EDUCATION

POSITIONS HELD
current: Research Geologist, Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute of Earth Sciences, U. of Iceland
2002-2004: Research geologist, Nordic Volcanological Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000-2002: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Nordic Volcanological Institute, Reykjavik, Iceland
1999-2000: Fulbright Fellow, Nordic Volcanological Institute, Reykjvik, Iceland
1996-1999: Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University
1986-1996: Teacher, Renbrook School,West Hartford, CT
1987-1991: Project Adventure Instructor
1993-1996: Adjunct Lecturer, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT
1985-1986: Teacher of Earth Science, Farmington High School, Farmington, CT
1983-1985: Teaching Assistant, Wesleyan University.
1979: Laboratory Assistant, Hartford State Technical College

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Relationship between faulting and volcanism
Use of remote sensing and GIS to solve structural problems
Seismic and volcanic hazard assessment
Active processes at mid-ocean ridges
Evolution of fracture populations
Fault interaction in oblique rift zones
Structural controls on volcano location and eruption behavior
Extensional tectonics in intraplate and interplate rift settings
Use of analog models to solve structural problems
Hydrothermal systems and deposits

FIELD RESEARCH
2003-2004: Detailed mapping of faults, including kinematic indicators, on Reykjanes Peninsula to determine post-glacial tectonic history
2002: Mapping complex faults in the transition zone between on-shore and off-shore segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in SW Iceland.
2001: Central Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: Mapping surface effects from earthquakes triggered by June, 2000 earthquakes in South Iceland.
Integrating field and geophysical data within GIS database.
2000-2001: Hengill Triple Junction, SW Iceland: Detailed mapping of surface effects from recent earthquakes and volcanic uplift.
Using DGPS to integrate field data and geophysical data within GIS database.
2000: South Iceland Seismic Zone: Detailed mapping of rupture from two M > 6 earthquakes in June,2000.
1997-1999: Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland: Detailed mapping of faults and fissures in the Reykjanes fissure swarm.
Investigation of structures related to fault linkage and interaction. Investigation of vent spacing along eruptive fissures.
1983-1986: Hartford Basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts: Analysis and interpretation of outcrop scale faults, joints,
bedding, dikes and mineralized veins in Triassic arkose along the western border fault zone of the basin.

LABORATORY RESEARCH
Ongoing - GIS analysis using ArcGIS, Erdas Imagine and Trimble Pathfinder Software for processing and analysis of digital raster images, digital vector data layers and field data collected with a Trimble Real time Differential Global Positioning System including 3-D rendering of topographic data and digital imagery.

1997-1998 - Analog modeling of oblique extension using wet clay as a medium. Experiments conducted at Mobil Technology Center in Dallas, Texas. Analysis of model imagery to determine fault population evolution

GRANTS
2002-2005: RANNÍS (Icelandic Research Council) "Aflræði plötuskila á Reykjanesskaganum" (Plate boundary dynamics on Reykjanes Peninsula)
2000:  National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
1999:  Student Fulbright Fellowship
1998: "Geometry, Spatial Distribution and Scaling Relationships of Faults in Oblique Rift Zones, " American Association of Petroleum Geologists, $1995
1998: "Temporal Evolution and Scaling Relationships of Fracture Populations in Oblique Rift Zones," Geological Society of America, $1000
1998: "Temporal Evolution and Scaling Relationships of Fracture Populations in Oblique Rift Zones," Sigma Xi, $575
1997: "Geometry, Spatial Distribution and Scaling Relationships of Faults in Oblique Rift Zones, " American Association of Petroleum Geologists, $1000
1997: "Geometry, Spatial Distribution and Scaling Relationships of Faults in Oblique Rift Zones, " Geological Society of America, $2000
 

AFFILIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Geosciences Society of Iceland – Jarðfræðafélag Íslands
Geological Society of America - Structure and Tectonics Division (separate link)
American Geophysical Union - Tectonophysics Division
Association of Women Geoscientists
IAVCEI

COURSES TAUGHT
Structural Geology Lab (Spring, 1998; Spring, 1999)
Introductory Geology Lab (Fall, 1996; Spring, 1997)
Physical Geology Lecture and Lab (1993-1996)
Historical Geology Lecture and Lab (1993-1996)
 

PUBLICATIONS
Clifton, A.E., and Kattenhorn, S.A., 2005, Structural architecture of a highly oblique divergent plate boundary segment. Tectonophyscis (in review).

Clifton, A. and Einarsson, P., 2005, Styles of surface rupture accompanying the June 17 and 21, 2000 earthquakes in the South Iceland Seismic Zone. Tectonophysics 396, p.141-159. PDF file

Clifton, A.E., C.Pagli, J.F. Jónsdóttir, K. Eythorsdóttir,  K. Vogfjörð, 2003, Surface Effects of Triggered Fault Slip on Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland. Tectonophysics 369, 145-154. PDF file

Clifton, Amy E. and Schlische, R.W., 2003, Fracture populations on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland:Comparison with experimental clay models of oblique rifting. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(B2), 2074, doi:10.1029/2001JB000635  PDF file

Clifton, Amy E., Freysteinn Sigmundsson, Kurt L. Feigl, Gunnar Guðmundsson,and Thóra Árnadóttir, 2002, Surface effects of  faulting  and deformation resulting from magma accumulation at the Hengill triple junction, SW Iceland, 1994 - 1998.  Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (JVGR), 115, 233-255. PDF file

Clifton, Amy E., Roy W. Schlische, 2001, Nucleation, growth, and linkage of faults in oblique rift zones:Results from  experimental clay models and implications for maximum fault size.Geology, 29: 455-458. (212)  PDF file

Clifton, Amy E., Roy W. Schlische, Martha O. Withjack, Rolf V. Ackermann, 2000, Influence of rift obliquity on  fault-population systematics: results of experimental clay models. Journal of Structural Geology, 22, 1491 1510. PDF file

DeBoer, J.Z. and Clifton, A.E., 1988. Mesozoic tectogenesis: development and deformation of 'Newark' rift zones in the  Appalachians (with special emphasis on the Hartford basin, Connecticut). In Developments in Geotectonics 22 , W. Manspeizer (Editor) Triassic - Jurassic Rifting, Continental Breakup and the Origin of the Atlantic and Passive  Margins, Part A. Elsevier. (*published as deBoer and Clifford, due to editing error)

ABSTRACTS
Clifton, A.E., Kattenhorn, S.A., Fernandes, L., 2005, Structural architecture of a highly oblique divergent plate boundary. General Assembly of the European Geosciences  Union, April 24th – 29th, 2005, Vienna, Austria.

Clifton, A.E., Einarsson, P., Árnadóttir, Th., Pagli, C., and Roberts, M., 2004, Identifying seismogenic faults: Case studies from SW Iceland. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting.

Fernandes, L., Kattenhorn, S.A. and Clifton, A.E., 2004, Faulting and magmatism on the Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting

 Clifton, A. E., 2003, Unravelling the history of post-glacial faulting on Reykjanes Peninsula, SW Iceland. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 2003 Fall Meeting.

Schlische, R.W., Withjack, M.O., Ackermann, R.V., and Clifton, A.E. , 2003, Controls on the maximum size of fault arrays and fault segments - insights from experimental clay models, EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 2003 Fall Meeting.

Clifton, A.E. and Sigmundsson, F., 2003, Complex fault interactions at the transition  between off-shore and on-shore segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge plate boundary in southwest Iceland. EGS-EUG-AGU Joint Meeting, Nice, France.

Clifton, A. E. Pagli, C. Pedersen, R. Jónsdóttir, J. F. EythorsdóttirK. and Vogfjörð, K. 2002. Triggered slip on distant faults as a result of a Mw = 6.6 earthquake in the South Iceland lowland. The 25th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Reykjavík, 6-9 Jan 2002, abstract volume.

Clifton, A. E. and Ólafsdóttir, R. 2002. Use of GIS to Integrate Geological and Geophysical data in the Neo-volcanic Zone of Southwest Iceland, The 25th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Reykjavík, 6-9 Jan 2002, abstract volume, p. 21.

Clifton, A. E., Sigmundsson, F., 2000, Faulting and Deformation Resulting From Magma Accumulation at the Hengill  Triple Junction, SW Iceland. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 2000 Fall Meeting, v. 1, F1213.

Einarsson, P., Clifton, A., Sigmundsson, F., Sigbjörnsson, R., 2000. The South Iceland Earthquakes of June 2000: Tectonic Environment and EffectsEOS Transactions American Geophysical Union, 81, AGU Fall Meeting abstracts,  .81 p.  F890.             

Pedersen, R., Clifton, A., Einarsson, P., Sigmundsson, F., Guðfinnsson, G.H., 2000, Styles of Surface Rupture 
Accompanying the June 17 and 21, 2000 Earthquakes in the South Iceland Seismic Zone. EOS Transactions 
American Geophysical Union, 81, AGU Fall Meeting abstracts, p.  F1171.

Clifton, A. E., 1999, Spatial distribution of fractures in the Reykjanes Fissure Swarm; comparison with scaled 
experimental models. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 1999 Fall Meeting, v.80, F970

Clifton, A.E.,  R.W. Schlische, M.O.Withjack and R.V.Ackerman, 1999, Nucleation, growth, and linkage of faults in  oblique rift zones: results from scaled clay models. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 1999 Spring  Meeting, v.80, S-340

Clifton, A.E., Schlische, R.W., Withjack, M.O. and Ackermann, R.V., 1998, Using scaled physical models of oblique  extension to study the temporal evolution of segmented fault systems.  EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical  Union Fall Meeting, v.79, F648-649.

Clifton, A.E. and Schlische, R.W., 1998, Fracture population systematics of an oblique rift zone: field mapping and air  photo analysis of  the Reykjanes fissure swarm, Iceland: EOS, Transactions, v.79, p. S-231

Clifton, A.E. and Schlische, R.W. 1997, Using scaled physical models of oblique deformation to analyze the spatial and  temporal evolution of fault systems: GSA Abstracts with Programs,  v.29, p.A-258

DeBoer, J.Z. and Clifton, A.E., 1988. Mesozoic tectogenesis: development and deformation of 'Newark' rift zones in the  Appalachians (with special emphasis on the Hartford basin, Connecticut). In Developments in Geotectonics 22 , W. Manspeizer (Editor) Triassic - Jurassic Rifting, Continental Breakup and the Origin of the Atlantic and Passive  Margins, Part A. Elsevier. (*published as deBoer and Clifford, due to editing error)

THESES
Ph.D,  Field and Laboratory Studies of Oblique Rifting, Rutgers University, May, 2000.
M.A., Tectonic analysis of the western border fault zone of the Mesozoic Hartford Basin, Connecticut and Massachusetts

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
1998-1999: Principal advisor for undergraduate honors research project, "Temporal evolution of a dike-induced graben, Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland", Cook College, Rutgers University
1997-1999: Member of the Teaching Assistant Project TA Liason committee, Rutgers University, Graduate School-New Brunswick
1998: Reviewed proposals for Teaching/Learning Conference, Rutgers University, Graduate School-New Brunswick

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
2003: Field trip leader for Nordvulk Summer School on Tectonic-Magmatic Interactions. Field trip of Reykjanes Peninsula.
2003: Field trip leader for Keck Geology Consortium Iceland Project introductory field trip. Three-day geologic tour of South Iceland for students from the US.
2002: Co-leader of Reykjanes Peninsula field trip for the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Reykjavík, Iceland .
1999: lead co-convenor of Special Session on Deformation Associated with Oblique Rifting, Spring AGU Meeting, Boston, MA
1989-1996: Active member of Friends of Dinosaur Park Association, Rocky Hill, Connecticut
1990-1993: Volunteer interpretive trail guide at Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, Connecticut
1994: Led geologic field trip of the Hartford Basin for Dinosaur State Park Staff Naturalists
1993: Served on the Advisory Board of the Northeastern Connecticut Physical Science Resource Center, University of Connecticut
1992: Participated in Project CONNStruct, Earth Science dialogue group. Discussion and examination of earth science curricula at both the university and pre-college levels.
1989:  Invited lecturer,"The Connecticut Rift Valley - The evolution of a geologic model"; Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill, Connecticut.