USC GEODYNAMICS
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
Los Angeles

Becker Group

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Some random pictures from group activities. For the current cast of USC Geodynamics characters, see here.

European Geodynamics meeting in Braunwald: Attreyee Ghosh, Mélanie Gérault, Lisa Alpert, TWB (June 2009)


Temescal canyon hike: Iain Bailey, Zi-Yu Wu, Attreyee Ghosh, TWB, Mélanie Gérault, Whitney Behr (honorary), Thomas Göbel (missing: Lisa Alpert, January 2009).

El Cholo: Iain Bailey, Kevin Milner, Attreyee Ghosh, Lisa Alpert, Zi-Yu Wu, Mélanie Gérault, Thomas Göbel (August 2008).

Dinner with earthquake predicters: Thorsten Becker, Peter Shebalin, Danijel Schorlemmer, Yehuda Ben-Zion, Alvaro Gonzalez, Mark W Stirling (April 2009, the day I got tenure...)

Boris Kaus and Thorsten Becker in Dublin for the DIAS Anisotropy meeting; we matched our sweaters to the color of the beer (November 2008).


Brad Foley graduates with BSc (May 2008), he's now a grad student at Yale.


Pressure modes are not so bad! (April 2008)

Group in 08/2005: Iain Bailey (PhD 09; post-doc), Thorsten Becker, Clare Steedman (MSc 06; environmental consulting), Jules Browaeys (post-doc), Boris Kaus (assist prof ETH Zurich), Katrin Plenkers (PhD cand, GFZ Potsdam), as of 08/2009.

Updated: August 26, 2008.