Address questions about scheduled seminars to the host listed for each speaker. To suggest a speaker, contact one of the following seminar coordinators: Jim Behrens , Christine Reif or Scott Nooner . To receive email announcements of upcoming seminars, send a message to listserv@sio.ucsd.edu that says 'add your_email_address gp_seminar'. To be removed from the list, send a similar message replacing add with delete.

2000-2001 seminars

2002-2003 seminars

2001-2002 Seminars:  Quick Link Table

Fall Quarter 2001

September 21, Friday 3 PM

September 28, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Bruno Hernandez
            Institute of Geophysics at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

            Inversion of seismological and geodetic data to study the earthquake source

            contact: Christine Reif

October 5, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Richard Allen
            CalTech

            Imaging the Icelandic mantle

            contact: Christine Reif

October 12, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room
 

            No speaker-- Sorry!
 

October 19, Friday 3 pm

        Tien Lee
            UC Riverside

           Contrasting Origins of the San Jacinto and Paloma Basins in the Perris Tectonic Block, southern California

            contact: Jim Behrens

October 26, Friday 3 pm

        Emily Brodsky
           UC Berkeley

           Distant Effects of Earthquakes on Hot, Wet Rocks

            contact: Christine Reif

November 2, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Matt Pritchard
           CalTech

        A Survey of Volcanic Deformation in the Central Andes Using InSAR

            contact: Scott Nooner

November 9, 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Peter Bird
            UCLA

Analysis of 20th-Century Seismicity With a New Plate Model: The Majority of Faults Slip Aseismically

          contact: Jim Behrens

November 16, Friday 3 pm
IGPP REVELLE CONFERENCE ROOM

        Lawrence Lawver
            UT Austin

****Joint Seminar with Geology

Opening of the Eurasia Basin
 

            contact: Christine Reif

****Note****
There will be an informal brown-bag lunch talk at noon in the Revelle Conference Room

Cenozoic evolution of the Antarctic continental margin and opening of Southern
Ocean Seaways

            HOLIDAY WEEKEND- no seminar
 

        Kriton Glenn
           AGSO - Geoscience Australia

            Sub-seafloor geology, natural hydrocarbon seepage and eustatic
         sea level variations as key determiners of seafloor physiography and
         the composition of the benthic habitats on the Ashmore platform,
         Timor Sea, Australia

             contact: Jim Behrens

           Richard Peltier
               University of Toronto

           Geodynamic constraints on global sea level rise

            contact: Jim Behrens

        AGU- no seminar

Winter Quarter 2002

January 11, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Vincent Courtillot
            Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris & Caltech

        Apparent and True Polar Wander and the Geometry of the Geomagnetic Field in the Last 200 Million Years

         contact: Christine Reif

January 18, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Gary Glatzmaier
           UC Santa Cruz

        Convection in the Deep Interiors of Giant Planets

            contact: Scott Nooner

January 25, Friday Noon
Munk Conference Room

        Gillian Foulger
           University of Durham

        Leaky microplate jigsaw, not a plume, forms the Iceland volcanic plateau

         contact: Christine Reif

February 1, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

          Howard Zebker
           Stanford University

        Detecting a subsurface ocean on Europa with an orbiting radar sounder

           contact: Christine Reif

February 8, Friday 3 pm

February 15

            HOLIDAY WEEKEND- no seminar
 

March 1, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Scott King
           Purdue University

       Sudden plate reorganizations in a 3D convection model with plates

            contact: Christine Reif

March 8, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room

        Gilles Peltzer
           UCLA

        Transient strain accumulation and fault interaction in the
        Eastern California Shear Zone

           contact: Christine Reif

March 15, Friday 3 pm        RE-SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 12
Munk Conference Room

        Susan Owen
           USC

          GPS measurements of Postseismic Deformation from the Mw7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake

            contact: Jim Behrens

March 22, Friday 3 pm
Munk Conference Room
 

Spring Quarter 2002

        Mike Pasyanos
          Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

           Studying Seismic Sources and Earth Structure in Western Eurasia and North Africa using Surface Waves

              contact: Jim Behrens

        Susan Owen
           USC

          GPS measurements of Postseismic Deformation from the Mw7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake

            contact: Jim Behrens
 
 

        Catherine Johnson
          SIO/IGPP

          Coronae on Venus: Unique Records of a Planet's History

             contact: Jim Behrens

        Yehuda Ben-Zion
          USC

         Characterization of Fault Zones

             contact: Jim Behrens

        Matthew Fouch
           ASU

        Mantle Seismic Structure Beneath Southern Africa

           contact: Christine Reif

       Steven Persh
           UCLA

        Source Properties of Deep-Focus Earthquakes

           contact: Christine Reif

        Paul Segall
          Stanford
 

             contact: Jim Behrens

            HOLIDAY WEEKEND - no seminar
 

       Paul Tackley
           UCLA

           contact: Christine Reif

        Rachel Haymon
          UC Santa Barbara
 

             contact: Scott Nooner