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Post-Winter Quarter 2007
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 12 Apr 3:00pm IGPP Reading Room/Library |
Billy Landuyt, Yale University | Plate generation and two-phase damage theory in a model of mantle convection. |
Winter Quarter 2007
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 11 Jan | Duncan Agnew | The 150th anniversary of the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake comment Gabi:"Why we should or shouldn't buy earthquake insurance" |
| 18 Jan | Jeff Dingler | A high-resolution seismic CHIRP investigation of active normal faulting across the Lake Tahoe Basin, California-Nevada |
| 25 Jan | Kerry Key | Mantle melting beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°30' N |
| 01 Feb | Danny Brothers | New constraints on active tectonics in the San Diego area |
| 08 Feb | Helen Fricker | Bubbling beneath the ice streams: subglacial plumbing
mapped from space (Abstract) canceled |
| 15 Feb | Sylvain Barbot | Space geodetic investigation of the co- and post-seismic deformation
due to the 2003 Mw 7.3 Altai earthquake: Implications for the local lithospheric rheology |
| 22 Feb | Pat Abbott; prof. emeritus at SDSU | Sedimentary and Tectonic History of San Diego Strata |
| 01 Mar | Jose Otero | Research and Development of an Interferometric Seismometer |
| 08 Mar | Urska Manners | Relations between shear velocity and bulk sound speed at the base of the mantle |
| 15 Mar | SIO open house; no seminar | |
| 22 Mar 10:30am Sun City/IGPP Basement; room 12B |
Maisha Amaru, Utrecht University | Global travel time tomography with 3D reference models |
Fall Quarter 2006
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 21 Sep | Gabe Lawrence, Patrick Nehls, Chris Garrod | Computer security at UCSD and what you should have done by now |
| 28 Sep | moved to next week | how about the SIO "fluids" section talk, noon in Sumner Auditorium instead? |
| 05 Oct | Karen Weitemeyer | Marine EM imaging of hydrates and the accretionary complex |
| 12 Oct | moved to next quarter | how about the SIO "fluids" section talk, noon in Sumner Auditorium instead? |
| 19 Oct | Bridget Smith-Konter | Timeout for the San Andreas |
| 26 Oct | J.J. Becker | 2D Spectra from 1D Data |
| 02 Nov | Matt Meng Wei | Resolving shallow creep events on the San Andreas Fault |
| 09 Nov | Leah Ziegler | A Statistical Assessment of 0-1Ma Absolute Paleointensity Measurements |
| 16 Nov | Guoqing Lin | A simple and fast method to estimate high resolution Vp/Vs ratios |
| 23 Nov | THANKSGIVING | |
| 30 Nov | canceled due to ES section meeting | TBA |
| 07 Dec | FINALS WEEK |
Spring Quarter 2006; Start time: 12:30pm
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 07 APR, 3pm FRIDAY! |
Jim Behrens | Amery's Loose Tooth: The Making of a Large Iceberg |
| 13 APR | James Jackson Univerity of Cambridge guest of John Sclater |
Oceanic and Continental Lithosphere |
| 27 APR | Alison Labonte | ORION update: how the community is planning to design and implement ocean observatories with the ~$310 million from NSF |
| 04 MAY | TBA | TBA |
| 11 MAY | TBA | TBA |
| 18 MAY | Pete Davis | What's New with IDA |
| 25 MAY | TBA | TBA |
| 01 JUN | cancelled |
Winter Quarter 2006
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 26 JAN | cancelled | |
| 02 FEB | Paul Henkart | Slides from the Healy Oden Trans Arctic Expedition (HOTRAX) |
| 09 FEB | Joseph Becker | Global Estimates of Seafloor Slope from Single-Beam Ship Soundings |
| 16 FEB | Jim Brune | Geologic constraints on extreme ground motions |
| 23 FEB | Nic Richmond | Wishing the Earth would stop spinning: the problem of ring current asymmetry in satellite induction studies |
| 02 MAR | Kerry Key | Mapping the magmatic system at the East Pacific Rise near 9o30'N: First results from a marine EM experiment |
| 09 MAR | Fiona Sutherland | Insights in the Initiation and Evolution of Continental
Rifting across the southern Gulf of California |
Fall Quarter 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 22 SEP | Bernard Minster | The SCEC TeraShake and CyberShake earthquake simulation
series: Applications of high-performance computing to seismic hazard assessment |
| 29 SEP | Cris Hollinshead | Considering the inclusive challenge to exclusive structures in society
and science retirement party follows in T-29 |
| 06 OCT | David Sandwell | Uncharted Waters: Crash of the USS San Francisco |
| 13 OCT | Meng Wei | Estimates of Ridge-Axis Heat Flow from Depth and Age Data |
| 20 OCT | Donna Blackman | Drilling an oceanic core complex, Mid-Atlantic Ridge 30
deg N; lots of rock, borehole logging, and some reasons to rethink models |
| 27 OCT | Barry Eakins | Rediscovery of the 'popping rocks' of Popcorn Ridge, Baja California, Mexico |
| 03 NOV | Jesse Lawrence | TBA |
| 10 NOV | German Prieto | An overview to Time-Frequency methods |
| 17 NOV | Kris Walker | Earthquake rupture imaging in near real time: Inversion for finite fault models is obsolete! further reading |
| 24 NOV | THANKSGIVING | |
| 01 DEC | cancelled due to other meetings |
Spring Quarter 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 31 MAR | TBA | TBA |
| 14 APR | Karen Luttrell | How Thick Is Your Shell? Constraining Ice Thickness and Strength on Europa |
| 21 APRIL | Cathy and Steve Constable | Ethics in Science: What makes me an author, and what are my responsibilities if I am one? |
| 28 APRIL | TBA | |
| 05 MAY | Jolante van Wijk | Oblique Rifting |
| 12 MAY | Graham Kent | California in 10 Ma: Beachfront property in the High Sierra? |
| 19 MAY | Glenn Ierley | Getting in on the ground floor: a practical guide to Fortran for the homeowner |
| 26 MAY | Steve and Cathy Constable | Ethics in Science: When there's money involved |
| 02 JUNE | Kerry Key | Thinking outside the rectangle: Finite element modeling using unstructured grids |
| 09 JUN | Bruce Bills | Tidal dissipation and orbital evolution in the Saturn-Titan system |
Winter Quarter 2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 27 JAN | Ulrich Schreiber, Technical University Munich | Applications of highresolution Sagnac interferometry |
| 03 FEB | Karim Sabra, MPL | Surface wave tomography from seismic ambient noise in Southern California |
| 10 FEB | Louis Geli | Hydrothermalism and subsidence of ocean basins: evidence from the Australian-Antarctic Discordance Area |
| 17 FEB | Guoqing Lin | Tests of Relative Earthquake Location Techniques Using Synthetic Data |
| 24 FEB | Cathy and Steve Constable | Ethics in Science Reading assignment: Nov04 issue of "Physics Today" |
| 03 MAR | Renee Bulow | The Search for More Moonquakes |
| 10 MAR | OPEN HOUSE | |
| 17 MAR | Kris Walker | Testing geometric configurations of optical fiber infrasound sensors Recommended reading: UCSD Optical Fiber Infrasound Sensor Utilizes HPWREN for the Data Transport from the Pinyon Flats Observatory http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/050310.html VIZ CENTER |
Fall Quarter 2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 16 SEP | Andy Jackson (University of Leeds) | Constraints from geodesy and geomagnetism on the energy budget of the Earth's core |
| 23 SEP | TBA | TBA |
| 07 OCT | German Prieto | Earthquake source physics, scaling and self-similarity |
| 21 OCT | Fiona Sutherland | Continental Rifting in the Southern Gulf of California |
| 28 OCT | Lisa Tauxe | CANCELLED! |
| 04 NOV | Jeremy Bassis | From Icebergs to Plate Tectonics: a Comparison of Rifting in Ice Shelves and the Lithosphere |
| 11 NOV | Steve Cande | Motion between East and West Antarctica and the bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain |
| 18 NOV | Dave Sandwell | Warps, Cracks, and Leaks in the Pacific Plate |
| 02 DEC | Aggie Wein | CANCELLED |
Spring Quarter 2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 01 APR | Hubert Staudigel | April fools title: Studying Hydrothermal Venting at
Vailulu'u Seamount/Samoa with an
Icebreaker, and getting away with it (twice!) there will be ice cream after the seminar |
| 08 APR | Jasper Konter | Post April fools title: Seafloor seismic monitoring of an active submarine volcano: Local seismicity at Vailulu'u Seamount, Samoa |
| 15 APR | Greg Bruno, Rocks Group at SDSC | Rocks: Making Commodity Clusters Easy for the Scientific Community (Abstract) |
| 22 APR | Kevin Brown | Silent Slip on Weak Subduction Faults - Laboratory and Field Studies |
| 29 APR | Bob Parker | What I did on my sabbatical leave |
| 06 MAY | Pete Davis | What's new at IDA |
| 13 MAY | John Blum | Upper Mantle structure beneath southern Africa |
| 20 MAY | Jolante van Wijk | Slow-spreading ridge discontinuities and continental rift propagation |
| 27 MAY | Dylan McNamara | Emergence in Coupled Human-Natural Interactions on a Barrier Island |
| 03 JUN | Katie Phillips | Seafloor Geodesy on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii: Preliminary Vertical Deformation Results |
| 10 JUN | Gabi Laske | Why I went to Jordan and what I saw (10%science/90% travel
report) |
Winter Quarter 2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 15 JAN | Geoff Ely | Hybrid Numerical Modeling for Fault Rupture and Wave Propagation |
| 22 JAN | Bridget Smith | The San Andreas: Stressed Out and Movin' Up |
| 5 FEB | Davis Thomsen | InSAR observed ground subsidence at the Buckman Well Field, New Mexico |
| 12 FEB | Kristine Larson from U. Colorado | High-rate GPS Applications for Seismology: What's Next? |
| 19 FEB | Allison Jacobs | S.Ex. W.Ax. - Lauwow: Fusing together two seismic experiments |
| 26 FEB | Cathy Constable | TBA.....slides from Antarctica |
| 4 MAR | Miaki Ishii | The tectonic evolution of the New Hebrides/Tonga region in the last 6 Myrs |
| 16 MAR! | Gidi Baer Geological Survey of Israel |
Special Seminar:Vertical Deformation along the Dead Sea Transform from InSAR |
| 18 MAR | Stefan Dech from Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (German NASA) Held in the VIZ Center! |
Projects and applications at DLR's German Remote Sensing Data
Center this is finals week but we'll have a relaxing informal seminar nevertheless |
Fall Quarter 2003
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 16 OCT | Allan Sauter | A Towed Seafloor Source for Seismic Exploration |
| 31 OCT (Friday 12 pm) |
Jesse Lawrence | The highest, driest, and coldest seismology experiment |
| 6 NOV | Eric Dunham UC Santa Barbara |
The Dynamics of Supershear Ruptures: Head Waves, Diffraction, and What Kinematic Models are Missing |
| 20 NOV | Ronald Muellerschoen JPL |
The Definitive History (so far) of Global Differential GPS |
| 27 NOV | No seminar (Thanksgiving) | |
| 11 DEC | No seminar (AGU) |
Spring Quarter 2003
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 03 APR | No seminar | |
| 10 APR | Mike Vera | Long-range sound propagation in the ocean: numerical modeling of the North Pacific Acoustic Laboratory experiment |
| 17 APR | Brad Bailey | Microbial Dissolution of Deep Ocean Basalts |
| 24 APR | Dogan Seber Cornell University |
Geoscience Information Systems in Research and Education |
| 01 MAY | No Seminar | |
| 08 MAY | Jeremy Bassis | Crevasses, Satellites, Explosives and other tales from Antarctica |
| 15 MAY | No seminar | |
| 22 MAY | Kerry Key | TBA |
| 29 MAY | David Sandwell | Physics of Surfing |
| 05 JUN | No seminar | |
| 09 JUN, Monday | Jim Brune Univ. Nevada at Reno |
Seismic hazard at Yucca Mountain (the proposed nuclear waste repository) |
| 30 JUN, Monday | Fabio Rocca Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
Measuring ground motion from space: From multi-interferogram techniques to permanent scatterers |
Winnter Quarter 2003
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 23 JAN | Adrian Borsa | GPS Survey of the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia: Flat is Beautiful |
| 30 JAN | Thorsten Becker | How the mantle flows, what it does, and why we know |
| 06 FEB | Jim Behrens | Wet Deck, Bad Winch, BBQ, and a Salt Blob |
| 20 FEB | Renee Bulow | What's Shakin' on the Moon: Comprehensive Processing of the Apollo Lunar Seismic Event Data |
| 06 MAR | Shimon Wdowinski Tel Aviv Univ./Univ. of Miami |
Geodetic detection of active faults in Southern California |
| 13 MAR | No seminar | (Open House) |
Spring Quarter 2002
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 4 APR | No seminar | |
| 12 APR 2 pm |
Jim Brune, Univ. Nevada at Reno | New prospectives on the fault gouge |
| 18 APR | Fiona Sutherland | The OSNPE: Low Detection Limits on Borehole and Buried Ocean Bottom Seismometers |
| 25 APR | Christine Reif | Is the 410 Discontinuity Flat? New Results from a Joint Velocity/Depth Inversion |
| 2 MAY | Dylan McNamara | A Note on the Instability of the Alongshore Current |
| 9 MAY | Hrvoje Tkalcic | Studying the Deep Earth Structure Using Core Sensitive Phases |
| 2:30 pm | Jean-Luc Margot | The Moon and Mercury on the radar screen |
| 23 MAY | Katie Phillips | Seafloor Geodesy on Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii |
| 30 MAY | No seminar | |
| 6 JUN | Crispin Hollinshead | Science and Consciousness: A Preview of Coming Attractions |
Winter Quarter 2002
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 3 JAN | Michael Hedlin | Listening to the Secret Sounds of the Atmosphere |
| 10 JAN | Jim Brune, Univ. Nevada at Reno | Seismic hazard at the proposed nuclear waste repository, Yucca Mountain, Nevada: Major uncertainties |
| 17 JAN | Anthony Koppers | Long-lived but discontinuous hotspot volcanism of the South Pacific mantle |
| 24 JAN | Jasper Konter | Evolution of Jasper Seamount |
| 31 JAN | David Sandwell | Why don't mountains fall down? What make the plate go? |
| 7 FEB | Kerry Key | New results using marine MT over a 3-D structure: Imaging salt at the Gemini prospect, Gulf of Mexico |
| 14 FEB | Adrian Borsa | Using LIDAR to Estimate Near-Fault Displacement for the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake |
| 21 FEB | Scott Nooner | Seafloor Gravity Measurements Made at the Atlantis Transform Fault along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to Study the Origin of Oceanic Core Complexes |
| 28 FEB | Geoff Ely | Dynamic Modeling of Earthquake Sources |
| Special Seminar, 2:30 pm 7 MAR |
Klaus Hasselmann | The Metron Model: From geophysical Feynman diagrams, solitons and ripe currents to a deterministic unified theory of fields, particles, and physical constants |
| 14 MAR | No seminar - Open House | |
| 21 MAR | No seminar - Spring break | |
| 28 MAR | No seminar - Spring break |
Fall Quarter 2001
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 20 SEP | Shingo Watada | Does the ocean excite continuous oscillations of the Earth? |
| 27 SEP | Graham Kent Revelle Room 3:45pm |
Differential Strain Accumulation Across Lake Tahoe as Measured From Submerged Paleo-Shorelines |
| 04 OCT | ||
| 11 OCT | ||
| 18 OCT | Debi Kilb | Precise Earthquake Locations -- What Are They Good For? |
| 25 OCT | Jeanne Hardebeck | Fun with Beach Balls |
| 01 NOV | Glenn Sasagawa | Gravimeters for Seafloor Measurements |
| 08 NOV | Jeremy Bassis | Untangling Bigfoot |
| 15 NOV | David McMillan | Practical applications of lies, guesswork and speculation to paleomagnetism |
| 22 NOV | No seminar - Thanksgiving | _ |
| Special seminar 29 NOV |
Don Anderson, Caltech | Plate tectonics as a far-fron-equilibrium self-organized Prigoginian System |
| 3 pm 06 DEC |
Richard Peltier, Univ. of Toronto | Geodynamic constraints on global sea level rise |
| 13 DEC | AGU - No seminar |