News

September 18-19, 2008 - The UW hosts a RIDGE2000 workshop on intergration and synthesis at the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The meeting converners and committee are William Wilcock, Jim Gill (UCSC), Dave Butterfield (NOAA/PMEL), Deb Kelley (UW), Jim Holden (UMass) and Karen Bemis (Rutgers).

July 1, 2008 - Dax Soule who recently completed a B.S. in Geophysics at Texas A&M University joined my group as an incoming Oceanography graduate student.

March 25-26, 2008 - Keck experiment seismic methods and results presented at RIDGE2000 Mantle to Microbe, Integrated Studeis at Oceanic Spreading Centers meeting in Portland Oregon. Find the Wilcock et al. and Weekly et al. abstracts in the meeting Abstract Volume.

December 10-14, 2007 - Keck experiment seismic methods and results presented at AGU Fall meeting. Read the two abstracts (Wilcock et al. and Weekly et al.)

October 30, 2007 - Keck experiment earthquake soundtrack used during John Delaney's 2007 Fall Provost Distinguished Lecture. You can listen to the soundtrack.

October 2, 2007- Earthquake results from the Keck experiment presented at the Oceans 2007 meeting in Vancouver. Read the paper.

July 31-August 31 2007 - Keck seismic network successfully recoverd from the Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge during a student cruise on the R/V Thompson with the remotely operated vehicle ROPOS. Check out the cruise website.

July 26, 2007 - William Wilcock and grad student Robert Weekly both successfully complete a program of instruction on Managing Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace