Martha Savage

Martha Kane Savage is Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University of Wellington. She teaches Geophysics, Tectonics, and Seismology. Her research interests are seismology and its relation to tectonics, earthquake & volcanic hazards and geothermal development. Specific research contributions include determining the Earth’s velocity structure using earthquakes and seismic noise, using variations in seismic wave speed with direction to determine the deformation of the Earth’s mantle and to study stress-induced cracks related to earthquakes and volcanic activity, and determining rates of foreshocks using the statistics of earthquake occurrence.

Professor Savage became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2011 and became the first New Zealand female to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2015. She supervises a number of PhD and MSc students, with whom she often co-authors papers.