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  • 12 Jan 2023
    2:00 PM PST 
    to 12 Jan 2023
    3:00 PM PST 

    Global 3D model of mantle attenuation using seismic normal modes

    Category: Webinars

    Sujania Talavera-Soza, Utrecht / UCSD  Seismic tomographic models based solely on wave velocities have limited ability to distinguish between a thermal or compositional origin for Earth’s 3D structure. Complementing wave velocities with attenuation observations can make that...

  • 31 Jan 2023
    5:00 AM PST 
    to 01 Feb 2023
    10:30 AM PST 

    2023 ASPECT Virtual User Meeting

    Category: Workshop

    Connect with the ASPECT community during this mini workshop. This annual informal event is an opportunity to present latest feature additions, discuss interesting science and join discussions. This meeting is open to everyone interested in ASPECT. We ask every participant to...

  • 07 Feb 2023
    11:00 AM PST 
    to 07 Feb 2023
    12:00 PM PST 

    Executive Committee Meeting

    Category: Governance

  • 09 Feb 2023
    10:00 AM PST 
    to 09 Feb 2023
    11:00 AM PST 

    Genesis of the El Laco magnetite-apatite deposits by extrusion of iron-rich melt: a modelling perspective

    Category: Webinars

    *** NEW TIME - 10A PT     Tobias Keller, ETH Magnetite-apatite deposits are important sources of iron and other metals. A prominent example are the magnetite lavas at the El Laco volcano, Northern Chile. Their formation processes remain debated. Here, we test the...

  • 16 Feb 2023
    10:00 AM PST 
    to 16 Feb 2023
    11:00 AM PST 

    Science Steering Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 17 Feb 2023
    1:00 PM PST 
    to 17 Feb 2023
    2:00 PM PST 

    FM - Complexities in Fault Healing: Evolution of the properties of shear fractures at hydrothermal conditions

    Category: Webinars

    Tamara Jeppson, USGS Fracture healing is a critical component of the earthquake cycle, induced seismicity, and enhanced geothermal systems. Accordingly, there is significant interest in understanding the process of healing, in terms of both recovery of strength and evolution of fluid...

  • 24 Feb 2023
    1:00 PM PST 
    to 24 Feb 2023
    2:00 PM PST 

    FM: Frictional mechanics of shallow slow slip phenomena: An integrated perspective from experiments, numerical modeling and geophysical observations

    Category: Webinars

    Sharan Shreedharan, Utah State University The shallow portion of plate interfaces hosts a range of slip behaviors including dynamic ruptures and Slow slip events (SSEs) exhibiting a range of magnitudes and recurrence intervals. However, the frictional and mechanical behaviors of the...

  • 03 Mar 2023
    1:00 PM PST 
    to 03 Mar 2023
    2:00 PM PST 

    FM: Physical Fault Models: Using Rubber Earthquakes to Understand Seismological Stress Drops and Earthquake Nucleation

    Category: Webinars

    Will Steinhardt, UC Santa Cruz Many geophysical systems, including faults, ice sheets, and hill slopes, are predominantly stable, but become unstable catastrophically, with severe societal consequences when they do.  The behavior of these systems is often difficult to predict because they...

  • 08 Mar 2023
    9:00 AM PST 
    to 08 Mar 2023
    10:00 AM PST 

    EC & SSC Chairs

    Category: Governance

  • 09 Mar 2023
    2:00 PM PST 
    to 09 Mar 2023
    3:00 PM PST 

    Effective Strategies for Writing Proposal Work Plans for Research Software

    Category: Webinars

    Chase Million, Million Concepts Effective research proposals must persuade review panels that the project objectives can be achieved and that the requested resources are reasonable and sufficient resources for doing so. A clear, plausible work plan is central to this persuasive process....

  • 10 Mar 2023
    1:00 PM PST 
    to 10 Mar 2023
    2:00 PM PST 

    FM: Fault strength evolution during the seismic cycle: Insights from the laboratory

    Category: Webinars

    John Bedford, University of Liverpool Geophysical evidence suggests that some faults are frictionally strong, in agreement with laboratory measurements of quasi-static frictional strength (μ ≈ 0.6-0.8) for many crustal materials; whereas others studies have found that some faults...

  • 17 Mar 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 17 Mar 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Exploring flash heating coupled with mm-scale contact evolution in granite

    Category: Webinars

    Monica Barbery, Brown University Flash-weakening models show good agreement with the total magnitude of weakening observed in high-velocity rock friction experiments, however deviations from model predictions during the acceleration and deceleration phases remain unresolved. Here, I...

  • 24 Mar 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 24 Mar 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Hydrothermal friction experiments on simulated basaltic fault gouge and implications for megathrust earthquakes

    Category: Webinars

    Hanaya Okuda,  University of Tokyo [website]  Nucleation of earthquake slip at the plate boundary fault (décollement) in subduction zones has been widely linked to the frictional properties of subducting sedimentary facies. However, recent seismological and geological...

  • 31 Mar 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 31 Mar 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Ice friction and healing under dynamic loading conditions

    Category: Webinars

    Christine McCarthy, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University Antarctic ice streams that exhibit stick-slip events sufficient to generate seismic waves are demonstrating velocity weakening behavior as defined by rate- and state- dependent friction. Healing between events is...

  • 07 Apr 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 07 Apr 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: What can we learn about friction evolution and rupture behavior from laboratory experiments?

    Category: Webinars

    Vito Rubino, Ecole Central de Nantes Characterizing the rheology of faults is of paramount importance to improve our understanding of frictional ruptures and earthquake physics, as friction controls key processes of rupture nucleation, propagation, and arrest and also influences how...

  • 11 Apr 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 11 Apr 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    Executive Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 13 Apr 2023
    11:00 AM PDT 
    to 13 Apr 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 

    Science Steering Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 17 Apr 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 
    to 17 Apr 2023
    3:00 PM PDT 

    Making the Ocean Floor: Two-phase dynamics of mantle melting and formation of oceanic lithosphere

    Category: Webinars

    *** NEW DATE Adina Pusok, Oxford University     The theory of plate tectonics established fifty years ago has formed a robust framework for understanding how the Earth works across a range of scales. While the kinematics of plate tectonics is well established, the...

  • 21 Apr 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 21 Apr 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Capturing co-seismic fault deformation and pseudotachylyte formation to unveil earthquake physics

    Category: Webinars

    Nicola Tisato, University of Texas at Austin Earthquake mechanics is still far from being completely understood, and recent observations have challenged our models. For example, we do not yet understand what controls the occurrence of slow-slip events vs. destructive seismic events....

  • 05 May 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 05 May 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: The role of fault asperity in the generation of laboratory earthquakes

    Category: Webinars

    Lifeng Wang, State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, China Earthquake Administration Fault asperity is often deemed to be responsible for occurrences of seismic clusters, repeating earthquakes, or concentrated slip during large events. However, because of the inaccessible fault...

  • 12 May 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 12 May 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Unravelling complex deformation and localization of brittle failure in triaxial tests on crystalline rock

    Category: Webinars

    Paul Selvadurai, ETH In triaxial tests on crystalline rock, the deformation and failure behavior can be complex and highly localized. Brittle failure in rock typically involves the formation and propagation of cracks or fractures, which can occur at various scales depending on the rock...

  • 19 May 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 19 May 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Measuring healing and failure in experiments on clay-bearing fault gouges

    Category: Webinars

    Caroline Seyler, University of Southern California Frictional healing and earthquake failure are two fundamental components of the seismic cycle. Deformation experiments can provide quantitative estimates of the frictional properties behind these processes that then can be compared with...

  • 23 May 2023
    7:00 AM PDT 
    to 23 May 2023
    8:00 AM PDT 

    Science Steering Committee

    Category: Governance

    Discussions on interoperability

  • 23 May 2023
    12:30 PM PDT 
    to 23 May 2023
    1:30 PM PDT 

    Executive Committee Meeting

    Category: Governance

    Review Collaboration and Meeting Best Practices Policy.

  • 26 May 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 26 May 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: What does a Brittle-to-Ductile Transition Sound Like?

    Category: Webinars

    Matej Pec, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Deformation of all materials necessitates the collective propagation of various microscopic defects. On Earth, fracturing gives way to crystal-plastic deformation with increasing depth resulting in a “brittle-to-ductile”...

  • 02 Jun 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 02 Jun 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Looking inside granular materials

    Category: Webinars

    Karen Daniels, North Carolina State University Granular materials such as those found near the Earth's surface are inherently heterogeneous, and continuum models of properties such as the shear modulus and sound speed often fail. One promising alternative is to build an understanding...

  • 08 Jun 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 
    to 08 Jun 2023
    3:00 PM PDT 

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    Category: Webinars

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  • 09 Jun 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 
    to 09 Jun 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 

    FM: Mechanical behavior of lubricated faults during earthquake nucleation and propagation

    Category: Webinars

    Marie Violay, EPFL Frederica Paglialunga, EPFL Natural and human Induced Fluid Earthquakes (FIEs) have been observed and recorded for decades. These events can be responsible for significant human, economical and infrastructure damage. FIEs result from the interaction between fluid...

  • 11 Jun 2023
    8:00 AM CDT 
    to 17 Jun 2023
    5:00 PM CDT 

    2023 PyLith Hackathon

    Category: Hackathon

    Dates: June 11-17, 2023 Location: Golden, Colorado Registration Opens: March 1 Applications Closes: April 15 CLOSED     Notification of Acceptance Begins:  April 1 COMPLETE Limit: 16 participants To further the...

  • 12 Jun 2023
    8:00 AM CDT 
    to 16 Jun 2023
    5:00 PM CDT 

    2023 Rayleigh Hackathon

    Category: Hackathon

    Dates: June 12-16, 2023 Location: Golden, Colorado Rayleigh is designed for the study of MHD turbulence and convection in spherical geometry using a pseudo-spectral approach and runs efficiently on O(10^5) cores.  In this workshop, users will work together to implement...

  • 27 Jun 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 
    to 27 Jun 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 

    Education Working Group

    Category: Governance

  • 06 Jul 2023
    5:00 PM PDT 
    to 15 Jul 2023
    11:00 AM PDT 

    2023 ASPECT Hackathon

    Category: Hackathon

    Dates: July 6-15, 2023 Location: Lincoln City, Oregon To further the development of the mantle convection code ASPECT and its user community, current users and developers of ASPECT will be working side-by-side over an approximately 10 day period. Participants will make...

  • 04 Aug 2023
    10:00 AM PDT 
    to 04 Aug 2023
    11:00 AM PDT 

    Science Steering Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 08 Aug 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 
    to 08 Aug 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 

    Education Working Group

    Category: Governance

  • 10 Aug 2023
    9:00 AM PDT 
    to 10 Aug 2023
    2:30 PM PDT 

    2023 Part I. Crafting Quality Research Software and Navigating Publication in Software Journals

    Category: Workshop

    Ever wonder how and where to publish your software? This two part workshop series is designed to equip researchers and developers with the skills and understanding necessary to produce robust, maintainable, and impactful research software. The workshop takes a hands-on approach,...

  • 14 Aug 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 
    to 14 Aug 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 

    Executive Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 09 Sep 2023
    8:30 AM PDT 
    to 09 Sep 2023
    5:00 PM PDT 

    2023 Part II. Crafting Quality Research Software and Navigating Publication in Software Journals

    Category: Hackathon

    Part II of this workshop series is an all day, in-person hack style event. This event is for teams that are near publication ready and need dedicated time and/or expert help to complete the last steps in preparing their software for submission to a journal.  You must apply to attend by...

  • 14 Sep 2023
    2:00 PM PDT 
    to 14 Sep 2023
    3:00 PM PDT 

    Nominations Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 15 Sep 2023
    8:00 AM PDT 
    to 15 Sep 2023
    9:00 AM PDT 

    Seismology Working Group

    Category: Governance

  • 21 Sep 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 
    to 21 Sep 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 

    Education Working Group

    Category: Governance

  • 22 Sep 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 
    to 22 Sep 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 

    Science Steering Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 17 Oct 2023
    8:00 AM CEST 
    to 20 Oct 2023
    5:00 PM CEST 

    Geodynamic Modeling Workshop

    Category: Workshop

    This hands-on workshop is aimed at graduate students in tectonics and structural geology who have a good understanding of the geological processes the operate during lithospheric deformation. During the workshop, participants will be introduced to the basics of geodynamic modeling using ASPECT: a...

  • 02 Nov 2023
    12:00 PM PDT 
    to 02 Nov 2023
    1:00 PM PDT 

    Executive Committee

    Category: Governance

  • 11 Dec 2023
    8:00 AM PST 
    to 15 Dec 2023
    5:00 PM PST 

    2023 AGU

    Category: General

    Join over 25,000 attendees from 100+ countries in San Francisco for AGU23 for Wide. Open. Science. Celebrating the official year of Open Science, come together to share, inspire, collaborate, engage and most of all rededicate ourselves as a united community grounded in wide open...

  • 13 Dec 2023
    5:30 PM PST 
    to 13 Dec 2023
    7:30 PM PST 

    Annual Business Meeting

    Category: Governance

    Join us for a complimentary reception with community members and CIG Staff. Please RSVP using the link below. An RSVP is not necessary but does help us estimate attendance.

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