Three More AGU Special Session Announcements

Dear SCEC Community,

Attached below are another set of Special Session announcements for the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco (Dec. 5-9, 2011), as contributed by SCEC community members. Please note the early abstract deadline of August 4 for all of these sessions.

---------------------- Special AGU Session U47 ----------------------------

Dear Colleagues:

We encourage you to consider submitting an abstract describing your research on the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake to a Union Session (U47) scheduled for the Fall AGU Meeting. The tremendous impact of this earthquake will be highlighted in this interdisciplinary session. A selection of keynote oral presentations will accompany an exciting poster session that should attract broad attention.

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U47: The Great 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
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The Mw9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake was the largest to strike Japan in recorded history. It produced strong shaking across northeastern Honshu and a devastating tsunami, causing massive destruction and loss of life, and precipitating one of the most serious nuclear catastrophes in history. The earthquake and tsunami size exceeded expectations, even given recent characterization of the AD869 Jogan tsunami. We solicit multidisciplinary contributions for all aspects of the earthquake sequence, including rupture processes; foreshock and aftershock activity; strong ground motions; geodetic signals; tsunami generation and propagation; stress changes; earthquake triggering; hazard mitigation; atmospheric signals; and the megathrust frictional environment.

Session URL:
http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/session-search/34

The abstract submission site is scheduled to open on 8 June. The deadline for all submissions is 4 August 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT. The Fall Meeting Housing and Registration sites are scheduled to open on 19 July. Please check the meeting website for updates and instructions: http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/

Convener(s):

Manabu Hashimoto, Kyoto U.
manabu.hashimoto@ax7.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Takeshi Sagiya, Nagoya U.
sagiya@nagoya-u.jp

Kenji Satake, U. Tokyo
satake@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Gavin Hayes, U.S. Geological Survey
ghayes@usgs.gov

Thorne Lay, U.C. Santa Cruz
tlay@ucsc.edu

Mark Simons, Caltech
simons@caltech.edu

----------------------- Special AGU Session T31 ---------------------------

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to Session T31: "Magnitude of Stress in the Continental Lithosphere" at the upcoming AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco. This is a broad session intended to bring together workers interested in quantifying stress from the sub-disciplines of seismology, geodesy, geodynamics and geology (also see session description below). We will welcome contributions from each of these fields.

Invited presentations will be given by:

Roland Bürgmann (University of California, Berkeley)
Sara Carena (University of Munich)
Laurent Montési (University of Maryland)
Virginia Toy (University of Otago)

Session description: http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/session-search/821

Best regards,

Whitney Behr and John Platt

----------------------- Special AGU Session U11 ---------------------------

Dear Colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to the following
special session at the 2011 Fall AGU Meeting.

Session U11: Climate Loads as Forcers of Seismic and Volcanic Processes

Recent observations have indicated that earthquakes, volcanic unrest, and seismic tremor may respond to subtle stresses emplaced by climate-related loads. These loads may include precipitation events, periodic tides, seasonal accumulation of precipitation, El Nino cycles, glacial fluctuations, ice sheet and ocean level fluctuations over geologic time, or climate change. This session aims to bring together this diverse research to identify the common themes and limits to the extent of climate-related forcing. We invite contributions that present results from geologic observations, instrumental observations, or modeling of either the occurrence or lack of climate forcing of earthquake and volcanic processes.

Co-convened by Karen Luttrell (kluttrell@usgs.gov), Fred Pollitz (fpollitz@usgs.gov), Laurent Bollinger (laurent.bollinger@cea.fr), and Amanda Thomas (amthomas@berkeley.edu)