Seminar Schedule
All seminars are at 4pm in 265 McCone.
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 | TBA |
| April 21 | 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 | TBA |
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 | Determinig 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 | |
| Jaunary 21 | Emily Brodsky | UC Santa Cruz | Sress on Faults. |
| Jaunary 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 |
