Cecil H. and Ida M. Green
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

Friday Geophysics Seminar Series

Fridays 3-4pm
Refreshments served at 2:45pm
Munk Conference Room
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

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2002-2003 coordinators:
Jeremy Bassis bassis@igpp.ucsd.edu
Jeana Driver jdriver@ucsd.edu
Geoffrey Ely gely@ucsd.edu
Jose Otero jotero@epicenter.ucsd.edu
Fiona Sutherland fi@ucsd.edu
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Fall 2002 Schedule
Date Speaker Title Contact
Sep. 20 Martin Füllekrug
Universität Frankfurt
Recent Advances in Global Lightning Research abstract Jeremy Bassis
Sep. 27
2:15-3:15pm
John Cloud
Cornell University
An Exploratory History of CODEWORD Processes in the Geosciences Jeremy Bassis
Oct. 9
12-1pm
Warren Hamilton
Colorado School of Mines
Driving Mechanism and Dynamic Framework of Plate Tectonics Tabitha Hensley
Oct. 11 Roger Buck
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Modes of Faulting at Mid-Ocean Ridges abstract Jeremy Bassis
Oct. 25 Ross Stein
U.S. Geological Survey
Implications of an Earthquake Super-swarm for the Genesis of Seismicity abstract Jeremy Bassis
Geoffrey Ely
Nov. 1 Cecily Wolfe
University of Hawaii at Manoa
High precision relocations of deep (> 13 km) Hawaiian earthquakes: Evidence for a mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea Volcano abstract Geoffrey Ely
Nov. 8
Revelle
Gary Pavlis
SIO IGPP Green Scholar
The seismic response of a steep slope: high resolution observations with a dense, three-component seismic array abstract Geoffrey Ely
Nov. 15 David Oglesby
UC Riverside
Branches and Offsets: Issues in 3-D Earthquake Models with Complex Fault Geometry abstract Geoffrey Ely
Nov. 22 Marjorie Schmeltz
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Interferometry and finite-element modeling on glacier flow abstract Fiona Sutherland
Winter 2003 Schedule
Date Speaker Title Contact
Jan. 24 Jeanne Hardebeck
SIO IGPP Green Scholar
Applying Earthquake Stress Triggering Models to Seismic Hazard Assessment abstract Jose Otero
Jeana Driver
Jan. 31 Lisa Grant
UC Irvine
Recent Rupture History of the Coastal Fault Zone between Punta Banda and the Los Angeles Basin abstract Geoffrey Ely
Tue. Feb. 4
3-4pm
Peter Clift
Woods Hole
Controls on Tectonic Accretion versus Erosion in Subduction Zones: Implications for the Origin and Recycling of the Continental Crust Fiona Sutherland
Feb. 7 Hrvoje Tkalcic
IGPP, UC San Diego
On the Origin of Complexity in Core Phases Travel Times abstract Geoffrey Ely
Feb. 21 John Vidale
UCLA
I: Damage to the shallow Landers fault from the nearby Hector Mine earthquake. II: The Spatial and Temporal Pattern of Shear Wave Splitting Along the Hector Mine Rupture Zone abstract Geoffrey Ely
Mar. 7 Hans-Peter Bunge
Princeton University
Mantle circulation models with variational data assimilation: Inferring past mantle flow and structure from plate motion histories and seismic tomography abstract Geoffrey Ely
Mar. 21 Harold Magistrale
San Diego State University
Faults in Imperial Valley abstract Geoffrey Ely
Spring 2003 Schedule
Date Speaker Title Contact
Apr 4 Dave Chadwell
SIO MPL
Present-day motions of the Juan de Fuca plate from seafloor geodetic measurements abstract Jeana Driver
Apr 18 Catherine Snelson
UNLV
Gambling in Las Vegas: Understanding Seismic Hazards in Southern Nevada abstract Fiona Sutherland
Apr 25 Yehuda Bock
SIO IGPP
Progress in Real Time GPS Networks Jose Otero
May 2 Jeff Gee
SIO GRD
Magnetic constraints on the emplacement of lower crustal and upper mantle materials at slow spread ridges abstract Jeana Driver
May 9 Tom Rockwell
San Diego State University
Paleoseismic studies after the 1999 Izmit earthquake Geoffrey Ely
May 16 Abby Kavner
UCLA
Electrochemistry and the Earth's Core-Mantle Boundary Fiona Sutherland
May 30 Brian Tucker
GeoHazards International
Toward Global Seismic Safety: Successes, Failures and A Modified Approach abstract Geoffrey Ely
Jun 6 Antonio Gonzalez-Fernandez
CICESE
The Gulf of California crustal structure: what we know and what we don't abstract Fiona Sutherland
Jun 13 Domenico Giardini Joint inversion of GPS, InSAR, Broad-Band and Strong-Motion data to map the spatial and temporal distribution of earthquake slip Jose Otero

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