THORSTEN W. BECKER Department of Earth Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles Field projects

I also believe that some experimental and field experience is important even for theoretical geophysicists on a teaching level, and this is reflected in the field component of GEOL440, for example.

Some projects:

• Sculpting the Earth's topography: insights from modelling deep-surface processes (TopoMod)

  USC Geodynamics is involved in the ESF TopoMod project led by Universita di Roma TRE and involving U Amsterdam, GFZ, ETH Zurich, U Durham, U Rennes, ICTJA-CSIC, U Florence, and U Parma. The role of mantle convection in shaping Earth's topography is explored using geology, seismology, and geodynamics. TOPOMOD is a training project designed for a team of early-stage and experienced researchers to investigate and model the origin and evolution of topography of the continents over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
  
  
  • Field trip to the Menderes Massif, Turkey (03/2013)
    
  • Pictures from Ethiopia field trip March, 2012
    

• Geodesy field work in Baja California (02/2012)

  A GPS survey in collaboration with Rocco Malservisi of Florida University.
  
  
  • Pictures from geodesy field work in Baja California, February 2012

• Program to Investigate Convective Alboran Sea System Overturn (PICASSO)

  PICASSO is an NSF-Continental Dynamics project on the subduction and delamination underneath the Alboran domain involving field work in Spain and Morocco. A collaboration involving US institutions (Rice, University of Oregon, USC, and Woods Hole) and a number of Moroccan and European collaborators.
  
  Pictures from
  • Morocco seismic station service run, May 2012
  • Morocco seismic station survice run, May 2011
    

• Multidisciplinary Experiment for Dynamic Understanding of Subduction under the Aegean (MEDUSA)

  MEDUSA was an NSF-Continental Dynamics funded multi-disciplinary project involving passive seismological imaging of the Hellenic trench and geodynamic modeling of Mediterranean dynamics. A collaboration between MIT, USC, the University of Athens, Universita di Roma TRE, IPG Paris, INGV Rome, and the National Observatory of Athens.

• GEOL440 Geophysics class

  • Death Valley geophysics field work pictures, April 2005

• Death Valley field trip, Spring 2005

• Mount Etna field trip, June 2005