Research

Collecting samples from the Karakoram Range, Ladakh, NW India, Photo by Nathanial Borrneman

Wendy’s research uses geochronology, thermochronology, paleoseismology, geomorphology, remote sensing and geologic mapping to understand the spatial and temporal evolution of fault systems.

Publications (select):

Bohon, W. and Tripathy-Lang, A., Mapping Rocks From Space. Front. Young Minds., 2024, 12:1368101. doi: 10.3389/frym.2024.1368101

Seagren, E., Schoenbohm, L., Owen, L., Figueiredo, P., Hammer, S., Rimando, J., Wang, Y., Bohon, W., Lithology, topography, and spatial variability of vegetation moderate fluvial erosion in the south-central Andes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 551, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116555.

Bohon, W., Hodges, K.V., Tripathy-Lang, A., Edwards, C., Arrowsmith, JR., Structural relationship between the Karakoram and Longmu Co fault systems, southwestern Tibetan Plateau, as revealed by ASTER remote sensing, Geosphere, v. 14, issue 4, 2018. 

Robinson, S., Bohon, W., Kleber, E., Arrowsmith, JR., Crosby, C., Applications of LiDAR Topography to Earth Science Education, Geosphere, v. 13, issue 3, 2017. Doi:10.1130/GEO01236.1.

Borneman, N., Hodges, K., van Soest, M., Bohon, W., Wartho, J.A., Cronk, S., Ahmand, T., Age and structure of the Shyok suture in the Ladakh region of northwest India: Implications forslip on the Karakoram fault system, Tectonics, v. 34, 10, p.2011-2033, 2015. Doi: 10.1002/2015TC003933.

Mapping the Karakoram fault in the Ladakh Himalayas, photo by Alka Tripathy-Lang

Schoenbohm, L., Costa, C., Brooks, B., Bohon, W., Gardini, C., Cisneros, H., Fault interaction along the Central Andean front: The Las Penas thrust, Cerro Salinas thrust and the Montecito Anticline, AGU Fall Meeting, 2013.

Bohon, W., Hodges, K., Arrowsmith, JR., New Thermochronology data reveals disturbed cooling histories near the intersection of the Karakoram and Longmu Co Faults, NW India, AGU Fall Meeting 2012.

Bohon, W., Arrowsmith, JR., Hodges, K., Temporal and spatial variation in slip along the central Karakoram Fault System, Ladakh Himalayas, AGU Fall Meeting, 2010.

Bohon, W.M., Hodges, K.V., Arrowsmith, JR., Tripathy, A.K., A New Quaternary Strand of the Karakoram Fault System, Ladakh Himalayas, in Leech, M.L., and others, eds., Proceedings for the 25th Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet Workshop: U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 2010-1099, 2010.

Bohon, W., Arrowsmith, JR., and Hodges, K., Temporal and Spatial Variation in Slip Along the Southern Strand of the Karakoram Fault System, Ladakh Himalayas, 2010 SCEC Annual Meeting. 

Bohon, W., Schoenbohm, L., Brooks, B., Costa, C., Accelerating Uplift Rate and Non-uniform Inheritance: Cosmogenic Be10 Depth Profiles from the Montecito Anticline, Mendoza, Argentina,AGU Fall Meeting, 2008.

Science Talks:

Paleoseismic trench at Wallace Creek, San Andreas Fault, Photo by Sinan Akçiz

Myanmar Earthquake, Seismic Safety Commission, 2025.

Earthquakes in California, Colloquium Speaker, UC Merced, 2025.

Earthquake Science in Public Service: Keeping Earthquake Hazards from Becoming Disasters, Invited talk, GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, 2024.

Risky Business: life along an active margin, Geological Society of America Noontime Lecture, 2024.

Earthquake Science, Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants, 2024.

Risky Business: life along an active plate margin, EarthX, University of Calgary, 2024

Exploring Earthquake Science, Exploring by the Seat of your Pants, 2023.

Shaking Up Earthquake Science, Keynote at National Science Bowl, Department of Energy, 2023.

East Coast Earthquakes, NC Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs, 2023.

Understanding Earthquake Science, Summer Science Program, New Mexico State, 2023.

The Science of Earthquakes, Learning Geology, GSA, 2023.

Shaking up Earthquake Science, Science in the Virtual Pub, 2022.

Lidar in Geoscience and Geoscience Education, Colloquium talk, New Mexico State University, 2021.

Using ASTER Remote Sensing to Make Maps from Space, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, 2020.

Earthquakes!, SEG FUTA Nigeria University of Technology, 2021.

LIDAR Applications in Geoscience Research and Education, Colloquium talk, Villa Nova, 2020.

Earthquake Hazards and Risk, Webinar, Cafe Scientifique, 2020.

Rocks from Space!, Nerd Nite, Washington DC, 2018.

Video from AAAS If/Then