EarthScope Institute on The Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors

The Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors

October 11-14, Portland, OR

The principle goal of this EarthScope Institute is to improve understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the spectrum of observed fault slip behaviors. The purpose of the workshop is to seed collaborations between observational efforts, numerical and theoretical approaches, and laboratory based research programs focused on Transient Fault Slip (TFS). Presentations from the workshop will be posted on the web as background for what is planned to be a continuing, on-line community effort. The Institute is intended to foster critical thinking about the underlying mechanisms and physical processes responsible for TFS and to promote broad, community-based interest in understanding TFS.

For more information and to apply for the workshop, please go to:

http://www.earthscope.org/workshops/fault_slip10

Conveners: Chris Marone (Penn State), Jeff Freymueller (U. of Alaska), John Vidale (U. of Washington), Anne Trehu (Oregon State)

Please register by July 15. Logistics managed by the EarthScope National Office.

This is the first in an anticipated series of workshops to spawn virtual EarthScope Institutes that are intended to engage the scientific community on broad, emerging problems with transformative potential. To propose additional topics for workshops to initiate virtual EarthScope Institutes, please contact a member of the EarthScope Steering Committee.