Geophysics Seminar Series

Fall, 2006

Tuesday 11-12, ZHS 123

Instructors: Yehuda Ben-Zion¹ and Thorsten Becker²

¹Office: ZHS109; Tel: (213) 740-7634; email: benzion -at- usc.edu

²Office: ZHS269, Tel: (213) 740-8365; email: twb -at- usc.edu

Office hours by appointment

Lectures

(Tuesday 11-12, unless indicated otherwise)

Aug 29: Jeff McGuire (WHOI): Examining Along Strike Variations in Fault Friction in Subduction Zones

Sep 5: Christina Morency (Dalhousie): Numerical model for coupled pore fluid flow and skeleton matrix deformation: Applications to disequilibrium compaction and delta stability.

Sep 12: SCEC meeting

Sep 19: Margaret Boettcher (USGS Menlo Park): Deformation of the oceanic upper mantle: Insights from olivine friction experiments

Sep 26: Lapo Boschi (ETHZ): New Methods in global seismic tomography: improvements and limitations

Oct 3: Isabella Velicogna (CU Boulder, JPL): Monitoring ice sheets mass variations from GRACE

Oct 10: Alex Song (Caltech): Validation of Traveltime Tomography Beneath La Ristra Transect Using
Waveforms and Amplitudes

Oct 17: Caroline Beghein (ASU): Global models of anisotropy: To scale or not to scale?

Oct 24: Bridget Konter (Smith) (UCSD): Stress Evolution of the San Andreas Fault System

Oct 31: Maureen Long (DTM/CIW): Upper mantle anisotropy and deformation beneath Japan: Observations,
models, and new tools for interpretation

Nov 7: Eric Hetland (Caltech): A More General Model of Interseismic Deformation

Nov 14: Jesse Lawrence (UCSD): What Can Seismic Waves Tell Us About The Mantle Transition Zone?

Nov 22: Ken Hudnut (USGS) The San Andreas Fault: EXPOSED

Nov 28: Don Dingwell (LMU University, Munich): Experimental Volcanology: Can Mechanistic Understanding Enhance Crisis Response?

Dec 5: Christine Reif (UCSC): Observing and quantifying subducting slabs as they descend through the mantle

Dec 12: AGU meeting