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Optional pre-Forum field trips and short courses

Saturday, July 30

Field trip 1: Highlights of the Franciscan. Leaders: David Bero, Sonoma State; Christie Rowe & Samantha Carruthers, McGill University

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Field trip 2: Eastern Northern Coast Ranges (Wine Country Geology). Leader: Eldridge Moores, UC Davis

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • Walking will be minimal. Climate varies considerably from west to east in the northern Coast Ranges, from cool and maritime near the coast (temperature ~ 20-30°C) to dry and, in the summer, hot (temperature 30-40°C). Please bring sunscreen, hat, light jacket, water, light walking shoes, TP, etc.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Short course 1: Introduction to Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD): sample preparation and analysis. Leader: Matty Mookerjee

  • Start time is 10:00 am in Darwin Hall, Room 129. Note: you must be pre-registered for the workshop in order to participate.

Short course 2: New methods for creating admissible cross sections. Leader: Kurt Burmeister and Scott Giorgis

  • Start time is 1:00 pm in Darwin Hall, Room 128. Note: you must be pre-registered for the workshop in order to participate.

6:00 Dinner on your own


Sunday, July 31

Field trip 1: Active faulting in the Napa Valley. Leaders: Alex Morelan, Chad Trexler, and Mike Oskin, UC Davis

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Field trip 2: Inherited structural complexity and active deformation in the eastern Coast Ranges (Eastern Franciscan and CRF). Leaders: Ben Melosh and Bob McLaughlin, USGS

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Short course 1: Statistical treatment of structural geology data. Leaders: Josh Davis, Sarah Titus, and Basil Tikoff

  • Start time is 8:00 am in Darwin Hall, Room 128. Note: you must be pre-registered for the workshop in order to participate.


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Forum main program

Monday, August 1 - Forum Day 1

8:00-8:10 Forum introduction: Matty Mookerjee

8:10-12:00 Session 1: Faulting and Fluid Flow (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

8:10-8:15 Introduction James Kirkpatrick, session chair

8:15-8:35 Talk: Insights into earthquake rupture and recovery from paleoseismic faults Christie Rowe, McGill University, with many students and collaborators at McGill and elsewhere Download presentation (Acrobat (PDF) 5MB Aug3 16)

8:40-9:00 Talk: The geomorphic signature of strike-slip faulting Alison Duvall & Sarah Harbart, University of Washington; Gregory Tucker, CIRES and University of Colorado, Boulder

9:05-9:25 Talk: Parsing the structurally-controlled fluid migration history of the Moab Fault, UT with carbonate clumped isotope thermometry Keith Hodson, Juliet Crider, and Katharine Huntington, University of Washington Download presentation (Acrobat (PDF) 9.6MB Aug3 16)

9:30-9:50 Talk: Early strain localization associated with a low-angle normal fault system active across the brittle-plastic transition Justin La Forge & Barbara John, University of Wyoming; Craig Grimes, Ohio University; Holger Stünitz, Universitetet i Tromsø; Renee Heilbronner, Basel University

9:55-10:25 Two-minute poster pitches (participants limited to 2 minutes each with 2 ppt slides)

10:25-12:00 Posters and coffee (Student Center, Ballroom D)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Group discussion: Advances in Cyberinfrastructure in the SG&T Community (Student Center Ballroom B-C))

2:00-6:30 Session 2: Analog Modeling and Computational Techniques (Student Center Ballroom B-C)

2:00-2:05 Introduction Saad Haq, session chair

2:05-2:25 Talk: Quantifying deformation in ridge-transform systems: An example from the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus Sarah Titus, Chelsea Wagner, Sarah Alexander, and Joshua R. Davis, Carleton College

2:30-2:50 Talk: The development of out-of-sequence thrusts in mountain belts: Insights from physical models and image correlation Saad Haq, Purdue University

2:55-3:15 Talk: Structural geology with Structure-from-Motion: Multi-view photogrammetry at the Whaleback Anticline, Bear Valley, PA Juliet G. Crider & Kevin R. Hodson, University of Washington; Mary Beth Gray, Bucknell University; Arlo Weil, Bryn Mawr College

3:20-3:40 Talk: A comparison between modelling of Coulomb stress and field observations of off-fault strain around pseudotachylyte fault veins, Norumbega Fault System, southern Maine Catherine Ross & Christie Rowe, McGill University; Mark Swanson, University of Southern Maine

3:45-4:15 Two-minute poster pitches (participants limited to 2 minutes each with 2 ppt slides)

4:15-6:00 Posters and coffee (Student Center Ballroom D)

6:00-7:00 Dinner


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Tuesday, August 2 - Forum Day 2

8:00-12:00 Session 3: Regional Tectonics I: Cordilleran Geology (Student center, Ballroom B-C)

8:00-8:05 Introduction Elisa Fitz-Diaz and Raphael Gottardi, session chairs

8:05-8:25 Talk: The Mexican Fold and Thrust Belt: Structural development, timing and tectonic mechanism Elisa Fitz-Diaz & Tim Lawton, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Gabriel Chávez-Cabello, Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra, UANL

8:30-8:50 Talk: Thermomechanics of a detachment shear zone, Picacho Peak, AZ Raphael Gottardi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

8:55-9:15 Talk: Strain localization and megathrust slip accommodation modes in the Franciscan Complex, California John Wakabayashi, California State University, Fresno

9:20-9:40 Talk: "The Bridge" from Earthscope to EarthsCAN: Across the Northern Cordilleran from the Pacific Ocean to the Beaufort Sea Katherine Boggs, Mount Royal University; Maurice Colpron, Yukon Geological Survey; Julie Elliot, Purdue University; Roy Hyndman & Kristin Morell, University of Victoria

9:45-10:20 Two-minute poster pitches (participants limited to 2 minutes each with 2 ppt slides)

10:20-12:00 Posters and coffee (Student Center, Ballroom D)

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Group discussion: SGTF Business and Organization (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

2:00-6:00 Session 4: Regional Tectonics II (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

2:00-2:05 Introduction John Waldron and Yvette Kuiper, session chairs

2:05-2:25 Talk: Subduction initiation in the Appalachian-Caledonide orogeny John Waldron, University of Alberta; David Schofield, British Geological Survey; Brendan Murphy, St. Francis Xavier University

2:30-2:50 Talk: Gondwanan fragments in the Southern Appalachian Piedmont Allen J. Dennis, University of South Carolina, Aiken

2:55-3:15 Talk: A model of subduction of a mid-Paleozoic oceanic ridge - transform fault system in the northern Appalachians: a comparison with modern western North America Yvette Kuiper,Colorado School of Mines

3:20-3:40 Talk: Building the Pamir-Tibet Plateau: Crustal stacking and orogen parallel evasion of upper and middle crustal material in the Pamir David Rutte, UC Berkeley; Lothar Ratschbacher, TU Bergakademie Frieberg; Konstanze Stübner, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Michael Stearns, University of Utah

3:45-4:15 Two-minute poster pitches (participants limited to 2 minutes each with 2 ppt slides)

4:15-6:00 Posters and coffee (Student Center, Ballroom D)

6:00-7:00 Dinner

7:30-9:00 Preparing for an academic career in the geosciences - a special evening session for grad students and post-docs (Darwin Hall 128) Leaders: Barbara Tewksbury and others

  • Are you interested in a future faculty position? Come to this informal "speed dating" session where you will have a chance to talk with current faculty about what it's like to teach and do research at a wide variety of academic institutions and get advice on how to prepare for an academic job search.
  • On the Cutting Edge has an extensive set of online resources on preparing for an academic career. Topics include the job search process, preparing to teach, moving your research forward, and career planning. On the Cutting Edge also has resource pages for early career faculty, which provide information and advice useful for those who are starting to think about academic careers, as well as those already in faculty positions.

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Wednesday, August 3 - Forum Day 3

8:00-12:00 Session 5: Thermochronology, Metamorphic Petrology, and Tectonics (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

8:00-8:05 Introduction Howell Bosbyshell, session chair

8:05-8:25 Talk: Zircon (U-Th)/He age-eU correlations reveal long-term thermal history of Laurentian basement Devon A. Orme, Stanford University; William R. Guenthner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew K. Laskowski & Peter W. Reinsers, University of Arizona

8:30-8:50 Talk: Tectonic evolution of the Yarlung Suture Zone, Lopu Range Region, Southern Tibet Andrew Laskowski & Paul Kapp, University of Arizona

8:55-9:15 Talk: Testing deformation-enhanced element mobility in plagioclase Naomi Barshi, Christie Rowe, & Vincent van Hinsberg, McGill University

9:20-9:40 Talk: Formation of plagioclase-Al2SiO5 coronas on quartz inclusions in garnet during transtensional exhumation of high-pressure high-temperature metamorphic rock Howell Bosbyshell, Elizabeth Noble, Laura Burns, Tim Lutz, & Cori Trice, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

9:45-10:20 Two-minute poster pitches (participants limited to 2 minutes each with 2 ppt slides)

10:20-12:00 Posters and coffee

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-3:15 Session 6: Pedagogy and Structural Geology and Tectonics (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

1:00-1:05 Introduction Paul Karabinos, session chair

1:05-1:25 Talk: Pedagogical effectiveness of using digital applications for collection and interpretation of sed/strat and structural field data Lawrence Malinconico & David Sunderlin, Lafayette College

1:30-1:50 Talk: 3D models and animations for teaching structural geology and tectonicsPaul Karabinos, Williams College

1:55-2:05 Demonstration: Topographic Interactive Model (TIM) Phil Mooney, Sonoma State University & Chad Trexler, UC Davis

2:10-3:10 Group Discussion: What is working in our structural geology classes and what is not? Paul Karabinos (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

3:10-6:00 Session 7: Applications of Modern Techniques: Geophysics, Geodetics, and Remote Sensing (Student Center, Ballroom B-C)

3:10-3:15 Introduction Dan Davis, session chair

3:15-3:35 Talk: Observing Late Pleistocene glacial tectonics using geophysical techniques Dan Davis, Stony Brook University

3:35-3:55 Talk: Reconciling GPS and geologic observations for long-term deformation of the Cascadia Forearc Mark Brandon, Yale University

3:55-4:10 Two-minute poster pitches (participants limited to 2 minutes each with 2 ppt slides)

4:10-6:00 Posters

6:00-7:00 Dinner


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Optional post-Forum field trips and short courses

Thursday, August 4

Field trip 1: Introduction to the Strabo Data System. Leaders: Basil Tikoff & Randy Williams, University of Wisconsin

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Field trip 2: Northern San Andreas Fault Deformation, Point Arena. Leaders: Matty Mookerjee, Daniel Cicchetto, Felix Desperrier, & Nick Bel, Sonoma State University

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Short course 1: Teaching Structural Geology: use of tablet-based apps for mapping in our undergraduate structure courses. Leader: Larry Malinconico, Lafayette College

  • Start time is 9:00 am in Darwin Hall, Room 128. Note: you must be pre-registered for the workshop in order to participate.
  • Optional afternoon session from 1:00-3:00 pm.

Short course 2: Analysis, statistics, and presentation of geological spherical directional data using Orient (Acrobat (PDF) 5.4MB Jul25 16) Leader: Fred Vollmer

  • Start time is 8:00 am in Darwin Hall, Room 023. Note: you must be pre-registered for the workshop in order to participate.
Orient software home page
Orient software user manual


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Friday, August 5

Field trip 1: Brewschist IV: Franciscan Complex and Brewpubs of Sonoma County. Leader: John Wakabayashi

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.

Field trip 2: Active Tectonics of the North Coast. Leaders: Carol Prentice and Steve DeLong (USGS)

  • We will depart promptly at 8:00 am from the Parking Lot D. Please eat breakfast before hand, and please arrive by 7:45 so that we can depart on time.
  • We will provide a boxed lunch, which you can pick up in the loading area in parking lot D. Note: you must be pre-registered for the field trip in order to participate.