Work and Education

U.S. Geological Survey — Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019 to present
Research Group: Induced Seismicity
Research Project: Investigating aseismic and seismic moment release in geothermal settings in California

University of California, Berkeley — PhD in Earth and Planetary Science, 2019
Advisor: Roland Bürgmann
Research Project: Geodetic investigation of compliant fault zones on the San Francisco Peninsula segment of the San Andreas Fault

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — BS in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, 2014
Advisor: Tom Herring
Research Project: Analysis of atmospheric delays and asymmetric positioning errors in the Global Positioning System

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate mentor for two Berkeley students' summer projects — Summer 2019
TA in Structural Geology and Tectonics (EPS116) — Spring 2017
TA in Case Studies in Earth and Planetary Science (EPS150) — Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Instructor in the Compass Summer Program (undergraduate physics course) — Summer 2015
Undergraduate TA in Classical Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism (8.01 and 8.02) — 2011, 2012

Publications

Materna, K., N. Bartlow, A. Wech, C. Williams, and R. Bürgmann (2019), Dynamically Triggered Changes of Plate Interface Coupling in Southern Cascadia, Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2019GL084395.

Yan, J., D. Dong, R. Bürgmann, K. Materna, W. Tan, Y. Peng, and J. Chen (2019), Separation of Sources of Seasonal Uplift in China Using Independent Component Analysis of GNSS Time Series, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124, doi: 10.1029/2019JB018139.

Materna, K., S. Wei, X. Wang, L. Heng, T. Wang, W. Chen, R. Salman, and R. Bürgmann (2019), Source characteristics of the 2017 Mw 6.4 Moijabana, Botswana earthquake, a rare lower-crustal event within an ancient zone of weakness, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506, p. 348-359, doi:10.1016/j.epsl/2018.11.007.

Materna, K., T. Taira, and R. Bürgmann (2018), Aseismic transform fault slip at the Mendocino Triple Junction from Characteristically Repeating Earthquakes, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, doi: 10.1002/2017GL075899.

Milliner, C., K. Materna, R. Bürgmann, Y. Fu, A. Moore, D. Bekaert, S. Adhikari, and D. Argus (2018), Tracking the weight of Hurricane Harvey's stormwater using GPS data, Science Advances, 4, eaau2477.

Xu, W., S. Wu, K. Materna, R. Nadeau, M. Floyd, G. Funning, E. Chaussard, C. Johnson, J. Murray, X. Ding, and R. Bürgmann (2018), Interseismic ground deformation and fault slip rates in the greater San Francisco Bay Area from two decades of space geodetic data, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, doi: 10.1029/2018JB016004.

Materna, K. and R. Bürgmann (2016), Contrasts in compliant fault zone properties inferred from geodetic measurements in the San Francisco Bay Area, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 121, doi: 10.1002/2016JB013243.

Conference Presentations

Materna, K., T. Taira, and R. Bürgmann (2019), Aseismic slip at the Mendocino Triple Junction from repeating earthquakes (invited), presented at 2019 Seismological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, Washington, 23-26 Apr.

Materna, K., N. Bartlow, and R. Bürgmann (2018), Kinematics of active deformation at the Mendocino Triple Junction, Abstract G22A-07 presented at 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10–14 Dec.

Materna, K., L. Feng, E. Lindsey, E. Hill, and R. Bürgmann (2017), Comparison of GPS and GRACE hydrological loading signatures in Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, Abstract G53B-03 presented at 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11–15 Dec.

Materna, K., T. Taira, and R. Bürgmann (2016), Measuring aseismic slip through characteristically repeating earthquakes at the Mendocino Triple Junction, Northern California, Abstract S43D-08 presented at 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12–16 Dec.

Materna, K. and R. Bürgmann (2015), Geodetic Investigation of Compliant Fault Zones on the San Francisco Peninsula segment of the San Andreas Fault, Abstract T53B-03 presented at 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14–18 Dec.

Selected Poster Presentations

Materna, K., A. Barbour, J. Jiang, and M. Eneva (2020), A decade of geodetic deformation linked to fluid injection at the North Brawley Geothermal Field, Abstract submitted to the 2020 Southern California Earthquake Center Meeting, 14–17 Sept.

E. Tymofyeyeva, D. Sandwell, X. Xu, Z. Liu, K. Materna,, K. Wang, G. Funning, D. Bekaert, and M. Floyd (2020), Current status and future plans for the Community Geodetic Model (InSAR) products, Abstract submitted to the 2020 Southern California Earthquake Center Meeting, 14–17 Sept.

Materna, K., S. Mohanna, L. Sandoe, N. Bartlow, and R. Bürgmann (2019), Interseismic strain accumulation and uplift at the Mendocino Triple Junction from geodetic datasets, Abstract G41B-0719 presented at the 2019 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9–13 Dec.

Milliner, C., K. Materna, R. Bürgmann, Y. Fu, D. Bekaert, A. Moore, S. Adhikari, and D. Argus (2018), Tracking the Weight of Hurricane Harvey's Stormwaters Using GPS data, Abstract G43C-0727 presented at the 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Washington, D.C., 10–14 Dec.

Materna, K. and R. Bürgmann (2018), Deformation kinematics at the Mendocino Triple Junction, presented at the 2018 Wegener Conference, Grenoble, France, 10–13 Sept.

Materna, K., T. Taira, and R. Bürgmann (2017), Aseismic slip from characteristically repeating earthquakes at the Mendocino Triple Junction, Abstract 074 presented at the 2017 Earthscope National Meeting, Anchorage, AK, 16-18 May.

Materna, K. and T.A. Herring (2013), Analysis of skewed GPS position estimates: Effects of coupling local topography and atmospheric conditions, Abstract G53A-0907 presented at 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9–13 Dec.

Seminars

Lawrence Livermore GMP Seminar, June 11, 2020
Caltech Seismo Lab Seminar, November 1, 2019
UC Berkeley Seismology Lab Seminar (Exit Seminar), September 24, 2019
UC Santa Cruz IGPP Seminar, May 24, 2019
USGS Earthquake Science Seminar, April 10, 2019
USGS Earthquake Science Seminar, January 10, 2018

Awards

NSF EAPSI Singapore Fellow — 2017
Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting — 2016
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship — 2016
Berkeley Graduate Fellowship, University of California Berkeley — 2014
Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting — 2014
EAPS W.O. Crosby Award for Sustained Excellence, MIT — 2014
EAPS Junior Achievement Award, MIT — 2013

Media Mentions

Interviewed for Scott, C., 2020, "Some tectonic plates ‘wobble’ before major earthquakes", Temblor, http://doi.org/10.32858/temblor.108. Temblor Article.