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Geodesy Technical Short Course

Led by members of the Coupling, Seismicity, and Slow Slip (C3S) working group, this technical short course provides requisite tools for recognizing how earthquake cycle signatures in the Cascadia Subduction Zone are expressed in geodetic observations. It will introduce basic processing of geodetic time series to interpret longer-term strain accumulation processes and slow slip events.

Applications are closed.

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Spring 2026 Mentor Training

Advancing Research Excellence for Through Intentional Mentorship for a Stronger Geoscience Workforce!

Statewide California Earthquake Center – SCEC and CRESCENT are co-facilitating an interactive training designed to help mentors develop skills for engaging in productive, culturally responsive, research mentoring relationships– relationships that optimize the success of both mentors and mentees. This training is built on the evidence-based Entering Mentoring curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER).

This workshop is open to researchers at all career stages who are interested in strengthening their mentoring skills.

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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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Fall 2025 Career Panel

What can you do with a geoscience degree?

Join the EarthScope Consortium-opterated NSF National Geophysical Facility and CRESCENT for a Geoscience Career Panel webinar showcasing diverse career paths across academia, industry, government, nonprofit, consulting, and beyond.

Full Recording Available.

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Spring 2025 Mentor Training

Advancing Research Excellence for Through Intentional Mentorship for a Stronger Geoscience Workforce!

Statewide California Earthquake Center – SCEC and CRESCENT are co-facilitating an interactive training designed to help mentors develop skills for engaging in productive, culturally responsive, research mentoring relationships– relationships that optimize the success of both mentors and mentees. This training is built on the evidence-based Entering Mentoring curriculum from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER).

This workshop is open to researchers at all career stages who are interested in strengthening their mentoring skills.

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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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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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