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Presentations 2015

Talks and papers presented at conferences and seminars

Electromagnetic research

Campanyà, J., J. Ledo, P. Queralt, A. Marcuello, J.A. Muñoz, M. Liesa, A.J. Jones, 2015. Geoelectrical characterisation of the lithosphere below the Eastern Pyrenees: Constraints from three different types of electromagnetic data. EGU, Vienna (Austria), Poster.

Campanyà, J., X. Ogaya, A.G. Jones, V. Rath, J. Vozar, 2015. Main advantages of performing joint inversion of MT data with GTF and HMT data: Results from a synthetic case study and real data. Schmucker-Weidelt Kolloquium für Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung, Dassel. (Germany), Oral.

Cembrowsky, M., A. Junge, J. Campanyà, P. Queralt, J. Ledo, 2015. A Three-Dimensional resistivity Study of the Pyrenees. Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft, Hannover (Germany), Poster.

Cembrowski, M., A. Junge, J. Campanyà, J. Ledo, P. Queralt, 2015. A Three-Dimensional Resistivity Study of the Pyrenees. Schmucker-Weidelt Kolloquium für Elektromagnetische Tiefenforschung, Dassel. (Germany), Poster.

Seismology and geodynamics

Bonadio, R., P. Arroucau, S. Lebedev, A.J. Schaeffer, A. Licciardi, Structure and seismicity of Ireland’s crust, Poster, Atlantic Ireland Conference, Dublin, 27 October 2015.

Arroucau, P., S. Custodio, 2015. A hierarchical Bayesian approach for earthquake location and data uncertainty estimation in 3D heterogeneous media. Poster (15 April), EGU2015-11462, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015. 4.

Bonadio, R., P. Arroucau, S. Lebedev, A.J. Schaeffer, A. Licciardi, 2015. Structure and seismicity of Ireland’s crust, Poster, Atlantic Ireland Conference, Dublin, 27 October 2015.

Custodio, S., F. Carrilho, E. Gongóra, C. Marreiros, I. Rio, G. Silveira, P. Arroucau, N. Dias, 2015. Can small earthquakes help understand lithospheric deformation in slowly deforming regions? A case study from Portugal, western Europe. Poster (15 April), EGU2015-10856, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Becker, T.W., C. Conrad, A.J. Schaeffer, S. Lebedev, 2015. Origin of Seismic Anisotropy in Oceanic Plates and Mantle. Talk (14 April), EGU2015-2706, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Schaeffer, A.J., S. Lebedev, 2015. Global distribution of azimuthal anisotropy within the lithosphere, asthenosphere, and transition zone. Talk and Poster (14 April), EGU2015-15184, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Schaeffer, A.J., S. Lebedev, 2015.  Lithospheric structure of North America imaged using waveform inversion of global and USArray data. Talk (16 April), EGU2015-9006, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Meier, T., S. Lebedev, A.J. Schaeffer, R. Soomro, 2015. Global and Regional Waveform Tomography, Poster (April 20), Guust Nolet Workshop, Nice, 19-21 April 2015.

Lebedev, S., 2015. Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, and Their Boundary: Some Insights from Global Waveform Tomography. Invited Keynote Talk (9 June), The 2015 Colloquium of the project SAMPLE: South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution, Monschau, Germany, 9-12 June, 2015.

Becker, T.W., A.J. Schaeffer, S. Lebedev, C.P. Conrad, 2015. Implications of a comprehensive, spreading-aligned plate motion reference frame in light of seismic anisotropy and global trench migration. Invited Talk (14 December), DI13C-01. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015.

Golos, E.M., H. Yao, H. Zhang, H. Fang, S. Burdick, A.J. Schaeffer, F. Vernon, S. Lebedev, R.D. van der Hilst, 2015. Seismic Tomography of the Continental United States from a Joint Inversion of Surface Waves and Body Waves. Poster (14 December), T11D-2914. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015.

Schaeffer, A.J., S. Lebedev, 2015. Seismic Tomography of the Arctic Lithosphere and Asthenosphere. Invited Talk (15 April), EGU2015-2819, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Lebedev, S., A.J. Schaeffer, J. Fullea, V. Pease, 2015. Thermal structure and evolution of the Arctic lithosphere: Insights from seismic tomography and thermodynamic modelling. Invited talk (1 October) at: 3P Arctic: Polar Petroleum Potential Conference & Exhibition, Stavanger, Norway, 29 September – 2 October, 2015.

Celli, N., S. Lebedev, A.J. Schaeffer, C. Gaina, 2015. Tomographic imaging of the North Atlantic lithosphere, Poster, Atlantic Ireland Conference, Dublin, 27 October 2015.

Lebedev, S., A.J. Schaeffer, J. Fullea, V. Pease, 2015. Seismic and Thermal Structure of the Arctic Lithosphere, From Waveform Tomography and Thermodynamic Modelling. Talk (17 December), T43F-01. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015.

Celli, N., S. Lebedev, A.J. Schaeffer, C. Gaina, 2015. Towards High-Resolution Waveform Tomography of the North Atlantic Region. Poster (18 December), T51B-2886. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015.

Ravenna, M., S. Lebedev, 2015. Bayesian inversion of broadband, surface-wave dispersion curves for shear-velocity structure and anisotropy of the lithosphere and asthenosphere, Poster (5 February), “The Lithosphere Asthenosphere Boundary 2015,” British Geophysical Association – New Advances in Geophysics 2015 (BGA – NAG 2015) Conference, London, 5-6 February, 2015.

Ravenna, M., S. Lebedev, 2015. A Bayesian Approach to Infer Anisotropy of the Crust and Upper Mantle from Surface-Wave Dispersion Curve (poster), TIDES Training School of Seismic Data, Bertinoro, Italy, 1-5 June, 2015.

Ravenna, M., S. Lebedev, 2015. A Bayesian Approach to Infer Radial and Azimuthal Anisotropy of the Crust and Upper Mantle from Surface-Wave Dispersion Curves. Poster (15 December),S21B-2691. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015.

Meier, T., S. Lebedev, A.J. Schaeffer, R. Soomro, 2015. Global and Regional Waveform Tomography, Poster (April 20), Guust Nolet Workshop, Nice, 19-21 April 2015.

Meier, T., R. Soomro, C. Weidle, L. Cristiano, S. Lebedev, L. Viereck, M. Abratis, J. Behrmann, 2015. Evolution of the continental lithosphere in central Europe, Rolf-Meissner-Symposium: From Crustal Seismology to Geodynamics, Rolf-Meissner-Symposium: From Crustal Seismology to Geodynamics, 5-6 June 2015, Kiel, Germany

Viereck, L., T. Meier, R. Soomro, C. Weidle, L. Cristiano, M. Abratis, S. Lebedev, J. Büchner, 2015. Memory of the LAB for melt generation in Central European intraplate volcanic fields. GeoBerlin, 4–7 October 2015, Berlin, Germany.

Seismological and potential field activities

Prada, M., L. Watremez, C. Chen, B. O’Reilly, T. Minshull, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, P. Shannon, D. Kläschen, and R. Edwards, 2015. Wide-angle seismic data provides new insights on the crustal structure of the  Porcupine Basin. 53 Irish Geological Research Meeting – IGRM 2015, 20th – 22nd February, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

Watremez, L., M. Prada, T. Minshull, B. O’Reilly, C. Chen, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen, and P. Shannon, 2015. Deep structure of Porcupine Basin from seismic refraction data. From Hook to  Helioseismology 2015, 9th and 10th April, University of Leicester.

Prada, M., L. Watremez, C. Chen, B. O’Reilly, T. Minshull, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, P. Shannon, D. Kläschen, and R. Edwards, 2015. New constraints on the rifting evolution of the Porcupine Basin from Wide-Angle seismic data.  European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, 12th -17th April 2015.

Watremez, L., M. Prada, T. Minshull, B. O’Reilly, C. Chen, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen, and P. Shannon, 2015. New insights into the nature of the Porcupine Median Ridge using Refraction Seismic Data. European Geosciences Union, General Assembly, April 2015.

Minsull, T.A., M. Prada, L. Watremez, C. Chen, B. O’Reilly, T. J. Reston, D. Klaeschen, G. Wagner and V. Gaw, 2015. Constraints from wide-angle seismic data on the structure and evolution of the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. 8th Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe Conference, September 2015.

Chen, C., L. Watremez, M. Prada, T. Minshull, R. Edwards, B. O’Reilly, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen, and P. Shannon, 2015. Seismic Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle of Porcupine Basin from Wide-Angle Data. British Geophysical Association (BGA) Postgraduate Research in Progress  Meeting 2015, 11th September, University of Southampton, UK.

Prada, M., L. Watremez, C. Chen, B. O’Reilly, T. Minshull, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, P. Shannon, D. Kläschen and R. Edwards, 2015. Nature of the uppermost mantle below the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland: new insights from seismic refraction and gravity data modelling. American Geoscience Union Fall meeting 2015, 14th – 18th December, San Francisco, USA.

Watremez, L., M. Prada, T. Minshull, B. O’Reilly, C. Chen, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen and P. Shannon, 2015. Deep structure of Porcupine Basin and nature of the Porcupine Median Ridge from seismic refraction tomography. American Geoscience Union Fall meeting 2015, 14th – 18th December, San Francisco, USA.

Prada, M., L. Watremez, C. Chen, B. O’Reilly, T. Minshull, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen, P. Shannon, 2015. An integrated geophysical and geological study of the Porcupine Basin. Atlantic Ireland conference, 27th October 2015.

Watremez, L., M. Prada, T. Minshull, B. O’Reilly, C. Chen, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen and P. Shannon, 2015. Deep structure of the southern Porcupine Basin and the Porcupine Median Ridge from seismic refraction modelling. Atlantic Ireland conference, 27th October 2015.

Chen, C., L. Watremez, M. Prada, T. Minshull, R. Edwards, B. O’Reilly, T. Reston, G. Wagner, V. Gaw, D. Kläschen, P. Shannon, 2015. Seismic Structure of the Crust and Upper Mantle of Porcupine Basin from Wide-Angle Data. Atlantic Ireland conference, 27th October 2015.

Integrated geophysical-petrological modelling of the lithosphere

Afonso, J.C., N. Rawlinson, Y. Yang, D. Schutt, A.G. Jones, and J. Fullea, 2015. Multi-Observable Probabilistic Tomography Reveals the Thermochemical Structure of Central-Western US, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, EGU2015-15574.

Afonso, J.C., Y. Yang, N. Rawlinson, A.G. Jones, J. Fullea, M. Qashai, 2015. Multi-Observable Thermochemical Tomography of the lithosphere and upper mantle, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, S11B-04.

Fullea, J., 2015. Topographic signature from the mantle: thermal and compositional contributions, Topo-Europe meeting, Antibes, France, 4-7 October (invited talk).

Fullea, J., A.M . Negredo, M. Charco, I. Palomeras,  A. Villaseñor, and J. C. Afonso, 2015. Lithospheric structure of the Iberian Peninsula from coupled geophysical-petrological inversion, Topo-Europe meeting, Antibes, France, 4-7 October.

Fullea, J., S. Lebedev, 2015. Towards integrated, lithosphere-scale modelling of the thermal structure and evolution of basins, Poster, Atlantic Ireland Conference, Dublin, 27 October 2015.

Jones, A.G., J.C. Afonso, and J. Fullea, 2015. Estimates of the topographic uplift of the Southern African Plateau from the African Superswell through petrologically-consistent thermo-chemical modelling of the geoid, SHF, Rayleigh and Love dispersion curves and MT data, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, EGU2015-7649.

Lebedev, S., A.J. Schaeffer, J. Fullea, V. Pease, 2015. Seismic and Thermal Structure of the Arctic Lithosphere, From Waveform Tomography and Thermodynamic Modelling, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, T43F-01.

Invited presentations

Schaeffer, A.J., S. Lebedev. Seismic Tomography of the Arctic Lithosphere and Asthenosphere. Invited Talk (15 April), EGU2015-2819, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12-17 April 2015.

Lebedev, S., Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, and Their Boundary: Some Insights from Global Waveform Tomography. Invited Keynote Talk (9 June), The 2015 Colloquium of the project SAMPLE: South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution, Monschau, Germany, 9-12 June, 2015.

Lebedev, S., A.J. Schaeffer, J. Fullea, V. Pease, Thermal structure and evolution of the Arctic lithosphere: Insights from seismic tomography and thermodynamic modelling. Invited talk (1 October) at: 3P Arctic: Polar Petroleum Potential Conference & Exhibition, Stavanger, Norway, 29 September – 2 October, 2015.

Fullea, J., The mantle contribution to the Earth’s surface topography: thermochemical structure, strength and dynamic. Invited Talk (5 October), Annual TOPO-EUROPE workshop, Antibes (France), Oct 4-7, 2015.

Becker, T.W., A.J. Schaeffer, S. Lebedev, C.P. Conrad, Implications of a comprehensive, spreading-aligned plate motion reference frame in light of seismic anisotropy and global trench migration. Invited Talk (14 December), DI13C-01. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 14-18, 2015.