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Will You Finish Your Thesis on Time (UTube)
Musical performance by four GPS graduate students at the Division's Zilchbrau, an annual celebration organized by 2nd-year graduate students.
Geology grad students lead kids on an educational hike (June 2009)
Three graduate students from Caltech's Tectonics Observatory recently led a class of 40 sixth graders from Burbank Elementary School on a geology field trip through Eaton Canyon.
Jason and Zorka Saleeby are Keynote Speakers at Kern River Valley's Spring Nature Festival, Audubon (May 2, 2009)
Jason and Zorka Saleeby appeared at the Kern Valley Spring Nature Festival sponsored by the Audubon Society. They presented the yearly banquet keynote address entitled "Kern Valley Backyard Geology," led a workshop on local geology, and led a field trip to the Kern Canyon fault.
Fingerprinting slow earthquakes and how they relate to the big one, ScienceDaily (April 30, 2009)
Team of researchers finds anomalous layer on top of a subducting slab. This layer, called the "ultra-slow velocity layer" (USL), slows seismic waves down by 30% to 50%, and is shown to be coincident with silent earthquakes. (see article in Science)
John Eiler - Recipient of the 2009 Epstein Medal, the European Association for Geochemistry (EAG)'s Science Innovation Award, "for particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry, considered to be of fundamental significance"
Ken Farley - Recipient of the Geochemical Society's 2009 Goldschmidt Medal, "for outstanding contributions to geochemistry"
Nina (Yu-nung) Lin (graduate student) - Recipient of the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Foundation's Alexander and
Geraldine Wanek Named Grant, to fund her work on folding and thrusting mechanisms
along the northern TianShan Piedmont (April 2009)
Reef record suggests impending Sumatra quakes, ScienceNews (Dec 11, 2008)
Analyses of corals surrounding the Mentawai Islands indicate that the Sumatra region has suffered repeated supercycles of seismic upheaval for at least seven centuries. Results of the new studies suggest that the Mentawai Islands' September 2007 temblor is just the first in a series of major temblors that will strike that region in the coming decades.
Caltech Grad Students and Professor participate in local public middle school's Science and Math Fair, Caltech Today (Feb 18, 2009)
Three graduate students and a professor from Caltech's Tectonics Observatory presented hands-on activities in Earth science at Sierra Madre Middle School's Science and Math Fair.
Brian Wernicke discusses the shrinking San Gabriel Valley, TWCable's SoCal News/CNN Headline News (Feb 11, 2009)
A two-minute news interview, with Brian Wernicke explaining how the San Gabriel Valley came to be and where it's going.
Imperfect Dominoes, Nature Geoscience (Feb 2009)
Studies of past and present seismic activity in the Indonesian archipelago show a complex, but organized, pattern of earthquake supercycles, the latest of which has not been completed.
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