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Patrick Fulton

Assistant Professor

Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Patrick Fulton
Patrick Fulton
Graduate Field Affiliation
Geological Sciences

Biography

Patrick Fulton joined the faculty of Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in January 2019. Fulton is an assistant professor and a Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow whose research interests include hydrologic and thermal processes within fault zones and how these processes either control fault slip behavior or provide insightful signatures within fault rocks.  After post-docs in Oregon and Texas and a stint as a research scientist in California, Fulton took a faculty position at Texas A&M in 2016, where he taught for three years.

Research Interests

Fulton uses observation, quantitative analysis, and numerical modeling to study heat and fluid in fault zones. His work combines hydrogeology, thermal geophysics, and geomechanics, and has applications to earthquake physics, tectonic processes, and the transport of subsurface heat and fluids.

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Select Awards and Honors

  • BRB2020 Cohort 2020
  • Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow 2019

Education

  • A.S. Science, Young Harris College 1999
  • B.S. Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology 2001
  • Ph.D. Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University 2008

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