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Monday, December 22, 2025
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See the following announcements:
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- CRESCENT Travel Stipend for Graduate Student & Postdoc
- SSA session: Intriguing Seismic Observations
- GSA Cordilleran 2026 Symposium on Opening of the Gulf of California (Loreto, Apr 21–24)
- Save the Date: SZNet 2026 Cascadia Pilot Project
On behalf of Shannon Fasola, University of Oregon
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CRESCENT Travel Stipend for Graduate Student & Postdoc
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Are you a graduate student or postdoc wishing to attend a training workshop or conference this spring or summer?
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This effort seeks to help candidates strengthen the presentation of their skills and accomplishments in anticipation of entering the workforce. Appropriate professional development events should provide information, skill development, and networking opportunities that help participants prepare for careers in earthquake science.
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Applications are reviewed twice a year, January 15 and June 15. Funding awards will be considered up to ~$900. Number of applications accepted per term is dependent upon funding availability.
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- a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its possessions.
- a full-time graduate student or post doc at a U.S.-based institution who is interested in a career in earthquake science and broadening participation.
Learn more and apply here.
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On behalf of Susan E. Hough, USGS
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SSA session: Intriguing Seismic Observations
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We invite colleagues to submit abstracts to our session, 'Intriguing Seismic
Observations,' at the SSA 2026 Annual Meeting in Pasadena, California (April 14–18). For more information
see: https://meetings.seismosoc.org/submit/
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Intriguing Seismic Observations
The experience of a large or great earthquake can involve a remarkable
range of sensory phenomena, including audible sounds, flashes of light,
ground roll, and other striking effects. Reports of these
observations—ranging from well-documented accounts to anecdotal
narratives—highlight the complex physical processes occurring during strong
ground motion. With the increasing availability of smartphones, video
recordings, and other digital tools, modern observations provide valuable
new insights that complement historical materials such as those in the
Steinbrugge collection. This session invites contributions that document,
analyze, or model unusual seismic phenomena—whether visual, audible,
written, or instrumental—and that advance understanding of the physical
mechanisms underlying these distinctive earthquake effects.
Conveners Lori Dengler, Cal Poly Humboldt (retired)
(lori.dengler@humboldt.edu)
Peggy Hellweg, University of California, Berkeley (hellweg@berkeley.edu)
Susan E. Hough, U.S. Geological Survey (hough@usgs.go)
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On behalf of Ronald M. Spelz , UABC
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GSA Cordilleran 2026 Symposium on Opening of the Gulf of California (Loreto, Apr 21–24)
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I’d like to share an upcoming symposium at the Geological Society of America (GSA) Cordilleran Section Meeting (Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico; April 21–24, 2026):
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Symposium: Tectonic Evolution and Competing Models for the Opening of the Gulf of California: From Subduction to Oblique Rifting
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This symposium will explore key controversies in the tectonic evolution of the Gulf of California—one of Earth’s most dynamic oblique-rift systems—including the timing and style of early rifting, the onset of transtensional shearing, and the integration of wrenching and extension along the Pacific–North America plate boundary.
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We welcome contributions on:
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- Strain partitioning around the Baja California microplate
- Progressive localization of deformation within the Gulf
- Rifted-margin fault kinematics and their link to broader deformation fields
- Competing kinematic frameworks for microplate motion and evolution (and associated geodynamic implications)
- Joann Stock (Caltech)
- John Fletcher (CICESE)
- Luca Ferrari (UNAM)
- Scott Bennett (USGS)
Conveners:
Ronald M. Spelz (UABC), Raquel Negrete-Aranda (CICESE), Scott Bennett (USGS), Elisa Fitz (UNAM)
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Abstract submission deadline: January 13, 2026
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Save the Date: SZNet 2026 Cascadia Pilot Project
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Application opening in January 2026
An interdisciplinary and international field research opportunity near Mount Hood, Oregon, July 20-29, 2026
Mount Hood is one of the most hazardous volcanoes in the continental US and represents an outstanding opportunity for interdisciplinary geohazard science. This field trip - organized by Leif Karlstrom (U. Oregon), Scott Bennett (USGS), Adam Kent (Oregon State U.), Ian Madin (DOGAMI), Brian Yanites (Indiana U.), and Erik Klemetti (Denison U.) - will investigate interacting hazards on Mount Hood by focusing on multiscale sediment dynamics. Participants will apply traditional field techniques, aerial drone surveys, and geophysics, to collect new data and discuss outstanding science questions. Potential field targets include a near-summit pyroclastic surge deposit, sediment aggradation and fluvial dynamics associated with recent eruption deposits, sediment impoundment by active faults and its use in Holocene earthquakes, debris flows and landslides in the Columbia river gorge, and monogenetic volcanic processes. The trip will be organized with office days to enable processing and analysis of data and involve projects that all participants can contribute to, with the goal of developing research products, new ideas, and new collaborations.
This fully funded field trip opportunity is open to scientists at any career stage interested in cross-disciplinary approaches to researching subduction systems. Applicants from a variety of fields of expertise are encouraged to apply! The participant application portal will open in January, 2026. Stay tuned!
Please visit the pilot project webpage for more information about the program, application dates, and funding support. We encourage you to apply!
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With any questions, please reach out at contact@sz4d.org
SZNet is the international collaboration component of SZ4D focusing on international collaboration and communication between active science networks studying subduction zone geohazards. For more information about SZNet, please visit our website.
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