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Jerry Xuan Named 51 Pegasi b Fellow to Study Giant Planet Formation at UCLA EPSS
Read how Dr. Xuan plans to study how giant planets form by analyzing Jupiter-like worlds, …
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NASA's Defense Against Killer Asteroids: The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor
Understand how this $1.4-billion infrared telescope could protect Earth from potentially devastating celestial objects.
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EPSS Colloquium
Tuesday Apr 22
3:30p.m. - 4:30p.m.
Presented By:
Prof. Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle - Fort Lewis College
Slow slip and tremor (SST) events occur downdip of the megathrust in modern subduction zones and are collocated with seismic low velocity zones (LVZs) with seismic characteristics indicative of near-lithostatic pore fluid pressures (Pf). Multiple models exist for SST sources, but all require brittle failure and transient accelerated slip. Exhumed …