The French scientist who was strip searched, detained and deported by US authorities at the airport was a member of my brother Roger’s Mars Rover team. It was data from the joint US-French project. So crazy! https://t.co/ZIyV2dEAds
Farewell lunch with the seismology group for Zongshan Li. He recieved his PhD last year and is departing this week for a postdoc at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China. @WUSTL_EEPS
Washington University public relations dept posted this story and video about our research cruise near Samoa last November. It’s part of a series they are doing about fieldwork done by researchers and students.
https://t.co/ONbeduuDdn
I’m in Vanuatu for a UNESCO tsunami hazards meeting, smart cable meeting, and some project planning. Jet lag makes sure one hears all the roosters crowing and sees the beautiful sunrise.
Another finding is that there is almost no seismicity from the Southernmost South America shallow thrust zone. It might be locked, as in Cascadia? There is not enough geodetic data in this remote location to confirm.
https://t.co/loRrGUwAhj
Published - Seismicity recorded by our Patagonia seismic array results from deglaciation stresses. Work was done by postdoc Jean-Baptiste in Chile, but he tragically passed away from illness before it was published. @WUSTL_EEPS https://t.co/loRrGUwAhj
I’m filling out the ethic origins question for Elsevier. “Select the geographic areas from which your ancestors FIRST originated”. Didn’t we all originate in Africa? How far back do you want to go?
Looks like my paper on wave propagation and movement of the Ross Ice Shelf got coverage in The Daily Mail. I like the caption showing a map of Antarctica and sea ice, saying that the Ross Ice Shelf is "in the south". @WUSTL_EEPS https://t.co/iVOYl6NGDc
News article about our study of Lamb wave (plate wave) propagation and repeated "jerks" of the Ross Ice shelf, published this last week in Geophysical Research Letters. @WUSTL_EEPS @WUSTLArtSci https://t.co/VyKmvllDSY
Congratulations to my student Zongshan Li on the publication of his paper "Along‐Strike Variations of Alaska Subduction Zone Structure and Hydration Determined From Amphibious Seismic Data" in JGR-Solid Earth
https://t.co/48Ps8r3lPH
The remains of a church on the south side of Upolu island in Samoa. It was destroyed by the 2009 tsunami that was generated by magnitude 8.1 earthquake, followed by a magnitude 8 earthquake a minute later.
Now collecting rocks from the sea floor near Niue island. Got some pillow basalts. I think we should call this “sample return”. It sounds a lot more sophisticated than “dredging”.
We finished all the ocean bottom seismograph deployments, and are preparing to dredge rocks from the sea floor in the Cook Islands. Here Matt Jackson demonstrates the use of the rock saw.