Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Tectonic Regimes and Their Manifestation on Terrestrial Planets
Dr. Phil Skemer from Washington University in St. Louis will be giving the keynote session and is interested in the mechanical properties of rocks in the mantle and the lithosphere and the development of plate boundaries.
Discussion Leader: Elvira Mulyukova (Yale University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:25 pm
Philip Skemer (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"Deformation at All Scales: The Influence of Rock Microstructure on Plate Tectonics"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Physical Properties of the Shallow Earth as a Proxy to Understand Tectonic Regimes on Other Planets
Discussion Leader: Jie Deng (Yale University, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Ashley Bellas (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Constraining Mantle Rheology at Lithospheric Conditions Using Observations of Flexure at the Hawaiian Islands"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Junlin Hua (Brown University, USA)
"Imaging the Lithosphere and Asthenosphere Beneath Anatolia with Sp Phases"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Chhavi Jain (Yale University, USA)
"On a New Approach to Improve Our Estimates on Olivine Rheology by Using Geodynamic Modeling"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Joshua Russell (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA)
"Comprehensive In Situ Constraints on LPO Fabric of ~70 Ma Fast-Spreading Oceanic Lithosphere from Seismic Anisotropy"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Hitchhiking a Ride with a Slab: Slab Dynamics and Implications for Volatile Recycling
Discussion Leader: Jana Schierjott (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Wei Mao (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
"Slab Stagnation Due to a Reduced Viscosity Layer Beneath the Mantle Transition Zone"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Antoniette Grima (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Orphan Slabs: A Marker for Tectonic Regime Shifts?"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Kiran Chotalia (University College London, United Kingdom)
"Plate Tectonic Controls on the Deep Water Cycle and Surface Ocean"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Krister Karlsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
"Deep Water Cycling and Sea Level Change Since the Breakup of Pangea"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Crafting a Creative Scientific Career
The topic of the mentorship program is improving your science communication through developing skills in creating visually appealing and educational graphic content, either for science education for the public or for scientific publications. The goals are: 1) how to create publishable figures that can clearly and effectively summarize your research; 2) how to better educate to the general public your science with eye-catching figures; and 3) improving your science communication skills. James Tuttle Keane will be leading this workshop, who is a published scientist at Caltech. Beyond research, he is a scientific illustrator, specializing in pen and pencil illustrations of planetary science and geoscience research. His illustrations have been published in Nature Geoscience and Nature Astronomy, and he is the resident illustrator on the New Horizons science team. You can find his live-sketches of scientific conferences (e.g. LPSC, AGU, DPS) on Twitter.
Discussion Leader: Kirstie Haynie (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:20 pm
James Keane (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Sketch Your Own Science"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes