Steve was selected among a group of finalists to receive the inaugural Len and Genice Collett Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society (KEGS). See the announcement here.
Steve was selected for “his impactful PhD research at the University of Ottawa into crustal tectonics which involves installing and monitoring an array of ocean-bottom seismometers off the active west coast of B.C. and in analyzing observed seismic responses”.
Congrats Steve!
PhD student Stephen Mosher recently got back from a research cruise in the South Pacific to install ocean-bottom seismograph stations. The goal of the deployment is to study mantle convection patterns in an oceanic setting. You can read about the cruise (and blog post by Steve) here.
Elyse Gaudreau successfully defended her thesis entitled: “Thermochronologic and geophysical investigations of Canadian Cordilleran crust”. Well done!
Elyse is moving on to start a PhD at the University of Victoria starting this September.
One recent paper by Jeremy Gosselin was selected as an “Editor’s Choice” paper in the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. Congratulations Jeremy!
Four members of our group have recently received outstanding scholarships: Élyse Gaudreau (KEGS – GSC Pioneers Scholarship), Jeremy Gosselin (Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship), Stephen Mosher (Ontario Graduate Scholarship) and Andrew Schaeffer (Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship).
Congrats everybody!
Two students from our group successfully defended their MSc thesis:
Steve Mosher’s thesis was entitled: “P-wave study of the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California, from ambient noise interferometry of borehole seismic data”.
Azadeh Ashoori’s thesis was entitled: “Lithospheric structure across the northern Canadian Cordillera from teleseismic receiver functions”
Congrats!
Last week MSc student Morgan McLellan successfully defended her thesis entitled: “Structure and deformation of the northern Canadian Cordillera: Insights from Rayleigh wave tomography”.
In addition, Morgan also won the Best Student Paper Award in Geophysics at the GAC-MAC conference held in Whitehorse in June.
Congrats Morgan!
Pascal has been appointed University Research Chair in Solid Earth Geophysics: http://research.uottawa.ca/news/promising-new-university-research-chairs-set-tackle-pressing-issues
Paper published in Tectonophysics by P. Audet and Y. Kim on a review of the geologic environment of deep slow slip events at subduction zones:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195116000317
Paper in press in Journal of Geophysical Research by former graduate student E. Cossette and colleagues on the seismic structure and anisotropy of the crust in the western Cyclades, Greece:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JB012460/full
Paper in press in Geophysical Journal International by P. Audet on the use of receiver functions using OBS data to study oceanic plate structure:
http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/30/gji.ggw111.abstract
This year the University of Ottawa will be well represented in the Seismology and Tectonophysics sections at the AGU Fall Meeting (December 14-18) with 6 oral and poster presentations. Don’t miss out on these!
T12C-05 Teleseismic receiver and transfer function modeling of OBS data: Resolving plate structure in the locked zone of Cascadia
Pascal Audet
Monday, 14 December 2015
11:20 – 11:35
Moscone South – 304
T11D-2914 Seismic Tomography of the Continental United States from a Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Body Waves
Eva Golos et al. (including Andrew Schaeffer)
Monday, 14 December 2015
8:00 – 12:00
Moscone South – Poster Hall
DI13C-01 Implications of a comprehensive, spreading-aligned plate motion reference frame in light of seismic anisotropy and global trench migration
Thorsten Becker, Andrew Schaeffer, Sergei Lebedev, and Clinton Conrad
Monday, 14 December 2015
13:40 – 13:55
Moscone South – 301
T24A-03 Resolving the tectonic transition between ancestral North America and the northern Cordillera
Andrew Schaeffer, Pascal Audet, and Sergei Lebedev
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
16:30 – 16:45
Moscone South – 306
S41B-2737 Body-Wave Scattering from Seismic Interferometry: Preliminary Results from the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California
Stephen Mosher and Pascal Audet
Thursday, 17 December 2015
08:00 – 12:20
Moscone South – Poster Hall
S41B-2751 Stress Monitoring Potential of Ambient Noise Interferometry in Deep Mine Environments
Philippe Dales, Pascal Audet, Jean-Philippe Mercier, Willem de Beer, and Andrei Pascu
Thursday, 17 December 2015
08:00 – 12:20
Moscone South – Poster Hall
T43F-01 Seismic and Thermal Structure of the Arctic Lithosphere, From Waveform Tomography and Thermodynamic Modelling
Sergei Lebedev, Andrew Schaeffer, Javier Fullea, and Victoria Pease
Thursday, 17 December 2015
13:40 – 13:55
Moscone South – 306
T51C-2887 Rayleigh-wave Tomography Study of Northwestern Canada
Morgan McLellan, Andrew Schaeffer, and Pascal Audet
Friday, 18 December 2015
08:00 – 12:20
Moscone South – Poster Hall
T51J-06 Layered anisotropy around the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California: Structural control on seismic and aseismic behaviour (INVITED)
Pascal Audet
Friday, 18 December 2015
09:15 – 09:30
Moscone South – 302
T51B-2886 Towards High-Resolution Waveform Tomography of the North Atlantic Region
Nicolas Celli, Sergei Lebedev, Andrew Schaeffer, and Carmen Gaina
Friday, 18 December 2015
08:00 – 12:20
Moscone South – Poster Hall
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