16^th Hubbert Quorum - December 14, 2008

Program

 

11:30 Brunch

1:00 Brodsky, Hurwitz, Ingebritsen – Introduction

1:05 Francois Cornet –Seismicity and forced fluid flow: From man-made events to natural swarm

1:35 Steve Miller – Aftershock sequences driven by the release of trapped high pressure fluids: Is this an exception or a rule?

 1:50 Jean Elkhoury – Pushing up permeability

 2:05 Michael Manga – Monitoring the response of the Alum Rock springs to the Oct. 30, 2007 Alum Rock earthquake

2:20 Break

 2:50 Stephen Cox – Using failure-mode diagrams to explore fluid-pressure and stress histories during fault-valve behaviour

 3:05 Rick Sibson – Rupturing in the overpressured crust of NE Honshu – Mesozonal mineralisation in the making

 3:20 Bruce Yardley – Experimental results on the rates of water hydration reactions in the mid crust

 3:35 Martin Appold – "Solitary waves" as a mechanism for hydrocarbon transport in faults in viscoelastic materials

3:50 Break

 4:20 5-minute sound bites:

Pat Dobson/Teamrat Ghezzehei – Heterogeneous seepage through altered ash-flow tuffs: Field observations and initial modeling results

Dim Coumou – Numerical insights into black smoker hydrothermal systems: 3D structure and brine-vapor interactions

 4:35 Rob Sohn – Hydrothermal circulation on oceanic detachment faults: New perspectives from the TAG field

 4:55 Leonid Germanovich – Advective heat flow measurements at mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems

 5:15 Adjourn – local supper

 

Participants

Martin Appold - University of Missouri

Maurizio Battaglia -University of Rome

Barbara Bekins - USGS-Menlo Park

Emily Brodsky - UC-Santa Cruz

Dim Coumou - GFZ Potsdam

Francois Cornet - IPG -Strasbourg

Stephen Cox - Australian National University

Mai-Linh Doan -Univ . Joseph Fourier ( Grenoble)

Pat Dobson - Lawrence Berkeley Lab

Thomas Driesner - ETH-Zurich

Jean Elkhoury - Cal Tech

Bill Evans - USGS-Menlo Park

Peter Flemings - University of Texas

Patrick Fulton - Oregon State University

Grant Garven - Tufts University

Leonid Germanovich - Georgia Tech

Teamrat Ghezzehei - Lawrence Berkeley Lab

Gillian Gruen - ETH-Zurich

Tom Hanks - USGS-Menlo Park

Rob Harris - Oregon State University

Dave Hill - USGS-Menlo Park

Shaul Hurwitz - USGS-Menlo Park

Michael Hutnak - USGS-Menlo Park

Steve Ingebritsen - USGS-Menlo Park

Laszlo Keszthelyi - USGS-Flagstaff

Rachel Lauer - Penn State

Michael Manga - UC- Berkeley

Steve Miller - University of Bonn

Jennifer Palguta - UCLA

Margaret Popek - Penn State

Jimmy Randolph - University of Minnesota

Mark Reid - USGS-Menlo Park

Ben Rostron - University of Alberta

Martin Saar - University of Minnesota

Rick Sibson - University of Otago

Rob Sohn - Woods Hole

Sergei Stanchits - GFZ Potsdam

John Townend - Victoria University ( Wellington)

Rob Viesca - Harvard University

Herb Wang - University of Wisconsin

Philipp Weis - ETH-Zurich

Lorraine Wolf - Auburn University

Bruce Yardley - University of Leeds