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October 2025
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Favorable tidal stress triggers more tremors with higher energies
Siyuan Zhang,
Graduate Student,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Beyond strain and rotation: What do velocity gradients reveal about turbulent flows?
Rahul Arun,
Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Environmental Science and Engineering Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Monday, October 6th, 2025
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Deep subduction zone deformation: what exhumed rocks reveal about the slow slip and tremor source region
Whitney Behr,
Full Professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Deputy head of Dep. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Deputy head of Geological Institute,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
ETH Zurich,
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Thermodynamics of Rocks in Massive Planets
Junjie "JJ" Dong,
3CPE Postdoctoral Fellow,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
From Rocks to Ruptures: Multi-Scale Insights into Strike-Slip Faults
Sezim Guvercin,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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ESE Trailblazer Symposium
Sensitivity of the ocean circulation to the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase
Camille Hankel,
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington,
Thursday, October 9th, 2025
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Revisiting the updip and downdip extents of the seismogenic zone of subduction megathrusts
Kelin Wang,
Adjunct Professor,
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria,
Senior Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada,
Friday, October 10th, 2025
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Understanding subduction zone earthquake cycles in a viscoelastic Earth
Kelin Wang,
Adjunct Professor,
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria,
Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada,
Monday, October 13th, 2025
4:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Icy ocean worlds -- from the surface to the interior
Wanying Kang,
Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Department of Earth, Atmospheric + Planetary Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
From Signal to Structure: Statistical Thinking for Planetary and Astrobiological Discovery
Gideon Yoffe,
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Quasi-periodic repeating earthquakes may follow normal cubic scaling law as regular earthquakes
Binhao Wang,
Graduate Student,
University of Southern California,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Mind the Carbon Gap: Bridging Observations and Process-Based Understanding for Land Surface Modeling Innovation
Renato Braghiere,
Caltech/JPL,
Thursday, October 16th, 2025
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Geophysical Exploration of Terrestrial Analogs As Testbeds for Planetary In Situ Resource Utilization
Jingchuan Wang,
Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geophysics,
Caltech,
Friday, October 17th, 2025
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Seismo Lab Seminar
Revisiting the Basel-1 well hydraulic stimulation as an example of hydro-shearing fracture growth
Brice Lecampion,
Associate Professor, Head of the Geo-Energy Lab – Gaznat Chair on Geo-Energy,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Monday, October 20th, 2025
8:15am
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
From Nature to the Lab and Back: Exploring How Rheological Heterogeneities Control Fault Slip
Giuseppe Volpe,
Assegnista di ricerca Struttura,
Dipartimento Di Scienze Della Terra,
Sapienza Universita Di Roma,
Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
From the Laboratory to Space with Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy
Audrey Martin,
Research Scientist,
Department of Planetary Science,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Variations in mechanical properties control segmentation of oceanic transform faults
Fengzhou Tan,
Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of California, San Diego,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Fast Upper-Level Jet Stream Winds Get Faster Under Climate Change
Tiffany Shaw,
University of Chicago,
4:30pm
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7:30pm
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Watson Lecture - Molecules, Mysteries, and the Matter of Existence, with Nick Hutzler
Nick Hutzler,
assistant professor of physics,
- Public Event
Friday, October 24th, 2025
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
New Zealand's Alpine Fault - Anticipating a National-Level Earthquake
Nicolas Barth,
Associate Professor of Geology,
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences,
University of California, Riverside,
Monday, October 27th, 2025
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
"Magnetic windows into an enigmatic early Earth"
Alec Brenner,
Skinner Postdoctoral Associate,
The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Yale University,
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
4:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar
Bring Balance to the "Force" on Giant Planets: Nonlinear Turbulent Mixing of Chemical Tracers
Huazhi Ge,
51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow,
Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
12:00pm
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Seismo Lab Brown Bag Seminar
Characterizing Mechanics of Earthquake Ruptures in Complex Fault Zones Using Damage Rheology Model
Chunhui Zhao,
PhD Candidate,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Attributing Intensified Fire Weather And Droughts In The Western United States using An Observation-based Machine Learning Approach
Rong Fu,
UCLA,
Friday, October 31st, 2025
4:00pm
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Seismo Lab Seminar
When stable faults shake: the role of frictional healing in induced earthquakes
Meng Li,
Stanford University,