From dalzilio.luca at gmail.com Fri Jan 5 02:50:17 2018 From: dalzilio.luca at gmail.com (Luca Dal Zilio) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 11:50:17 +0100 Subject: [CIG-ALL] =?utf-8?q?Reminder_EGU_2018=3A_=22The_Interplay_between?= =?utf-8?q?_Earthquakes=2C_the_Seismic_Cycle_and_Long-term_Deformation=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?Models_and_Observations=E2=80=9D?= Message-ID: <9B9117D2-D888-4A3D-B863-CBEDA9CDB108@gmail.com> Dear colleagues, A quick reminder for an exciting and multidisciplinary session at the next EGU General Assembly in Vienna (8-13 April 2018): ================================= The Interplay between Earthquakes, the Seismic Cycle and Long-term Deformation: Models and Observations [TS5.2/G3.9/GD2.8/NH4.9/SM 2.07] Invited speaker: Marion Thomas, Oxford University ================================= Join us at next EGU (Spring 2018) in Vienna and submit an abstract by clicking here: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/27072 Attention: The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday January 10, 2018 @ 13:00 CET. With best regards, Luca Dal Zilio (ETH Zürich) Marcel Thielmann (Uni-Bayreuth) Romain Jolivet (ENS Paris) Jean-Philippe Avouac (Caltech) Ylona van Dinther (ETH Zürich) –––– Session description –––– Long- and short-term tectonic processes shape the stress conditions under which faults operate. At the time scale of the earthquake cycle, these stresses are released by various modes of deformation ranging from steady, aseismic deformation to dynamic, seismic slip on faults. The physical processes in action at the various characteristic spatial and temporal scales motivate the integration of dynamic rupture and short term fault processes with long-term crustal deformation modeling. Reconciling observations and mechanisms will improve our understanding of the physical processes governing the seismic cycle and the construction of topography and geological structures, the rheology of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. Specific questions include: How long-term crustal and lithospheric dynamics and structures affect short-term seismicity and earthquake cycle behaviour? How earthquake cycles result in the construction of topographic features? What are the relative contributions of rheology (temperature, fluids, chemistry) and geometry behaviour of seismic and aseismic slip? What are the roles of faulting and off-fault deformation in shaping the landscape and partitioning seismic and aseismic energy dissipation? These example questions are intended to stimulate a discussion about the interplay between seismicity, earthquake cycle dynamics and the geological and geodynamic evolution of deforming zones. We seek contributions from across the fields of geology, geodynamics, seismology and geodesy, encouraging both modelling and observational studies. 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More detailed information will be posted as it becomes available on the Joint Meeting website at https://meeting2018.cgu-ugc.ca . The theme of the Joint Meeting, which reflects a range of scientific interests, is Discovery and Scientific Progress Together, and scientific sessions are being invited for all areas of interest encompassed by the partner organizations. At this time, we are inviting interested members of all societies to propose and to take the lead on organizing scientific sessions. We also encourage the proposal of sessions covering subjects that may attract interest across two or more partner societies. To plan a session for the 2018 Joint Meeting, please submit your proposal, using the template below, to niagara2018JM at gmail.com . The proposal should include the concise session title, contact information and affiliation of the proposed session conveners or co-conveners, a short paragraph of up to 200 words describing the scientific content of the session, and the intended partner organization(s) audience. All session proposals should be received by January 15, 2018 by 11:59 pm eastern time. Notifications of accepted session proposals will be made by late January 2018. On-line abstract submissions will be due in early March 2018. For session organizer/chair duties, we would anticipate that you would then encourage your contacts to submit abstracts for that session, would lead decisions on acceptance and scheduling of abstracts as oral and/or poster platform presentations, and would chair or co-chair the running of that session at the Joint Meeting. Sessions will be organized into 11⁄2-hour blocks of six 15-minute presentations (abstracts), or organizers may allot 30-minutes for an invited lead speaker and four 15-minute presentations. Poster sessions will also be part of the scientific program. Final decisions on whether an oral session will be convened and the total number of oral and poster sessions on a particular topic will be a function of the number of abstracts submitted to the session. Note that the Joint Meeting does not cover travel expenses for invited speakers associated with proposed sessions. Scientific and plenary sessions of the Joint Meeting will take place from Monday, June 11 through Thursday, June 14 2018. Any particular demand in terms of workshops, business meetings, courses and other Joint Meeting-related events may be accommodated but are dependent on available space. For such requests, please contact the Local Organizing Committee at niagara2018JM at gmail.com . We look forward to receiving your submissions. Sincerely, Carl Mitchell CGU Vice-President Scientific Program Committee Chair ******************************* Instructions: 1. Follow the font, font size and format as included in the example below. 2. Provide a concise and informative title for your proposed session. 3. Provide the name of at least one convener (the person or persons responsible for proposing the session). If more than one convener, underline the convener that will serve as the primary communication contact. Superscript-number convener names for association with their affiliation. 4. Provide the name of at least one Chair or Co-chair. This is the person or persons who will chair the session at the Joint Meeting. This may be the same person or persons listed as convener(s). 5. Provide the affiliation, address and email address of all conveners. 6. Under “Session Description” explain the type and expected content of your proposed session. Provide specifics that you feel are important to the description, but limit the description to a maximum of 200 words. Most sessions will be more specific than the example below. 7. Under “Primary Affiliation” choose a lead partner organization associated with the conference and a section of that organization, if applicable. 8. If you are submitting a proposal that is intended to be jointly offered across partner organizations or across sections within organizations, please indicate the partner organization and/or section under “Joint Session Submission”. 9. Once complete, delete this highlighted portion and submit your proposal to niagara2018JM at gmail.com using the convention surname_primaryaffiliation_JM18.docx. For the example below, this would be: Mitchell_CGUbiogeosciences_JM18.docx. Proposed Session Title: General Biogeosciences Conveners: Carl Mitchell1 Co-chairs: Carl Mitchell 1Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4 E-mail: carl.mitchell at utoronto.ca Session Description This session will highlight the diversity of research investigating the biogeoscience/biogeochemical functioning of ecosystems. Presentations discussing all aspects of biogeosciences research from recent advances in understanding the fundamental mechanisms underlying processes shaping landscapes to novel methods for modelling them and approaches for monitoring them via both field and remote techniques are encouraged. Sample topics include integrative approaches to describe biogeoscience processes in both natural and managed ecosystems; characterizing measurement and modelling uncertainty in complex and heterogeneous landscapes; scaling linked water/nutrient/element/sediment exchange processes; determining the impacts of changing climate or land use on water/nutrient/element/sediment exchange processes across ecosystems; identifying and evaluating the effects of drought and other extreme weather phenomena on ecosystem form and function; developing novel and improved sensor systems and measurement techniques; and, diagnosing the effects of biota on driving change in landscape form or hydro-biogeochemical functioning. Primary Affiliation: CGU, Biogeosciences Joint Session Submission: none -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lhkellogg at ucdavis.edu Sun Jan 14 07:12:17 2018 From: lhkellogg at ucdavis.edu (Louise Kellogg) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 07:12:17 -0800 Subject: [CIG-ALL] National Science Foundation EAR Division Director search Message-ID: Dear CIG colleagues: The position advertised below, Division Director for Earth Sciences in the Geosciences Directorate at NSF, is an important one for our community, and an exciting leadership opportunity for the right person. Please consider applying or encouraging a colleague to apply. If you know of a good candidate, let the search committee know, and they will contact that individual to discuss it. Best wishes, Louise ********************************************* Louise Kellogg Director, Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics Professor, Earth & Planetary Sciences University of California, Davis, CA 95616 ********************************************* =================================================== The National Science Foundation is seeking applicants for the position of Division Director for Earth Sciences (EAR) in the Geosciences Directorate. We are using every possible avenue to ensure this vacancy announcement is widely advertised and attracts a very diverse pool of highly qualified candidates. We encourage you to consider this potential opportunity to serve as the leader of the EAR Division at NSF, and for application details refer you to: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/483044300 The closing date is January 31, 2018. Please note that the federal employment application process is different than that in academia, therefore in addition to your resume and general application, it is strongly recommended that you provide a written narrative to address the itemized Executive Qualifications and Professional/Technical Qualifications as outlined in the application materials available at the USAJobs link above. If this opportunity does not fit your current professional or personal situation, but you have recommendations of colleagues whom you believe would be strong candidates, please encourage them to apply. We also encourage you to pass along your recommendations to the Search Committee (listed below), and we will contact potential candidates directly. Members of the Search Committee are also available to answer questions you may have. Thank you for any assistance you can provide us in ensuring NSF selects the most highly skilled and visionary leaders. Sincerely, Search Committee: Rick Murray (rwmurray at nsf.gov ; Chair), Greg Anderson (greander at nsf.gov ), Irene Qualters (iqualter at nsf.gov ), Dena Smith (dmsmith at nsf.gov ), Jenn Wade (jwade at nsf.gov ), Jonathan Wynn (jwynn at nsf.gov ). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elizabeth.vanacore at upr.edu Wed Jan 17 07:58:27 2018 From: elizabeth.vanacore at upr.edu (Elizabeth Vanacore Maher) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:58:27 -0400 Subject: [CIG-ALL] SSA-LACSC Meeting Session: Structure and Dynamics of Earth's Mantle Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract the session on the structure and dynamics of Earth's mantle for the joint SSA-LACSC conference to be held in Miami, Florida, USA on May 14-17. Invited speakers include Vedran Lekic (University of Maryland) and Min Chen (Michigan State University). The session description is below for reference. Abstracts are due on *January 24* and recall that the SSA-LACSC meeting permits submission of multiple abstracts. Details about the meeting and abstract submission are available on the conference website: https://seismology2018.org/ Best wishes and hope to see you in Miami, Liz and Fenglin *Structure and Dynamics of Earth’s Mantle* Understanding the structure and dynamics of Earth’s mantle provides key insights into the fate of subducted slabs, the evolution of Earth, the dynamic forces that help drive large scale surface tectonics and core-mantle interactions amongst other topics of interest. Recent advancements in global seismic station coverage as well as advances in computational techniques have led to a current renaissance in studies of Earth’s interior. For example, recent P-coda scattering studies and waveform tomography have provided new insight into the distribution of mantle heterogeneity and axisymmetric 2.5D theoretical waveform modeling has provided insight into the influence of topography on waveforms on major boundaries including the transition zone and core-mantle boundary. This broad session invites submissions from observational or theoretical studies in seismology, geophysics and geodynamics exploring Earth’s mantle. *Session Conveners* Elizabeth A. Vanacore (elizabeth.vanacore at upr.edu) , Puerto Rico Seismic Network Fenglin Niu (niu at rice.edu), Rice University -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Dra. Elizabeth A Vanacore Red Sísmica de Puerto Rico Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Telephone number: 787-833-8433 ext 2239 Email: elizabeth.vanacore at upr.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From niu at rice.edu Thu Jan 18 16:10:33 2018 From: niu at rice.edu (Fenglin Niu) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:10:33 -0600 Subject: [CIG-ALL] SSA2018 Technical Session: Structure and Geodynamics of the Caribbean Plate Boundaries Message-ID: SSA Abstracts are due on January 24: We encourage submissions for the Technical Session: Structure and Geodynamics of the Caribbean Plate Boundaries The Caribbean plate (CAR) is unusual for a number of reasons. The region’s history includes numerous destructive large magnitude earthquakes and tsunamis. An intermediate sized plate (3.3x106 km2), CAR is surrounded on its north, east and south by the much larger American plates, but since much of CAR is a large igneous province (LIP), its buoyancy makes it difficult to subduct. As a consequence, it is girdled by inward directed subduction zones; the Antilles on the east, the Puerto Rico Trench in the northeast and the Central American Trench on the west. Further, the large El Pilar-San Sebastian strike-slip system along northeastern South America (SA) connects the southern Antilles trench to the Southern Caribbean Deformed Belt and a poorly defined subduction zone in northwestern SA, at which CAR subducts beneath northern Colombia and western Venezuela. The flat CAR subduction has created the Merida Andes, Perija and Santa Marta uplifts. Since the SA plate is subducting beneath CAR at the southern Antilles subduction zone and CAR is subducting southeastward beneath western SA, the two plates are subducting beneath one another. The number and volume of plates descending beneath CAR as imaged in different tomography studies (e.g., Bezada et al, JGR, 2010 and Van Benthem et al, JGR, 2013) create interesting space problems in the upper mantle beneath CAR and its neighbors, influencing upper mantle flow. In north and northwestern CAR a complex series of strike slip and oblique slip faults extend from Puerto Rico across and around Hispaniola to join with the strike slip faults of the Cayman trough. These include what may be incipient northward subduction of CAR along the Muertos trough south of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The plate boundaries around Panama are complicated and include what appears to be incipient CAR subduction just east of the Panama arc and the northeastern boundary of the recently identified Coiba and Malpelo plates (Zhang et al., GRL, 2017), bounded by the Panama arc, Cocos, Nazca and SA. This diversity of tectonic boundaries provides an unusually rich source for seismicity and tsunamigenic earthquakes. Regional seismicity and GPS velocities suggest that a number of small tectonic blocks, moving quasi-independently and deforming internally, are caught in the boundary zones between CAR and the surrounding plates. We invite contributions on any aspect of seismic structure, plate structure, deformation, seismicity and geodynamics in and around the Caribbean. Invited Speakers: Max Bezada, Rob Govers, German Prieto, Kate Rychert Session Conveners Alan Levander, Rice University, > Fenglin Niu, Rice University, > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ljhwang at ucdavis.edu Fri Jan 19 10:14:55 2018 From: ljhwang at ucdavis.edu (Lorraine Hwang) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:14:55 -0800 Subject: [CIG-ALL] =?utf-8?q?_CIDER_2018_summer_program_=E2=80=93_applicat?= =?utf-8?q?ion_deadline_15th_February?= Message-ID: <93E372EC-E1C3-4198-83D5-517E683667B6@ucdavis.edu> We wish to bring to your attention the upcoming 2018 CIDER Summer Program, which will take place at KITP, UC. Santa Barbara, from the 9th of July 9th to 3rd of August 2018. The theme will be: "Relating geochemical and geophysical heterogeneity in the deep Earth". The application period is open until the 15th of February 2018. Please apply at: https://www.deep-earth.org/2018/2018_app.shtml Further information can be found on the website: http://www.deep-earth.org/summer18.shtml For more information please contact Bruce Buffett (bbuffett at berkeley dot edu), Dan A Frost (dafrost at seismo dot berkeley dot edu), or Barbara Romanowicz (barbara at seismo dot berkeley dot edu). Regards Bruce Buffett, Dan Frost, and Barbara Romanowicz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: