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Dr. Kate C. Miller
 My research focuses primarily on the application of active source seismology to the origin and evolution of the continental lithosphere. In recent years, this work has resulted in student research and publications on the west coast of North America, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, and central and eastern Europe. Presently, my students and I are wrapping up research in continental rifts including the southern Rio Grande Rift and Lake Baikal. Upcoming projects include the active source experiment for the NSF-funded BATHOLITHS Project, which will occur in the summer of 2009 and the seismic experiment for the Big Horns Mountain, an NSF EarthScope project, which is scheduled for the summer of 2010. BATHOLITHS is a multi-disciplinary study of the Coast Range Plutonic Complex of British Columbia directed at understanding the magmatic evolution of continental arcs. The Big Horns project is a multi-disciplinary investigation of how contractional basement-involved foreland arches, such as those that comprise the central Rocky Mountains, form and are linked to plate tectonic processes. I have long been involved in using active source techniques to better understand earthquakes and other environmental hazards. Present research in this area centers on analysis of near surface reflection data from the East Potrillo Mountains Fault in southern New Mexico, which displays evidence for recent motion.
In the past five years I have been leading a number of training grants related to recruitment and retention of minorities in the geosciences and math and science education. These include the department’s NSF Pathways program, UTEP’s NSF GK-12 Partnership for Exploring the Environment on the U.S.-Mexico Border and the UTEP Math and Science Teachers (MasT) Academy. Through these efforts, I have developed expertise in the social science research methodologies used in program evaluation and assessment and have begun to publish results from this work.
Contact Information:
miller@geo.utep.edu
(915) 747-5424 (voice)
(915) 747-5073 (fax)
UTEP Department of Geological Sciences
Geology 301-A
500 West University Boulevard
El Paso, TX 79968
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