The Cecil H. and Ida M. Green branch of the University of California Systemwide Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is located in La Jolla, and is strongly linked to Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) through joint faculty appointments, research interests, and shared facilities. Other IGPP branches can be found at the Los Angeles, Irvine, Santa Cruz and Riverside campuses.

Recent News

27 March 2012
John Orcutt, panel, brief Congress on tsunami preparedness

John Orcutt, IGPP Distinguished Professor of Geophysics, and fellow panel members Eddie Bernard (NOAA/PMEL) and John Schelling (Washington State Emergency Management Division), presented "Tsunami Preparedness: Understanding our Nation's Risk and Response" to members of Congress, at the Rayburn House Office Building, in Washington, DC, on 21 March 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utC1U005i18&feature=youtu.be

6 October 2011
IGPP team is granted $1.02 million from the National Science Foundation to develop a deep-ocean seismic system.

PI Jonathan Berger and co-principal investigators John Orcutt, Gabrielle Laske and Jeffrey Babcock will develop a potentially transformative system for deploying seafloor seismometers and relaying their data in near real-time for applications ranging from earthquake monitoring and deep Earth structure and dynamics to tsunami warning systems. Read the full story here.

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