Nicola Litchfield

Nicola is a senior earthquake geologist in the paleoseismology team, based at Avalon, Lower Hutt. She studies past earthquakes and their impacts on the landscape, which in turn informs seismic hazard and risk. Research interests include understanding the formation of marine terraces and their use to record earthquakes along the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, understanding the interactions between upper plate faults and the Hikurangi subduction interface, and kinematics and behaviour of active faults in a variety of geological settings. Nicola is the science leader of the It’s the Fault program and is a key member of the NZ Community Fault Model and National Seismic Hazard Model projects.