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In this webinar we will introduce the extensible, open source mineral physics toolkit BurnMan. This software allows the user to calculate the elastic and thermodynamic properties of rocks, minerals, fluids and melts based on the properties of end-member phases. BurnMan is bundled with...

2015 An introduction to Virtual Quake

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Kasey Schultz, John Wilson

This webinar will introduce Virtual Quake, a boundary element code that performs simulations of fault systems based on stress interactions between fault elements to understand long term statistical behavior. The webinar will cover:Downloading, installing and running Virtual...

2015 ASPECT: From Benchmarking to 3D Subduction Applications

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Cedric Thieulot, Anne Glerum, Menno Fraters, Wim Spakman

ASPECT, the Advanced Solver for Problems in Earth's Convection, is an extensible open source, community supported code. The code is being applied to a broad range of problems in geodynamics. This talk will explore the community's efforts in benchmarking, implementation of...

2015 CIG Strategic Plan & Annual Report

05 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2015-2016 Strategic Plan & Annual Report.June 2015.

2015 Simulating seismic wave propagation with SW4

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Anders Petersson

This webinar describes how to use the SW4 code to simulate ground motion due to earthquakes. After a brief overview of the numerical method, we describe how to set up a simulation in terms of seismic sources, the material model, visco-elastic attenuation, and topography. We also present some of...

2016 CIG Annual Report

05 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2015-2016 Annual Report.July 2016.

2016 Resolution analysis by random probing

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Andreas Fichtner, Tristan van Leeuwen

We present a new method for resolution analysis in tomography, based on stochastic probing of the Hessian or resolution operators. Key properties of the method are (i) low algorithmic complexity and easy implementation, (ii) applicability to any tomographic technique, including full-waveform...

2016 Software Practices in Computational Science Communities – an Overview

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Anshu Dubey

Scientific code developers typically adopt software processes derived from the mainstream (non-scientific) community when continuing without them becomes impractical. However, many software best practices need modification and/or customization, partly because the codes are used for...

2016 Statistical and computational challenges of constraining greenhouse gas budgets

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Anna M. Michalak

Predicting future changes to the global carbon cycle (and therefore climate) and quantifying anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) both require an understanding of net GHGs emissions and uptake across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. This talk will explore some of the...

2016 Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Models of Physical Systems

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Habib Najm

Models of physical systems typically involve inputs/parameters that are determined from empirical measurements, and therefore exhibit a certain degree of uncertainty. Estimating the propagation of this uncertainty into computational model output predictions is crucial for purposes...

2016 Verification, Validation, and Predictive Capability: What's What?

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): William Oberkampf

Engineering and geosciences organizations must increasingly rely on computational simulation for the design, predicted response, and performance of manmade and natural systems. Computational analysts, decision makers, and regulatory authorities who rely on simulation should have practical...

2017 CIG Annual Report

05 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2016-2017 Annual Report and Science and Work Plan.July 2017.

2017 Geodynamic modeling with staggered finite differences and marker in cell: theory, teaching and examples

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Taras Gerya

Numerical modeling of geodynamic processes is an essential approach in both science and industry with ever- growing demand and high efficiency/cost ratio. Current trend in geodynamic modeling is to develop universal approaches with potentially unlimited number of applications. One simple...

2017 Introduction to the spectral-infinite-element method

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Hom Nath Gharti, Jeroen Tromp

The governing equations for the elastic-gravitational deformation of an Earth model involve a perturbed gravitational potential. The gravitational potential is governed by Poisson’s equation inside the Earth and by Laplace’s equation in the rest of space. The infinite domain...

2018 AGU Week

05 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

2018 Fall AGU Meeting.December 10-14.Washington, D.C.

2018 CIG Annual Report

29 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2017-2018 Annual Report.July 2018.

2018 Introduction to thermal-mechanical lithosphere models with surface processes

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Louis Moresi, Romain Beucher

Surface processes including erosion, transport and sedimentation have the potential to strongly influence crustal and lithospheric deformation whether passively, through isostatic response, or more actively by affecting the thermal structure, the potential energy field, and / or the local stress...

2018 Pythonic Geodynamics

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Sang-Mook Lee

Students and young researchers who want to learn to use computational tools for geodynamic modeling have the option to choose among a wide range of numerical tools. I will show how Python and its libraries represent an easy-to-use platform for self-learning, with performance close to compiled...

2019 AGU Week

05 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2019 Business Meeting.11 December 2019.San Fransisco, CA.

2019 CIG Annual Report

29 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2018-2019 Annual Report.July 2018.

2019 HeFESTO: A tool for exploring Earth's physical properties and their effects on mantle dynamics

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni, Lars Stixrude

The minerals that exist at the extreme pressure and temperature conditions of the mantle and their physical properties determine the dynamics of the mantle. Both are also critical for comparison with seismic observations that put constraints on our knowledge of mantle structure and...

2019 Introduction to Quagmire

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Louis Moresi, Ben Mather, Romain Beucher

Quagmire is an open source, parallel python module for modelling surface processes and landscape evolution. It comes from the Underworld geodynamics group and has many common design patterns to Underworld. For starters, this is not an out-of-the-box landscape evolution code — it is instead...

2019 The Release of the GEM Global Active Faults Database and Global Seismic Hazard Map

04 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Richard Styron

In late 2018, the Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM) released the initial version of several major products relating to seismic hazard and risk, including the Global Seismic Hazard Map, the Global Seismic Risk Map, and the Global Active Faults Database. Though these are intended primarily...

2020 CIG Annual Report

05 Feb 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

CIG 2019-2020 Annual Report.July 2020.

2020 CIG Strategic Objectives

29 Jan 2021 | Contributor(s): Staff

2020 CIG Strategic Objectives. Revised May 2020.

2020 Numerical models of lower crustal flow explain Yellowstone's "tectonic parabola"

07 Oct 2021 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Jonathan Perry-Houts

Several hypotheses exist for the origin of the seismically active region of high topography surrounding the Yellowstone hotspot track. Among these is the idea that a dense mid-crustal sill has driven viscous lower crust away from the hotspot track, producing crustal thinning/subsidence in the...

2021 As Above So Below: A Simulation of the Continental Lithosphere and LLSVPs as Thermal Insulators Using ASPECT

02 Nov 2021 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Dante Hickey

2021 SMOREs ShowcaseDante Hickey, Reed College

2021 Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification of Subduction Zone Rheology from the Geoid

02 Nov 2021 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Elena Ehrlich

2021 SMOREs ShowcaseElena Ehrlich, North Carolina State University

2021 Early Earth Influence of Radiogenic Heating on Mid-Ocean Ridge Depths and Seafloor Subsidence

02 Nov 2021 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Keneni Godana

2021 SMOREs ShowcaseKeneni Godana, University of Illinois at Chicago

2021 Interactions between Lithospheric Instabilities and Formation of Mantle Plumes in Venus

02 Nov 2021 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Hiva Mohammadzadeh

2021 SMOREs ShowcaseHiva Mohammadzadeh, Los Angeles Pierce College

2021 SMOREs Introduction

02 Nov 2021 | Webinars | Contributor(s): John Naliboff

2021 SMOREs ShowcaseJohn Naliboff, New Mexico Tech

2022 Energy transfer among flow and magnetic fields with different equatorial symmetry during the dipole reversal in a geodynamo simulation

17 Feb 2022 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Takumi Kera, Hiroaki Matsui, Masaki Matsushima, Yuto Katoh

The geomagnetic field has reversed its polarity, and some numerical dynamos have suggested that anti-symmetric flow with respect to the equator plays a role in reversals. Olson et al., (2004) suggested that the equatorial antisymmetric flow is temporarily strengthened, and transports a locally...

2022 Mainshock and aftershock sequence simulations in a nonplanar fault network

19 May 2022 | Webinars | Contributor(s): So Ozawa, Ryosuke Ando

Aftershocks seem to be located along the trace of the mainshock fault; however, due to the location error, we do not know their exact location relative to the mainshock fault. Here, we hypothesize that most aftershocks occur on small subsidiary faults instead of the mainshock fault, and they...

2022 Poroelastic Implementation in PyLith: Gateway to Multiphysics

13 May 2022 | Webinars | Contributor(s): Robert L Walker

Thursday May 12, 2022 @ 2P PDT Poroelastic Implementation in PyLith: Gateway to Multiphysics Robert Walker, SUNY Buffalo PyLith, a community, open-source code (https://geodynamics.org/resources/pylith) for modeling quasi-static and dynamic crustal deformation with an emphasis on earthquake...

2023 PyLith Hackathon

02 Aug 2023 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Brad Aagaard

Workshop report

3D Spherical Mantle Convection Calculations using the Yin-Yang grid

30 Mar 2021 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Paul Tackley

3D Spherical Mantle Convection Calculations using the Yin-Yang grid. July 9-11, 2008. Paul Tackley.

A Recent Free Subduction Benchmark

30 Mar 2021 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Boris Kaus

A Recent Free Subduction Benchmark (or, how a simple test can cause a major headache) July 9-11, 2008. Boris Kaus.

Adaptive Finite Element Methods For Geodynamics

23 Mar 2021 | Workshops | Contributor(s): J. Huw Davies

Adaptive Finite Element Methods For Geodynamics. July 9-11, 2008. J. Huw Davies.