WSU geology department welcomes new assistant professor

The geology department welcomes Assistant Professor Sarah Brownlee, who joined WSU in fall 2011.

Dr. Brownlee earned her bachelor's degree in Geosciences from Princeton University in 2003 and her Ph.D. in earth and planetary science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009.

She and her students are working to understand seismic anisotropy in the lower continental crust along with time and length scales of processes governing transport of material through the crust.

Dr. Brownlee uses a combination of thermochronology, paleomagnetism, analytical techniques, and numerical modeling in her research.