Ben Mackey
Position
UC Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Qualifications
Ph.D. (University of Oregon)
Room
330
Contact Details
Phone: (#64-3) 364-2987 ext 6954
Fax: +64 3 364 2769
ben.mackey@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal Address: Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
Research
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of ancient rockfall deposits around Banks Peninsula to constrain the timing of paleo-earthquakes. This research is funded by a Rutherford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
Publications
Mackey, B.H., Scheingross, J.S., Lamb, M.P., and K.A. Farley, (in review), Knickpoint formation, rapid propagation, and landscape response following coastal cliff retreat at last-interglacial sea-level highstand: Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i. GSA Bulletin.
Roering, J.J., B.H. Mackey, J.A. Marshall, K. Sweeney, A.M. Booth, N. Deligne, A.M. Handwerger, and C. Cerovski-Darriau, 2013, 'You are HERE': Connecting the dots with airborne lidar for geomorphic fieldwork, Geomorphology, 2012 Binghamton Symposium, "The Field Tradition in Geomorphology", doi:10.10106/j.geomorph.2013.04.009
Cashman, K. V., A. Soule, B. H. Mackey, N. Deligne, H. Dietterich, and N. Deardorff (in press), Lidar - A New Tool for Studying Lava Flows, Geosphere.
Mackey, B.H., and M.P. Lamb, 2013, Deciphering boulder mobility from cosmogenic exposure age dating, JGR - Earth Surface, v. 118, 1-14. doi: 10.1002/jgrf.20035
Scheingross, J.S., Minchew, B.M., Mackey, B.H., Simons, M., Lamb, M.P., and S. Hensley, 2013, Fault-zone controls on the spatial distribution of slow-moving landslides, GSA Bulletin, v. 125; no. 3/4; p. 473–489; doi: 10.1130/B30719.1
Mackey, B. H., J. J. Roering, and M. P. Lamb (2011), Landslide-dammed paleolake perturbs marine sedimentation and drives genetic change in anadromous fish, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 108(47), 18905-18909
Mackey, B. H., and Roering, J. J., 2011, Sediment yield, spatial characteristics, and the long-term evolution of active earthflows determined from airborne LiDAR and historical aerial photographs, Eel River, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 123, no. 7-8, p. 1560-1576.
Mackey, B. H., Roering, J. J., and McKean, J. A., 2009, Long-term kinematics and sediment flux of an active earthflow, Eel River, California: Geology, v. 37, no. 9, p. 803-806.
Roering, J. J., Stimely, L. L., Mackey, B. H., and Schmidt, D. A., 2009, Using DInSAR, airborne LiDAR, and archival air photos to quantify landsliding and sediment transport: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36, no. L19402, p. 5.