April 1 to June 3, 2015

   
Schedule & Notes (linked)

Key elements of a SZO:

•       Transformational & high impact science

•       Societal relevance (strong focus on hazards)

•       International collaboration

•       Multi-disciplinary components

•       Development and deployment of new technologies

–       The merits of deep drilling [notes, presentation] - Will Wilcock (5/27)

–       Possibilities for offshore geodesy [notes, presentation] – Emily Roland & David Schmidt (4/15)

–       Really big arrays

•       New high quality data (on- and off-shore)

–       Advances and challenges to observing in the ocean

–       Cabled data: what now and what more

–       Integrated analyses for monitoring and rapid source modeling of earthquakes and tsunamis [notes, presentation] – Brendan Crowell (5/13)

•       Strong integration with modeling
•       Big data (what it is?) and computer modeling directions

Subduction zone processes to consider:

•       Entire deformation spectrum from sec to Myrs and grain to plate scales

–       Seismic deformation and ground motions [papers, presentation(1), presentation(2)] –Erin Wirth (5/6, shared)

–       Open questions about slow slip, episodic tremor, creep

–       Learning from the geologic record [notes, presentation] - Darrel Cowan (6/3)

–       Connecting the back-arc to the fore-arc (why, how)

•       Tsunami source modeling

•       Volcano processes

•       Geochemical variability

•      Heat, fluid and methane on the Washington Segment of the Cascadia Margin [notes, presentation] – Paul Johnson (4/8)

•       Lithospheric dynamics and orogeny

•       Surface processes (landslides, glaciers, geomorphology)

–       Reading the topography and surface rocks, new directions

–       Geomorphology/landscape evolution in subduction zone settings [notes, presentation] -  Alison Duvall (5/20)

•       The accretionary prism, from thermal processes to gas hydrates [notes, presentation] – Paul Johnson (4/8)

•       Subduction into the lower mantle and the fate of slabs (see above) – Ken Creager (5/6)

•       Plate interface slip

–       Potential earthquakes along the Japan Trench - Geologic clues before 3/11 [notes, presentation]  – Brian Atwater & Jody Bourgeois (4/22)

-    Short- and long-term coupling and strain release: approaches to constraining coastal vertical and horizontal displacement fields [notes, presentation] - Paul Bodin (4/1);