[iris-bulk] IASPEI General Assembly: Session on Lithospheric structure

[Nicholas Rawlinson]

The abstract deadline for the 2009 IASPEI general assembly is fast 
approaching. Submissions to the session titled "Illuminating crust and upper 
mantle structure with large-scale seismic deployments" are particularly 
welcome. Details below:

IASPEI GENERAL ASSEMBLY

->LOCATION: Cape Town, South Africa

->DATE: 11-16 January 2009

-> ABSTRACT DEADLINE: October 31 2008

-> EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 31 2008

-> WWW: http://www.iaspei2009sa.com/

-> EXCHANGE RATE: US$1.00 = 11.04 South African Rand (on 28/10/2008). Note 
that the cost of a main course at a good restaurant in Cape Town is 
approximately 60-100 Rand.

-> HIGHLIGHTED SESSION: Illuminating crust and upper mantle structure with 
large-scale seismic deployments

On-going programs involving the large-scale deployment of passive or active 
seismic arrays with the aim of spanning a large geographic region with 
high-density data coverage have recently gathered momentum. Two pertinent 
examples are the USArray in North America and the WOMBAT Array in Australia. 
Both of these experiments involve the deployment of a dense rolling array of 
seismometers with the long-term goal of spanning a significant portion of a 
large continent. Data from such experiments can be used in a variety of ways, 
including surface and body wave tomography, ambient noise imaging, receiver 
functions, shear wave splitting and array studies of the deep mantle and 
core. Researchers who seek to exploit large volumes of seismic data from 
experiments of this type are invited to submit an abstract to this session. 
Of particular interest are studies, which attempt to combine multiple 
datasets to image both the crust and upper mantle at high resolution.

-> OTHER SESSIONS:

SEISMICITY, NETWORKS
# Symposium on Seismological Observation and Interpretation
# Large Historical Earthquakes in Africa, Historical Seismology, 
Paleoseismicity
# Seismicity, Seismic Hazard and Regional Co-operation in North Africa
# Induced seismicity
# Intraplate seismicity
# Recent Large Earthquakes
# Volcano Seismology
# Arrays, Networks, Instrumentation and Stations in Africa
# Extending land networks into the sea and oceans
# Scientific and technical advances in seismology and their relevance to the 
CTBT

LITHOSPHERE STRUCTURE
# Structure and Dynamics of the Lithosphere: Observations, Modeling and 
Laboratory Constraints
# East Africa Rift System
# Illuminating crust and upper mantle structure with large-scale seismic 
deployments

TSUNAMIS and ODP
# Tsunami in Africa - Indian Ocean, Atlantic, Mediterranean
# Leveraging ODP boreholes and submarine cables

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE and PREDICTION
# Symposium on Earthquake sources: Modeling and Monitoring for Prediction
# Geophysical anomalies and Earthquake prediction
# Prospective Testing of Earthquake and Faulting Probability Models

GEODYNAMICS
# Earth Structure and Geodynamics

HEAT FLOW
# From Heat Flow to Geothermal Energy
# Workshop "Geothermal Studies: Instruments, Measurements, and Interpretation

HAZARD AND RISK
# Earthquake Hazard
# Earthquake Risk
# Workshop "Effects of Surface Geology"
# Seismic Source Modeling and Ground Motion Prediction
# Earthquake Risk Reduction and Preparedness: Socio-economic aspects, 
particularly in developing countries

APPLIED GEOPHYSICS
# Electromagnetic prospecting and crustal structures
# Geochemical and geophysical signatures of diamond fields

E&O
# Capacity Building and capturing undergraduate students to 
geophysics/seismology
# Discussion panels

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> Dr. N. Rawlinson
> Research School of Earth Sciences
> Australian National University
> Canberra ACT 0200
> Australia
> Ph: 61 2 6125 5512
> Fx: 61 2 6257 2737
> Em: nick at rses.anu.edu.au
> Wb: http://rses.anu.edu.au/~nick
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