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AGU Session Announcements, Calls for Abstracts

Date: 07/22/2019

Dear SCEC Community,

Please see below for the following AGU session announcements / calls for abstracts. This time of the year we receive many of these requests. Thus, we will begin to compound multiple AGU session requests and send on a weekly basis.

1. G015 - Recent Advances in SAR and InSAR Data Processing, Big Data analysis and Applications to Earth Observation
2. Session n. ED046 Scientists, Artists and the Earth: Co-operating for the Planet:
3. T044 - Segmentation and supercycles: Observations and models of earthquake recurrence patterns
4. S041. The 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes
5. MR018 - “Fault Deformation During the Seismic Cycle: From the Field to the Laboratory
6. S025. Linking earthquake kinematics with dynamics

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1. G015 - Recent Advances in SAR and InSAR Data Processing, Big Data analysis and Applications to Earth Observation:
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Dear Colleagues:

We invite abstract submissions to our 2019 AGU Fall Meeting session G015, Recent Advances in SAR and InSAR Data Processing, Big Data analysis and Applications to Earth Observation. Additional details can be found below.

Best regards, Kristy, Ann and Franz

G015 - Recent Advances in SAR and InSAR Data Processing, Big Data analysis and Applications to Earth Observation
Conveners: Kristy Tiampo, Ann Chen and Franz Meyer

Session Description:
The recent increase in SAR data, the result of an unprecedented number of satellites, including Sentinel-1A/B and the upcoming NISAR satellite, and the increasing variety of data they produce, has resulted in a golden age of SAR and InSAR results. This wealth of data has resulted in enormous scientific opportunities coupled with significant technical and logistical challenges. Here we solicit contributions detailing methods and strategies that address these opportunities and challenges. These should highlight recent developments in SAR and InSAR in the following areas: (1) Recent developments in data processing techniques that take full advantage of the densely sampled time-series information and development of new data products; (2) Advances in big data analytics, deep learning and cloud-based processing techniques applied to SAR and InSAR, and development and distribution of value-added products. (3) Submissions that employ new analysis strategies and applications using the wide variety of SAR and InSAR data available today to analyze complex geoscience problems.
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Dr. Kristy F. Tiampo
Professor & Director, Earth Science & Observation Center
Geological Sciences and CIRES
216 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
1-303-492-2813

2. Session n. ED046 Scientists, Artists and the Earth: Co-operating for the Planet:
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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We invite you to submit an abstract to to the Earth Sciences and Art session that we are organizing at the next AGU (American Geophysical Union) (San Francisco 9-13 Dec 2019)

for more details about the conference visit here: https://www2.agu.org/fall-meeting

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission 31 July 2019 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.

Our session:

session n. ED046

Scientists, Artists and the Earth: Co-operating for the Planet

Climate change, pollution, desertification, natural hazard, animal extinction are some of the challenges we face everyday. Very often Science is charged of the solutions while Art is intended mainly for entertainment. A community of scientists and artists is growing to drive people attention on the impelling problems demanding urgent solutions. Art involves people emotionally; it represents a valid tool for cognitive learning; it can help to convey messages and values for reawakening the sense of beauty and responsibility for the planet. The precious cooperation between the two facilitates the identification more effective methods to involve people into a deep knowledge of the Earth while educating them to a sustainable life-style. If you are using any form of Art in this sense or investigating how Art meets Earth sciences issues, then join the session. As an immediate experiment of the emotional involvement of the public, we encourage performative presentation.

submit here:

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/82281

and follow the guidelines here:
https://www2.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Submit-an-abstract/

We would like to hear about the work that you are doing and encourage you to submit your abstracts.

Best regards,

Tiziana Lanza, George Sand Franca, Francesco Mugnai, Giuliana D'Addezio

3. T044 - Segmentation and supercycles: Observations and models of earthquake recurrence patterns:
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Dear colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to our AGU 2019 Fall Meeting session, "T044 - Segmentation and supercycles: Observations and models of earthquake recurrence patterns." We welcome submissions of either observations or models of earthquake rupture recurrence in all types of tectonic environments.

The session description is as follows:

Earthquake rupture segmentation and cyclicity can be complex; nevertheless, recognizable patterns in earthquake recurrence emerge from long, high resolution, spatially distributed chronologies. Researchers now seek to discover the range of possible rupture areas, the variability of recurrence intervals, and patterns of earthquake clustering in space and time. The term “supercycle” has been used to describe repeating longer periods of strain accumulation and release that each involve multiple fault ruptures. However, this term has become very broadly applied, lumping together several distinct phenomena that have different implications for seismic hazard and fault mechanics. We welcome submissions regarding observations or models of any type of earthquake cyclicity but encourage authors to describe the behavior more specifically. We likewise invite submissions regarding rupture segmentation, i.e., limits placed on earthquake rupture areas by persistent, frequent, or ephemeral barriers, including connections between barrier behavior and underlying causes such as geologic structure or fault rheology.

Invited speakers:
Tom Rockwell, San Diego State University
Daniel Melnick, Universidad Austral de Chile

Conveners:
Belle Philibosian, US Geological Survey
Aron Meltzner, Earth Observatory of Singapore / Nanyang Technological University

The abstract deadline is July 31, 2019 at 23:59 EDT. You may submit an abstract to this session using the following URL: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/76621

4. S041. The 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes:
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S041. The 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquakes

Session link:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/85999

Abstract:
The July 4, 2019 M6.4 Searles Valley and July 6, 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquakes ruptured an orthogonal fault system located approximately 200 km north-northeast of Los Angeles, California, with the M7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake being notable as the largest earthquake in California since the 1999 M7.1 Hector Mine earthquake. The 20 years that have passed since Hector Mine have brought about enormous improvements in the regional seismic network and a revolution in geodetic techniques including LiDAR, new remote sensing platforms, and the expansion of GNSS. Because of this, the Ridgecrest earthquake will have the densest and most accurate observations of any M7+ California earthquake in history, including co-seismic, post-seismic, and even pre-seismic observations collected as part of the field response to the preceding M6.4 Searles Valley earthquake. We welcome submissions from all fields of geophysics, geology, geodesy, and social science exploring these two earthquakes and their impacts including human impacts.

Co-sponsoring sections:
Geodesy
Seismology (primary)
Tectonophysics

Abstract submission deadline: 31 July 2019 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT
https://www2.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Submit-an-abstract

Best wishes from your friendly conveners,

Sarah Minson, U.S. Geological Survey
Christine Regalla, Boston University
Zachary Ross, California Institute of Technology
Jessie Saunders, U.S. Geological Survey

5. MR018 - “Fault Deformation During the Seismic Cycle: From the Field to the Laboratory:
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Dear colleagues,

Apologies for the cross-postings. We would like to bring to your attention, the following session at the 2019 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco; MR018 - “Fault Deformation During the Seismic Cycle: From the Field to the Laboratory” (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/76380). We are looking to attract scientists who study the interaction and correlation between fault behavior, and rocks of the fault core and damage zone. The session description is shown below.

The abstract submission deadline is July 31, 2019.

Session Description:
Strong feedbacks exist between fault behavior, and rocks of the fault core and damage zone. Coseismic fault rupture propagation results in an increase in fractures in the damage zone. An immediate feedback occurs via (fracture) energy consumption and the potential triggering of different dynamic weakening mechanisms (i.e. thermal pressurization vs frictional melting) due to modifications of the thermal and hydraulic properties of the damage zone. An increase of permeability and porosity in the damage zone would influence post- and interseismic processes and allow for large-scale co- and interseismic fluid movement along the fault zone that affects fault healing and stress recovery. We welcome studies of rock-deformation experiments, field investigations, seismology and numerical modelling that investigate, i) mechanical, chemical and hydrological processes on seismic or aseismic faults, ii) feedbacks that arise between different fault zone processes during inter- and co-seismic periods, and, iii) the effects of structural heterogeneity on fault properties

Confirmed invited speakers:
Yuri Fialko, University of California San Diego
Christie D. Rowe, McGill University

Conveners:
Li-Wei Kuo, National Central University, Taiwan
Hiroki Sone, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brett Carpenter, University of Oklahoma

6. S025. Linking earthquake kinematics with dynamics:
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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are convening the following session at this year's AGU on "Linking earthquake kinematics with dynamics". Please consider to submit your relevant work to this session.

Thank you and see you in SF.
Shengji Wei, Hongfeng Yang, Elizabeth Madden and Zacharie Duputel

S025. Linking earthquake kinematics with dynamics

Earthquake rupture kinematic observations, fundamental rock physics and dynamic simulations have to converge to accurately quantify seismic hazards. Owing to the rapidly increasing quality and coverage of geophysical, geodetic and geological observations of earthquakes, as well as the explosively growing computational power, both kinematic and dynamic rupture processes have been resolved with unprecedented details. These progresses have been shedding new insights into reducing the gap between earthquake kinematics and dynamics. In this session we solicit contributions on all studies relevant to earthquake rupture kinematics and dynamics from seismology, geodesy, geology and lab experiments. Topics include but are not limited to, imaging of earthquakes ruptures, fault morphology mapping, fault zone structure imaging, earthquake cycle observations from paleoseismology and geodesy, dynamic rupture, earthquake cycle simulations, and rock experiments.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/prelim.cgi/Session/80857

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