This page highlights the presentations given by, and sessions led by, CRESCENT affiliates at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, though it is not a comprehensive list. 

CRESCENT at AGU

Monday, Dec. 15

SESSION: “Characteristics of Faults and Fault Zones and Their Influence on Earthquake Physics: Observations, Models, and Experiments I Oral” 8:30 – 10:00 in room 354-355

SESSION: “Really Useful Geophysical Data Tools and Apps Poster” 8:30 – 12:00

Loïc Bachelot, “Open-source, Cloud-based Tools for Community Models: Hosting, Exploring, Teaching, and Reusing with CRESCENT (Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center)” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

Zoe Kraus, “Leveraging Existing Offshore Infrastructure for Earthquake Early Warning in the Pacific Northwest” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

Bar Oryan, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT, “Locked, Loaded, and Online: A Global Data Portal for Megathrust Coupling Models” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

SESSION: “Characteristics of Faults and Fault Zones and Their Influence on Earthquake Physics: Observations, Models, and Experiments II Oral” 10:30 – 12:00 in room 354-355

SESSION: “Characteristics of Faults and Fault Zones and Their Influence on Earthquake Physics: Observations, Models, and Experiments III Poster” 14:15 – 17:45

Bar Oryan, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT, “Locked but not Loaded? A Global Analysis of Megathrust Coupling and Earthquake Slip” (Talk) 14:25 – 14:35 in room 357

David Bruce, “Observed Variations in Coseismic Subsidence Across Multiple Cascadia Megathrust Earthquakes ” (Talk) 15:15–15:25 in room 357

“Coevolving Geosciences and the Arts Toward a Centralized Community for Geocreativity” (Town Hall) 18:00 – 19:00 in room 291

Tuesday, Dec. 16

Mira Anderberg, “Beyond the Sand; Mapping the Extent of the 1700 CE Tsunami Using Grain Size and Diatom Analysis in Central WA, USA ” (Poster) 08:30 – 12:00

Michelle Nishimoto, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT, “Experimental Insights into How Restraining Bend Dip Impacts Fault Evolution” (Talk) 09:10 – 09:20 in room 344-345

Anna Ledeczi, “Late Quaternary Evolution of the Cascadia Outer Wedge Constrained by Structural Modeling” (Talk) 11:10 – 11:20 in room 344-345

Brandon Hatcher, “Refining Tsunami Inundation Limits for the 1700 CE Cascadia Earthquake: Detailed Mapping of Fine-Grained Deposits and Diatom Biostratigraphy at the Salmon River Estuary, Central Oregon” (Talk) 17:20–17:30 in room 297

Wednesday, Dec. 17

SESSION: “Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes I Poster” 8:30-12:00

Meritxell Colet, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT, “Insights into Caldera-Ridge Interactions and Eruption Preparation at Axial Seamount from Machine-Learning Analysis of Cabled and Temporary OBS data” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

Yihe Huang, “Anisotropic kilometer-scale structures facilitate earthquakes on the subduction zone plate interface” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

SESSION: “Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes II Oral” 14:15 – 15:45 in room 252-254

SESSION: “Fostering Resilience in Communities with Geohazards II Oral” 16:15 – 17:45 in room 297

SESSION: “Land Surface Hazards: Linking Processes Across Landscapes III Oral” 16:15 – 17:45 in room 252-254

Julia Grossman, “Cascadia Culture And geoScience Exchange (CCASE): Building Community Resilience to Cascadia Geohazards and Fostering STEM Identities of Indigenous Youth” (Talk) 16:25 – 16:35 in room 297

Thursday, Dec. 18

SESSION: “The Cascadia Megathrust and Beyond: From Fundamental Scientific Processes to Societal Resilience I Oral” 10:30 – 12:00 in room 354-355

SESSION: “The Cascadia Megathrust and Beyond: From Fundamental Scientific Processes to Societal Resilience II Poster” 14:15 – 17:45

SESSION: “The SZ4D Experiment: Comparing Subduction Zone Processes Across Three Margins I Oral” 14:15 – 15:45 in room 353

Tina Dura, “Advancing Paleogeodesy in Cascadia with New Diatom-Based Transfer Functions ” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

Bin He, “The CRESCENT Generation 0 Cascadia Community Velocity Model” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

Manuela Hurtado, “The Seismic Structure of the Northern Cascadia Forearc from Ambient Noise Tomography and Radial Anisotropy” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

Inashua Kharjana, “Regional Shallow Velocity Structure of Northern California and Southern Cascadia from Frequency-dependent P-wave Particle Motions” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

Fabian Kutschera, “The CRESCENT/SCEC/USGS Tsunami Benchmarks: 3D Fully Coupled Earthquake Dynamic Rupture and Tsunami Simulations with Varying Bathymetric Complexity” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

Ross Maguire, “Validating Seismic Wave Speed Models of the Cascadia Region with Spectral-Element Simulations” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

William S D Wilcock, “The Cascadia Offshore Subduction Zone Observatory Infrastructure Project” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

Shihan Wu, “Shallow Velocity Structure of the Central Cascadia Forearc using Ambient Noise Tomography from a high-density nodal array” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45

“Center for Land Surface Hazards (CLaSH): Next Steps and Opportunities for Engagement” (Town Hall) 18:00 – 19:00 in room 265-266

Friday, Dec. 19

SESSION: “The SZ4D Experiment: Comparing Subduction Zone Processes Across Three Margins II Poster” 8:30 – 12:00

SESSION: “New Horizons in Tectonics Oral” 8:30 – 10:00 in room 356.

Samantha Koller, TWINNING UNDERGRADUATE INTERN, “Constraining Slab-Edge Driven Mantle Flow the Cascadia Subduction Zone” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

Anna Ledeczi, “Strain Heterogeneity and Deformation Mechanisms Operating at the Seismogenic Plate Interface Revealed in the Exhumed Olympic Subduction Complex” (Poster) 8:30-12:00

Mohammad Khorrami, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT, “Exposing the Nation’s Most Vulnerable Dams: A Remote Sensing and Socio-Spatial Risk Framework” (Talk) 11:35 – 11:45 in room 294.

Meritxell Colet, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT, “Spatial-Temporal Modes of Strain Release in the Tanganyika-Ruwka Rift, East Africa, Using a Machine-Learning-Enhanced Earthquake Catalog” (Poster) 14:15 – 17:45