Several open positions in the broad field of tectonics are currently advertised:

• The School of Environment, University of Auckland, is looking to appoint a lecturer/senior lecturer in Earth Sciences with expertise in tectonic geomorphology and/or structural geology. https://opportunities.auckland.ac.nz/jobid/20343/1/1
• PhD project on active tectonics in Turkey, University of Plymouth. Open for Uk and EU citizens (resident in the UK for 3 years). https://www.aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/earthquakes-and-fault-interaction-in-western-turkey/
• 3 new lecturer/senior lecturer positions in Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial College London. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG00595/lecturersenior-lecturer
• 3 lectureship positions (equivalent to assistant/associate professorships) in Earth Sciences at Cambridge. http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/19524/
• 2 Postdoctoral Researchers at University College Dublin to work on: (i) The kinematics of fault systems offshore Ireland and (ii) Discrete element numerical modelling of the evolution of fault systems. www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ under the job reference numbers 011021 and 011024.
• 4-year PhD project at University College Dublin: “Tracking Neogene growth and collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by detrital provenance analysis of clastic sediment”. https://paleoseismicity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/UCD_WAIS_PhD.pdf
• PhD position in Edinburgh: Mineral dehydration and rehydration cycles: Effects on strength, structure and permeability. https://www.ed.ac.uk/e4-dtp/how-to-apply/our-projects/project/46
• PhD position at University of Leeds: Warm climate, high seas. How did sea level change in Europe during the Last Interglacial? https://natashabarlow.wordpress.com/
• PhD positions at the lab of James Dolan, Univ. of Southern California: https://earth.usc.edu/people/dolan/research/
• Research Scientist at Uni Jena: Building a new µCT / XRM Lab: https://www4.uni-jena.de/Universit%C3%A4t/Stellenmarkt/Wissenschaftliche+Mitarbeiter/382_2018+_+wiss_+Mitarbeiter_in+am+Institut+f%C3%BCr+Geowissenschaften_+LS+Angewandte+Geologie.html
• PostDoc position at BGRM France, Orléans: InSAR & optical correlation applied to Earth Sciences. https://paleoseismicity.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Dt-ldbIWwAAsmud.jpg-large.jpg

These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, earthquakes, tsunami, and active tectonics. Enjoy reading and let us know if we’ve missed something! more

The 10th PATA Days, which were planned for September 2019 in Israel, have to be cancelled. The next regular PATA meeting will therefore be held in Chile 2020. This is the bad news. The good news is that there will be a student summer school organized by the IFG EGSHaz from 24-27 September, 2019, in Prague (Czech Republic). Petra Štěpančíková and her team are currently working on the schedule. The summer school will mainly address students and PhD students interested in earthquake geology, paleoseismology, and tectonic geomorphology. We will likely have two days of lectures & exercises and two days of field trips. More information will be available soon, so stay tuned.

Please make sure to consider attending the INQUA Congress in Dublin (25-31 July, 2019). There will be three sessions organized by our IFG:

• Earthquake Geology and Seismic Hazards: from earthquake mapping of historical and prehistoric earthquakes to paleoseismology (Ioannis Papanikolaou, Stéphane Baize, Christoph Grützner)
• Paleoseismology of plate interiors under Pleistocene climate changes (Klaus Reicherter, Petra Štěpančíková, Małgorzata Pisarska-Jamroży)
• Development of soft-sediment deformation structures (SSDS) and differences between non-seismic and seismic structures (Małgorzata
  (Gosia) Pisarska-Jamroży, A.J. Tom van Loon, Barbara Woronko, Andreas Börner)

Also, this session could be of interest:

• Subduction zone palaeoseismology (Emma Hocking, Ed Garrett, Jasper Moernaut)

See you in Dublin and Prague!
Ioannis, Petra, Christoph

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USGS is currently recruiting a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow for a project on Marine Geohazards of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, with three general areas of interest: the relationship of Quaternary sediment distribution and stratigraphy to seafloor processes and earthquake history; links between tectonic geomorphology, upper plate structure, and deeper subduction processes; and the influence of fluids and 3D structural interactions on the mechanics of subduction zone forearcs.

A full description of the opportunity is available here:
https://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc/opps/2019/17-10%20Hill.htm

General information about the Mendenhall Fellowship program:
https://geology.usgs.gov/postdoc/

An info flyer about our Marine Geohazards project:

https://www.usgs.gov/media/files/subduction-zone-marine-geohazards-project-plans

Potential applicants may contact Jenna Hill (jhill@usgs.gov) or one of the other research advisors associated with this project prior to putting together their research proposal.

These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, earthquakes, and active tectonics. Quite a long list with lots of interesting stuff from all over the world. Enjoy! more

The following open position may be of interest for the tectonics community:

The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris has an opening for a post-doctoral position to
carry out research in tectonics and structural geology. The project (PI: Martine Simoes) is
funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) to assess active deformation and
seismic hazards in slowly deforming orogens, by quantifying deformation over various timescales,
from long-term geological deformation down in time to short-term processes at the scale
of the seismic cycle. The Western Kunlun mountain range (China) will be considered as a case
example.

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These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, active tectonics and tsunami, including a special issue on the Alpine Fault in New Zealand. Enjoy! more

The Tien Shan takes up about 20 mm/yr of N-S shortening as a result of the India-Eurasia convergence. Recent paleoseismological studies have shown that the shortening is accommodated by a large number of faults, whose slip rates are relatively low. Although the historical earthquake catalogues only reach back a few hundred years, we know that the Tien Shan has seen some of the strongest intracontinetal quakes world-wide with magnitudes exceeding M8. Paleoseismological studies have revealed a large number of surface-rupturing earthquakes, too. But the question is: Do all these known faults rupture in strong earthquakes? In a recent paper, my colleagues and I argue that there is at least one major fault in the Northern Tien Shan that is creeping (Mackenzie et al., 2018). more

These are the latest papers on paleoseismology, earthquakes, and active tectonics. Enjoy!

• Mackenzie, D., Walker, R., Abdrakhmatov, K., Campbell, G., Carr, A., Gruetzner, C., … & Rizza, M. (2018). A creeping intracontinental thrust fault: Past and present slip-rates on the northern edge of the Tien Shan, Kazakhstan. Geophysical Journal International.
• Brooks, G. R. (2018). Deglacial record of palaeoearthquakes interpreted from mass transport deposits at three lakes near Rouyn‐Noranda, north‐western Quebec, Canada. Sedimentology.
• Jay, C. N., Flesch, L. M., & Bendick, R. O. (2018). Kinematics and dynamics of the Pamir, Central Asia: Quantifying the roles of continental subduction in force balance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.

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