Presentations:
2021 Geophysical Society of Houston, Donna Jurdy, SETI: ppt pdf
2023 OSU, Donna Jurdy,Venus: ppt pdf
2019 Tribute to Hans and Julia Weertman: “The Weertmans and the San Andreas Fault: How a dislocation solution became a key tool in earthquake science”
2019 Tribute to Donna Jurdy at her retirement ceremony
2017 Talk to Geology Club: Dealing with the media – Some things I learned from ~30 years experience that I wish I’d known when I started.
Click here to watch the short presention at the 2012 UNAVCO science workshop: “Bad assumptions or bad luck: Tohoku’s embarrassing lessons for earthquake hazard mapping”
Keynote lecture from the 2011 ESF conference on Extreme Geohazards: “Why natural hazard maps (forecasts, warnings, etc) often fail and what to do about it.” Click here to watch lecture or click here for powerpoint.
2011 Geoprisms meeting presentation:
2011 Mineral, Virginia earthquake illustrates the seismicity of a passive-aggressive continental margin (ppt)
2011 GSA meeting presentation in 40th anniversary of the Geophysics Division session:
Bad maps or bad luck: Tohoku’s embarassing lessons for earthquake hazard mapping (ppt) discussing why earthquake hazard maps often fail and what to do about it
2011 GSA meeting talk:
Learning from failure: new insights into continental rifting from North America’s failed Mid-Continent Rift (ppt)
2011 Conference on mathematics in the geosciences presentation:
Predicting earthquakes and earthquake hazards: why so little success?
2011 Illinois Earthscope teachers’ workshop:
Lecture series and activities about New Madrid earthquake science and hazards
2011 lecture :
Uncertainties in New Madrid hazard estimates: Is New Madrid really as dangerous as California? (ppt)
2010 European Geosciences Union Stephan Mueller Medal lecture:
Migrating earthquakes and faults switching on and off: a complex system view of midcontinent earthquakes: Part 1, Part 2 (pdf)
2009 Geological Society of America George Woollard Award lecture:
New view of New Madrid: little motion, complex faults, small hazard (pdf)
2010 S. T. Crough memorial lecture at Purdue University:
Disaster deferred: how new science is changing our view of earthquakes in the midwest: Part 1, Part 2 (pdf)
2010 Academy of Europe Lecture: Why seismologists can’t predict earthquakes (pdf)
2006 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecture: Giant Earthquakes: Why, Where, When, and What We Can Do (pdf)
Lectures (large pdf) for IRIS summer intern orientation:
Seismology and earth structure
Earthquake hazards and prediction: Part 1, Part 2
Seismogram of the day: records for the 2010 Haiti earthquake
Seismogram of the day: normal mode record for the 2004 Sumatra earthquake
Class exercise: the May 2008 Sichuan earthquake
Lectures for China Earthquake Authority delegation:
Using earthquake science to predict earthquake hazards and reduce earthquake risks: using what we know and recognizing what we don’t (powerpoints)
Why is predicting earthquake hazards so hard?
How does the challenge differ between plate boundaries, plate boundary zones, and plate interiors?
How well can we predict earthquake hazards?
Developing cost-effective earthquake hazard mitigation policy
Two day series of lectures “Studying neotectonics with plate motion, seismological & GPS data” for the Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science.
These are large power point files, largely covering material in chapters 4 and 5 of Stein and Wysession.
Introduction: idea of integrated studies
Plate tectonics, relative plate motions
Absolute plate motions and hotspots
Earthquakes: fundamental concepts & focal mechanisms
Earthquakes: waveform modeling, moment tensors & source parameters
Earthquake recurrence & hazards
Spreading centers & driving forces: Part 1, Part 2
Subduction zones & driving forces
Plate boundary zones & changes in plate motions: Part 1, Part 2
Plate interiors: science, hazard & policy questions
Faulting & deformation in the lithosphere
A presentation with examples about using space geodetic data in teaching about earthquakes, tectonics, & geologic hazards: Using space geodetic data to teach about tectonics, earthquakes, and hazards (ppt)
A presentation with examples about issues in teaching introductory geophysics: Teaching introductory geophysics: what our students don’t know, need to, and what we can do (ppt)
A presentation for the IRIS annual meeting summarizing some issues about the supply and demand for PhD earth scientists and the role of education & outreach efforts in seismology: Chasing the 100: the student pipeline, future of seismology, and what E&O might do (ppt)
A presentation for beginning geophysics class summarizing some initial information about the 12/26/04 Sumatra trench earthquake and Indian Ocean tsunami
A presentation discussing the ultra-long period slip in the 12/26/04 Sumatra trench earthquake inferred from normal modes and implications for the Indian Ocean tsunami