Recent News

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.

IGPP Virtual Seminar Series *fall opener*: Max Rudolph

IGPP is pleased to invite you to join its first Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Series presentation featuring Max Rudolph from University of California Davis. Dr. Rudolf's talk, "Large-scale structure of Earth's mantle and the radial viscosity profile" will be available via Zoom on September 29, 2020, starting at 12:00pm.  The seminar will be hosted on Zoom link here (password = mantle).

Associate Director Laske

We are thrilled to announce that Professor in Residence, Gabi Laske, has agreed to the role of associate director of IGPP. Laske brings with her expertise in marine geophysics, seismology, community governance, undergraduate teaching, and IGPP history. Congrats Dr. Laske!

Kilb, Wyatt, Elliott, Hatfield, continued observations from Salton Sea swarm

Pommier shares metallic core, cooling research in American Mineralogist

The findings of Professor Anne Pommier's recent investigations on the cooling of iron-nickel alloys in terrestrial planets and moons has been published in American Mineralogist. Pommier's article "Experimental investigation of the effect of nickel on the electrical resistivity of Fe-Ni and Fe-Ni-S alloys under pressure" can be found online here.  A brief synopsis follows: