Kate Allstadt

Kate E. Allstadt is a geologist and seismologist employed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) who works out of Golden, Colorado.[1][2] She is a self-described "present-day geologist" for her interest in connections between geology of the Pacific Northwest and the people in its local communities.[3][4] She is a published expert on the 2014 Oso landslide.[5][6]

Kate Allstadt
Alma mater
Scientific career
InstitutionsU.S. Geological Survey
Websiteusgs.gov/staff-profiles/kate-e-allstadt
Notes
ORCID 0000-0003-4977-5248

Following her 2013 Ph.D. from University of Washington (UW), she was awarded an NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.[7] For some time while she was a student at UW, she was a graduate student with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.[8][9]

Background

While appearing on a podcast, Allstadt said that she had been interested in the earth sciences from a young age, though she started her undergrad as an architecture major. She later switched it to environmental geology.[10]

Research

Allstadt is credited by the Exotic Seismic Events Catalog, which is managed by the National Science Foundation and EarthScope as she is an author on the data releases constituting the system's information base.[11] She also frequently collaborates with David J. Wald, a fellow seismologist on publishing about earthquake analysis systems such as PAGER and ShakeMap.[12]

Allstadt published an article in Crosscut and later Next City in 2012 about the seismic risks in Seattle.[8] A report authored by her about landslide risks for the city also gathered media attention in 2013 and 2014.[13] The report was published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, and described, in summary, that a "shallow crustal earthquake close to the city would be most damaging."[14][15]

Another publication by Allstadt that received secondary attention was a 2014 study on snow causing earthquakes at Mount Rainier.[16] In a 2023 presentation, she is also noted as mentioning that the USGS had complied a list of over two thousand landslides caused by the Turkey–Syria earthquake.[17]

Allstadt has also been referenced by the news media as an expert on landslides and other geophysics topics.[18]

As a researcher, she has spoken at multiple institutions, including Colorado State University in 2017,[19] Lehigh University in 2018,[20] Western Washington University in 2021,[21] University of California, San Diego in 2022,[22] and University of Oregon in 2023.[23] She has also presented at multiple society meetings, such as the 2021 EGU General Assembly[24] and the 2023 SSA Annual Meeting.[25]

GeoGirls

Allstadt is the head coordinator and project leader of GeoGirls,[26] a camp program intended to immerse and engage female students with women scientists and researchers with hand-on interaction at Mount St. Helens.[27] She developed the program with an intent to inspire a future generation of women researchers.[28] The program was supported by equipment provisions from IRIS PASSCAL.[29]

References
  1. "Kate Allstadt". AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  2. Feidt, Annie (28 December 2018). "Anchorage earthquake put new mapping tool to the test". Alaska Public Media. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  3. "Meet Kate Allstadt, self-described "present-day geologist"". College of the Environment. University of Washington. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  4. "Alumni Spotlight: Kate Allstadt" (PDF). College of the Environment. University of Washington.
  5. Iverson, R. M.; George, D. L.; Allstadt, K.; Reid, M. E.; Collins, B. D.; Vallance, J. W.; Schilling, S. P.; Godt, J. W.; Cannon, C. M.; Magirl, C. S.; Baum, R. L.; Coe, J. A.; Schulz, W. H.; Bower, J. B. (15 February 2015). "Landslide mobility and hazards: implications of the 2014 Oso disaster". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 412: 197–208. Bibcode:2015E&PSL.412..197I. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.12.020. ISSN 0012-821X.
  6. Multiple news sources:
  7. "Award # 1349572 - EAR-PF Toward early detection and tracking of mass movements at volcanoes using seismic methods". NSF Award Search. National Science Foundation. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  8. Allstadt, Kate (12 March 2012). "The Danger Beneath Seattle: A City on a Fault Line". Next City. Crosscut.
  9. "[Kate Allstadt]". Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. 9 March 2015 – via Facebook.
  10. ""Big Sandbox for Adults" Maciej Obryk, Kate Allstadt, Thomas Rapstine". Don't Panic Geocast (Podcast).
  11. Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (2017). "Data Services Products: ESEC". IRIS. EarthScope Consortium. doi:10.17611/DP/ESEC.1. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  12. Allstadt, Kate E.; Thompson, Eric M.; Hearne, Mike; Jessee, M. Anna Nowicki; Zhu, J.; Wald, David J.; Tanyas, Hakan (2017). "Integrating landslide and liquefaction hazard and loss estimates with existing USGS real-time earthquake information products" (PDF). Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. USGS 70190140 Available through University of Twente as Pure ID 26270c2c-418c-4ceb-989f-baee1d956e21.
  13. Multiple news sources:
  14. Allstadt, K.; Vidale, J. E.; Frankel, A. D. (1 December 2013). "A Scenario Study of Seismically Induced Landsliding in Seattle Using Broadband Synthetic Seismograms". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 103 (6): 2971–2992. Bibcode:2013BuSSA.103.2971A. doi:10.1785/0120130051. ISSN 0037-1106.
  15. "Quake-triggered landslides pose significant hazard for Seattle, new study details potential damage" (Press release). San Francisco: Seismological Society of America. 21 October 2013 – via EurekAlert!.
  16. "Snow triggers quakes on Mount Rainier". EARTH Magazine. American Geosciences Institute. 4 November 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  17. Brian, Olson [@mrbrianolson] (19 April 2023). "Kate Allstadt says USGS has mapped/compiled at least 2,800 landslides triggered by the Turkey earthquakes from remote imagery. In addition, InSAR shows some slides started, but haven't failed (yet?)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  18. Multiple news sources:
  19. "Geosciences Seminar Series 2017". Warner College of Natural Resources. Colorado State University. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  20. "Guest speaker: Kate Allstadt, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center". Earth & Environmental Science. Lehigh University. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  21. "Invited Speaker Seminar with Dr. Kate Allstadt: "Landslides and Liquefaction Triggered by Recent US Earthquakes: Reports from the Field"". Geology Department. Western Washington University. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  22. "IGPP Seminar Series 2022: Kate Alstadt". Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. University of California, San Diego. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  23. "Winter 2023 Weekly Seminar Schedule". Department of Earth Sciences. University of Oregon. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  24. Allstadt, Kate; Mitchell, Andrew; Toney, Liam; George, David; McDougall, Scott (3 March 2021). "Seismic inversions of large, rapid landslides: what they can and cannot tell us about event dynamics". EGU General Assembly 2021. Bibcode:2021EGUGA..23..954A. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-954.
  25. Boyce, Rod (26 April 2023). "UAF researchers show work at seismology meeting". University of Alaska Fairbanks. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  26. Nailon, Jordan (12 August 2016). "Female Scientists Formed at Mount St. Helens Through GeoGirls Program". The Daily Chronicle. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  27. "Girls Take On Science at Mount St. Helens". U.S. News & World Report. Associated Press. 31 August 2015.
  28. "GEOGIRLS SCIENTISTS & INSTRUCTORS" (PDF). Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center.
  29. "The GeoGirls Program in the News". PASSCAL Instrument Center. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
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