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December 8, 2021

UTIG at AGU Fall Meeting 2021

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Catch up with your colleagues, heckle your enemies. Find out whose doing what at AGU Fall with our (nearly) comprehensive schedule of talks and posters from current (and recent) UTIG research staff and students.

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Monday, December 13


All times CT.

TALKS

Portrait of Shuoshuo standing in front of a world atlas

Shuoshuo Han

Incoming sediment properties at the Cascadia subduction zone constrained by active source seismic data (Invited)

08:10 – 08:25

Room 356-357

Matt Zeh taking a selfie in front of a glacier in the mist

Matthew Zeh

Acoustic characterization of processes occurring at tidewater glaciers via active and passive multi-channel underwater acoustic recordings

09:45 – 09:50

Room 346-347

Caroline Seyler in front of rock outcrop

Caroline Seyler

How deformation mechanisms depend on microstructure in phyllosilicate-rich rocks (Invited)

10:00 – 10:05

Room 348-349

Portrait of Catherine Ross

Catherine Ross

Zircon (U-Th)/He Impact Crater Thermochronometry and the Effects of Shock Microstructures on Helium Diffusion Kinetics

12:50 – 12:55

Room 352

Shuai Yan

A widespread subglacial hydrology system detected by airborne geophysics survey in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica

13:20 – 13:25

Room 346-347

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Carson Miller

Does valley size influence coastal processes and preservation potential during transgression?

15:05 – 15:10

Room 228-230

POSTERS

Portrait of Ethan in a field

Ethan Conrad

The structural and morphological evolution of transpressive systems: insights from analog modeling

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Rob Domeyko

Climate Model-Coral Record Comparisons of El Niño-Southern Oscillation Variability During Abrupt Climate Events

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

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Patricia Standring

Deep-Water Circulation in the Southern Gulf of Mexico at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Tuesday, December 14


All times CT.

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TALKS

Portrait of Andrew Gase wearing a high-vis jacket stadning in front of a map or chart

Andrew Gase

Hikurangi offshore slip segmentation controlled by the distribution of subducting sediment

08:28 – 08:35

Room 353-355

Ginny Catania

Increasing Retention of Minoritized Genders in the Cryospheric Sciences

08:38 – 08:43

Room 217-219

Antoniette Greta Grima

Overriding Plate Topography Shaped by Subduction Evolution

08:42 – 08:47

Room 342

Demian Saffer

Dehydration, Compaction, and the Depth-Distribution of Water Release Beneath the Forearc of the Northern Hikurangi Subduction Zone

08:42 – 08:49

Room 353-355

Laura Wallace headshot

Laura Wallace

Near-field observations of shallow slow slip events revealed by IODP observatories at the Hikurangi subduction zone

08:49 – 08:56

Room 353-355

Nathan Bangs

Nathan Bangs

Seamount Subduction Along the Northern Hikurangi Margin Inferred from 3D Seismic Imaging

09:45 – 09:52

Room 353-355

James Biemiller

Upper plate rigidity and shallow subduction zone slip stability in data-constrained seismic-cycle models of the central Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

09:52 – 09:59

Room 353-355

Portrait of Alejandro

Alejandro Cardona

Validation of hydro-geomechanical properties in high pressure triaxial device for hydrate-bearing core analysis

10:12 – 10:17

Room 225-227

POSTERS

Silvia Brizzi

The influence of sediment accretion and transport on subduction zone dynamics

16:00 – 1800

Poster Hall, D-F

Portrait of Edward with landscape

Edward Clennett

Investigating Plate Driving Forces in Plate Reconstruction Models using PyGPlates

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

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Joshua Edgington

Migration of Shallow Slow Slip Events to Trench: Evidence from borehole observatories in the Nankai Trough

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Portrait of Nadine

Nadine Igonin

Using frequency-domain anomalies to mark the onset of fault activation due to hydraulic fracturing

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Peter in the lab

Peter Miller

Consolidation behavior, permeability, and compressional wavespeeds of sediment entering the eastern Aleutian subduction zone: Implications for the evolution of the plate interface

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Simone Puel

Forward-Inverse Modeling of Earthquake Cycle Deformation

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

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Gabrielle Varona

Channel-levee evolution of methane-hydrate bearing sands in WR 313, Deep-water Gulf of Mexico

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Shuai Yan

Englacial stratigraphy over a newly discovered widespread subglacial hydrology system in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Wednesday, December 15


All times CT.

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TALKS

Portrait of Ethan in a field

Ethan Conrad

Experimental Insights into Melt Influenced Fault Behavior (Invited)

12:57 – 13:00

eLightning Theater II

Laura Wallace headshot

Laura Wallace

Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: What causes some faults to slip in major earthquakes, while others appear to creep and/or undergo episodic slow slip? (Invited)

14:45 – 14:50

Room 353-355

Portrait of Srisharan Shreedharan

Srisharan Shreedharan

Frictional and Lithological Controls on Shallow Slow Slip at the Northern Hikurangi Margin

15:12 – 15:19

Room 335-336

portrait of James Biemiller

James Biemiller

Characterizing the seismogenic potential of active faults in the Woodlark rift with integrated multi-timescale observations and models

16:00 – 17:15

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POSTERS

Ginny Catania

Time-resolved, 20-year, contrasting glacier response to ocean forcing

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

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John Erich Christian

Disentangling Natural Versus Anthropogenically-Forced Retreat of Marine-Terminating Glaciers

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

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Erin Heilman

Transient plate and plate boundary evolution in spreading settings from 3-D mantle convection models with damage memory

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Eric Hiatt

An Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Seepage Face Dynamics

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

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Kevin Shionalyn

Workflow for Generating ASTER DEMs to Assess Elevation Change for Greenland’s Marine-Terminating Outlet Glaciers

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Thursday, December 16


All times CT.

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TALKS

Portrait of Brandon Shuck

Brandon Shuck

A unique style of rifting associated with the initial breakup of the Pangea supercontinent: New insights on continental breakup and incipient seafloor spreading offshore eastern North America

09:55 – 10:00

Room 348-349

Portrait of Xiaohua

Xiaohua Xu

What can we learn from the earthquake induced surface fractures mapped by InSAR

12:55 – 13:00

Room 350-351

POSTERS

Caroline Seyler in front of rock outcrop

Caroline Seyler

Frictional healing of natural “dirty” carbonates from subduction zones

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Portrait of Srisharan Shreedharan

Srisharan Shreedharan

Effect of lithological heterogeneities on shallow slow slip events: An example from the northern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand

16:00 – 18:00

Poster Hall, D-F

Friday, December 17


All times CT.

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TALKS

Sophie Goliber

Lessons learned from TermPicks: A century of Greenland glacier terminus data (Invited)

08:33 – 08:38

Room 215-216

Andrew Gase

Diverse seamount structures on the Hikurangi Plateau due to protracted intra-plate volcanism

14:45 – 14:50

Room 353-355

Daniel Trugman

What Controls the Frequency Dependence of Seismic Radiation Patterns? Insights from the LASSO Dense Array

15:03 – 15:08

Room 343-345

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Naoma McCall

Permeability of Chicxulub Peak Ring Rocks and Implications for the Post-Impact Hydrothermal System

15:15 – 15:20

Room 348-349

POSTERS

Sean Gulick

Disparate roles of transform faults during plate boundary transitions: Locus of subduction initiation, strain partitioning, and mechanism for triple junction migration

16:00 – 17:15

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