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Presentations 2012

Talks and papers presented at conferences and seminars

General

Jones, A.G. Illuminating lithospheric structures using electromagnetic waves and correlations with other geophysical, geological and petrological data. Invited presentation at: Lithosphere Workshop, University College Cork, Ireland, 17 February.

Jones, A.G. Lighting up the lithosphere using electromagnetic waves and correlations with other geophysical, geological, geochemical and petrological data. Invited seminar at: ETH Zurich, 24 February.

Campanyà, J., J. Ledo, P. Queralt, A. Marcuello, M. Liesa, J.A. Muñoz, and A.G. Jones. Lithospheric-scale geoelectrical characterisation of a continental collision zone in Pyrenees: preliminary results. Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Miensopust, M.P., A.G. Jones, G.P. Hersir, and A.M. Vilhjálmsson. The resistivity structures around and beneath the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Southern Iceland: first insides from electromagnetic investigations. Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Ogaya, X., P. Queralt, J. Ledo, Á. Marcuello, and A.G. Jones. Preliminary results of the 3D magnetotelluric characterization of the Research Laboratory on Geological Storage of CO2 in Hontomín (Burgos, Spain). Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Ogaya, X., P. Queralt, J. Ledo, Á. Marcuello, and A.G. Jones. Preliminary results of the 3-D magnetotelluric characterization of the subsurface of the Technology Demonstration Plant of Hontomín (Burgos) for geological storage of CO2. Contributed paper at: 7th Portuguese-Spanish Assembly of Geodesy and Geophysics, Donostia, San Sebastian, 25 – 29 June.

Jones, A.G., J. Fullea, R.L. Evans, and M.R. Muller. Water in cratonic lithosphere: Calibrating laboratory-determined models of electrical conductivity of mantle minerals using geophysical observations. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Miensopust, M.P., A.G. Jones, G.P. Hersir, and A.M. Vilhjálmsson. The resistivity structures around and beneath the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Southern Iceland: first insides from electromagnetic investigations. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Ogaya, X., P. Queralt, J. Ledo, Á. Marcuello, and A.G. Jones. Preliminary 3D geoelectrical model of the Research Laboratory on Geological Storage of CO2 in Hontomín (Burgos, Spain). Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Global Geophysical Modelling

Martinec, Z. Recent satellite missions on the Earth’s gravity and magnetic fi elds. Institute of Geophysics & Tectonics, School of Earth & Environment, The University of Leeds, Leeds, 14 February.

Spada, G., Barletta, V., Klemann, V., van der Wal, W., James, T.S., Simon, K., Riva, R.E.M., Martinec, Z., Gasperini, P., Lund, B., Wolf, D., Vermeersen, L.L.A., King, M.A.  Benchmarking and testing the Sea Level Equation.  The COST ES0701 experience.  SLALOM 2012, Athens, 19 – 22 March.

Sasgen I., Van Den Broeke, M., Bamber, J.L., Rignot, E., Sandberg Srensen, L., Wouters, B., Martinec, Z., Velicogna, I., Simonsen, S.B. Recent changes of the Greenland ice sheet: insights from GRACE, ICESat and InSAR/regional climate modeling.  SLALOM 2012, Athens, 19 – 22 March.

Konrad, H., Sasgen, I., Martinec, Z., Ivins, E. Re-assessing Antarctic glacial isostatic-adjustment with GPS and GRACE observations. SLALOM 2012, Athens, 19 – 22 March.

Spada G., Barletta, V.R., Klemann, V., van der Wal, W., James, T.S., Simon, K., Riva, R.E.M., Martinec, Z., Gasperini, P., Lund, B., Wolf, D., Vermeersen, L.L.A., King, M.A. Benchmarking and testing the Sea Level Equation.  EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austira, 22 – 27 April.

Klemann, V., Martinec, Z. Solid-Earth processes and secular geocenter motion. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April.

Sasgen, I., Bamber, J.L., van den Broeke, M., Sandberg Srensen, L., Wouters, B., Martinec, Z., Horwath, M., Konrad, H., Rignot, E., Velicogna, I. On regional ice sheet mass balance from GRACE, the mass budget method, and ICESat. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April.

Rogozhina, I., Hagedoorn, J.M., Martinec, Z., Fleming, K., Souček, O., Greve, R., Thomas, M. The e ffects of the uncertainties in geothermal heat
flux distribution on the present-day Greenland Ice Sheet. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April.

Rogozhina, I., Hagedoorn, J.M., Martinec, Z., Fleming, K., Thomas, K. Applicability and limitations of large-scale ice-sheet modeling for constraining subglacial geothermal heat flux. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April (poster).

Konrad, H., Sasgen, I., Klemann, V., Ivins, E.R., Martinec, Z. Re-assessing the influence of glacial-isostatic adjustment on Antarctic ice-mass balance estimated from GRACE. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April (poster).

Novàk, P., Baur, O., Martinec, Z., Sneeuw, N., Tsoulis, D., Vermeersen, B., van der Wal, W., Roth, M., Šebera, J., Valko, M., Hoeck, E. Towards a better understanding of the Earth’s interior and geophysical exploration research “GOCE-GDC”. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 April (poster).

Sasgen, I., Konrad, H., Ivins, E.R., van den Broeke, M.R., Bamber, J.L., Martinec, Z., Klemann, V. Regionally improved estimate of glacial-isostatic adjustment and its impact on Antarctic ice-mass trends from GRACE (project AGIA), Joint GSTM/SPP1257 Symposium, GFZ Potsdam, 17 – 19 September.

Klemann, V., Tesauro, M., Martinec, Z. Featuring lithosphere rheology in studies of glacial isostatic adjustment, Joint GSTM/SPP1257 Symposium, GFZ Potsdam, 17 – 19 September (poster).

Martinec, Z. Forward and adjoint methods of glacial isostatic adjustment with non-vanishing surface horizontal traction, Joint GSTM/SPP1257 Symposium, GFZ Potsdam, 17 – 19 September (poster).

Martinec, Z. Mass-density Greens functions for gradiometric data.  GOCE Solid Earth workshop, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 16 – 17 October.

J.M. Hagedoorn and Z. Martinec.  Adjoint sensitivity method for the downward continuation of the Earth’s geomagnetic field through an electrically conducting mantle, AGU Fall Meeting 2012, 3 – 7 December.

INDEPTH (InterNational DEep Profiling of Tibet and the Himalaya)

Le Pape, F., A.G. Jones, J. Vozar, W. Wei, H. Dong, M.J. Unsworth, S. Jin, G. Ye, J. Jing, L. Zhang, and C. Xie.  Crustal weakening into northern Tibet and penetration of melt beyond the Kunlun Fault inferred from INDEPTH Phase III and Phase IV magnetotelluric data. Contributed paper at: 21st EM Induction Workshop, Darwin, Australia, 25 – 31 July.

Le Pape, F., A.G. Jones, J. Vozar, W. Wei, H. Dong, M.J. Unsworth, S. Jin, G. Ye, J. Jing, L. Zhang, and C. Xie.  Crustal weakening and transgressive melt penetrative intrusion across the Kunlun Shan inferred from INDEPTH Phase III and Phase IV magnetotelluric data. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Spratt, J.E., A.G. Jones, S. Klemperer, W. Wei, and the INDEPTH MT team. Discontinuous electrical conductivity across the Yarlung-Zangbo Suture, Southern Tibet, from re-analysis of INDEPTH MT data. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Vozar, J., A.G. Jones, F. Le Pape, and the INDEPTH MT team. Lithospheric-scale geoelectrical structures and their geometries of central Tibetan Plateau from INDEPTH magnetotelluric data. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Vozar, J., J. Fullea, A.G. Jones, M.R. Agius, S. Lebedev, and the INDEPTH MT team. Geophysical and petro-physical investigations of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary in central Tibet. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Zhang, L., W. Wei, M.J. Unsworth, M.J. Comeau, S. Jin, G. Ye, J. Jing, H. Dong, C. Xie, F. Le Pape, A.G. Jones, and J. Vozar. Lithospheric structure across the Altyn-tagh fault on the north margin of the Tibetan plateau revealed by magnetotelluric data. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Le Pape, F., A.G. Jones, J. Vozar, W. Wei, H. Dong, M.J. Unsworth, S. Jin, G. Ye, J. Jing, L. Zhang, and C. Xie. Magnetotelluric signature of a crustal transition zone in northern Tibet associated with partial melt penetration across the Kunlun Fault. Contributed paper at: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 3 – 7 December.

Ireland Array

Lebedev, S., C. Horan, P. W. Readman, A.J. Schaeffer, M.R. Agius, L. Collins, F. Hauser, B. M. O’Reilly and T. Blake. Ireland Array: New broadband seismic stations target the structure, evolution and seismicity of Ireland and surroundings (Poster), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17 – 19 February.

Lebedev, S., C. Horan, P. W. Readman, A.J. Schaeffer, M.R. Agius, L. Collins, F. Hauser, B. M. O’Reilly, and T. Blake.  Ireland Array: A new broadband seismic network targets the structure, evolution and seismicity of Ireland and surroundings (3615, Talk), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Lebedev, S., C. Horan, P.W. Readman, A.J. Schaeffer, M.R. Agius, J. Adam, L. Collins, F. Hauser, B.M. O Reilly, and T. Blake.  Ireland Array: A New Broadband Seismic Experiment Targets the Structure, Evolution and Seismicity of Ireland and the North Atlantic (DAP1+4: O5, Talk), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

IRETHERM

Blake, S., M.R. Muller, A.G. Jones, and the IRETHERM team. IRETHERM: Multi-disciplinary investigation of Irish warm springs and their potential for geothermal energy provision. Contributed paper at: 55th IGRM, Cork, Ireland, 17 – 19 February.

Delhaye, R., M.R. Muller, M. Loewer, A.G. Jones, D. Reay and the IRETHERM team. The IRETHERM project: Assessment of primary and secondary porosity media as possible geothermal aquifers Contributed paper at: 55th IGRM, Cork, Ireland, 17 – 19 February.

Farrell, T., A.G. Jones, M.R. Muller, M. Feely, R. Goodman and the IRETHERM team. The IRETHERM project: Assessing the geothermal energy potential of Irish radiogenic granites and expanding Ireland’s temperature database. Contributed paper at: 55th IGRM, Cork, Ireland, 17 – 19 February.

Muller, M.R., A.G. Jones, J.S. Daly, J. Fullea, A. Allen, R. Goodman, N.H. Hunter Williams, M. Lee, D. Reay, M. Feely, P. Hanly and R. Pasquali. IRETHERM: Research and exploration challenges in assessing Ireland’s deep low-enthalpy geothermal energy potential Contributed paper at: 55th IGRM, Cork, Ireland, 17 – 19 February.

Yeomans, C., M.R. Muller, J.S. Daly, A.G. Jones and the IRETHERM team. Geothermal energy potential of the Greater Dublin area and the Mourne Mountains Granite Complex. Contributed paper at: 55th IGRM, Cork, Ireland, 17 – 19 February.

Fullea, J., M.R. Muller and A.G. Jones, 2012. 3D Geophysical-petrological modelling of the lithosphere: assessing the geothermal potential of Ireland. Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Muller, M.R., A.G. Jones, J. Fullea, C. Yeomans, M. Loewer, D. Reay and the IRETHERM Team. IRETHERM: Research and Exploration Challenges in Assessing Ireland’s Deep Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Energy Potential. Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Fullea, J., M.R. Muller and A.G. Jones. Three-dimensional (3D) geophysical-petrological modelling of the lithosphere: assessing the geothermal potential of Ireland. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Jones, A.G., M.R., Muller, J. Fullea, J. Vozar, S. Blake, R. Delhaye, T. Farrell, C. Yeomans, M. Loewer, D. Reay, and the IRETHERM team. IRETHERM: Research and Exploration Challenges in Assessing Ireland’s Deep Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Energy Potential. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Joint Inversion

Afonso, J.C., J. Fullea, Y. Yang, A.G. Jones, W.L. Griffin, J.A.D. Connolly, S.Y. O’Reilly, and S. Lebedev. The compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere from thermodynamically-constrained multi-observable probabilistic inversion. Invited paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

PICASSO (Programme to Investigate Convecting Alboran Sea System Overturn) / Topo-Med

Kiyan, D., A.G. Jones1 J. Ledo, J. Fullea, A. Sinischalchi, G. Romano, J. Campanya, and the TopoMed MT Team. 3D structures of the crust and upper mantle in Atlas Mountains of Morocco from magnetotelluric data. Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Sinischalchi, A., G. Romano, A.G. Jones, J. Ledo, J. Campanyà, D. Kiyan, and the TopoMed MT Team. Electrical signature of the Marrakech High Atlas: new insights from the TopoMed broad band magnetotelluric experiment. Contributed paper at: EGU, Vienna, Austria, 22 – 27 May.

Kiyan, D., A. G. Jones, J. Fullea and Anne Pommier. Crustal and lithospheric structures of Atlas Mountains of Morocco: insights from magnetotelluric data. Conributed paper at: 21st EM Induction Workshop, Darwin, Australia. 25 – 31 July.

Kiyan, D., A.G. Jones, J. Ledo, J. Fullea, A. Siniscalchi, G. Romano, and J. Campanya. Crustal and lithospheric structures of Atlas Mountains, Morocco: constraints from magnetotelluric data. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Kiyan, D., A. G. Jones, J. Fullea, J. Ledo, A. Siniscalchi, G. Romano. Crustal and uppermost mantle structures of Atlas Mountains of Morocco inferred from electromagnetic imaging.  Contributed paper at: AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco. 3 – 7 December.

SAMTEX (Southern African Magnetotelluric Experiment)

Fullea, J., M.R. Muller and A.G. Jones, 2012. Electrical conductivity of continental lithospheric mantle from an integrated geophysical and petrological approach: application to the Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Jones, A.G., S. Fishwick, R.L. Evans, M.R. Muller, and J. Fullea. Velocity-conductivity relations for cratonic lithosphere and their application: Example of Southern Africa Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Khoza, D., A.G. Jones, M.R. Muller, S. Webb, and the SAMTEX team. Lithosphere-asthenosphere structure of an Archean craton and adjacent mobile belt revealed from 3D inversion of magnetotelluric data: example from southern Congo craton in northern Namibia. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Muller, M.R., J. Fullea, A.G. Jones, J. Adan, and S. Lebedev. Reconciling Seismic, Electromagnetic and Xenolith Constraints on Lithospheric Thickness and Composition of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Contributed paper at: IGC, Brisbane, Australia, 5 – 10 August.

Seismology and Lithospheric Structure and Dynamics

Adam, J., and S. Lebedev. Stratification of seismic anisotropy and deformation beneath South Africa, from the upper crust to the asthenosphere (Talk), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17 – 19 February.

Agius, M.R., and S. Lebedev. The shear velocity structure of the lithospheric mantle beneath Tibet (Talk), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17 – 19 February.

Lynch, P., A.J. Schaeffer, M.R. Agius, and S. Lebedev. Robust Shear-Velocity Profiles Within Oceanic Lithosphere and Asthenosphere: Implications for Thermal and Compositional Structure (Poster), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17 – 19 February.

Neenan, E., M.R. Agius, A.J. Schaeffer and S. Lebedev. The North Anatolian Fault and lithospheric dynamics in eastern Mediterranean: A seismic surface-wave study (Poster), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17 – 19 February.

Polat, G., S. Lebedev, P.W. Readman, B.M. O’Reilly and F. Hauser. Implications for crustal accretion and evolution within the Caledonian Orogen: Results from anisotropic Rayleigh-wave tomography in Ireland (Poster), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17 – 19 February.

Schaeffer, A.J., and S. Lebedev. Anisotropic structure of the upper mantle, imaged using surface and S waveform tomography (Talk, BEST STUDENT TALK PRIZE WINNER), 55th Irish Geological Research Meeting, University College Cork, 17-19 February.

Legendre, C., T. Meier, S. Lebedev, W. Friederich and L. Viereck-Götte. A shear-wave velocity model of the European upper mantle from automated inversion of seismic shear and surface waveforms (SO-1.003, Talk). Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft (DGG), 5 – 8 March.

Soomro, R.A., C. Weidle, S. Lebedev and T. Meier. Automated inter station measurements of fundamental mode phase velocities – first tests (SO-P.008, Poster). Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft (DGG), 5 – 8 March.

Afonso, J. C., J. Fullea, Y. Yang, A. G. Jones, W. L. Griffin, J.A.D. Connolly, S. Y. O’Reilly, and S. Lebedev. The compositional and thermal structure of the lithosphere from thermodynamically-constrained multi-observable probabilistic inversion (6947, Talk), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Brun, J.-P., C. Tirel, M. Philippon, E. Burov, C. Faccenna, F. Gueydan, and S. Lebedev. On the role of horizontal displacements in the exhumation of high pressure metamorphic rocks (9381, Talk), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Lebedev, S., E. Neenan, B. Knapmeyer-Endrun, T. Meier, M. R. Agius, A. J. Schaeffer, C. Tirel, and W. Friederich. Lithospheric dynamics in eastern Mediterranean: Insights from seismic structure and anisotropy (6626, Talk), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Legendre, C., T. Meier, S. Lebedev, W. Friederich, and L. Viereck-Götte, A shear-wave velocity model of the European upper mantle from automated inversion of seismic shear and surface waveforms (8251, Talk), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Neenan, E., Schaeffer, A. J., Agius, M. R. and Lebedev, S. The North Anatolian Fault and lithospheric deformation in eastern Mediterranean: A seismic surface-wave study (6650, Poster), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Polat, G., S. Lebedev, P. W. Readman, B. M. O’Reilly, and F. Hauser. Anisotropic Rayleigh-wave tomography of Ireland’s crust: Implications for crustal accretion and evolution within the Caledonian Orogen (11162, Poster), EGU General Assembly 2012, 22 – 27 April, Vienna, Austria.

Adam, J. and S. Lebedev. Inversion of surface wave dispersion curves for anisotropy and exploration of parameters trade-offs. 3rd QUEST workshop, Slovakia, 20 – 25 May.

Lebedev, S. and T. Meier. Teleseismic interferometry: Measurement and model-space-map inversion of very-broadband dispersion of surface waves. 3rd QUEST workshop, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia, 20 – 25 May.

Schaeffer, A. J. and S. Lebedev. Isotropic and Anisotropic Structure of the Upper Mantle, Imaged with Surface and S waveform Tomography. 3rd QUEST workshop, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia, 20 – 25 May.

Fullea, J., S. Lebedev, M. R. Agius, A.G. Jones, J.C. Afonso. Lithospheric structure in the Baikal-central Mongolia region from integrated geophysical-petrological inversion of surface-wave data and topographic elevation (ES4: P094, Poster), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

Meier, T., C. Legendre, S. Lebedev, W. Friederich, L. Viereck-Goette. A Shear-Wave Velocity Model of the European Upper Mantle from Automated Inversion of Seismic Shear and Surface Waveforms (ES4: O7, Talk), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

Neenan, E., A. J. Schaeffer, M. R. Agius, S. Lebedev. The North Anatolian Fault and lithospheric dynamics of eastern Mediterranean: A seismic surface-wave study (ES4: P091, Poster), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

Schaeffer, A. J. and S. Lebedev. Global Waveform Tomography: Imaging the Earth’s Upper Mantle With Millions of Surface- and S-Wave Forms (ES1: O6, Talk), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

Soomro, R.A., C. Weidle, S. Lebedev, T. Meier. Automated Inter-Station Measurements of Fundamental Mode Phase Velocities – Examples and Tests (ES1: O17, Talk), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

Soomro, R.A., C. Weidle, S. Lebedev, L. Cristiano, T. Meier. Surface wave tomography of central to northern Europe – First tests using automated inter-station dispersion measurements (ES4: P086, Poster), European Seismological Commission 33rd General Assembly, 19 – 24 August, Moscow, Russia.

Steckler, M. S.; Amato, A.; Guerra, I.; Armbruster, J.; Baccheschi, P.; Diluccio, F.; Gervasi, A.; P.; Margheriti, L.; N. Piana Agostinetti. Results from the seismological component of CAT/SCAN, the Calabria-Apennine Tyrrhenian/Subduction- Collision-Accretion -Network. Societa’ Geologica Italiana Annual Meeting 2012, Cosenza, Italy, 18 – 20 September.

Piana Agostinetti, N., L. Margheriti, Chiarabba. The transition from continental to oceanic subduction across the Southern Apennines – Calabrian Arc boundary: insights from Receiver Function Analysis.  Societa’ Geologica Italiana  Annual Meeting 2012, Cosenza, Italy, 18 – 20 September.

Chiarabba C., N. Piana Agostinetti, I. Bianchi, G. Giacomuzzi. The Southern Tyrrhenian subduction zone: an upgraded view from seismological studies, Societa’ Geologica Italiana, Annual Meeting 2012, Cosenz, Italy, 18 – 20 September.

Adam, J., S. Lebedev. Broad-band measurement of inter-station phase velocities and their inversion for shear-velocity azimuthal anisotropy(poster, extended abstract publisjed), Noise and Diffuse Wavefields workshop, Neustadt, Germany, 11 – 14 November.

Schaeffer A.J. and Lebedev, S.. Shear speed structure of the Earth’s upper mantle and transition zone, imaged using surface and S waveform tomography. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 3 – 7 December.

Steckler, M., H. Akhter, L. Seeber, R. Bilham, M. Kogan, F. Masson, T. Maurin, D. Mondal, N. Piana Agostinetti, C. Rangin, P. Saha. GPS Velocities and Structure Across the Burma Accretionary Prism and Shillong Anticline in Bangladesh. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco. 3 – 7 December.

Piana Agostinetti, N., M. S. Miller. What happens to the Juan de Fuca plate boundary beneath northern Cascadia? Insight into the methamorphism of the oceanic crust. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 3 – 7 December.

Blake, T., S. Lebedev, B. O’Reilly, N. Piana Agostinetti, M. Agius, A. J. Schaeffer. An unusual occurrence of a moderately sized earthquake (Ml ~ 4.2) on the Irish continental shelf and passive margin. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 3 – 7 December.

Lebedev, S., M. R. Agius, A. J. Schaeffer, C. Horan, D. Piccinini and N. Piana Agostinetti. Strike-slip tectonics in northwestern Ireland? Evidence from the 2012 January seismic sequence in Co. Donegal, Ireland. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 3 – 7 December.

Daoyuan Sun, Meghan S Miller, N. Piana Agostinetti, Paul D Asimow, Li Dunzhu. Modeling high frequency waves in the slab beneath Italy. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 3 – 7 December.