Seminar Schedule

The BSL Seminar regularly takes place Tuesdays at 4:00pm (PST) unless otherwise noted. Seminars will be hybrid with in-person people joining from the BSL Conference Room (220 McCone Hall) and many others joining virtually. Please email Roland Bürgmann (burgmann@berkeley.edu) and Weiqiang Zhu (zhuwq@berkeley.edu) to be added to the mailing list to receive the Zoom link.

Fall 2024 Seminars

Name Affiliation Title
September 3 Donna Shillington Northern Arizona University Multiple physical factors control megathrust slip behavior in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone
September 10 Louisa Barama Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Local and Regional Coda Calibration for Seismic Source Characterization and Mw Determinations
September 17 Clara Yoon United States Geological Survey Deep-learning enhanced earthquake catalogs: research and monitoring applications
September 24 Jonathan Wolf UC Berkeley Automated, global analyses of deep Earth structure from a massive dataset: Preliminary results, data products, and ways forward
October 1 Theresa Sawi United States Geological Survey Assessing Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Borehole Strain Meter Waveform Statistics for Improving Earthquake Early Warning
October 8 Will Steinhardt UC Santa Cruz Precursory Locking Precedes Slip Events on Laboratory Fault
October 15 Voon Hui Lai Australian National University High-resolution imaging of the Alpine Fault
October 22 Bob B. Smith University of Utah Yellowstone Hotspot Geodynamics and Seismic Imaging: A Mantle Conduit Of Rising Partial Melt that Fuels Yellowstone's Volcano, Earthquake and Hydrothermal Systems
October 29 Yan Yang UC San Diego Hydrological Monitoring with Fiber-Optic Sensing
November 5 Jannes Munchmeyer MIT/ISTerre Grenoble The peculiar spectrum of slow-to-fast earthquakes around the Copiapó ridge, Northern Chile
November 12 Katherine Guns United States Geological Survey Constraining Earthquake Hypocentral Depth of Moderate Magnitude Earthquakes in the Continental US using Sentinel-1 InSAR Stacking
November 19 Margaret Glasglow United States Geological Survey How induced seismicity in the Central U.S. informs our understanding of faults and earthquakes
November 26 Anna Jegen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel Exploring the complex dynamics of the Rodriguez Triple Junction: Insights from new seismological data
December 3 Norman A. Abrahamson UC Berkeley TBA

Spring 2024 Seminars (pdf)

Previous Seminars (pdf)