Shannon Fasola

Paleoseismology Technical Short Course

Led by members of the Cascadia Paleoseismology (CPAL) and Community Fault Model (CFM) working groups, this five-day, field-based technical short course exposes participants to paleoearthquake studies and their application to understanding fault behavior in space and time. Integrated topics include subsidence stratigraphy, ecology-based paleoseismic studies, tsunami deposit mapping, trench-based paleoseismology, high-resolution lidar topography, and surficial geologic mapping. Based at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, the course includes limited classroom time and 4.5 days of fieldwork in the marshes and adjacent uplands of Coos Bay on Oregon’s southern coast.

Application closes May 22, 2026.

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Machine Learning Technical Short Course

This three-day short course provides a hands-on introduction to machine learning techniques for seismic event analysis. Participants will learn to develop AI-aided earthquake catalogs through three key steps: event detection, association, and location with quality control. The course covers neural network architecture selection, model training, performance metrics, and application to continuous seismic data. The workshop will include a mix of presentations and hands-on tutorials. The final day will include a participant hack-a-thon in which students attempt to develop a machine learning based quality control workflow to apply to future generations of machine learning earthquake catalogs.

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Fluids in Cascadia Topical Workshop

Fluids are ubiquitous in subduction zones and play a fundamental role in modulating many observed processes along the megathrust and other related faults, including slip behaviors and deformation mode. This cross-disciplinary workshop brings together geophysicists, geologists, geochemists, and modelers to discuss the role of fluids in Cascadia.

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Spring 2025 Mentee Training

Graduate Students Unlock the Power of Research Mentoring!

Statewide California Earthquake Center – SCEC and CRESCENT are co-facilitating an interactive training to equip graduate students with essential skills to navigate the research training environment effectively. This training is built on the evidence-based Entering Mentoring curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER).

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1. First Site Visit at NBHS

Here are some photos from the first Makah CASE site visit to Neah Bay High School (NBHS) from December 2-4! NBHS is on the Olympic Peninsula in the Makah Nation. My team and I taught a lesson about earthquakes and seismometers to three high school science classes. We also got to know the students and teachers, participated in a Makah language class (we did really well on the Quizlet games!) and were given a private tour of the Makah Cultural and Research Center Museum by Elder Mare. Excited to go back and teach for a week in the spring!

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