Our article about ship-based research into deformation and seismicity of the Gofar Transform Fault is published in Eos: Boettcher, M.S., E.C. Roland, J.M. Warren, R.L. Evans, and J.A. Collins, 2023. Observing a seismic cycle at sea, Eos, 104, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EO230076.
Graduate student Abigail Nalesnik and UD affiliate professor Kendra J. Lynn are featured in this amazing interactive piece by Tracey Bryant and Dave Barczak for the UD Research magazine. The story describes their encounter with a volcanic eruption at Kīlauea’s Halema’uma’u crater in 2021.
Leg 3 of the 2019-2021 Gofar Transform Fault Earthquake Prediction Experiment set sail from San Diego earlier this month and arrived on site in the equatorial Pacific this week. The scientists, engineers, and crew aboard the R/V Thompson are now working to recover ocean bottom seismometers, use the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry to image the […]
We’re back from cruise AT42-20, with lots of rocks!
Follow us on Twitter @4CASTGofar (4D Characterization of Aseismic and Seismic Transients at Gofar – thanks to co-PI Emily Roland for a great acronym)!
We set sail at 1600 on Nov 16th from San Diego!
A new phase of seismic experiments on Gofar Transform Fault begins this week as we set sail on the R/V Atlantis to deploy seismometers and dredge for rocks. This project builds on the successful 2007-2008 Gofar-Discovery-Quebrada experiment (McGuire et al., 2012; Roland et al. 2012). Lead PI for this NSF-funded project is Margaret Boettcher, with […]
The Mantle Processes Group spent 10 days in southwest Oregon and northern California for fieldwork in the Josephine Peridotite and Trinity Ophiolite. Colleagues from Brown University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, University of Auckland, and University of Oregon joined us for parts of the trip. It was good to be back in the mantle!
This September we returned to the Trinity Ophiolite in Northern California for a Stanford field class (GES 190: Advanced Field Methods). Read the student blog for the class here. We were joined by lab descendent Philomena Gan from Oxford University, who is a student with former lab member Lars Hansen.
Megan and Nik joined Jason Harvey from Leeds University for xenolith sampling in Arizona and New Mexico.