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Kenneth S. Deffeyes

PEAK OIL AND THE GREAT RECESSION
Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Emeritus Prof. of Geology
Princeton University

Shawn Wright

TIR spectroscopy of shocked Deccan basalt: Implications for Mars and Martian meteorites
Shawn Wright
Institute of Meteoritics
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of New Mexico

Elizabeth Cochran

Imaging Fault Damage Zones with Seismic and Geodetic Data
Elizabeth Cochran
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California, Riverside

Brandon Browne

Not-So-Simple Cinder Cone Plumbing Systems: Examples From the Sierra Nevada
Brandon Browne
Department of Geological Sciences
California State University, Fullerton

David T. King, Jr.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene ("KT") Boundary In Belize and Alabama
David T. King, Jr.
Department of Geology and Geography
Auburn University, Alabama

Greg Hirth

Understanding earthquakes at the microscopic scale
Greg Hirth
Department of Geology & Gephysics
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Kathleen R. Johnson

Reconstructing Asian Monsoon History from Chinese Speleothems
Kathleen R. Johnson
Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine

Jared Kluesner

Geologic and Hydrologic Role of Sill Intrusion and Delineation of the Oceanic Crustal Boundary in the Central Gulf of California
Jared Kluesner
Marine Physical Laboratory
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Stephen Hasiotis

Ichnology for the 21st Century: Understanding the differences between continental and marine trace fossils, with implications to the diversity, distribution, and evolution of soil biota
Stephen Hasiotis
Department of Geology
University of Kansas

Robert Gaines

Paleoenvironments, Paleoecology, and Exceptional Preservation in Burgess Shale-type Deposits
Robert Gaines
Department of Geology
Pomona College

Kim Bak Olsen

LA's Future Quake
Kim Bak Olsen
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University

John A. Izbicki

Sources of Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Urban Streams and Ocean Beaches, Santa Barbara, California
John A. Izbicki
United State Geological Survey
California Water Science Center

Frank Corsetti

Stromatolites: Myths and Legends
Frank Corsetti
Department of Earth Science
University of Southern California

Shuo Ma

A Physical Model for Widespread Near-Surface and Fault Zone Damage Induced by Earthquakes
Shuo Ma
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University

Chun-Ta Lai

Use of stable isotopes in studies of forest-atmosphere H2O and CO2 exchange
Chun-Ta Lai
Department of Biology
San Diego State University

J. Fred Bair

Development Geology of the Antelope Shale: Section 1Y, Cymric Field, San Joaquin Valley, California
J. Fred Bair
MWSS Asset Development Team
Chevron North America Exploration and Production Company

Clive Dorman

Tidal Bore on the Severn River
Clive Dorman
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University

Norrie Robbins

Utilization of Geological Techniques to Help Solve an Archaeological Puzzle: When Did People Arrive in North America?
Eleanora (Norrie) Robbins
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University

R. Mark Leckie

Active Learning in Large GE Course: Examples from oceanography
R. Mark Leckie
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

R. Mark Leckie

Closure of the Indonesian Seaway during the Miocene: Early History of the Western Pacific Warm Pool
R. Mark Leckie
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Daniel Brothers

Imaging the fault structure and earthquake history beneath the Salton Sea
Daniel S. Brother
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
IGGP - UCSD 

Wesley Danskin

Real-time Ground-water Management in San Diego
Wesley R. Danskin
Research Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey

John Warme

Interpretation and Significance of Cretaceous and Eocene Coastal Outcrops, San Diego County
John E. Warme
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering
Colorado School of Mines

Gabi Laske

The Hawaiian PLUME Experiment and its Initial Data Assessment
Gabi Laske
IGPP Scripps Institute of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego

Richard Norris

Ice, Alligators, and Hot-tubs in the Cretaceous Super-Greenhouse
Richard Norris
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego

Eric Dunham

Earthquake Modeling: From Fault Friction to Seismic Hazard
Eric Dunham
Earth and Planetary Sciences
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Phil Wannamaker

Evolution of Fluid and Deformation Regimes in Extensional and Transpressional Tectonism Revealed Through Electrical Resistivity Structure, with Implications for Seismicity, Gold Occurences and Geothermal Resource
Phil Wannamaker
Energy and Geoscience
Institute University of Utah

Po Chen

A Unified Approach to Full-3D Waveform Tomography and Seismic Source Inversion
Po Chen
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Columbia University

Paul Bedroian

Electromagnetic Imaging of Active Fault Zones
Paul A Bedrosian
US Geological Survey
Crustal Imaging and Characterization Team

Christian Koeberl

Meteorite impact cratering on Earth: Geological and biological consequences
Christian Koeberl
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Vienna, Austria

Anne Sheehan

Seeing Beneath Mount Everest: Probing a Breeding Ground of Destructive Earthquakes
Anne Sheehan
IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lectureship
University of Colorado, Boulder

Gareth Funning

Space geodesy in the San Francisco Bay Area: surface deformation, fault kinematics and creep
Gareth Funning
Department of Earth Science
Univeristy of California Riverside

Jasper Konter

The Origin and Geologic Evolution of Seamounts in the Pacific Ocean
Jasper Konter
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University

Nadia Lapusta

Insights from modeling long-term slip histories of faults governed by laboratory-derived friction laws
Nadia Lapusta
Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics
California Institute of Technology

Victoria Island Structure
Jared Morrow
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University
Bennett Spevack
ABA Energy Corporation
Bakersfield
David Kimbrough
Growth and recycling of continental crust-new insight from the Peninsular Ranges batholith of southern and Baja California
Dr. David Kimbrough
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University
Gary Peterson
The Cyrogenic World of Triton
Dr. Gary Peterson
Department of Geological Sciences
San Diego State University
Avinoam Rabinovitch
Properties of electromagnetic radiation from fractures and the possibility of its use for earthquake forecast
Dr. Avinoam Rabinovitch
Department of Physics
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Tyrone Rooney
An integrated approach to continental breakup: insights from central Ethiopia
Dr. Tyrone Rooney
SDSU Department of Geological Sciences
Bridget Smith-Konter
Historical Deformation and Stress Evolution of the San Andreas Fault System
Dr. Bridget Smith-Konter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lee Billingsley
Exploiting the Devonian Reservoir in Oates SW Area, Western Delaware Basin, Texas
Dr. Lee Billingsley
AAPG President
Abraxas Petroleum Corporation
Ross Stein
Truth & Consequences: Assessing the Earthquake Threat to Tokyo
Dr. Ross Stein
United States Geological Survey
Vic Camp
A Plume-induced Delamination Model for the Enigmatic Grande Ronde Basalts
Dr. Vic Camp
San Diego State University
Department of Geological Sciences
Dogan Seber

Enabling Discoveries in the Earth Sciences Through the Geosciences Network (GEON)
Dr. Dogan Seber
San Diego Supercomputer Center

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