CU Geophysics seminar, Spring 2011

Tentative lecture schedule:

All talks are at 11 a.m. on Fridays in Benson Rm 1B75 unless noted otherwise.

  • Friday, January 28 - Josh Stachnik, CU, Combined inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion measurements and crustal thickness
    constraints: Results from the North American Cordillera
  • Wednesday, Feb 2 - (4 pm, Benson Rm 180, Geology Department Seminar) Ned Field, USGS (Denver), "Estimating Seismic Hazards - an overview of the state-of-the-art"
  • Friday, February 4 - Seth Haines, USGS, Interferometric processing of ocean-bottom cable (OBC) data for gas hydrate studies
  • Friday, February 11, Zhaohui Yang, CU, "Earthquakes along the East African Rift System: A multiscale, system-wide perspective"
  • Friday, February 25, Vera Schulte-Pelkum, CU, "2-D receiver functions and array analysis"
  • Friday, March 11, Nicolas Luco, USGS Golden, "Earthquakes and structural engineering"
  • Wednesday, March 16 (4 pm, Benson Rm 180, Geology Department Seminar), Paul Segall, Stanford, "Geodetics and crustal deformation"
  • Wednesday, March 30 (4 pm, Benson Rm 180, Geology Department Seminar), Mike Bevis, Ohio State, "The 2010 (M 8.8) Maule, Chile Earthquake and some of its Implications"
  • April 1, Oleg Godin, CIRES and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory,"Passive tomography with imperfectly diffuse noise: Theoretical development and application to underwater and atmospheric acoustics"
  • Friday, April 15, Meghan Miller, UNAVCO, "Innovations in geodesy: new directions for high-precision science applications"
  • Wednesday, April 27, Demian Saffer, Penn State, "Pore Pressure and Stress at Subduction Plate Boundaries: Insights from Ocean Drilling"

For more information:

Please contact Anne Sheehan at (303)492-4597 or Anne.Sheehan @ colorado.edu