Scholz, Christopher

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".