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SUMMARY:Active tectonics and geomorphology - Professor Jean-Philippe Avoua
 c (University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20141020T160000Z
DTEND:20141020T170000Z
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CONTACT:Jack Wright
DESCRIPTION:I'll give an overview of the techniques we have developed in m
 y group over the last decade\, as well as  applications of these technique
 s to investigate various geological problems.  I'll discuss more particula
 rly  progress made in the study of active faults (my core research). I wil
 l also discuss applications of our techniques to study geomorphic processe
 s such as sand dune migration on Mars.\n\nDr. Jean-Philippe Avouac receive
 d his BS in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique (France) in \n1987 and hi
 s PhD in Earth Sciences at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Fra
 nce) in \n1991. He then took a position at the Commissariat à l’Energie
  Atomique where he created and \nlead the Laboratoire de Télédétection 
 et Risque Sismique. Dr Avouac joined the Division of \nGeological and Plan
 etary Sciences at Caltech as a full Professor in 2003. Dr. Avouac became t
 he \nEarle C. Anthony Professor of Geology in 2012. He was the director of
  the Tectonics \nObservatory from 2004 to 2014. He has been elected to the
  BP-McKenzie Chair of Earth \nSciences at the university of Cambridge (UK)
  in 2014.\nDr. Avouac research aims primarily at a better understanding of
  the mechanisms governing \ncrustal deformation\, seismicity and changes t
 o the Earth’s surface. He resorts to physical \ndynamic modeling\, geolo
 gical observation and geophysical data analysis. He has contributed to \nm
 ethod developments in geodesy\, morphotectonics and remote sensing.\nDr. A
 vouac has received several awards and honors\, among them: the Humboldt se
 nior scientist \nAward of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\; the Wolf
 son award from the Royal Society\;\nthe E. A. Flinn Award of the Internati
 onal Lithosphere Program. He is a Fellow of the American \nGeophysical Uni
 on.
LOCATION:Harker Room 1\, Department of Earth Sciences
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