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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.
Geodesy Technical Short Course Read More »
This is the third Partnerships & Application workshop, designed to explore the challenges and needs of the multi-disciplinary community involved in earthquake hazard study and mitigation in the Pacific Northwest. Workshop discussions in 2024 and 2025 highlighted universal interest in developing scenarios and inter-organizational exercises for preparedness and response as a priority next step. Consequently, a deeper consideration of scenarios has been selected as the central theme for the 2026 P&A workshop.
2026 Partnerships & Applications Workshop Read More »
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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CRESCENT is pleased to share a new set of open-source tools for building realistic 3D fault surfaces directly in QGIS (a free, cross-platform GIS application). These tools are designed to help researchers create non-planar, data-constrained fault geometries from standard geologic and geophysical inputs, including geologic maps, balanced cross-sections, seismic images, and earthquake hypocenters.
QGIS Toolkit Product Release Read More »
Here’s where you can find us at this year’s American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.
1st visit of the 2025–2026 program. The team met students, teachers, and community members involved in CCASE—an exciting 1st trip for several of them.
1. Makah CASE Fall Visit Read More »
We’re thrilled to share that a team led by Stefan Henneking and Omar Ghattas at UT Austin has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their work on real-time tsunami forecasting in Cascadia. The author team also includes CRESCENT senior personnel Alice-Agnes Gabriel, from UC San Diego, who leads our Dynamic Rupture, Earthquake Cycles, and Tsunamis (DET) working group and showcased this work at our annual meeting in Seattle last month.
Tsunami Forecasting Breakthrough Earns Gordon Bell Prize Read More »
Read about: recent CRESCENT meetings, USGS Coorperative Agreement projects, a new megathrust fault interface geometry study, Seed Grant program research reports, geoscience education twinning program updates, Partnerships & Applications workshop outcomes, 2025-26 Cascadia Lifelines Program Webinar series, new publications, upcoming events, AGU session listings… and more in the latest edition of “Seismic Moment” – CRESCENT’s Quarterly Newsletter.
November 2025 Newsletter Read More »
From Curiosity to Contribution: Students Thrive in CRESCENT’s Year-Long Geoscience Mentorship Program
2025 Twinning Story Read More »
The CRESCENT Annual Meeting will:
1) Showcase advances in subduction zone science;
2) Provide an update across CRESCENT activities on progress and next steps; and
3) Foster connections between collaborators.
October 2025 CRESCENT Annual Meeting Read More »
