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JpGU-AGU Special Session & IAG-IASPEI Call for Abstracts

Date: 01/20/2017

Dear SCEC Community,

Please see below for the following announcements:

1. Special Session at JpGU-AGU: Dynamics in mobile belts (S-CG62), Call for Abstracts
2. IAG-IASPEI, Call for Abstracts

Regards,

SCEC Information

1. Special Session at JpGU-AGU: Dynamics in mobile belts (S-CG62)
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Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to our special session at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting, May 20-25, 2017, in Chiba, Japan. This session is inspired by the Japanese "Crustal Dynamics" project, which is a SCEC-like, multi-institutional, interdisciplinary earth science effort using Japan as a natural laboratory. Presentations on SCEC projects would be right at home in this session.

Dynamics in mobile belts (session S-CG62)
The dynamic behaviours of mobile belts are expressed across a wide range of time scales, from the seismic and volcanic events that impact society during our lifetimes, to orogeny and the formation of large-scale fault systems which can take place over millions of years. Deformation occurs on length scales from microscopic fracture and flow to macroscopic deformation to plate-scale tectonics. To gain a physical understanding of the dynamics of mobile belts, we must determine the relationships between deformation and the driving stresses due to plate motion and other causes, which are connected though the rheological properties of the materials. To understand the full physical system, an integration of geophysics, geomorphology, and geology is necessary, as is the integration of observational, theoretical and experimental approaches. In addition, because rheological properties are greatly affected by fluids in the crust and fluid chemical reactions, petrological and geochemical approaches are also important. After the 2011 great Tohoku-oki earthquake, large-scale changes in seismic activity and regional scale crustal deformation were observed, making present-day Japan a unique natural laboratory for the study of the dynamics of mobile belts. This session welcomes presentations from different disciplines, such as seismology, geodesy, tectonic geomorphology, structural geology, petrology, and geofluids, as well as interdisciplinary studies, that relate to the dynamic behaviour of mobile belts.

Abstract Submission Deadline
Early Submission： Feb 3rd, 2017 at 11:59am JST
Final Submission：Feb 16th, 2017 at 5:00pm JST

A JpGU ID is required for submission, this is free for AGU members. https://meetings.agu.org/jpgu-and-agu-partnership/

Meeting Website: http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/

Session List: http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/session_list/index.html

Abstract Submission Website: http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_e2017/submission.html#submission

- Jeanne Hardebeck, U.S. Geological Survey

2. IAG-IASPEI, Call for Abstracts
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Dear all,

The joint Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI) will be held from July 31 to August 4 in 2017 in Kobe.

In total, 43 Symposia are proposed (27 IASPEI, 7 IAG and 9 joint) as listed below.

Please visit the conference website http://www.iag-iaspei-2017.jp/ for more details about the scientific program, abstract submission, travel support, registration, accommodation and travel information.

Abstract submission and applications for travel support will be closed on February 8, 2017.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Kobe!

With best regards,
Aitaro Kato