Earth & Planetary Sciences

Five UC Santa Cruz faculty members have been selected for the University of California’s Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Awards. The inaugural program supports the scholarship and creative activity of early career faculty across the UC system. In total, 54 faculty were selected. The awards reflect a renewed systemwide investment in early-career faculty at a […]

Speaker/Affiliation: Wenbo Wu, UC Berkeley Title: When: Wednesday, May 27 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract:

Speaker/Affiliation: Amanda Thomas, UC Davis Title: The role of rapid fault healing in the dynamics of deep slow slip and tremor When: Friday, May 22 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Despite its status as one of the most important discoveries in geophysics, the physical mechanism(s) responsible for slow slip events (SSEs) are not well understood. Here, we synthesize observatio…

Speaker/Affiliation: Margaret Duffy, UC Davis Title: Atmospheric mechanisms of the pattern effect When: Wednesday, May 20 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: The “pattern effect” describes the influence of the pattern of surface warming on global climate feedbacks. A consequence of the pattern effect is that climate feedbacks are expected to amplify over time. Specifi…

Speaker/Affiliation: Margaret Duffy, UC Davis Title: Atmospheric mechanisms of the pattern effect When: Wednesday, May 20 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: The “pattern effect” describes the influence of the pattern of surface warming on global climate feedbacks. A consequence of the pattern effect is that climate feedbacks are expected to amplify over time. Specifi…

Speaker/Affiliation: Victor Tsai, Brown University Title: The Importance of Fault Network Geometry for Understanding Earthquakes. When: Friday, May 15 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Geologic evidence suggests that most seismogenic faults exist within a complex network of other faults, but most models assume simple fault geometries. In this talk, I discuss recent work I have …

Speaker/Affiliation: Jory Lerback, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Title: Isotope hydrogeology in California: Tools for tracking water for storage and ecosystem functioning When: Wednesday, May 13 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Groundwater provides 40% of the water used in California for public supply and agriculture, and this figure is higher in drought years. Unders…

Speaker/Affiliation: Jory Lerback, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Title: Isotope hydrogeology in California: Tools for tracking water for storage and ecosystem functioning When: Wednesday, May 13 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Groundwater provides 40% of the water used in California for public supply and agriculture, and this figure is higher in drought years. Unders…

Speaker/Affiliation: Brenton Hirao, UC Davis Title: Enhanced multidecadal earthquake catalogs at multiple spatial scales: application to the Pacific Northwest, USA. When: Friday, May 8 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214 

Speaker/Affiliation: Christopher Milliner, Caltech guest researcher, Moody’s RMS Title: Localization of Inelastic Strain with Fault Maturity for Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Implications for Earthquake Characteristics When: Friday, May 1 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: In this seminar I will examine how coseismic inelastic off-fault deformation (OFD) evolves with fault-system m…

Speaker/Affiliation: Yuancong Gou, UC Berkeley Title: Seafloor Fiber Sensing in Monterey Bay: Earthquake Early Warning and Beyond When: Friday, April 24 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214 

Speaker/Affiliation: Donald Fisher, Penn State University Title: What Do Observations of Exhumed Tectonic Plate Boundaries Tell Us About Subduction Zone Earthquakes? When: Wednesday, May 6 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: The greatest earthquakes occur on the plate boundary of subduction zones and are typically associated with convergent margins where sediments blanket the dow…

Speaker/Affiliation: Donald Fisher, Penn State University Title: What Do Observations of Exhumed Tectonic Plate Boundaries Tell Us About Subduction Zone Earthquakes? When: Wednesday, May 6 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: The greatest earthquakes occur on the plate boundary of subduction zones and are typically associated with convergent margins where sediments blanket the dow…

Speaker/Affiliation: Yuancong Gou, UC Berkeley Title: Seafloor Fiber Sensing in Monterey Bay: Earthquake Early Warning and Beyond When: Friday, April 24 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214 

Speaker/Affiliation: Mikhail Kreslavsky, UC Santa Cruz Title: Regolith transport on the Moon When: Friday, April 17 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: The lunar surface is covered by a meters-thick layer of regolith—a loose material formed by the comminution of rock by meteoritic impacts. At scales ranging from decimeters to hundreds of meters, lunar topograp…

Speaker/Affiliation: Zach Perzan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Title: Integrating Hydrogeophysics and Hydrologic Modeling to Understand Groundwater Recharge Processes Across Scales When: Wednesday, April 29th 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Effective subsurface characterization is essential for addressing diverse environmental challenges, from remediating contaminated aqui…

Speaker/Affiliation: Zach Perzan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Title: Integrating Hydrogeophysics and Hydrologic Modeling to Understand Groundwater Recharge Processes Across Scales When: Wednesday, April 29th 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: Effective subsurface characterization is essential for addressing diverse environmental challenges, from remediating contaminated aqui…

Speaker/Affiliation: Kristine Pankow, University of Utah Title: Utah FORGE: A Field-Scale Geothermal Laboratory When: Wednesday, April 22nd 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) is a U.S. Department of Energy funded project to de-risk technologies necessary to make Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) commercially…

"Each summer in California’s Central Valley, the land bakes as temperatures climb past an oppressive 35°C. And then, a wall of fog rolls in from the ocean, cooling the air and moistening the ground with tiny water droplets. For millions living in the most populous U.S. state, the fog spawned where a cold ocean meets a Sun-warmed coast is like “natural air conditioning,” says Peter Weiss-Penzias,…

Speaker/Affiliation: Christopher Milliner, Caltech guest researcher, Moody’s RMS Title: Localization of Inelastic Strain with Fault Maturity for Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Implications for Earthquake Characteristics When: Friday, May 1 12:00pm PST  Location: EMS B214  Abstract: In this seminar I will examine how coseismic inelastic off-fault deformation (OFD) evolves with fault-system m…