1988: Ph.D, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
Thesis
Advisor: Dr. L. H. Royden, M.I.T.
1986: S.M., Department
of Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences, M.I.T.
1982: B.S., Geology, Magna cum laude, Duke University (Durham, NC), Distinction
EMPLOYMENT
2006- : Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester
2006- : Adjunct Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London
1999-06: Reader, Professor of Tectonics, Royal Holloway, University of London
1991-98: Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Leeds
1991-94: Geophysical Advisor, National Oil Corp. of Kenya and Uganda Ministry of Energy
1990-91: NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Leeds University
1988-90: National Academy of Sciences Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1988: Post-Doctoral Researcher, MIT
RECENT GRANTS/AWARDS:
2007: NSF, Afar rifting cycle (with co-PI E. Calais, R. Buck, T. Wright)
2005: NERC, GPS in Afar: Determining the rheology of incipient ocean lithosphere (co-PI with Tim Wright, Oxford)
2005: NSF, East African rift kinematics (co-PI with Eric Calais)
2005: NERC, Afar seismo-volcanic crisis 2005
2005: NERC, Gulf of Aden passive margin study
2004: University of London, New Initiative Award- East Africa plate kinematics
2004: Royal Society, Short-term Visiting Scientist grant (Dr Tesfaye Kidane)
2003: Extension, Australian Geological Survey: S. Australian margin potential fields
2001: National Geographic Society, Main Ethiopian rift development
2001: Leverhulme Society Research Fellowship, Lithospheric structure, E. Africa:
2001: Australian Geological Survey: S. Australian margin potential fields study
2001: NERC, Continental break-up above a mantle plume: with Leicester and Leeds
CURRENT SERVICE POSTS & AWARDS
Bullerwell Lecturer, British Geophysical Association 2004;
Fellow, Geological Society of America;
President-elect, AGU Tectonophysics Section; AGU Public Information Committee
2005- Editor-in-Chief, Geophysical Journal International
Selected Publications
Ebinger, C., Keir, D., Ayele, A., Campbell, E., Wright, T., Belachew, M., Magma intrusion and faulting processes in a zone of continental rupture: Seismicity of the Dabbahu (Afar) rift, submitted to Geophys. J. Int., July, 2007.
Ebinger, C., Yirgu, G., Wright, T., Calais, E., Lewi, E., Ocean birth through rifting and rupture, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 161-165, 2007.
Ebinger, C., The East African rift system, in Bally, B., and D. G. Roberts (eds.), Phanerozoic Geology of the World, in press, 2007.
Kurz, T., R. Gloaguen, C. Ebinger, M. Casey, B. Abebe, Deformation distribution and type in the Main Ethiopian rift (MER): A remote sensing study, J. Afri. Earth Sci., doi:10.1016/j.afrearsci.2006.10.008, 2007.
Rowland, J., E. Baker, C. Ebinger, D. Keir, T. Kidane, J. Biggs, N. Hayward, Fault growth at a nascent slow-spreading ridge: 2005 Dabbahu rifting episode, Afar, Geophys. J. Int., in press, 2007.
Daly, E., D. Keir., C. Ebinger, G. Stuart, A. Ayele, & D. Waltham, Crustal structure of the northern Main Ethiopian Rift from a tomographic inversion of local earthquakes, Geophys. J. Int., in press, 2007.
Ebinger, C., Continental rifting and breakup processes: Insights from East Africa, in Africa’s Great Rift: Diversity and Unity, Brussels, 25-41, 2007.
Tiberi, C., S. Leroy, E. d’Acremont, N. Bellahsen, C. Ebinger, A. Pointu, Structure of the northeastern Gulf of Aden from receiver functions, Geophys. J. Int., in press, 2007.
Wright, T., C. Ebinger, J. Biggs, A. Ayele, G. Yirgu, D. Keir, A. Stork, Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode, Nature, 442, doi:10.1038/nature04978, 2006.
Keir, D., C. Ebinger, G. Stuart, E. Daly, and A. Ayele, Strain accommodation by magmatism and faulting at continental breakup: Seismicity of the northern Ethiopian rift, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B05314, doi:10.1029/2005JB003748, 2006.
Yirgu, G., C. Ebinger, and P. Maguire (eds.), The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 259, 323pp., 2006.
Stuart, G., I. Bastow, and C. Ebinger, Crustal structure of the northern Main Ethiopian rift from receiver function studies, in G. Yirgu, C. Ebinger, and P. Maguire, The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 259, 253-268, 2006.
Ayalew, D., E. Bourdon, C. Ebinger, E. Wolfenden, G. Yirgu, Temporal compositional variation of early syn-rift rhyolites along the western Red Sea margin and northern Main Ethiopian rift, in G. Yirgu, C. Ebinger, and P. Maguire, The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 259, 121-130, 2006.
Casey, M., C. Ebinger, D. Keir, R. Gloaguen, F. Mohamed, Extension by dyke extension and faulting in an incipient oceanic rift: Ethiopian rift, Africa, in G. Yirgu, C. Ebinger, and P. Maguire, The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 259, 143-164, 2006.
Calais, E., C. Ebinger, C. Hartnady and J. M. Nocquet, Mantle-driven plate motions in the East African rift?, in G. Yirgu, C. Ebinger, and P. Maguire, The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 259,9-22, 2006.
Kidane, T., C. Ebinger, B. Abebe, E. Platzman, D. Keir, P. Lahitte, P. Rochette, Palaeomagnetic constraints on continental breakup processes: Observations from the Main Ethiopian rift, in G. Yirgu, C. Ebinger, and P. Maguire, The Afar Volcanic Province within the East African Rift System Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 259, 165-184, 2006.
Keir, D., J.-M. Kendall, & C. Ebinger, Variations in late syn-rift melt alignment inferred from shear-wave splitting in crustal earthquakes beneath the Ethiopian rift, Geophys. Res. Letts., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL024150, 2005.
Tiberi, C., C. Ebinger, V. Ballu, G. Stuart, and B. Oluma, Inverse models of gravity data from the Red Sea-Gulf of Aden-Ethiopian rift triple junction zone, Geophys J. Int., 163, 775-787, 2005.
Bastow, I., G. W. Stuart, J.-M. Kendall, and C. Ebinger, Upper mantle seismic structure in a region of incipient continental breakup: northern Ethiopian rift, Geophys. J. Int., 162, 479-493, 2005.
Wolfenden, E., C. Ebinger, G. Yirgu, P. Renne, and S.P. Kelley, Evolution of the southern Red Sea rift: Birth of a magmatic margin, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 117, 846-864, 2005.
Ebinger, C., Continental breakup: The East African perspective, Astronomy & Geophysics, 46, 2.16-2.21, 2005.
Kendall, J.-M., G. Stuart, C. Ebinger, I. Bastow, D. Keir, Magma-assisted rifting in Ethiopia, Nature, 433, 146-148, 2005.
Daly, E., C. Brown, C. Stark, and C. Ebinger, Comparison of methods for estimating the effective elastic thickness of the lithosphere, and loading mechanisms across the Irish Atlantic margin, Geophys. J. Int., doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02427, 2004.
Ebinger, C., and T. Furman, Geodynamical setting of the Western rift system, East Africa, in D Vaselli and B. Cappacioni, eds., January 2002 Eruption of Nyiragongo Volcano, Acta Vulcanologica, 14 (1-2), 1-8, 2004.
Wolfenden, E., C. Ebinger, G. Yirgu, A. Deino, D. Ayalew, Evolution of the northern Main Ethiopian rift: Birth of a triple junction, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 224, 213-228, 2004.
LeGall, B., L. Gernigon, J. Rolet, C. Ebinger, R. Gloaguen, O. Nilsen, H. Dypvik, B. Deffontaines, and A. Mruma, Neogene-Recent rift propagation in Central Tanzania: Morphostructural and aeromagnetic evidence from the Kilombero area, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 116, 490-510, 2004.
Stark C. P., J. Stewart, C. J. Ebinger, Wavelet transform mapping of effective elastic thickness and plate loading: Validation using synthetic data and application to the study of southern African tectonics, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 2558, doi:10.1029/2001JB000609, 2003.
Maguire, P., C. Ebinger, G. Stuart, G. D. Mackenzie, K.A. Whaler, J.-M. Kendall, M.A. Khan, C.M.R. Fowler, S. Klemperer, G.R. Keller, S. Harder, T. Furman, K. Mickus, L. M. Asfaw, A. Ayele, and B. Abebe, Geophysical project in Ethiopia studies continental breakup, Eos, Trans. Amer. Geophys. Un., 84, 337-340, 2003.
Eagles, G., Gloaguen, R., and C. Ebinger, Kinematics of the Danakil microplate, Earth Planet. Sci. Letts., 203/2, 607-620, 2002.
Menzies, M. A., S. L. Klemperer, C. Ebinger, and J. Baker, Characteristics of volcanic rifted margins, in Menzies, M., S. Klemperer, C. Ebinger, and J. Baker, Volcanic Rifted Margins, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. Spec. Paper 362, 1-14, 2002.
Ebinger, C., C. Petit, and E. Burov, Causes and consequences of lithospheric extension: The ups and downs of continental rifts, in R. Renault and G. Ashley, eds., Sedimentation in Continental Rifts, SEPM Spec. Pub. 73, 11-23, 2002.
Fowler, C.M.R., C. J. Ebinger, and C. J. Hawkesworth, eds., Early Earth, Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Pub., 199, 2002.
Sleep, N., C. Ebinger, and M. Kendall, Deflection of mantle plume material by cratonic keels, in C. M. Fowler, C. J. Ebinger, and C. J. Hawkesworth, eds., Early Earth, Geol. Soc. Lond. Spec. Pub., 199, 135-150, 2002.
Ebinger, C., and M. Casey, Continental break-up in magmatic provinces: An Ethiopian example, Geology, 29, 527-530, 2001.
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