contributors: Cross, A.J.; Ellis, S.; Prior, D.J.
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Fault damage zones in mechanically layered rocks: The effects of planar anisotropy

Journal of Geophysical Research B: Solid Earth
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011780
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2-s2.0-84942817870
Contributors: Misra, S.; Ellis, S.; Mandal, N.
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Fluid budgets along the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand: The effect of a subducting seamount on fluid pressure

Geophysical Journal International
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggv127
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2-s2.0-84962175309
Contributors: Ellis, S.; Fagereng, Å.; Barker, D.; Henrys, S.; Saffer, D.; Wallace, L.; Williams, C.; Harris, R.
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Paleomagnetic evidence for vertical-axis rotations of crustal blocks in the Woodlark Rift, SE Papua New Guinea: Miocene to present-day kinematics in one of the world's most rapidly extending plate boundary zones

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2015GC005788
EID:

2-s2.0-84939567247
Contributors: Cairns, E.A.; Little, T.A.; Turner, G.M.; Wallace, L.M.; Ellis, S.
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Continental breakup and UHP rock exhumation in action: GPS results from the Woodlark Rift, Papua New Guinea

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2014GC005458
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2-s2.0-84922733807
Contributors: Wallace, L.M.; Ellis, S.; Little, T.; Tregoning, P.; Palmer, N.; Rosa, R.; Stanaway, R.; Oa, J.; Nidkombu, E.; Kwazi, J.
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Crustal deformation and stress transfer during a propagating earthquake sequence: The 2013 Cook Strait sequence, central New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/2014JB011084
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2-s2.0-84906252971
Contributors: Hamling, I.J.; D'Anastasio, E.; Wallace, L.M.; Ellis, S.; Motagh, M.; Samsonov, S.; Palmer, N.; Hreinsdõttir, S.
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Imaging P and S attenuation in the termination region of the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

Geophysical Journal International
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu151
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2-s2.0-84985032235
Contributors: Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Bannister, S.; Ellis, S.
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The effect of crustal melt on rift dynamics: Case study of the Taupo Volcanic Zone

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2014.972961
EID:

2-s2.0-84911979858
Contributors: Ellis, S.; Heise, W.; Kissling, W.; Villamor, P.; Schreurs, G.
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A continental plate boundary: tectonics at South Island, New Zealand

2013 | Other
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Susan Ellis

Hydrological effects of dip-slip fault rupture on a hydrothermal plume

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2013 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009395
EID:

2-s2.0-84877144381
Contributors: Dempsey, D.E.; Archer, R.A.; Ellis, S.M.; Rowland, J.V.
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Induced seismicity; observations, risks and mitigation measures at CO<inf>2</inf>storage sites

Energy Procedia
2013 | Conference paper
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.384
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2-s2.0-84898745356
Contributors: Nicol, A.; Gerstenberger, M.; Bromley, C.; Carne, R.; Chardot, L.; Ellis, S.; Jenkins, C.; Siggins, T.; Viskovic, P.
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Modeling Strain and Anisotropy Along the Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand

A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand
2013 | Book
DOI: 10.1029/175GM15
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2-s2.0-84952650010
Contributors: Savage, M.K.; Tommasi, A.; Ellis, S.; Chery, J.
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Energetics of normal earthquakes on dip-slip faults

Geology
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1130/G32643.1
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2-s2.0-84858122446
Contributors: Dempsey, D.; Ellis, S.; Archer, R.; Rowland, J.
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Rheological constraints on quartz derived from scaling relationships and numerical models of sheared brittle-ductile quartz veins, central Southern Alps, New Zealand

Journal of Structural Geology
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.01.006
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2-s2.0-84858160760
Contributors: Grigull, S.; Ellis, S.M.; Little, T.A.; Hill, M.P.; Buiter, S.J.H.
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The role of frictional plasticity in the evolution of normal fault systems

Journal of Structural Geology
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2012.03.001
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2-s2.0-84860994782
Contributors: Dempsey, D.E.; Ellis, S.M.; Rowland, J.V.; Archer, R.A.
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Upper plate tectonic stress state may influence interseismic coupling on subduction megathrusts

Geology
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1130/G33373.1
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2-s2.0-84868702143
Contributors: Wallace, L.M.; Fagereng, Å.; Ellis, S.
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Diapiric exhumation of Earth's youngest (UHP) eclogites in the gneiss domes of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Papua New Guinea

Tectonophysics
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.006
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2-s2.0-80052814645
Contributors: Little, T.A.; Hacker, B.R.; Gordon, S.M.; Baldwin, S.L.; Fitzgerald, P.G.; Ellis, S.; Korchinski, M.
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Feedback between rifting and diapirism can exhume ultrahigh-pressure rocks

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.031
EID:

2-s2.0-80155191295
Contributors: Ellis, S.M.; Little, T.A.; Wallace, L.M.; Hacker, B.R.; Buiter, S.J.H.
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Mid-crustal controls on episodic stress-field rotation around major reverse, normal and strike-slip faults

Geological Society Special Publication
2011 | Book
DOI: 10.1144/SP359.11
EID:

2-s2.0-84055194025
Contributors: Nüchter, J.-A.; Ellis, S.
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The role of boundary conditions in numerical models of subduction zone dynamics

Tectonophysics
2011 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.11.001
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2-s2.0-78650511463
Contributors: Quinquis, M.E.T.; Buiter, S.J.H.; Ellis, S.
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Complex states of stress during the normal faulting seismic cycle: Role of midcrustal postseismic creep

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007557
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2-s2.0-78650290810
Contributors: Nchter, J.-A.; Ellis, S.
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Establishing a versatile 3-D seismic velocity model for New Zealand

Seismological Research Letters
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.81.6.992
EID:

2-s2.0-78649834453
Contributors: Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Reyners, M.; Bannister, S.; Chadwick, M.; Ellis, S.
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Subduction systems revealed: Studies of the hikurangi margin

Eos
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2010EO450001
EID:

2-s2.0-78649354723
Contributors: Wallace, L.M.; Bell, R.; Townend, J.; Ellis, S.; Bannister, S.; Henrys, S.; Sutherland, R.; Barnes, P.
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Testing proposed mechanisms for seafloor weakening at the top of gas hydrate stability on an uplifted submarine ridge (Rock Garden), New Zealand

Marine Geology
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.008
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2-s2.0-77952111228
Contributors: Ellis, S.; Pecher, I.; Kukowski, N.; Xu, W.; Henrys, S.; Greinert, J.
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The darfield (canterbury) earthquake: Geodetic observations and preliminary source model

Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
2010 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-78650273703
Contributors: Beavan, J.; Samsonov, S.; Motagh, M.; Wallace, L.; Ellis, S.; Palmer, N.
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Three-dimensional mantle lithosphere deformation at collisional plate boundaries: A subduction scissor across the South Island of New Zealand

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.022
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2-s2.0-73449094494
Contributors: Pysklywec, R.N.; Ellis, S.M.; Gorman, A.R.
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Characterizing the seismogenic zone of a major plate boundary subduction thrust: Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002610
EID:

2-s2.0-72049111002
Contributors: Wallace, L.M.; Reyners, M.; Cochran, U.; Bannister, S.; Barnes, P.M.; Berryman, K.; Downes, G.; Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Fagereng, A.; Ellis, S. et al.
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Collisional model for rapid fore-arc block rotations, arc curvature, and episodic back-arc rifting in subduction settings

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002220
EID:

2-s2.0-72749126907
Contributors: Wallace, L.M.; Ellis, S.; Mann, P.
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Convective flows in a TVZ-like setting with a brittle/ductile transition

Transport in Porous Media
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9328-3
EID:

2-s2.0-61349101483
Contributors: Kissling, W.; Ellis, S.; Charpentier, F.; Bibby, H.
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Enigmatic, highly active left-lateral shear zone in southwest Japan explained by aseismic ridge collision

Geology
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1130/G25221A.1
EID:

2-s2.0-69649093912
Contributors: Wallace, L.M.; Ellis, S.; Miyao, K.; Miura, S.; Beavan, J.; Goto, J.
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On factors controlling the depth of interseismic coupling on the Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand

Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.033
EID:

2-s2.0-58649116693
Contributors: Fagereng, A.; Ellis, S.
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Erosion of seafloor ridges at the top of the gas hydrate stability zone, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand—new insights from research cruises between 2005 and 2007

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada
2008 | Conference paper
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A future magma inflation event under the rhyolitic Taupo volcano, New Zealand: Numerical models based on constraints from geochemical, geological, and geophysical data

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.06.004
EID:

2-s2.0-35848953230
Contributors: Ellis, S.M.; Wilson, C.J.N.; Bannister, S.; Bibby, H.M.; Heise, W.; Wallace, L.; Patterson, N.
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Susan Ellis via Scopus - Elsevier

Do great earthquakes occur on the alpine fault in central South Island, New Zealand?

Geophysical Monograph Series
2007 | Book
DOI: 10.1029/175GM12
EID:

2-s2.0-85028561634
Contributors: Sutherland, R.; Eberhart-Phillips, D.; Harris, R.A.; Stern, T.; Beavan, J.; Ellis, S.; Henrys, S.; Cox, S.; Norris, R.J.; Berryman, K.R. et al.
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Insights into subduction-related uplift along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, using numerical modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1029/2006JF000535
EID:

2-s2.0-34548361880
Contributors: Litchfield, N.; Ellis, S.; Berryman, K.; Nicol, A.
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Kinematic constraints from GPS on oblique convergence of the pacific and Australian plates, Central South Island, New Zealand

Geophysical Monograph Series
2007 | Book
DOI: 10.1029/175GM05
EID:

2-s2.0-84995650769
Contributors: Beavan, J.; Ellis, S.; Wallace, L.; Denys, P.
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