SCEC Award Number 24129 View PDF
Proposal Category Community Workshop
Proposal Title The 2024 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on Rock Deformation
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
Heather Savage University of California, Santa Cruz
SCEC Milestones B2-2, B1-1, B3-2, B3-3 SCEC Groups Seismology, FARM, CEM
Report Due Date 09/10/2024 Date Report Submitted 06/22/2025
Project Abstract
 This grant supported travel and conference fees for participants in the 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Rock Deformation. The theme of the conference was “Capturing Timescales of Rock Deformation”, which focused on how to scale up observations from laboratory experiments to tectonic processes. Heather Savage (UC Santa Cruz) was the GRC chair and Christine McCarthy (Lamont) and Lars Hansen (Univ. of Minnesota) were the vice chairs. The GRS was run by Mark Jefferds and Alex Lusk. The majority of the funds from this grant supported early career researchers.
Intellectual Merit This grant partially supported the 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Rock Deformation, held at Bates College, Maine from August 4th to 9th, 2024, and the 5th Rock Deformation Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) that was held immediately prior to the GRC, August 3th to 4th, 2024. The GRS program is designed to provide opportunities for early-career scientists to get involved at the Frontiers of Science.
Broader Impacts This grant supported several early career scientists to attend the GRS and GRC. The feedback of participants was extremely positive for both meetings, and the GRS experience gave attendees much more confidence when attending the GRC. As an example, priority was given to early career participants to ask the first questions after presentations, to launch the following discussion.
Project Participants The 10 people listed here were directly funded by SCEC: 1) Josie Nevitt - USGS
2) Rob Skarbek – planetary science institute
3) Valere Lambert - UCSC
4) Srisharan Shreedharan – Utah State
5) Alba Rodriguez Padilla – Caltech
6) Randy Williams – Bureau of Reclamation
7) Caroline Seyler – USC
8) Kristina Okamoto – U. Minnesota
9) Alex Lusk – USGS
10) Fola Kolawole – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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