Pascal was recently awarded one of the Early Researcher Awards of Ontario. Check out the announcement from the University of Ottawa:
Congratulations Élise!
Congratulations to Élise Cossette who successfully defended her MSc thesis entitled “Crustal seismic anisotropy and structure from textural and seismic investigations in the Cycladic region, Greece”.
Well done Élise!
2 new papers published/in press
Paper published in Tectonophysics by graduate student E. Cossette and colleagues on the seismic anisotropy of a crustal-scale detachment system in the Aegean region from textural data:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040195115001912
Paper in press in Journal of Geophysical Research by P. Audet on seismic anisotropy of the crust around the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield, California:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JB011821/full
Pascal wins the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship!
See the announcement on the Sloan Foundation website: http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/
See also the press release by the University of Ottawa: http://www.uottawa.ca/media/media-release-3134.html
Dr. Andrew Schaeffer to join our group in May!
Great news! Dr. Andrew Schaeffer will be joining our group in May of this year as a new NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow. Andrew did his BSc and MSc at UBC under Michael Bostock, and recently defended his PhD at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies under the supervision of Sergei Lebedev. His work mainly focuses on global surface-wave tomography to understand the mechanics and dynamics of the Earth system. You can find more information on Andrew’s work here.
uOttawa Seismology at the 2015 AGU-CGU Joint Assembly
Our group will be attending the 2015 AGU-CGU Joint Assembly in Montreal in May 3-7 (http://ja.agu.org/2015/). In particular, look out for the session “Seismic structure and dynamics of the North American Cordillera” convened by
Interview in International Innovation
Our research was featured by the magazine International Innovation that publishes on the most important issues in science, education and research. The open access article can be found here.
Paper published in Nature
Our study on the possible role of silica in controlling subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity has been featured in a variety of news sources, notably CBC News, Global News, Postmedia News (Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, The Province), Times Colonist, and a few science websites, phys.org, Live Science.
Groundwater extraction can move mountains
Contributed by Pascal Audet (webpage or email)
Historic 1977 photo of Dr. Joseph Poland, USGS, considered the pioneer of scientific subsidence studies. Dates on telephone pole indicate previous land elevations in an area SW of Mendota. Photo credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Next time you eat food grown in the San Joaquin Valley of California, think about this: the water used for growing them probably came from under ground. Farmers do not really have a choice because the amount of water from rain and snow can’t keep up with the needs for growing food. Every year more water is drawn out of the ground for irrigation. Because of this, the floor of the San Joaquin Valley goes down as the sediments compact once the water is out (see picture on right).
In the latest work from our team, we find a surprising side effect of groundwater pumping: the…
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Paper published in Nature
Our study on the effects of groundwater loss on uplift and seismicity has been featured in a variety of news sources, notably the LA Times, the Washington Post, BBC News, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, Earth Magazine, Edmonton Journal, and several other outlets. Nature also recorded a podcast with lead author Colin Amos, which you can access here.
Paul Lundgren (JPL) also wrote a News and Views piece to accompany our paper that serves as a nice summary and perspective piece.
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