The 1988 Spitak Earthquake with a magnitude of MS6.8 took the life of thousands of people and caused widespread devastation in Armenia. It also ruptured the surface and is one of the best-studied seismic events in the entire Caucasus region. 30 years after the catastrophe, an conference will be held in Yerevan, Armenia, from 3-7 December: “30 years after Spitak Earthquake: Experience and Perspectives“. The meeting will also include a field trip to the epicentral area. Full conference fee is […]

The Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting 2019 will be held in Bergen, Norway, on January 14th-16th 2019, with optional short-courses on January 13th. The meeting will be hosted at the University of Bergen (http://www.uib.no/en/geo).

How to define a successful SG&T curriculum and what are essential components thereof? How to best deal with a constrained BSc curriculum (what content goes where)? How to work with very large class sizes, how to counter low levels of student engagement and how to manage a lack of (numerical) background knowledge? How to build links to different geosciences disciplines? Innovative approaches to teaching structural geology and tectonics and how to best integrate modern teaching techniques (e.g. flipped classrooms, virtual […]

Within the Topo-Europe framework, the ITN SUBITOP organises a workshop on understanding subduction zone topography through modelling of coupled shallow and deep processes. TOPO-EUROPE promotes, coordinates and integrates national research programs on geological surface processes and their implications for continental topography and natural hazards in a coherent European network. SUBITOP is an ITN for training and career development of 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESR) in Geodynamics, Geophysics, Geology and Geomorphology.  It has a scientific focus on the dynamics of continental […]

There will be a pre-conference field trip on the geology of the northern Rocky Mountains in and around Glacier National Park (June 2-4) and a post-meeting field trip in and around Yellowstone National Park (June 8-9).

The workshop will consist of two-day conference and is aimed to favor exchanges of ideas and opinions between Italian and foreign geologists and geophysicists who operate on active tectonics, seismotectonics and seismogenesis using different methodologies, at any spatial and temporal scale. Main topics of the workshop: Seismic monitoring Seismic source Stress strain distribution Active tectonics and seismotectonics 3D fault model building Surface faulting and fracture Seismic site effects Geodesy Gravimetry Seismic tomography Numerical and probabilistic models The workshop is free […]