Seismology



Gutenberg Lecture
Primary Convener:  Anne F Sheehan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anne F Sheehan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


S001
Ambient-noise seismology
Primary Convener:  Nori Nakata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Zack Spica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, Lise Retailleau, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France and Lucia Gualtieri, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nori Nakata, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


S002
Centennial: One Hundred Years of Seismology
Primary Convener:  Gregory C Beroza, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, United States, Karen M. Fischer, Brown University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and Heather DeShon, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, United States


S003
Centennial Session: Forensic Seismology, Origins and Future
Primary Convener:  Fransiska K Dannemann, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Convener:  Stephen Arrowsmith, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fransiska K Dannemann, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


S004
Centennial: The Anisotropic Earth
Primary Convener:  Neala Creasy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Conveners:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Heather A Ford, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Karen M. Fischer, Brown University, Dept. of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Neala Creasy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


S005
Characterizing Fractures with Seismic Data: Theory, Methodology, Application
Primary Convener:  Jing Zhang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geology and Geophysics, Norman, OK, United States
Conveners:  Jianjun Li, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geology and Geophysics, Norman, OK, United States, Rajesh Goteti, Aramco Services Company, Houston, TX, United States and Fangyu Li, University of Georgia, College of Engineering, Athens, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jing Zhang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geology and Geophysics, Norman, OK, United States


S006
ChinArray and USArray: Design, Success, and Challenges
Primary Convener:  Stephen S Gao, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geology and Geophysics Program, Rolla, MO, United States
Conveners:  Zhifeng Ding, Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing, China, Yuan Gao, Institute of Earthquak Forecasting, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China and Robert J Stern, University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen S Gao, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Geology and Geophysics Program, Rolla, MO, United States


S007
Combining potential field data and seismology to elucidate the structure, composition and evolution of Earth's lithosphere and mantle
Primary Convener:  Mark van der Meijde, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
Conveners:  Joerg Ebbing, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Juan Carlos Afonso, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Mark van der Meijde, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands


S008
Deep earthquake observations, mechanism, and related subduction dynamics
Primary Convener:  Yu Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Min Chen, Michigan State University, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, Eric Burdette, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Lingsen Meng, UCLA, Earth, Planetary and Space Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yu Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States


S009
Earthquake Foreshocks: From Laboratory to Megathrust Scale
Primary Convener:  Christine J Ruhl, University of Tulsa, Department of Geosciences, Tulsa, OK, United States
Conveners:  Toni Kraft, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Aitaro Kato, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Christine J Ruhl, University of Tulsa, Department of Geosciences, Tulsa, OK, United States


S010
Earthquake Ground Motion Simulation (Rupture Dynamics and Seismic Wave Propagation): Theory, Validation and Application.
Primary Convener:  Yongfei Wang, Southern California Earthquake Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Feng Hu, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Thomas Ulrich, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany and Dunyu Liu, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kyle Withers, USGS National Earthquake Information Center Golden, Golden, CO, United States


S011
Earthquakes cascade and Earthquake Hazard in the Italian Apennines: Ten Years After L’Aquila.
Primary Convener:  Christophe Voisin, CNRS, ISTerre (Institute of Earth Sciences), Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Conveners:  William L Ellsworth, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Enrico Serpelloni, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Palermo, Italy and Lauro Chiaraluce, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Christophe Voisin, CNRS, ISTerre (Institute of Earth Sciences), Saint Martin d'Hères, France


S012
Earthquakes Related Cascading Hazards
Primary Convener:  Shanshan Li, Florida International University, Department of Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Zhigang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States, Shimon Wdowinski, Florida International University, Earth & Environment Department, Miami, FL, United States and Philippe Steer, UMR CNRS 6118, University of Rennes 1, Géosciences Rennes, Rennes, France
Primary Liaison:  Shanshan Li, Florida International University, Department of Earth and Environment, Miami, FL, United States


S013
Recent Advances in Infrasonic and Seismoacoustic Research
Primary Convener:  Philip S. Blom, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Pierrick Mialle, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria, Omar E Marcillo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Stephen Arrowsmith, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Philip S. Blom, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


S014
Environmental Seismology: A Geophysical Tool to study Surface and Near Surface Processes
Primary Convener:  Bradley Paul Lipovsky, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Danica L Roth, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Kate Allstadt, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bradley Paul Lipovsky, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


S015
Extracting Information from Geophysical Signals with Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Laura J Pyrak-Nolte, Purdue University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Paul A Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences: Geophysics (EES-17), Los Alamos, NM, United States and Gregory C Beroza, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


S016
Frontiers in Theoretical and Computational Seismology
Primary Convener:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Conveners:  Monica Maceira, University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Knoxville, TN, United States, Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Antonio Villasenor, ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Primary Liaison:  Andreas Fichtner, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland


S017
Geophysical inversion, inference and imaging in the age of machine learning
Primary Convener:  Andrew P Valentine, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Conveners:  Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Anya Marie Reading, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Lion Krischer, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Andrew P Valentine, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia


S018
Geophysical Monitoring for Geologic Storage of CO2
Primary Convener:  Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Thomas M Daley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, Xianjin Yang, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA, United States and Michel Verliac, Total, Borehole Geophysics Senior Specialist TOTAL S.A. EXPLO/GTS/MTG/IDI Innovation, Development and Industrialization CSTJF - Avenue Larribau, Pau, France
Primary Liaison:  Lianjie Huang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Geophysics Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States


S019
Harnessing the Earthscope Data Revolution Towards Convergence
Primary Convener:  Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Brandon Schmandt, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Michael L Williams, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Suzan van der Lee, Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL, United States


S020
High Speed Railways Seismology
Primary Convener:  Jieyuan Ning, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Wenchao Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Xian, China and Youming Li, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Xiaokai Wang, Xi'an Jiaotong University, School of Information and Communication Engineering, Xian, China


S021
How do earthquakes start?
Primary Convener:  Valere Lambert, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Yihe Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Thomas Goebel, University of California, Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Zachary E. Ross, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Valere Lambert, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


S022
Induced and Triggered Earthquakes: Theory, Observations,Impact
Primary Convener:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Convener:  Joern O Kaven, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Roland Gritto, Array Information Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States


S023
Induced Seismicity in the United States and Canada
Primary Convener:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Matthew Weingarten, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States, Ruijia Wang, University of Alberta, Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Robert Skoumal, USGS, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cornelius Langenbruch, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany


S024
Integration of Seismic Geomorphology, Stratigraphy, and Borehole-derived Data for Paleo-environmental Reconstruction
Primary Convener:  Florian Smit, Natural History Museum of Denmark, København K, Denmark
Conveners:  Angela L Slagle, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Andrew M. W. Newton, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Florian Smit, Natural History Museum of Denmark, København K, Denmark


S025
Linking earthquake kinematics with dynamics
Primary Convener:  Shengji Wei, Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Asian School of the Environment, Singapore, Singapore
Conveners:  Hongfeng Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Elizabeth H Madden, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil and Zacharie Duputel, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Primary Liaison:  Shengji Wei, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States


S026
Methodological innovations and applications in seismic wave physics: wave scattering, attenuation and amplitude information
Primary Convener:  Xin Liu, Stanford University, Department of Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nori Nakata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Yixiao Sheng, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Lili Feng, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yixiao Sheng, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States


S027
New Insights on Slow Earthquakes : from Laboratory and Theory to Observations
Primary Convener:  Mariano Supino, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, France
Conveners:  Sylvain Barbot, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Florent Aden-Antoniow, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Elisa Tinti, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,, Roma, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Mariano Supino, The University of Naples Federico II, Physics, Naples, Italy


S028
Off-fault Damage Around Ruptures Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Kurama Okubo, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Marion Y Thomas1,2, Harsha S. Bhat1,3 and Alexandre Schubnel1,4, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France(2)ISTeP Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris, Paris Cedex 05, France(3)Ecole Normale Supérieure, Département de Géosciences, Paris, France(4)Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Laboratoire de Géologie, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Kurama Okubo, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


S029
Real-time earthquake assessment: Earthquake early warning to post-earthquake damage
Primary Convener:  Richard M Allen, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Mitsuyuki Hoshiba, Meteorological Res. Inst./JMA, Tsukuba, Japan, Jimin Lee, Nat. Ins. of Meteo. Res., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Matteo Picozzi, University of Naples Federico II, Department of Physics, Naples, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Richard M Allen, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


S030
Recent Advances in Interpretations of Tomographic Images
Primary Convener:  Lorenzo Colli, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Conveners:  Bernhard S. A. Schuberth, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Derya Gürer, University of Queensland, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brisbane, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lorenzo Colli, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany


S031
Resolving the Complexity of Earthquake Processes
Primary Convener:  Théa Ragon, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, Valbonne, France
Conveners:  Ryo Okuwaki, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, Wenyuan Fan, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Harsha S. Bhat, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, Département de Géosciences, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Théa Ragon, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, IRD, Géoazur, Valbonne, France


S032
Rotation and Strain in Seismology - Applications, Instrumentation and Theory
Primary Convener:  Felix Bernauer, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Earth- and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany
Conveners:  Toshiro Tanimoto, Univ of Calif., Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Cedric Schmelzbach, Institute of Geophysics, ETH Zurich, Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Eva Patricia Silke Eibl, University of Potsdam, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Felix Bernauer, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany


S033
Seafloor Pressure Measurements for Seismology and Geodesy: Applications, Challenges, and Advances
Primary Convener:  Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  William S D Wilcock, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, Dana Manalang, University of Washington, Applied Physics Lab, Seattle, WA, United States and Meng (Matt) Wei, University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States


S034
Seismic Moment Tensors and Crustal Stress Fields: Methods of Analysis and Contributions to Geodynamic Modeling
Primary Convener:  Debora Presti, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Conveners:  Sebastiano D'Amico, University of Malta, Department of Geosciences, Msida, Malta, Ioannis Kassaras, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Geophysics - Geothermy, Athens, Greece and Barbara Orecchio, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Debora Presti, University of Messina, Messina, Italy


S035
Seismology Contributions: Advances in Instrumentation and Installation
Primary Convener:  Caroline Beghein, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


S036
Seismology Contributions: Earthquake Ground Motions and Engineering Seismology
Primary Convener:  German A Prieto, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Departamento de Geociencias, Bogota, Colombia
Convener:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


S037
Seismology Contributions: Earthquakes
Primary Convener:  German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Convener:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


S038
Seismology Contributions: General
Primary Convener:  Caroline Beghein, University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  German A Prieto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caroline Beghein, UCLA - Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


S039
The Effects of Dynamic Damage on Seismic Radiation from Earthquakes and Underground Explosions
Primary Convener:  Marshall A Rogers-Martinez, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Convener:  Charles G Sammis, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marshall A Rogers-Martinez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


S040
Using observables to infer mantle physical state
Primary Convener:  Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Saskia D B Goes, Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States


S041
The 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes
Primary Convener:  Sarah E Minson, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  Christine Regalla, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Zachary E. Ross, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jessie K Saunders, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah E Minson, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States


C022
Investigating the Feedbacks between Solid Earth Properties and the Cryosphere
Primary Convener:  Samantha Elizabeth Hansen, The University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Conveners:  Natalya A Gomez, McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Ricarda Dziadek, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany and Aurélien Mordret, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samantha Elizabeth Hansen, The University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States


DI007
Exploring Mars with InSight: First-year results
Primary Convener:  Mark P Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ebru Bozdag, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Scott D King, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Foivos Georgios Karakostas, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Mark P Panning, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


DI008
Exploring the Earth's core: a multidisciplinary approach
Primary Convener:  Marine Lasbleis, Université de Nantes, LPG, CNRS, Nantes, France
Conveners:  Jessica C E Irving, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Kenji Ohta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan and Jenny Wong, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Primary Liaison:  Marine Lasbleis, Université de Nantes, LPG, CNRS, Nantes, France


DI009
Exploring the Origin, Evolution and Implications of Lithosphere and Upper Mantle Heterogeneities
Primary Convener:  Roberta Carluccio, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Conveners:  Heather A Ford, University of California Riverside, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Emily J Chin, Brown Univeristy, Providence, RI, United States and D. Graham Pearson, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Heather A Ford, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States


DI017
Thermochemical Nature of the Mantle Transition Zone
Primary Convener:  Saswata Hier-Majumder, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Catherine Rychert, University of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, Maxim Ballmer, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland and Michael J Walter, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Saswata Hier-Majumder, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States


DI018
Understanding Global Dynamics of the Earth's Mantle: a Multi-Disciplinary Endeavor
Primary Convener:  Barbara A Romanowicz, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Kanani K M Lee, Department of Geology & Geophy, New Haven, CT, United States and Roberta L Rudnick, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Sciences, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Barbara A Romanowicz, Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States


G012
Plate Motion, Continental Deformation, and Interseismic Strain Accumulation
Primary Convener:  Donald F Argus, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Rui Manuel Silva Fernandes, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal and D. Sarah Stamps, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  D. Sarah Stamps, Virginia Tech, Geosciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States


IN017
Communities, Tools and Policies that Enable Integration of Earth, Space and Environmental Science Data and Cyberinfrastructures
Primary Convener:  Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science Information Partners, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Helen Glaves, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Yasuhiro Murayama, Integrated Science Data System Research Lab., Tokyo, Japan and Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lesley A Wyborn, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia


MR008
Constitutive Behavior of Earth and Planetary Materials during Rapid Deformation
Primary Convener:  W. Ashley Griffith, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners:  Thomas M Mitchell, University College London, Department of Earth Sciences, London, United Kingdom, Henry Melosh, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Ares Rosakis, California Institute of Technology, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  W. Ashley Griffith, Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States


MR020
‘Lab-Scale Seismology’: Ultrasonic Characterization in Rock Mechanics
Primary Convener:  Jacques Riviere, Pennsylvania State University, Engineering Science and Mechanics, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Parisa Shokouhi, Pennsylvania State University, Engineering Science and Mechanics, University Park, PA, United States and Marco Maria Scuderi, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Jacques Riviere, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States


MR026
Pre-, co- and post-rupture processes across multiple scales
Primary Convener:  Sergio Vinciguerra, University of Turin, Earth Sciences, Turin, Italy
Conveners:  Francois Renard, University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenboble, France, Wenlu Zhu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Roland Burgmann, Univ California Berkeley, Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sergio Vinciguerra, University of Turin, Earth Sciences, Turin, Italy


MR028
Rock Damage in Fault Zones
Primary Convener:  Francois Renard, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Conveners:  Sarah Hatice Maria Incel, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Giulio Di Toro, University of Padova, Department of Geoscience, Padova, Italy and Yehuda Ben-Zion, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Francois Renard, University Joseph Fourier Grenoble, Grenboble, France


NH009
Centennial Overview: Status and prospects of earthquake and tsunami forecasting and hazard assessment
Primary Convener:  Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States
Conveners:  John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Kenneth W Hudnut, USGS, Pasadena, CA, United States and Robert Weiss, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Seth Stein, Northwestern Univ, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States


NH030
National Seismic Hazard Model: advances, challenges and issues, state-of-the-art and perspectives
Primary Convener:  Warner Marzocchi, The University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Conveners:  Laurentiu Danciu, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Matt Gerstenberger, GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand and Marco Pagani, GEM FOUNDATION, Pavia, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Matt Gerstenberger, GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand


NH040
The Likelihood, Nature, and Consequences of Future Great Himalayan Earthquakes
Primary Convener:  Heidi D. Stenner, GeoHazards International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Conveners:  György Hetényi, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Kishor Jaiswal, Research Civil Engineer, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States and Victoria Stevens, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Primary Liaison:  Heidi D. Stenner, GeoHazards International, Menlo Park, CA, United States


NS003
A tour of open-source software packages for the geosciences
Primary Convener:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Rene Gassmoeller, University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, Leonardo Uieda, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Jens F Klump, CSIRO Earth Science Resource Engineering, Perth, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Lindsey Justine Heagy, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, United States


NS006
Geophysical Advances in Cryospheric Processes, Structure, and Environmental Change
Primary Convener:  Stephanie R. James, USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States
Conveners:  Daniel McGrath, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Atsuhiro Muto, Temple University, Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States and Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephanie R. James, USGS Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, CO, United States


OS003
Advances in Seafloor Instrumentation
Primary Convener:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Bruce M Howe, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, Susan L Bilek, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Jerome Aucan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale (LEGOS), Nouméa, New Caledonia
Primary Liaison:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory - LANL, Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States


T001
4D strain localisation during rifting: from border faults to spreading ridges
Primary Convener:  Jack Nicholas Williams, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Luke Wedmore, University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Donna J Shillington, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Ritske S Huismans, University of Bergen, Department of Earth Science, Bergen, Norway
Primary Liaison:  Jack Nicholas Williams, Cardiff University, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom


T002
A debate on the spectrum of rift systems and the nature of the transition to stable seafloor spreading
Primary Convener:  Cesar R Ranero, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging, ICREA at CSIC, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Marta Neres, Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal, Marta Perez-Gussinye, MARUM– Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany and Jason Phipps Morgan, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Marta Neres, Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal


T003
Advances in Computational Geosciences
Primary Convener:  Jed Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder, Computer Science, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, Georg S Reuber, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany and Nathan Collier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jed Brown, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States


T013
Cross-Scale & Multi-Scale Building of the Himalaya: Tectonics, Segmentation, Earthquakes, & Hazard
Primary Convener:  Manuel Mendoza, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Conveners:  Luca Dal Zilio, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Marianne S. Karplus, University of Texas at El Paso, Geological Sciences, El Paso, TX, United States and Laurent Bollinger, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Arpajon, France
Primary Liaison:  Manuel Mendoza, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States


T016
Deep Structure and Geodynamics of Orogenic Belts
Primary Convener:  Shuwen Dong, Nanjing University, School of Geoscience and Engineering, Nanjing, China; SinoProbe Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Larry D Brown, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Rui Gao, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China and An Yin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Shuwen Dong, Nanjing University, School of Geoscience and Engineering, Nanjing, China; SinoProbe Center, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China


T025
Induced seismicity mechanisms from pore pressure diffusion to elastic stress transfer and aseismic slip
Primary Convener:  Kyung Won Chang, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Convener:  Thomas Goebel, University of California, Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kyung Won Chang, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States


T027
Interplay between Seismic and Aseismic Slip on Seismogenic Faults
Primary Convener:  Luca Dal Zilio, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Suguru Yabe, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, Mario A Aurelio, National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines and Kate Huihsuan Chen, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Primary Liaison:  Kate Huihsuan Chen, Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan


T029
Life and Death of Cratons: Craton Interactions with Collision, Subduction, and Volcanism -  Global Perspectives and the Wyoming Province as an Example
Primary Convener:  Emily J Chin, UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, GRD, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Vera Schulte-Pelkum, Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Kevin H Mahan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Chengxin Jiang, Harvard University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Vera Schulte-Pelkum, University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States


T034
Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction Zone
Primary Convener:  Xiaotao Yang, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Tamara N. Jeppson, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Geology and Geophysics, College Station, TX, United States, Julie Elliott, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Daniel J. Rasmussen, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaotao Yang, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


T041
Physics Based Modeling of the Earthquake Cycle. Do Observations Matter?
Primary Convener:  Yann Klinger, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Ryan D Gold, USGS, Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States and Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Yann Klinger, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France


T044
Segmentation and supercycles: Observations and models of earthquake recurrence patterns
Primary Convener:  Belle Philibosian, USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Convener:  Aron J Meltzner, Nanyang Technological University, Asian School of the Environment, Singapore, Singapore
Primary Liaison:  Belle Philibosian, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States


T045
Seismic Imaging and Geodynamical Modeling of Lithosphere and Mantle
Primary Convener:  Min Chen, Michigan State University, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Ying Zhou, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Songqiao Shawn Wei, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Jonathan R Delph, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Min Chen, Michigan State University, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States


T048
Structure and Dynamics of the upper mantle: characterizing the lithosphere-asthenosphere system from crust to transition zone
Primary Convener:  Andrew J Schaeffer, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Conveners:  Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Jolante van Wijk, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States and Vedran Lekic, University of Maryland, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Claire A Currie, University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada


T051
Subduction Zone Observation through Time and Space: Path to an SZ4D Initiative on the Science of Subduction Hazards
Primary Convener:  Harold J Tobin, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  George E Hilley, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States; Stanford University, Geological Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Diana C. Roman, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States and Emily E Brodsky, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Harold J Tobin, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States


T053
Tethys dynamics
Primary Convener:  Liang Zhao, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Bo Wan, State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Stephane Guillot, ISTerre - Grenoble University, Grenoble, France; Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IFSTTAR, ISTerre, Grenoble, France
Primary Liaison:  Huaiyu Yuan, Macquarie University, CCFS, Sydney, NSW, Australia


T057
The manifestation of subduction: geochemical, petrological, and geophysical constraints on lithospheric structure, composition, and evolution
Primary Convener:  Jonathan R Delph, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
Conveners:  Antoine Triantafyllou, The University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States and Barbara Cäcilia Ratschbacher, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan R Delph, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States


T058
The northern Canadian Cordillera: tectonics, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, and geology.
Primary Convener:  Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Julie Elliott, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Jeffrey Todd Freymueller, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States


V008
Boom, Zap, and Roar: Multi-disciplinary characterization of volcanic explosion, jet, and plume dynamics
Primary Convener:  Kathleen F McKee, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Sonja A Behnke, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, Mary Benage, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, WA, United States and Benjamin James Andrews, Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kathleen F McKee, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Washington, DC, United States


V036
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Differentiation and Evolution of Earth and other Planetary Bodies
Primary Convener:  Katherine R Bermingham, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Anat Shahar, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Valerie A Finlayson, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katherine R Bermingham, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, MD, United States


V058
Birth of a volcano: The 2018-9 Mayotte seismic-volcanic crisis
Primary Convener:  Wayne C Crawford, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Chastity Aiken, IFREMER, Geosciences Marines, Plouzané, France and Zacharie Duputel, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Primary Liaison:  Wayne C Crawford, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France