UCBerkeley Seismological Laboratory Seminar Series

Spring 2008 Program

Location: 265 McCone Hall, UC Berkeley
Tuesdays, 4-5pm

Directionsto the Berkeley Seismological LaboratoryDate

Speaker

Institution

Talk title

January 22

Takaaki Taira

University of Utah

Stress-induced temporal changes in the seismogenic crust at the San

Andreas Fault zone

January 29

Meghan Miller

Rice University

The Caribbean: from the crust to the core

February 5

Karen Fischer

Brown University

Subduction zone structure, dynamics and melting processes: Lessons from Central America

February 12

Marie-Luce Chevalier

Stanford University

Determination, by 10Be cosmogenic dating, of slip-rates on the Karakorum Fault (Tibet) and paleoclimatic evolution since 200ka

February 19

Jesse Lawrence

Stanford University

The Quake Catcher Network & Distributed Computing Seismology

February 26

Laurent Stehly

Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

Surface waves tomography from observations of seismic ambient noise

March 4

Marco Bohnhoff

Stanford University

Seismotectonic Setting of the Aegean-Anatolian region

March 18

Jay Melosh

University of Arizona

Landslides, Impact Craters and Earthquakes: The Paradoxical Behavior of Sliding Rock en Masse

March 25



NO SEMINAR—SPRING BREAK

April 8



NO SEMINAR---LAWSON LECTURE

(April 9th, 3pm in Sibley Auditorium)

April 15



NO SEMINAR—SSA MEETING

April 22

Wu-Cheng Chi

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Seismological, Oceanic, and Metrological Phenomena
Observed by Ocean Bottom Seismographs:  An Example from Taiwan

April 29

Thomas L. Holzer

USGS

Probabilistic mapping of liquefaction hazard in the San Francisco Bay Area

May 6

Rebecca Harrington

UCLA

Volcanic hybrids that are brittle failure events

May 13

Brian Stump

SMU

Combining high frequency seismic and infrasound signals for characterizing propagation paths in both the atmosphere and the solid earth

May 20

Dayanthie Weeraratne

CSU Northridge

Seismic and Rheological Behavior of the Asthenosphere Beneath Intraplate Seamount Chains in the South Pacific

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