Stanford University, Stanford, California
Ph.D., Geophysics w/ Ph.D. Minor in Mechanical Engineering, September 2000
M.S., Geophysics, Stanford University, September 1998

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (CWRU)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, August 1994
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, Mechanical Engineering, May 1993

Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky, 2000-present

• Sources and mechanics of stress accumulation along faults in different tectonic environments
• Factors controlling deformation rates and seismicity within zones of relative weakness located within different tectonic regimes
• Time dependent post-rifting deformation in Iceland

• Optimization of inversions for viscosity using synthetic geodetic data of different temporal and spatial scales
• Analytical models of temporal clustering of large earthquake along single fault segments due to postseismic relaxation processes

• Finite element modeling of the mechanics of stress transfer in northern California
• Analysis and modeling of viscoelastic postseismic processes and subsequent deformation along strike-slip faults as a function of the structure of the lower crust
• Re-evaluation of post-1906 triangulation data in Northern California, combination with modern geodetic data
• Analysis and modeling of postseismic deformation following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
• Possible models of intraplate earthquakes

• Viscous finite difference modeling of continental collision zones with specific application to the Indian-Eurasian collisional zone

• Experimental determination of friction coefficients during stretch and draw forming of steel and aluminum
• Finite element modeling of springback in formed sheet metal parts

•  Finite element modeling of die deformation and fatigue during forming operations

Publications
Kenner, S.J., and M. Simons, Postseismic Reloading: Postseismic Reloading: A Source For Temporal Clustering Of Major Earthquakes Along Individual Fault Segments, in prep, Geophyical Journal International,, August 2002.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Lower Crustal Controls of Postseismic Reloading Rates in the San Francisco Bay Area Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, in prep, Geophysical Research Letters, August 2002.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Lower Crustal Structure in Northern California: Implications From Strain Rate Variations Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, in press, Journal of Geophysical Research, April 2002.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, A Mechanical Model for Intraplate Earthquakes: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Science, v. 289, p. 2329-2332, September 2000.

Kenner, S.J., Mechanical Modeling of Time Dependent Deformation in the Lower Crust and its Effect on Earthquake Recurrence, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, September 2000.

Atkinson et al., Reassessing the New Madrid Seismic Zone, Eos, v. 31, pp. 397, 402-03, August 2000.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Postseismic Deformation Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 105, p. 13,195-13,209, June 2000.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Time Dependence of the Stress Shadowing Effect and Its Relation to the Structure of the Lower Crust, Geology, v. 27, p. 119-122, February 1999.

Cervelli, P., S. J. Kenner, and P. Segall, Correction to ‘Dislocations in Inhomogeneous Media Via a Moduli Perturbation Approach: General Formulation and Two-dimensional Solutions by Du, Y., P. Segall, and H. Gao’, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 104, p. 23,271-23,277, October 1999.

Workshop and Conference Presentations (Presenter Underlined)
Kenner, S.J., The ABAQUS Finite Element Code, Southern California Earthquake Center Crustal Deformation Modeling Workshop, California Institute of Technology, June 2002, INVITED.

Wang, Z., E. W. Woolery, and S. J. Kenner, Recent Studies on the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Their Implications for Seismic Hazard Assessment, Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Seismo. Res. Lett., v. 73, p. 245, April 2002.

Kenner, S.J., Fault Loading and Earthquake Occurrence Within Localized Zones of Relative Weakness, North-Central and Southeastern Section Geological Society of America Joint Annnual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, April 2001.

Kenner, S.J., How Faults are Loaded: The Influence of Tectonic Environment, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 82, p. F942, December 2001, INVITED.

Kenner, S.J., and M. Simons, Postseismic Reloading: A Mechanism for Temporal Clustering of Major Earthquakes on Individual Faults, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 82, p. F1195, December 2001.

Simons, M., E-S Choi, and S.J. Kenner (not included on original abstract), Inelastic Behavior of the Lithosphere as Inferred From InSAR Observations, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 82, p. F1224, December 2001, INVITED.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, Estimating Stress Accumulation Rates Along Major Faults: Inferences From Studies of Postseismic Deformation Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, EarthScope Workshop: Making and Breaking a Continent, Snowbird, Utah, October 2001.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, Viscoelastic Deformation and Modeling of Post-1906 Stress Perturbations, Bay Area Stress Shadow Workshop, Working Group on Northern California Earthquake Probabilities, University of California, Berkeley, June 2001, INVITED.

Kenner, S.J., P. Segall, and M. Simons, The Importance of Tectonically Reasonable Models for Interpreting Geodetic Data, Workshop on the GPS Rate Dilemma: How to Use GPS Information for Seismic Hazard Mapping In the U.S., University of Utah, March 2001, INVITED.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, The Mechanics of Stress Transfer Above Localized Intraplate Lower Crustal Weak Zones, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 81, p. F1175, December 2000.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, A Model for Intraplate Earthquake Generation: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, EOS Spring Meeting Supplemental, v. 81, p. S310, June 2000, INVITED.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, An Alternative Mechanism for the Generation and Localization of Seismicity in Intraplate Environments, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, EOS Spring Meeting Supplemental, v. 81, p. S412, June 2000, INVITED.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, New Madrid Seismic Source Workshop, Center for Earthquake Research and Information, University of Memphis, January 2000.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Lower Crustal Structure in Northern California: Implication of Strain-Rate Variations Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 80, p. F701, December 1999.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Time Varying Velocities Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: The Role of Postseismic Relaxation Processes in the Lower Crust, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, EOS Spring Meeting Supplemental, v. 80, p. S325-S326, June 1999.

Schmidt, D.A., R. Bürgmann, and S.J. Kenner, Induced Left-Lateral Creep on the Hayward Fault Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, EOS Spring Meeting Supplemental, v. 80, p. S324, June 1999.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Re-evaluation of Postseismic Deformation at Point Arena, California Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 79, p. F601, December 1998.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, Time Dependent Stress Shadowing after 1906-Type Events on the San Andreas Fault, Southern California Earthquake Center Workshop on Earthquake Stress Triggering, Fault Interaction, and Frictional Failure, June 1998.

Kenner, S.J., and P. Segall, The Time Dependence of the Stress Shadowing Effect, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, EOS Fall Meeting Supplemental, v. 78, p. F703, December 1997.

Kenner, S.J., and F.E. McCaughan, A Numerical Solution of a Viscous Model for Continental Collision, NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program, 1994 & 1995 Annual Symposiums, May 1994 & May 1995.

Invited Seminars
Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Mechanism for the Generation and Localization of Seismicity in Intraplate Environments, Department of Geological Sciences Seminar, Virginia Tech, October, 2001.

Kenner S. J., and P. Segall, Postseismic Processes and Their Effect on Deformation Rates Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Geophysics Brown Bag Seminar, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, May, 2001.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., IPGP, Paris, France, April, 2000.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., CNRS: Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, April, 2000.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., Geology and Geophysics Department Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Seismological Laboratory, April, 2000.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., University of Kentucky, Department of Geological Sciences, March, 2000.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, Time-Dependent Deformation Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: The Role of Postseismic Relaxation Processes in the Lower Crust, University of Kentucky, Department of Geological Sciences, March, 2000.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., Purdue University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, February, 2000.

Kenner, S. J., and P. Segall, A Model for the Generation of Intraplate Earthquake Sequences: Application to the New Madrid Seismic Zone, U.S.A., Seismo Lab Seminar, Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, February, 2000.

Fault Loading Processes in the New Madrid Seismic Zone (collaborative research with P. Segall and M. D. Zoback, Stanford University), USGS National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, $120,000, January 2000 to December 2002.

Department of Geological Sciences, University of Kentucky (Instructor)

• GLY 625, Special Topics in Applied Geophysics: Behavior of Earth Materials (3 credit hours): Spring 2002
• GLY 110, Endangered Planet - Introduction to Environmental Geology (3 credit hours): Fall 2002

• Short Course for Grad Students: Time Dependent Postseismic Processes: Building Intuition (1.5 hours), May 2001
• Short Course for Graduate Students: Generating Finite Element Models with the ABAQUS Finite Element Program (3 hours), January 2001

• GP 288, Crustal Deformation (3 credit hours): Winter 1998
• GP 4, Natural Hazards and Man (3 credit hours): Fall 1997

• Tutoring in Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Mechanics - Statics, Kinematics, Fortran, and Numerical Methods, 1991-1994

• Shell Fund Award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 2000
• Anderson and Green fellowships, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 1998-1999
• Blaustein, Green, & Haider fellowships, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 1996-1997
• Shell Fund Award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 1995
• NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship, 1993-1996
• Robert & Leona Garwin Award for theoretical scientific ability with experimental competence, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, CWRU, 1993
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (declined), 1993
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honors Society), 1991
• Case Alumni Scholarship, CWRU, 1989-1993

Miscellaneous Academic Service

• Graduate Student Advisory Committee, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University, 1998-1999
• Organized orientation for first-year graduate students, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 1998
• First-Year Graduate Student Mentoring Program, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, 1996-1999

• Book review: Introduction to the Physics of the Earth’s Interior (2cnd Ed.), by Jean-Paul Poirier, Seismological Research Letters, v. 72, p. 481, 2001.
• Manuscript reviews: Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Seismological Society of America Bulletin, Geophysical Journal International, and USGS internal reviews.

• Presentations to elementary school students: Quail Hollow Elementary School, Sandy, Utah, 5th grade, April 1998; Herriman Elementary School, Herriman, Utah, 5th grade, March 2001; Herriman Elementary School, 5th Grade, October 2001; Herriman Elementary School, Herriman, Utah, 3rd grade, October 2001

• American Geophysical Union
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Geological Society of America
• Seismological Society of America
• Tau Beta Pi

• Long Valley Caldera GPS campaign, Stanford University & USGS - Menlo Park: 1999
• Long Valley Caldera/Mammoth Mountain GPS campaign, USGS - Menlo Park: 1998
• Northern California GPS campaign, Stanford University: 1195, 1997
• Kilauea Volcano GPS campaign, Stanford University & USGS - Hawaii Volcano Observatory: 1995, 1996
• Geysers Geothermal Field GPS campaign, Stanford University: 1995