Lectures

General audience lectures:


IRIS/SSA lecture: Giant earthquakes: Why, Where, When, and What We Can Do

Lecture abstract and information

Directory with lecture (large power point) for Macintosh and PC, and subdirectory with animations. To run the power point you will need to run it from the same folder as the animations.

Lectures (large pdf) for IRIS summer intern orientation:

Seismology and earth structure

Earthquake hazards and prediction

Earthquakes and tectonics

Class exercise: the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Sichuan exercise power point

Lectures for China Earthquake Authority delegation: Using earthquake science to predict earthquake hazards and reduce earthquake risks: using what we know and recognizing what we don't

Why is predicting earthquake hazards so hard?

How does the challenge differ between plate boundaries, plate boundary zones, and plate interiors?

How well can we predict earthquake hazards?

Developing cost-effective earthquake hazard mitigation policy

All four as pdf (4 panels per page)

Earthquakes in the midwest: seismology, hazard, and policy issues: pdf

Technical audience lectures:

Two day series of lectures "Studying neotectonics with plate motion, seismological & GPS data" for the Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science. These are large power point files, largely covering material in chapters 4 and 5 of Stein and Wysession.

Introduction: idea of integrated studies

Plate tectonics, relative plate motions

Absolute plate motions and hotspots

Earthquakes: fundamental concepts & focal mechanisms

Earthquakes: waveform modeling, moment tensors & source parameters

Tectonic geodesy

Earthquake recurrence & hazards

Spreading centers & driving forces

Subduction zones & driving forces

Plate boundary zones & changes in plate motions

Plate interiors: science, hazard & policy questions

Faulting & deformation in the lithosphere

A powerpoint presentation with examples about using space geodetic data in teaching about earthquakes, tectonics, & geologic hazards

Using space geodetic data to teach about tectonics, earthquakes, and hazards

A presentation with examples about issues in teaching introductory geohysics

Teaching introductory geophysics: what our students don't know, need to, and what we can do (powerpoint)

A powerpoint presentation for the IRIS annual meeting summarizing some issues about the supply and demand for PhD earth scientists and the role of education & outreach efforts in seismology

Chasing the 100: the student pipeline, future of seismology, and what E&O might do

A presentation for beginning geophysics class summarizing some initial information about the 12/26/04 Sumatra trench earthquake and Indian Ocean tsunami

power point

A presentation discussing the ultra-long period slip in the 12/26/04 Sumatra trench earthquake inferred from normal modes and implications for the Indian Ocean tsunami

power point