Christopher Scholz

Christopher Scholz is an expert in earthquake physics and a professor of geophysics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. He is the author of the monograph The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting , the memoir Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari , and over 250 scientific papers. The great magnitude-nine earthquake in Tohoku-oki, Japan, and its subsequent tsunami greatly influenced Scholz's new science fiction thriller Stick-Slip .

Christopher Scholz is an expert in earthquake physics and a professor of geophysics at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. He is the author of the monograph The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting , the memoir Fieldwork: A Geologist's Memoir of the Kalahari , and over 250 scientific papers. The great magnitude-nine earthquake in Tohoku-oki, Japan, and its subsequent tsunami greatly influenced Scholz's new science fiction thriller Stick-Slip . See less