Seminar Schedule
The BSL Seminar takes place Tuesdays at 4:00pm in 265 McCone Hall.
Spring 2018 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 16th | First day of classes, no seminar. | ||
| January 23 | Kang Wang | UC Berkeley | Observations and modeling of crustal deformation due to recent large earthquakes around the Tibetan Plateau |
| January 30 | Martin Schoenball | Stanford | A systematic assessment of the spatio-temporal evolution of fault activity through induced seismicity in Oklahoma and southern Kansas |
| February 6th | Tobias Keller | Stanford | The role of volatiles in volcanoes and their magmatic roots |
| February 13 | Margaret Avery | UC Berkeley | Linking long-term paleomagnetic observations at Earth’s surface to the dynamics of the outer core using numerical geodynamo simulations |
| February 20 | Noel Bartlow | U. Missouri | Insights into Slow Slip Events in Cascadia and New Zealand from a variety of geodetic data sources |
| February 27 | Avinash Nayak | U. Wisconsin | Moment tensor inversion of seismic events associated with the sinkhole at Napoleonville, Salt Dome, Louisiana |
| March 6 | Steve Roecker | RPI | Images of the mantle wedge beneath Northern and Central Chile |
| March 13 | Paul Johnson | LANL | Machine Learning Applied to Continuous Geophysical Data |
| March 20 | Phillippe Lognonne | IPGP | Planetary seismology : from Moon Apollo reprocessing to Mars |
| March 27 | Spring Break | ||
| April 3 | Luca Malatesta | UCSC | Co-location of the locking depth and the shelf break, not the coastline, at active margins |
| April 10 | Nick Knezek | UC Berkeley | Detection and characterization of magnetic waves at the top of Earth’s core |
| April 17 | Tom Brocher | USGS | Are we still seeing aftershocks from a M6.8 1872 earthquake in Central Washington? |
| April 24 | Noah Randolf-Flagg | UC Berkeley | Exit seminar |
Fall 2017 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| August 29 | Naoki Uchida | Tohoku University | Interaction between slow and repeating earthquakes – examples in Tohoku and Nankai subduction zones, Japan |
| September 5 | Don Vasco | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Estimating fluid-induced stress change from observed deformation |
| September 19 | Sara McBride | USGS | Why won't people just listen to us? Insights from a disaster communication researcher” |
| September 26 | Jared Peacock | USGS Menlo Park | 3D imaging of volcanic systems with magnetotellurics |
| October 3 | Alicia Hotovec-Ellis | USGS Menlo Park | Slips, screams and migrating things: Repeating earthquakes as a toolbox to understand and monitor volcanoes |
| October 10 | Mike Oskin | UC Davis | Earthquake Gates of the Altyn Tagh Fault: Linking Rupture Length to Geologically Constrained Dynamics of Fault Complexity |
| October 17 | Dustin Schroeder | Stanford University | Ice penetrating radar: A window into the physical processes of ice sheets and icy moons |
| October 24 | Valerie Sahakian | USGS Menlo Park | Towards region specific ground motion estimation: Putting more seismology into ground motion prediction equations |
| October 31 | Satish Maurya | UC Berkeley | The geodynamic role of the Indian cratonic keel in fast drift of the Indian plate, twist in the tail! |
| November 7 | Kurt Nihei | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Imaging with seismic waves in the near-field |
| November 14 | Tiziana Vanorio | Stanford University | Cementing Roman Concrete to a Caldera |
| November 28 | Baptiste Rousset | UC Berkeley | The low amplitude slow slip events signature in geodetic time series at Guerrero, Mexico and Parkfield, California. |
Spring 2017 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 17 | Michael Manga,Maxwell Rudolph, Wang-Ping Chen, and Douglas Dreger | BSL | Fluids and tectonics, a celebratory symposium on Chi's 80th birthday |
| January 24 | Cancelled | ||
| January 31 | Chris Milliner | BSL | Quantifying Near-Field Ground deformation of Large Magnitude Earthquakes Using Subpixel Optical Image Correlation |
| February 7 | Quentin Bletery | University of Oregon | Mega-earthquakes and fault properties |
| February 14 | Han Yue | Caltech | The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Sequence:how the main shock starts and stops |
| February 21 | Ana Aguiar Moya | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Data Mining Microseismicity using PageRank |
| February 28 | Pierre Dutilleul | McGill University | Multi-frequential periodogram and correlation analyses of earthquake numbers and hypocenter depths in central California |
| March 7 | Bill Hammond | University of Nevada, Reno | GPS Imaging of Earth's Vertical Motion: From Sierra Nevada to North America |
| Monday, March 13, special seminar Room 141 McCone (no seminar March 14th) | |||
| March 13 | Harriet Lau | Harvard | Tidal Tomography and Deep Mantle Buoyancy (Monday seminar) |
| March 21 | Asaf Inbal | BSL | Transient aseismic deformation and deep seismicity along the San-Jacinto and the Newport-Inglewood faults |
| March 28 | spring break | ||
| April 4 | Yves Guglielmi | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Exploring processes of induced seismicity from mesoscale field experiments |
| April 11 | Amir Allam | University of Utah | The Denali Fault as a Plate Boundary: New Results from Double-difference Tomography, Receiver Functions, and Fault Zone Head Waves |
| April 18 | Matt Hornbach | Southern Methodist University | Seismic Imaging of hydrates on US Margins (Arctic/Atlantic) with implications for hydrate/margin stability and climate |
| April 25 | Chris Johnson | BSL | Exit Seminar |
| May 2 | Felipe Orellana Rovirosa | BSL | Exit Seminar |
| May 9 | Anya Reading | University of Tasmania | Ocean Microseisms and Antarctic Lithosphere: Seismological and Interdisciplinary Investigations |
Fall 2016 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| Aug 30 | Kuo Fong Ma | National Central University, Taiwan | Investigation on fault zone and fluid migration activity after the 1999 M7.6 Chi-Chi, Taiwan, earthquake |
| Sept 6 | Janire Prudencio | BSL | 2D and 3D attenuation tomographies of active volcanoes |
| Sept 13 | William Walter | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Explosion Monitoring and the Source Physics Experiment (SPE) |
| Sept 20 | Lian Xue | BSL | Investigations of fault zone behavior during earthquake cycles using hydrology and geodesy |
| Friday Sept 23 Special Seminar 9:30am Room 401 | Richard Gordon | Rice | Origin of the Hawaiian-Emperor Bend: New Evidence |
| Sept 27 | Emma Hill | Earth Observatory of Singapore | Piecemeal rupture of the Mentawai seismic gap, Sumatra, Indonesia: Conversations between recent earthquakes and their afterslip |
| Oct 4 | Nicolas Barth | University of California, Riverside | Tectono-Geomorphic Perspectives on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand |
| Oct 11 | Carl Tape | Geophysics Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks | Alaska Earthquake and Tectonics |
| Oct 18 | No Seminar | ||
| Oct 25 | Christine Ruhl | BSL | Inside an Earthquake Swarm: Detailed Analysis of the 2008 Mogul Earthquakes in Reno, NV |
| Nov 1 | Lingling Ye | Caltech | Diversity of Large Megathrust Rupture: Are "Asperities" Different? |
| Nov 8 | Nicholas van der Elst | US Geological Survey, Pasadena | Susceptibility and immunity in epidemic earthquake models |
| Nov 15 | Cheng Cheng Exit Seminar | BSL | Cascadia subduction weak zone revealed by three-dimensional receiver function Kirchhoff migration |
| Nov 22 | Thanksgiving Week | ||
| Nov 29 | Rob Skoumal | US Geological Survey, Menlo Park | Induced seismicity in the Central and Eastern United States |
| Dec 6 | Carolina Munoz Exit Seminar | BSL | Dynamics of Geyser systems, El Tatio, Atacama Desert |
Spring 2016 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 26 | Nathan Simmons | LLNL | Global seismic tomography for event monitoring and the discovery of an ancient subducted plate |
| February 2 | Gary Fuis | USGS | New Imaging Methods Reveal an Active Flower Structure along a dipping San Andreas Fault (SAF) in Southern California (with a comparison of the SAF at Loma Prieta) |
| February 9 | Dan Frost | ASU | Seismically mapping kilometer-scale structures throughout the mantle |
| February 16 | Gordon Woo | RMS | The Cost-Effectiveness of a Californian Earthquake Early Warning System |
| February 23 | Barbara Tripoli | BSL postdoc | Effect of crystallization and bubble nucleation on the seismic properties of magmas |
| March 1 | Lucia Gualtieri | LDEO | From ocean waves to seismic noise: modeling the broadband seismic noise spectral amplitude |
| March 8 | Lowell Miyagi | Univ. Utah | Deformation of ferropericlase at high pressure and temperature: Is there a viscosity jump in the mid-lower mantle ? |
| March 15 | Max Rudolph | Geophysical evidence for and implications of a mid-mantle viscosity increase | |
| March 22 | spring break | ||
| March 29 | Michael Thorne | Univ. of Utah | An unusually large ultralow-velocity zone beneath the Kuriles |
| April 5 | William Frank | MIT | Pinpointing transient aseismic slip at depth with seismological observations |
| April 12 | Jessica Ball | USGS | Linking hydrothermal alternation,pore pressure distribution and edifice stability in stratovolcanoes |
| April 19 | Dan Shim | ASU | Possible Lower-Mantle Layering by Changes in Crystal Chemistry of Bridgmanite |
| April 26 | Dominique Weis | UBC | The Fine Geochemical Structure of the Hawaiian Mantle Plume Images the Earth's Deep Mantle |
| May 3 | Wenbin Xu | BSL postdoc | Three volcanic eruptions in the southern Red Sea between 2007 and 2013 |
Fall 2015 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| September 1 | Andreas Mavrommatis | Stanford University | A long-term deformation transient and increasing rate of repeating earthquakes preceding the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake |
| September 8 | Maria Teresa Ramirez | BSL visiting scientist | Long- to Short-term Vertical Deformation across the Forearc in the peculiar Mexican Subduction zone |
| September 15 | Corinna Roy | BSL postdoc | Ionospheric tomography by Over-the-horizon radar |
| September 22 | Eric Lindsey | UCSD, Earth Observatory of Singapore | Geodetic constraints on frictional properties and earthquake hazard in the Imperial Valley, southern California |
| September 29 | Nori Nakata | Stanford University | Body-wave reconstruction, imaging, and monitoring from ambient seismic fields |
| October 6 | Brandon Schmandt | University of New Mexico | Investigating microseismicity and crustal structure beneath Mount St. Helens with a 900-geophone array |
| October 13 | Andrew Barbour | USGS, Menlo Park | Variations in Pore Pressure Response Around Plate Boundary Faults in California |
| October 20 | Annemarie Baltay | USGS, Menlo Park | Unraveling Earthquake Physics and Attenuation from Ground Motion Data |
| October 27 | Doug Hemingway | UC Berkeley, Miller postdoc | Interiors of Titan and Enceladus inferred from their topography and gravity fields |
| November 3 | Rob Clayton | California Institute of Technology | Using Dense Seismic Arrays for Tectonic and Hazards Studies; An Example From Los Angeles |
| November 10 | Kerry Key | UC San Diego | Marine electromagnetic imaging of plate boundary fluids beneath the Middle America Trench offshore Nicaragua |
| November 17 | Eric Dunham | Stanford University | Volcano Seismicity and Oscillations of Magma Columns: Application to VLP Events at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii |
| November 24 | Shan Dou | BSL, exit seminar | Field and Laboratory Investigations on Seismic Properties of Unconsolidated Saline Permafrost |
| December 1 | Dan Bassett | UC San Diego | Residual topography and gravity anomalies reveal structural controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake |
Spring 2015 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 20 | Allen McNamara | ASU | Investigating the compositional structure of Earth's mantle |
| January 27 | Kaiqing Yuan | UC Berkeley | Pacific LAB |
| February 3 | Lingling Ye | UCSC | Comparison of rupture process between the two largest deep events: the 1994 Bolivia (Mw 8.2; 640km) and 2013 Sea of Okhotsk (Mw 8.3; 610 km) earthquakes |
| February 10 | Claudia Adam | Virginia Tech | Mantle dynamics and seafloor subsidence |
| February 17 | Asaf Inbal | Caltech | Inference of deep creep on the San-Jacinto Fault near Anza, CA, from joint analysis of strain and aftershock data |
| February 24 | Eileen Evans | USGS Mendenhall | Geodetic imaging of the earthquake cycle |
| March 3 | Paul Selvadurai | UC Berkeley | Laboratory-developed contact models controlling instability on frictional faults |
| March 10 | Jacqueline Austermann | Harvard University | Paleo sea level on a complex and dynamic Earth |
| March 17 | Yihe Huang | Stanford University | Magnitude-frequency distribution of potentially induced earthquakes in Guy, Arkansas sequence |
| March 24 | Spring Break | ||
| March 31 | Estelle Chaussard | UC Berkeley | Interseismic deformation and potential for larger earthquakes on the Hayward-Calaveras Fault system |
| April 7 | Jiayi Xie | University of Colorado Boulder | Inferring the oriented elastic tensor from surface wave observations: Preliminary application across the Western US |
| April 14 | Sarah Bennett | Stanford University | Dig a Little Deeper: Decoding Intermediate-depth Earthquakes |
| April 21 (Cancelled) | Stephen Morris | UC Berkeley | Modelling of slab-scale stresses caused by the olivine-spinel transformation |
| April 28 | Anne Obermann | Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich | Monitoring with ambient noise: applications to volcanoes, fault zones and injection wells |
Fall 2014 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| September 2 | Pierre Boue | Stanford | Teleseismic body waves retrieval from ambient seismic noise correlation |
| September 9 | Allen McNamara | ASU | Understanding the compositional structure of Earthâs mantle |
| September 16 | Yousef Bozorgnia | UC Berkeley | NGA-West2 Research Project |
| September 23 | Angie Chung | Stanford | Rapidly Evaluating Damage Using High Density Networks in Noisy Urban Environments |
| September 30 | Artie Rodgers | LLNL | Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions in the San Francisco Bay Area |
| October 7 | Justin Rubinstein | USGS | Determining the Seismic Hazard of Natural and Induced Earthquakes |
| October 14 | Zhongwen Zhan | UC San Diego | Rupture complexity of deep earthquakes: the large, the hot, and the fast |
| October 21 | Adrien Arnulf | UC San Diego | Anatomy of an active submarine volcano using wavefield based techniques |
| October 28 | Ben Brooks | USGS | Harvesting point clouds: Near field deformation from the South Napa Earthquake from Mobile Laser Scanning geodesy |
| November 4 | Meghan Miller | USC | Imaging the upper mantle structure of northwest Africa: Influence of mantle flow on continental deformation |
| November 11 | NONE - Veterans Day | ||
| November 18 | Sang-Ho Yun | JPL | InSAR Error Budget in the Air |
| November 25 | Diego Melgar | UC Berkeley | Tsunami inundation prediction with kinematic earthquake source models |
| December 2 | Florent Gimbert | Caltech | Can seismic observations be used to improve our knowledge on fluvial erosion processes and Arctic sea-ice dynamics? |
Spring 2014 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 21 | Emily Brodsky | UC Santa Cruz | Stress on Faults. |
| January 28 | David Schmidt | U. of Washington | The interseismic accumulation and transient release of strain on the Cascadia Subduction Zone |
| February 4 | Marco Calo | UC Berkeley (BSL) | Fluid-related induced seismicity and Enhanced Geothermal fields. Insights from the 4D seismic tomography. |
| February 18 | Thorsen Becker | U of Southern California | Seismic anisotropy as a tool for understanding regional tectonics |
| February 25 | James Badro | Institut de Physique du Globe Paris | Accreting the Earth and Forming its Core: Experimental and Theoretical Constraints |
| March 3 | Eric Geist | USGS, Menlo Park. | Tsunami Edge Waves: An Oceanic Analog to Love Waves |
| March 11 | Michael Thorne | U. of Utah | Ultra-low velocity zones and deep mantle flow. |
| March 18 | Maxim Ballmer | U. of Hawaii at Manoa | Long-term survival of compositional layering across the Transition Zone in the presence of whole-mantle convection |
| April 1 | Heidi Houston | U. of Washington | Slow slip,tremor, and tidal stressing: Fault weakening during ETS |
| April 8 | Yuning Fu | California Institute of Technology /JPL-NASA | GPS as a high resolution technique for estimating water storage variations in Washington, Oregon, and California |
| April 15 | Anna Kelbert | Oregon State University | High resolution global electrical conductivity variations in the Earth's mantle |
| April 22 | Scott French | UC Berkeley (BSL) | New Constraints on Whole-mantle Structure using Full-Waveform Tomography |
| April 29 | Romain Jolivet | California Institute of Technology | Bayesian exploration of the sources parameters of the 2013, Mw 7.7, Balouchistan earthquake |
| May 6 | Zhao Zheng (Allen) | UC Berkeley (BSL) | High resolution upper mantle discontinuity images across the Pacific from SS precursors |
Fall 2013 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| September 03 | Norm Abrahamson | UC Berkeley, Geoengineering & BSL | Seismological Research that will have the largest effects on seismic hazard evaluations in California in the next 5-10 years. |
| September 10 | Yan Hu | UC Berkeley, EPS | Upper Mantle Rheology Constrained From Subduction Zone Earthquake Cycle Deformation and Post-Glacial Rebound |
| September 17 | Abhijit Ghosh | UC Riverside | Slow earthquakes and tremor -- where are we headed? |
| September 24 | Charlie Sammis | USC | The Role of Deep Creep in the Timing of Large Earthquakes |
| October 01 | Estelle Chaussard | UC Berkeley, EPS | Characterization of geohazards at regional scales using space geodesy: examples of land subsidence and volcanic eruptions |
| October 08 | Lingsen Meng | UC Berkeley, BSL | Application of Back Projection Imaging to Earthquake Early Warning and Deep-Focus Earthquakes |
| October 15 | Dave Stegman | UC San Diego, SIO | The amazing story of Yellowstone-related volcanism |
| October 22 | Ken Hudnut | USGS, Pasadena | UAVSAR Reveals Surface Faulting and GPS PPP(AR) Assists in Earthquake Early Warning |
| October 29 | Peter Shearer | UC San Diego | Has the probability of big earthquakes recently increased? |
| November 05 | Fukashi Maeno | ERI, Univ. Tokyo | |
| November 12 | Tom Parsons | USGS, Menlo Park | The global aftershock zone |
| November 19 | Julian Lozos | UC Berkley, PEER | Rupture and Ground Motion Models on the Claremont - Casa Loma Stepover of the San Jacinto Fault, Incorporating Complex Fault Geometry, Stresses, and Velocity Structure |
| November 26 | Donna Eberhart-Phillips | UC Davis | Imaging P and S Attenuation in the Termination Region of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand |
| December 03 | Jennifer Frederick | UC Berkeley, EPS | Exit Seminar - Relict Arctic permafrost-associated gas hydrate deposits: Methane gas escape in response to warming due to natural climate variability |
Spring 2013 Seminars:
| Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
| January 22 | Tom Heaton | Caltech | The statistics of long-period ground motion; is probabilistic design of tall buildings feasible? |
| January 29 | Weisen Shen | U. Colorado, Boulder | Modeling the crust and uppermost mantle of W. US from surface wave and receiver functions |
| February 5 | Michael Pasyanos | LLNL | LITHO1.0 â An updated crust and lithospheric model of the Earth developed using multiple data constraints |
| February 12 | Jane Kanitpanyacharoen | UC Berkeley, EPS | Exit Seminar, Synchrotron X-ray applications toward an understanding of elastic anisotropy |
| February 19 | Brandon Schmandt | University of New Mexico | Mantle seismic structure beneath USArray and the origin of the Yellowstone hotspot |
| February 26 | Nathan Simmons | LLNL | Global P-wave tomography for prediction of regional and teleseismic travel times |
| March 5 | Ru-shan Wu | UCSC | Break the border of the Linear Kingdom of waveform inversion | March 12 | Walter Mooney | USGS, Menlo Park | Understanding Intraplate Earthquakes |
| March 19 | Satoshi Ide | University of Tokyo,ERI | The mechanism and spatial variation of slow earthquakes | March 26 | Holiday |
| April 2 | Lars Hansen | Stanford | Feeling olivine fabrics: Implications of seismic anisotropy for the mechanical properties of upper mantle | April 9 | Jianbao Sun | Visiting Scholar, BSL | Probabilistic inversion of geodetic data with applications to recent large earthquakes |
| April 16 | Lori Dengler | Humboldt State | Three decades of chasing tsunamis: successes, failures and challenges |
| MONDAY, April 22 (Note special day.) |
Rob Porritt | BSL | Exit Seminar - Tracing the Farallon plate through seismic imaging with USArray |
| April 30 | No BSL Seminar | Prof Barbara Romanowicz will be giving the Chancellor's Research Lecture at International House, 2299 Piedmont Ave. | May 7 | Sanne Cottaar | BSL | Exit Seminar - Piles and puddles in the deep mantle |