Recent News

Tohoku-oki EQ study by Bassett, Sandwell, Fialko published in Nature

Congratulations to IGPP Professors Yuri Fialko and Dave Sandwell as well as IGPP Green Scholar Dan Bassett. Their study, "Upper-plate controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake" was published in the 03 March 2016 issue of Nature.

Paolo receives MVP Award from NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program

Congratulations to postdoc Fernando Paolo, recent recipient of the "Most Valued Player" Award within the NASA Cryospheric Sciences Program, for his PhD work on Antarctic ice shelves from satellite radar altimetry. Paolo was presented the award by NASA Cryo PM Tom Wagner at the PARCA meeting at Goddard Space Flight Centre today. photo credit: Kelly Brunt

GAMES group receives private funding

Scripps family memebers Eaton and Marty Scripps have expressed their support of the GAMES group's interactive, educational outreach efforts with a donation that will fund the groups efforts for one year.  For more information, visit the GAMES website: siogames.ucsd.edu and the full SIO press release here.

IGPP's Fricker, Siegfried, team discover varied, high-rate melt along Ross Ice Shelf

AGU's Geophysical Research Letters has published "High basal melting forming a channel at the grounding line of Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica," co-authored by IGPP glaciologists Helen Amanda Fricker and Matt Siegfried. The team, led by Oliver Marsh, University of Canterbury, spent six weeks collecting radar data to map ice melt along the Ross Ice Shelf. The study discovered melt rates vary along the shelf, but that the speed of melt (up to 25 times higher than expected) in some locations may hamper the Ross Ice Shelf's sustainability.

ANZA Network receives critical operational funding

Earlier today, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director Margret Lenien,  Seismic Warning Systems CEO, George Dickson, County Supervisor, Greg Cox and IGPP Research Scientist—and lead researcher for the ANZA network—Frank Vernon, were pleased to announce that a financial donation by Seismic Warning Systems (SWS) will keep the ANZA Seismic Network, and its 28 monitoring stations along the San Jacinto Fault, operating through 2020.  The state-of-the-art network, which has monitored Southern California’s most active fault since 1982, was at risk of being shut down when government funding cu

STEAM/STEM class co-created by IGPP researcher Kilb a hit

Gompers students brought their aluminum foil, whipped cream, and pie tins to the Elementary Institute of Science to learn "How to Make a Disaster Movie Based on Real Science!"

Several IGPP researchers and alumni contributors to Science feature about the Gorkha EQ

Congratulations to IGPP's Yehuda Bock, Xiaohua Xu, Jianghui Geng, and Eric Lindsey as well as IGPP alum's Diego Melgar and Genrich, whose paper, with 25 additional collaborators, "Slip pulse and resonance of the Kathmandu basin during the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, Nepal" appeared in today's Science magazine. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/349/6252/1091.full.pdf

Walter Munk, "Einstein of the Oceans," featured in the NY Times

The tremendous career and unabating curiosity of IGPP's Walter Munk, "Einstein of the Oceans," featured in the New York Times.

Key Deploys Sensor Array to Study and Visualize Okmok's Magma

Earlier this summer IGPP Associate Professor Kerry Key, in collaboration with USGS, Alaska Volcano Observatory, and University of Wisconsin Madison colleagues, traveled to Umnak Island to commence study of the magma—how it’s formed, where it’s stored—beneath Okmok Volcano.

Pommier's Lithosphere–Asthenosphere Boundary research featured in Nature

Congratulations to Anne Pommier, whose paper "Experimental constraints on the electrical anisotropy of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system," appears in the 11 June 2015 issue of Naturehttp://www.nature.co