Susan Y. Schwartz is a scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz known for her research on earthquakes, through field projects conducted in locations in Costa Rica and the San Andreas Fault.
[4] At the University of California in Santa Cruz, Schwartz was first a postdoctoral fellow from 1988 until 1990, followed by four years as an assistant research seismologist, and then in 1994 she was hired as an assistant professor and was subsequently promoted to professor in 2002.
[3] In 2016 Schwartz was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for fundamental work that places subduction zone earthquakes in tectonic context".
While at the University of Michigan, she worked on paleomagnetism in the Wyoming-Idaho region[6] and the folding of the Appalachian Mountains.
[7] Her research has taken her to multiple field locations including the Southern Kurile Islands,[8][9] New Zealand,[10][11] and Costa Rica.