Recent Talks


2008

Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference (July)
Keynote: The Non-Steady-State Behavior of Subduction: Slab Dynamics and Fluid Fluxes

Northwestern University (May)
From Steady-state to Slab Detachment: How does lithosphere strength affect subdution Dynamics

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geodynamics Seminar (May)
From Steady-state to Slab Detachment: How does lithosphere strength affect subdution Dynamics

2007

Univ. of Oregon, Geological Sciences Departmental Seminar (November)
The role of small-scale Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in large-scale mantle convection simulations with non-linear rheology.

Columbia University, Colloquium for the IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics and Earth & Environmental Sciences, (November)
The role of small-scale Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in large-scale mantle convection simulations with non-linear rheology.

Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
Integrating High Pressure Experimental Constraints into Subduction Dynamics Simulations: Which unknown parameters could have the largest effects?

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (U.C.S.D), Department Seminar
Deformation in the Outer-rise of Subduction Zones: Lithospheric Flexure and Fault Friction.

2006

U. C. Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Science Seminar
Subduction Dynamics

Caltech, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, GeoClub Seminar
Subduction Dynamics and Rheology in the Upper Mantle

MARGINS Workshop on Interpreting Upper Mantle Images
Overview of Recent Geodynamic Models of Subduction

Stanford University, Department of Geophysics Seminar
Subduction Dynamics and Rheology in the Upper Mantle

University of Michigan, Department of Geology Seminar
Subduction Dynamics and Rheology in the Upper Mantle

2005

University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences Department Seminar
Evolution of Slabs in the Upper Mantle: A local balance of forces?

Rice University, Department of Earth Science Seminar
Subduction Dynamics and Rheology in the Upper Mantle

2004

Arizona State University, Department of Geological Sciences Seminar
Rheologic Controls on Subduction Dynamics

U. C. Berkeley, Seismological Laboratory Seminar
Rheologic Controls on Subduction Dynamics

Meeting for Young Researchers in the Earth Sciences (MYRES), Keynote Speaker
Constraints on Mantle Dynamics from Surface Observables

U. C. Los Angeles, Earth and Space Sciences Department Seminar
Rheologic Controls on Subduction Dynamics

University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences Seminar
Rheologic Controls on Subduction Dynamics

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) Workshop on Tectonics of southern California, Keynote Speaker
Lithospheric Instability in Obliquely Convergent Margins: southern California

2003

Brown University, Department of Geological Sciences Seminar
Dynamic Consequences of a Low Viscosity Wedge in Subduction Zones

Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics Seminar
Exploring non-Newtonian Viscosity in Subduction Zone Dynamics

2002

Cambridge University, Bullard Laboratory Geophysics Seminar
Weak Zones and Lithospheric Deformation in Obliquely Convergent Margins