[1][2] Kellogg was a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis and director of the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics.
[5][6] After receiving her Ph.D, she was named the Myron C. Bantrell Research Fellow in Geochemistry and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology.
From 1998, she was a professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis and served as the Department's Chair from 2000 to 2008.
Kellogg also studied Earthquake Physics and Crustal deformation in order to assess seismic hazard of faults.
[11] From 1992 to 1996, Kellogg received a grant from the National Science Foundation as a Presidential Faculty Fellow.
[12][13] She was invited to present the Francis Birch lecture (Structure and Dynamics: An Earth Odyssey) at the American Geophysical Union in 2001.