Eleanor Ainscoe

I have BA and MSci degrees in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. After a grounding in Maths, Materials Science, Earth Sciences and Chemistry I specialised in Geological Sciences. My masters project title was “The Geometry of Active Normal Faulting in the Aegean”.  My D.Phil project researched the active faulting and tectonics of Central Asia. The region is a major component of the India-Eurasia collision and also has a history of damaging earthquakes. My work combined fieldwork and remote sensing techniques including using optical imagery, digital elevation models and interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to look at how past earthquakes have influenced the landscape around them. I got my doctorate from Oxford in 2018.

Eleanor Ainscoe, Kanatbek E. Abdrakhmatov, S. Baikulov, Andrew Carr, Austin J. Elliott, Christoph Grützner, Richard T. Walker (2019), Variability in surface rupture between successive earthquakes on the Suusamyr Fault, Kyrgyz Tien Shan: Implications for Palaeoseismology, Geophysical Journal International 216(1), 703-725, doi: 10.1093/gji/ggy457

Ainscoe, E. A.,  Elliott,  J. R., Copley, A., Craig, T. J., Li, T., Parsons, B. E. & Walker, R. T. (2017). Blind Thrusting, Surface Folding and the Development of Geological Structure in the Mw 6.3 2015 Pishan (China) Earthquake. Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth, . doi: 10.1002/2017JB014268

Grützner, Christoph, Walker, Richard, Ainscoe, Eleanor, Elliott, Austin, Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek. (2019). "Earthquake Environmental Effects of the 1992 MS7.3 Suusamyr Earthquake, Kyrgyzstan, and Their Implications for Paleo-Earthquake Studies." Geosciences 9(6): 271 doi: 10.3390/geosciences9060271