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IGPP Researchers ID Unique Geological 'Sombrero' Uplift in South America

A study led by Professor Yuri Fialko of Scripps and Postdoctoral Scholar Jill Pearse has revealed that magma is forming a big blob in the middle of the crust beneath the Altiplano-Puna plateau in South America, pushing up the earth's surface across an area 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide, while the surrounding area sinks, leading to a unique geological phenomenon in the shape of a Mexican hat that the researchers have described as the "sombrero uplift."

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

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.

IGPP ANF Team Helps Transportable Array Complete 400-Station Deployment

Renee Bulow Has Been Chosen for the 2006 Frieman Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research

The 4th Annual Earthquake Education Workshop

Dr. Freeman Gilbert Selected for the 2004 Medal of the Seismological Society of America

San Diego Supercomputer Center Collaborates in New Geographic Information System Lab at IGPP

IGPP Students and Staff Report from a Research Cruise in Papua New Guinea

IGPP Researchers ICESat Project Shows Minute Changes in Ice Sheet Morphology