[iris-bulk] Special session Spring AGU 2007

[IRIS]

Dear Colleagues

  We would like to draw your attention to the special session G02 at  
the upcoming Spring AGU 2007 meeting in Acapulco, titled "Steady and  
transient strain along the Middle America subduction zone". We invite  
those of you with new and related results to submit one or more  
abstracts.

This session will be a fine opportunity to present current field and  
modeling results from the areas of geodesy, seismology and  
geodynamics that bear on the understanding of the Middle America  
subduction zone or other areas with similar steady and transient  
strain variability that can be regarded as analogs to the Middle  
America subduction zone.

The official description of the session follows:

"The Middle America subduction zone has long been a superb target for  
studies of shallow subduction. Fast subduction rates, coupled with  
relatively small trench-to-coast distances, and shallow subduction  
angles along much of the coast, makes this area a unique location for  
land-based GPS and seismic observations to study both the locked,  
seismogenic area of a subduction interface and region of deeper  
transitional slip, where episodic tremor and slip may originate."

We look forward to seeing you in Acapulco.


Conveners:

Enrique Cabral-Cano		ecabral at geofisica.unam.mx
Instituto de Geofisica, UNAM
Mexico

Mike Brudzinski 	brudzimr at muohio.edu
Miami University of Ohio
Geology Department
USA

Chuck DeMets 		chuck at geology.wisc.edu
Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
USA