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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2005-2006 Coordinators:

Bettina Allmann
John Blum
Robert Kern
Kristin Lawrence
Karen Luttrell
Ashley Medin
Karen Weitemeyer

Fall 2005 Schedule
Date Speaker Title Contact
Sep. 16 Roger Searle
Durham University
Crustal accretion at the very slow spreading South West Indian Ridge - a detailed analysis of seafloor spreading processes (PDF)
Donna Blackman
Sep. 30 TBA
Oct. 7 Jim Berryman
Stanford
Time Reversal for Radar Imaging of Objects Hidden by Clutter
Ashley Medin
Oct. 14 No seminar
Oct. 21 Philip Stark
Berkeley
Backus-Gilbert and Beyond Ashley Medin
Oct. 28 Cathy Constable
IGPP
Is Earth's Magnetic Field Reversing? (PDF) Kristin Lawrence
Nov. 4 Yuri Fialko
IGPP
The Big Bend, the strength, and the next rupture of the San Andreas fault Bettina Allmann
Nov. 11 Krishan Khurana
UCLA, IGPP
Evidence of a dynamic atmosphere on Enceladus. The latest magnetic field observations and modeling of Cassini data in the vicinity of Enceladus.
Karen Luttrell
Nov. 18 George Jiracek
SDSU
Seismogenic and Electrically Conducting Zones at Continent-Continent Collisions in New Zealand, Himalaya, and along the San Andreas Fault
Karen Weitemeyer
Nov. 25 No Seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 2 Gerd Steinle-Neumann
Bayreuth Geophysical Institute
Squeezing spin - magnetism in Earth materials
Kristin Lawrence
Winter 2006 Schedule
Date Speaker Title Contact
Jan. 13
NOON
Gary Greene
MBARI
Tsunami Generating Landslides Along the California Margin: Origin, Mechanisms, and Consequences John Blum
Jan. 20 Stephen Park
UC Riverside
Patience pays off: Electromagnetic signals and the 2004 Parkfield earthquake Karen Weitemeyer
Jan. 27 Steve Day
SDSU
Advanced Computer Applications to Earthquake Simulations and Earthquake Hazards Estimation Bettina Allmann
Feb. 3 Toshiro Tanimoto
UC Santa Barbara
Gazing at Microseisms Ashley Medin
Feb. 10 Guy Masters
IGPP, UC San Diego
A global look at crust and lithosphere structure from surface wave group velocity -- a progress report. Karen Weitemeyer
Feb. 17 Bill Symes
Rice University
Ashley Medin
Feb. 24 Charles Goldman
UC Davis (CV)
The World Water and Climate Network: The need to apply basic lake research on a global scale Karen Luttrell
Mar. 3 Nadia Lapusta
Caltech
Bettina Allmann
Mar. 10 Rebecca Williams
Smithsonian Institution
Preservation Styles of Fluvial Landforms on Mars Kristin Lawrence
Mar. 17 Bruce Buffett
University of Chicago
Bending of plates at subduction zones and the energetics of plate tectonics. Karen Weitemeyer
Spring 2006 Schedule
Date Speaker Title Contact
Apr. 3
Monday
Helge Gonnermann
Harvard University
Precarious magma ascent - explosive or effusive volcanism?
4500 Hubbs Hall at 3-4 PM
Joint GS,MCG,GP Seminar
Apr. 6
Thursday
Qing-zhu Yin
UC Davis
At the dawn of a paradigm shift: geochemical paradoxes, early earth
differentiation and a unifying theme with geophysics at D”
4500 Hubbs Hall at 3-4 PM
Joint GS,MCG,GP Seminar
Apr. 10
Monday
Stephanie Ingle
University of Hawaii
A classic example of hotspot-ridge interaction along the Galapagos Spreading Center.
4500 Hubbs Hall at 3-4 PM
Joint GS,MCG,GP Seminar
Apr. 13
Thursday
Brian Jicha
University of Wisconsin
How Island Arc Volcanoes Grow: Linking volcanic and magmatic processes through 40Ar/39Ar and U-Th geochronology
4500 Hubbs Hall at 3-4 PM
Joint GS,MCG,GP Seminar
Apr. 17
Monday
William Meurer
University of Houston
Construction of the Lower Oceanic Crust at Slow Spreading Ridges - An Example from the MARK Area
4500 Hubbs Hall at 3-4 PM
Joint GS,MCG,GP Seminar
Apr. 20
Thursday
Tobias Fischer
University of New Mexico
Magmatic Gas Emissions: Perspectives on Volcanic Activity and Mantle Volatile Cycles
4500 Hubbs Hall at 3-4 PM
Joint GS,MCG,GP Seminar
Apr. 21 Nat Lifton
U of Arizona
In Situ Cosmogenic 14C: An Emerging Tool in Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology, with Geophysical Implications Kristin Lawrence
Apr. 28 Anne Trehu
Oregon State Univ.
Distribution and dynamics of gas hydrate in Cascadia Karen Weitemeyer
May. 5 Mladen Nedimovic
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Structure and evolution of the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate from accretion to subduction Karen Luttrell
May. 12 Scott Ashford
UCSD
Monitoring Coastal Bluff erosion using LIDAR Karen Luttrell
May. 19 Richard Clarke
BP
3D ocean bottom seismic node survey over the Atlantis field, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico John Blum
May. 26 No Seminar
Memorial Day Weekend
Jun. 2 TBA
TBA
TBA
Jun. 9 Roland Buergmann
UC Berkeley
Geodetic Imaging of Lithosphere Rheology Bettina Allmann

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