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Monday, December 15, 2025
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See the following announcements:
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- BSSA Call for Papers: Special Issue on Advancing Physics-based Ground-Motion Simulations for Seismic Hazard Applications
- SSA session: Earthquake Ground Motions and Structural Response: Emerging Tools and Applications
- Cluster Hire in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona
On behalf of Becky Ham, SSA
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BSSA Call for Papers: Special Issue on Advancing Physics-based Ground-Motion Simulations for Seismic Hazard Applications
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New Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2026
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Physics-based numerical simulations of earthquake ground motion have emerged as a promising tool to address critical knowledge gaps in seismology due to sparse observational data and to improve estimates of seismic hazard and risk. These challenges can hinder the development of well-constrained ground-motion models, particularly for near-source regions of large earthquakes or areas with complex geological characteristics.
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This special issue will spotlight innovative advancements, emerging technologies and diverse perspectives in the development and application of physics-based ground-motion models in the field of seismic hazard and risk assessment.
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New Deadline for Submission: 1 February 2026
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Articles accepted to this BSSA Special Issue will be published online soon after acceptance and collectively in print in the August 2026 issue. Papers will be reviewed as they are received and published online prior to the print issue.
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On behalf of Richard M. Allen, UC Berkeley
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SSA session: Earthquake Ground Motions and Structural Response: Emerging Tools and Applications
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Calling all ground motion modellers and structural engineers. Consider submitting an abstract to the SSA session on this topic - details below. Abstract deadline is January 13, and the meeting is April 14-18, 2026 in Pasadena California.
Session title: Earthquake Ground Motions and Structural Response: Emerging Tools and Applications
Understanding how buildings, bridges, energy infrastructure and the ground beneath them respond to earthquakes is central to both earthquake science and risk reduction. New monitoring approaches—ranging from permanent seismic networks and structural arrays to ambient vibration studies, and the rapid growth of low-cost MEMS and smartphone sensors—are expanding our ability to capture building dynamics and ground motion in unprecedented detail. These observations are providing new insights into structural health, damage processes, and soil–structure interaction, and the region-wide distribution of risk for large earthquakes. Newly obtainable data also promises to support applications such as rapid post-event regional damage assessment and long-term seismic resilience.
This session invites contributions from across the seismological, engineering, and hazard-modeling communities that address building and ground motion monitoring using traditional networks, emerging low-cost sensors, gradient based sensors such as distributed fiber optic sensing and rotational sensors, novel analytical methods, or case studies from recent earthquakes and experiments. We especially encourage interdisciplinary studies that bridge seismology, structural engineering, and risk mitigation, provide synergistic applications of unique data and high-performance simulations, as well as applications that highlight the potential for scalable monitoring at the urban or regional level.
Conveners
Richard Allen, University of California Berkeley (rallen@berkeley.edu)
Felix Bernauer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (felix.bernauer@lmu.de)
Farid Ghahari, California Geological Survey (ghahari@gmail.com)
Monica Kohler, California Institute of Technology (kohler@caltech.edu)
Utpal Kumar, University of California Berkeley (utpalkumar@berkeley.edu)
David McCallen, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (dbmccallen@lbl.gov)
Yara Rossi, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Yara.Rossi@lmu.de)
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On behalf of Eric D. Kiser, University of Arizona
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Cluster Hire in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona
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We have a new cluster hire ad of up to four tenure-track faculty positions in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona as part of a strategic initiative in Critical Frontiers in Earth Science. These hires aim to address major challenges related to critical resources, geohazards, global change, and the energy transition.
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We welcome applications in three complementary areas:
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Earth Resources (Assistant or Associate Professor): mineral systems and resources, ore genesis, sustainable mining, and economic geology, with interests including geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics, basin analysis, and tectonic–biologic applications to resource systems.
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Earth Physics (Assistant Professor): geodesy, geodynamics, magnetism, seismology, and other geophysical approaches to solid Earth and surface processes.
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Earth–Life Relationships (Assistant Professor): geochemistry, geobiology, biogeochemical cycles, paleontology, sedimentology/stratigraphy, paleoenvironmental change, and Earth–life co-evolution.
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Rank: Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure-track)
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Workload: 40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service
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Minimum Qualification: Ph.D. in Geosciences or a closely related field by the start date
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The University of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds.
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Please feel free to share this opportunity widely with qualified students, postdocs, and colleagues.
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