Department of Geological Sciences

Events and Announcements

• Professors Onderdonk and Bormann and grad students Amber Tucker, Dan Boyd, Drake Kerr and Clay Kelty presented their research on active faults and tectonic deformation in Southern California at the annual meeting of the Southern California Earthquake Center in Palm Springs, September 7-9. Read more about the presentations.
• Faculty and recent graduates students edited and wrote 5 papers in a new book about the region: "From the Mountains to the Abyss: The California Borderland as an Archive of Southern California Geologic Evolution", a Special Publication of the Society for Sedimentary Geology. Read more about the book and the students.
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Department Seminar Schedule

Held on Wednesdays in HSCI-382 from 12:30 to 1:30pm.

• September 4 - Nick van Buer
  (Cal Poly Pomona)
  "Eastward escape of Tibet facilitated by mid-crustal upwelling where conjugate faults meet at its western end; with an aside on glacially dammed lakes."
• September 25 - Jen Garrison
  (CSU Los Angeles)
  "Sumaco Volcano, Ecuador: Investigating mantle melting and slab structure in the rear-arc of Ecuador "
• October 2 - Eileen Evans
  (CSU Northridge)
  ""Geodetic fault slip rates in California: what they are, how well we know them, and how could we know them better""
• October 9 - Josh West
  (University of Southern California)
  "Uplift, erosion, and the carbon cycle: The problem with an erosional driver of global glaciation"
• October 16 - Paul Alessio
  (UC Santa Barbara)
  "Short-term patterns and processes of coastal cliff erosion in Santa Barbara, CA"
• October 30 - Jillian Maloney
  (San Diego State University)
  "TBD"
• November 13 - Nicole Bunoso
  (CSU Fullerton)
  "TBD"