Short Biography
Katharine Huntington
Assistant Professor
Office: JHN-353
ESS Mailing Address
Phone: 206-543-1750
Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
E-Mail: kate1 @ u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/kate1
Research Groups: Climate and Paleoclimate, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy/Sedimentary Petrology, Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics, Geomorphology
Areas of Interest:
Tectonics & landscape evolution.
Education:
Ph.D. : Geology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
BS : Geological Sciences and Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001
Current Research Interests:
My research investigates the interactions of deformational, thermal, and surface processes that shape mountain systems and landscapes.
My latest interests include topographic and drainage basin evolution, temporal and spatial scales of sediment delivery, transients in mountain ranges related to climate change, and regional geology including Himalaya-Tibet, western North America, and the European Alps.
The research tools I use & develop draw from the fields of regional tectonics, geochronology, structural geology, geomorphology, isotope geochemistry, and sedimentology, and include field-based, laboratory, and numerical modeling approaches.
I am particularly enthusiastic about the application of two new tools - detrital thermochronology of modern river sediments and 'clumped' 13C-18O carbonate thermometry. Together, they can shed light on erosion, surface processes, the thermal evolution of the crust, and the elevation and climatic history of Earth's surface.
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Selected Publications:
( "Ruhl, K." = "Huntington, K. W." )
Huntington, K.W., Bourgeois, J., Gelfenbaum, G., Lynette, P., Jaffe,
B., Yeh, H., and Weiss, R., 2007. Sandy signs of a tsunami's onshore
depth and speed, EOS, Trans., AGU. Lead article, 88(52), 577-578.
Huntington, K.W., Ehlers, T.A., Hodges, K.V., Whipp, D.M. Jr., 2007.
Topography, exhumation pathway, age uncertainties, and the
interpretation of thermochronometer ages, Tectonics, 26, TC4012, doi:
10.1029/2007TC002108.
Huntington, K.W., Blythe, A., and Hodges, K., 2006. Climate change and
Late Pliocene acceleration of erosion in the Himalaya, Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 252, 107-118.
Huntington, K.W., Hodges, K., 2006, A Comparative study of detrital
mineral and bedrock age-elevation methods for estimating erosion
rates, Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 111(F3),
F03011 10.1029/2005JF000454.
Ruhl, K.W., and Hodges, K.V., 2005. The use of detrital mineral
cooling ages to evaluate steady-state assumptions in active orogens:
An example from the central Nepalese Himalaya, Tectonics v. 24, TC4015.
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