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Five Announcements from the SCEC Community

Date: 09/02/2022

Dear SCEC Community,

Please see below for the following announcements:

  • Envisioning the Future of Geophysics: A Celebration of the Centennial of the Seismological Laboratory
  • Seismic Data Analyst with the Southern California Seismic Network
  • SCEC UCVM v22.7.0 Software Released
  • Multiple Mendenhall Post-Doctoral Opportunities at the USGS
  • USGS Mendenhall Post-doctoral Opportunity: Improving short-term induced and natural seismicity forecasts with machine learning

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On behalf of Mike Gurnis, Caltech

Envisioning the Future of Geophysics
A Celebration of the Centennial of the Seismological Laboratory
November 10-11, 2022, Pasadena, California

Registration Now Open
http://www.seismolab.caltech.edu/centennial/index.html

This symposium aims to provide a glimpse into the future of geophysics by bringing together traditionally disparate research communities. It will explore new concepts and technologies that are poised to transform how geophysics informs our understanding of Earth processes. The symposium will be held in person on the campus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California.

The timing of the meeting coincides with the centennial of the founding of the Seismological Laboratory, initially a unit of the Carnegie Institution and later becoming integrated with Caltech. Now, one hundred years on, researchers will consider the nature of earthquakes and how new technologies better inform natural hazards, the nature of processes within the crust and lithosphere, new ways to image the Earth, and the structure, dynamics, and evolution of Planet Earth.

 

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On behalf of Gabrielle Tepp, Caltech

Seismic Data Analyst with the Southern California Seismic Network

The Caltech Seismo Lab is looking for a full-time Seismic Data Analyst to work with the Southern California Seismic Network.

This is an operational position primarily tasked with earthquake timing and occasional data quality checks. Experienced analysts also participate in the duty seismologist rotation for large magnitude earthquake response. There may be additional opportunities to assist with social media, research, or other tasks relating to seismic network operations.

We're open to candidates with or without seismology experience. This could be a great opportunity for a recent grad or young scientist. Our preferred candidate will have a BS in science/engineering and/or some experience with geophysics or seismology. The SCSN has a diverse and respectful team, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the geosciences. The work arrangement is flexible but anticipated to be in-office or hybrid (Pasadena, CA).

More details and an online application can be found here: https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf03/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CALTECH&cws=37&rid=8649

The position is open until filled.

If you have any questions about the position, analyst team, or Caltech/SCSN, please contact Gabrielle Tepp (gtepp@caltech.edu) or Allen Husker (ahusker@caltech.edu).

 

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On behalf of Phil Maechlin, USC

SCEC UCVM v22.7.0 Software Released

We are pleased to announce a new version of the SCEC Unified Community Velocity Model (UCVM) v22.7.0 software was released on August 30, 2022. This version of UCVM has both new features and bugfixes. Among others, this release includes the following significant changes:

  • Nine CVM-H v15.1 southern California basin models are registered as standalone models into this version of UCVM, making it easier to combine these basin models with larger regional models.
  • Added a continuous integration (CI) testing framework to the UCVM GitHub repository to detect software issues immediately and improve software reliability.
  • An updated version of a California Vs30 (Thompson 2018) model was registered into this version which is used in the Ely/Jordan geotechnical layer algorithm.
  • This version of UCVM can be accessed in several ways, including a map-based web interface, in Docker images, and by source code that can be installed and built using GNU compilers on Linux systems.
  • Developed an improved software installation and build process that retrieves large model files from a cloud storage system to improve download speed and reliability.

More information about the UCVM project is available on the UCVM software page: https://scec.org/software/ucvm

This latest UCVM v22.7 release can be accessed in the SCEC GitHub repository: https://github.com/SCECcode/ucvm.git

 

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Two announcements on behalf of Morgan Page, USGS

Multiple Mendenhall Post-Doctoral Opportunities at the USGS

The USGS Earthquake Science Center and Geologic Hazards Science Center invite applications to the Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program on a variety of research topics. 

Why is it great to work for USGS? We serve the Nation by providing reliable scientific information while valuing differences, encouraging each other, and collaborating to make new discoveries. Fellowships provide 2 years of salary and benefits, as well as funding to support the proposed research project. Positions are based out of one or more of our offices in California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Washington.
A list of research opportunities is available here: https://on.doi.gov/3RsF5nd 

In addition to proposals for the listed topics, candidates can also submit original proposal ideas (see https://on.doi.gov/3RqCHNQ).

Note that due to federal regulations, non-citizens can be hired for these fellowships only in rare circumstances (see https://on.doi.gov/3edWmm5).

Applications are due November 1, 2022.

 

USGS Mendenhall Program Post-doctoral Opportunity: Improving short-term induced and natural seismicity forecasts with machine learning

The USGS Mendenhall program has a post-doctoral opportunity (#21-44) for recent graduates in computer science, geophysics, seismology, statistics, or related fields.

The goal of this opportunity is to develop machine-learning approaches to improve earthquake forecasting capabilities – namely, to better predict the rate, locations, and sizes of earthquakes, and to supplement or potentially replace the empirical epidemic-type aftershock sequence (ETAS) models currently being used by the USGS for operational earthquake forecasting.  We welcome applications that focus on natural seismicity and/or induced seismicity. In their proposal, applicants should describe methods and architectures amenable to extracting relevant features from catalogs of earthquake times and locations, and to generating stochastic representations of future activity.   

More information on the opportunity is here: https://on.doi.gov/3Ru1Wz7

Note that due to federal regulations, non-citizens can be hired for these fellowships only in rare circumstances (see https://on.doi.gov/3edWmm5).

Applications are due November 1, 2022.
Proposed Duty Station(s): Pasadena, California; Moffett Field, California; Seattle, Washington; Golden, Colorado.

Research Advisors: Morgan Page, mpage@usgs.gov; Andrea Llenos, allenos@usgs.gov; Nicholas van der Elst,  nvanderelst@usgs.gov; Justin Rubinstein, jrubinstein@usgs.gov; Clara Yoon, cyoon@usgs.gov; Elizabeth Cochran, ecochran@usgs.gov; Edward (Ned) Field, field@usgs.gov; Andrew Michael, ajmichael@usgs.gov.

 

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