Registration for #SSA2026 is now OPEN! Register now for early-bird rates and hotel discounts, and join your colleagues this spring for the premier meeting in #seismology buff.ly/z07FA24 ⚒️ 🧪

I hope you make a full recovery. Take care!

So amazing, Alice! Congratulations!

I didn't realize I was sporting my Ridgecrest Rocks M7.1 t-shirt until I arrived to volunteer at my kid's school #Shakeout drill. Dressing for success 😄

A bushtit taking a break in a bush with the feathers on its head fluffed.

A red shouldered hawk sitting on a branch and looking around.

Managed to find a little nature (in the middle of LA), including a tiny bushtit and a large red shouldered hawk. The bushtit was jumping around everywhere making it tough to catch a photo, while the hawk practically posed. #birds #borb

Two fledgling doves hidden among plants.

Two fledgling doves clustered around a parent dove.

Two fledgling doves have taken up residence right outside our front door. So every time we leave or return we tiptoe by to avoid disturbing them.

Want some tips to show off your research in the most effective way at AGU? Join this online workshop from the AGU Seismology Section to get presentation tips and tricks! #AGU25 #Seismology

#SSA2026 will be held 14-18 April in Pasadena, California and I'm excited to be co-chairing the meeting! The best way to ensure that your favorite topic is represented is by proposing a session! Submit by 30 September and reach out if you have questions.

An earthquake devastated Santa Barbara 100 years ago. It holds urgent lessons for the next 'Big One' In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

I was married in the picturesque Santa Barbara Courthouse, but didn't know until today that it was entirely reimagined-along w/ most of downtown-after the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake. Ron-Gong Lin shares this & other interesting facts in an LA Times article: www.latimes.com/california/s...

After earthquake, elephants at San Diego Zoo Safari Park move into "alert circle" for protection YouTube video by CBS 8 San Diego

Yes! It was so neat to see the San Diego Wild Animal Park elephants' version of Drop, Cover, Hold On in response to today's quake. Here's a video: youtu.be/zvgyl5l7Y6Q?...

We were at the same soccer tournament. Same bird? 😄

I was lucky enough to have Tanya Atwater as my professor in my first geology course (Plate Tectonics!). In the course she told vivid stories about this period when plate tectonics was being debated in the field. Such an inspiration!

Turkey made of sugar cookies.

Happy Thanksgiving from this attempt at a sugar cookie turkey! 🦃

How about a non-fillable PDF that is then copied into a Word document? Every form, every time.

It's a fun book: secretstairs-la.com I also joined a stair walk or two by the author a few years back.

OneDrive makes me want to throw my computer in the ocean... Maybe then will it sync.

Hi! This is me: orcid.org/0000-0003-24...

aerial shot of a beach with large cliffs, and hills in the background. The hills form the hanging-wall of an active reverse fault

📢3-yr postdoc (or lecturer) position in earthquake science at the University of Melbourne!

Working on Australian active faults & hazard. Research potential for: trenching, dynamic rupture modelling, crustal geophysics, remote-sensing. Closes 4th Feb

jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91525...