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Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series: Sabine Stanley

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring Sabine Stanley from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Stanley's talk, "Saturn’s Enigmatic Magnetic Field" will be available via Zoom on Tuesday, November 24, 2020, starting at 12:00pm.  The seminar will be hosted on Zoom link here (password = magnetic). 

Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series: Dustin Schroeder

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring Dustin Schroeder from Stanford. Dr. Schroeder's talk, "Radar Sounding Insights from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica" will be available via Zoom on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, starting at 12:00pm.  The seminar will be hosted on Zoom link here (password = ice). 

Shearer awarded Inge Lehmann Medal

IGPP is thrilled to announce that AGU has awarded Professor Peter Shearer the 2020 Inge Lehmann Medal.

IGPP Virtual Seminar Series: Becks Bendick

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring Rebecca Bendick from UNAVCO. Dr. Bendick's talk, "Evidence for the synchronization in the global earthquake catalog" will be available via Zoom on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, starting at 12:00pm.  The seminar will be hosted on Zoom link here (password = elastic). Meeting ID: 923 4958 9900

Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Time:12:00 pm, Pacific Time

Xu, Sandwell, colleagues featured in Science

IGPP geophysicists Xiaohua Xu and David Sandwell, as well as their colleagues have continued to study the after effects of the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake doublets.  Their research on the unusual surface deformation has been published in the October 30, 2020 issue of Science Magazine: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/605

IGPP Virtual Seminar Series: Shawn Wei

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring S. Shawn Wei from MIchigan State University. Dr. Wei's talk, "Intermediate-depth intra-plate earthquakes and slab dehydration" will be available via Zoom on WEDNESDAY November 4, 2020, starting at 12:00pm.  The seminar will be hosted on Zoom link here (password = slab). 

Date: Wednesday November 4, 2020
Time:12:00 pm, Pacific Time

IGPP Virtual Seminar Series: Roland Burgmann

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring Roland Bürgmann from UC Berkeley. Dr. Bürgmann's talk, "Seasonal Water Storage and Modulation of Earthquakes" will be available via Zoom on October 27, 2020, starting at 12:00pm.  The seminar will be hosted on Zoom link here (password = stress). Meeting ID: 988 9112 7433

Walter Munk Lecture on YouTube

Geology Bites catches up with David Sandwell

Geology Bites caught up with IGPP Professor David Sandwell for a discussion about the progression of satellite altimetry. Listen to the podcast to learn more about the techniques Sandwell has employed as well as the challenges he has encountered mapping the sea floor. Link here.

IGPP Virtual Seminar Series: Katherine Guns

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring IGPP postdoc Katherine Guns. Dr.