Anne M. Tréhu is a professor at

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctor ...

known for her research on geodynamic processes, especially along plate boundaries. She is an elected fellow of the

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Education and career

Tréhu has a B.A. from

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(1975). In 1982, she earned her Ph.D. from

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and

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, acronym pronounced ) is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of marine science and engineering. Established in 1930 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, it i ...

where she worked on the seismicity of the Orozco transform fault. From 1982 until 1984 she was a National Research Council postdoc at the

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in Woods Hole. Tréhu joined the faculty at Oregon State University in 1987 and, as of 2021, she is a professor at Oregon State University in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

Research

Tréhu's research centers on studying earthquakes, especially in the

Cascadia subduction zone The Cascadia subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary, about off the Pacific coast of North America, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States. It is capable of producing 9.0+ m ...

where she investigates where slip and ground shaking will occur in the future earthquakes in the region. As far back as graduate school her work tracking the magnitude and location of earthquakes was noted in the local papers. She uses a network of instruments that track large and small earthquakes, information that will help define when a large earthquake will occur. Tréhu has examined how earthquakes form as continental plates move beneath an adjacent tectonic plate.

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

* Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2008)

References

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