| 08 January 2009 GSA Release No. 08-70 |
| Contact: Christa Stratton Director - GSA Communications & Marketing +1-303-357-1093 |
New Science Editor Appointments Give Added Global Dimension to GSA Journals
Boulder, CO, USA – In January 2009, Patience Cowie of the University of Edinburgh begins a four-year term as co-editor for the journal Geology, and Christian Koeberl of the University of Vienna begins a four-year term as co-editor for the journal GSA Bulletin.
Patience Cowie is currently the professor of geodynamics at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh. Her research is concerned with the mechanics of fault and fracture development in the elastic-brittle part of the lithosphere and includes studies of continental rifts as well as mid-ocean ridges. She is particularly interested in the rates of fault growth and systematic variations in space and time due to fault interaction, and the implications of rate variations for seismic hazard assessment, geomorphic processes, and sedimentation patterns in active tectonic settings. Her approach combines field data collection with numerical modeling. Cowie has held several editorial positions, including with the Journal of Structural Geology, the Journal of Geophysical Research, and Basin Research.
Christian Koeberl is head of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna, Austria, and is a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His main research interest is the interdisciplinary study of meteorite impact craters and processes, combining geology, geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy, stratigraphy, and others. He also works on aspects of inorganic and analytical geo- and cosmochemistry and Precambrian geology. He is a member of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Science Advisory Group and has published over 320 peer-reviewed research papers and has written or edited 12 books (including several GSA Special Papers). Koeberl has been an associate editor for several journals for the past 20 years, including GSA Bulletin, and also has twice served on the editorial board of Geology.
For Interviews Contact:
Patience Cowie
Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences
University of Edinburgh
Drummond Street
Edinburgh EH8 9XP, SCOTLAND, UK
phone: +44-131-650-5886
Christian Koeberl
Center for Earth Sciences
University of Vienna
Althanstrasse 14
1090 Vienna, AUSTRIA
phone: +43-1-4277-53110
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