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Brian Sherrod – FY18 summary, FY19 plans

More work on Olympic Peninsula uplift in FY19.  FY18 work with UW. FY19 large paleoseismology project between the GSHG and ESC.  Janet Watt's work.  Cascadia workshop in Seattle, similar to past N. California 

Joan Gomberg – SZ4D RCNs, SZ Communications Plan update

Lydia Staisch (10-15 min) - Powell Center project overall

Lydia outlined topics of four workshops over the next few years.  The first one will be in March, noted FY18 work with UW and start of work on land-level changes along the Olympic Peninsula.  FY19 plans include more work on Olympic Peninsula, involving mostly GHSC and ESC scientists, and CMG's activities offshore Cascadia.  A Cascadia workshop in Seattle also is planned for FY19, similar to past Northern California workshops.

Joan Gomberg summarized SZ4D Research Coordination Networks, encouraging USGS scientists to get involved in these efforts.  She also noted that an SZ Communications Plan is being developed to facilitate sharing of information internally and externally.  This effort is being led by Rex Sanders from CMG, with input from Guy Gelfenbaum, Joan and whomever else would like to be involved.

Lydia Staisch summarized plans for the Powell Center project, reviewing the topics various workshops being planned for the next two years, the first of which will be in March, 2019 and focused on the earthquake cycle broadly. She also updated us on work on the development of the CR database.

All – other general news

FY18 summary, FY19 plans:

Maureen Walton – introduced herself as the new Powell Center March workshopMaureen is new PC post-doc.  March workshop in Fort Collins

Scott Bennett – described his and others' paleoseismic work (includes trenching studies) in the backarc and Olympic Mtn geologic studiesDescribed FY18 Canyon River fault mapping, including 2 trenchesMountains.  In FY19 will publish SIM conveying FY18 results, analyze new lidar they plan to analyze new Lidar data and do some Coulomb modeling, and prepare and publish a Scientific Investigation Map.  

new 3D seismic velocity model

Andy  Cyr – Landslide Mendenhall proposal

4 Mendenhalls will be funded by the NHMA.  Please advertise!!!!

Art Frankel – Seattle basin studies

Chris Goldfinger - Thoughts on automated turbidite analysis 

Joan Gomberg – Land-level change Mendenhall proposal, turbidite analysis update

Ruth Harris – Tsunami Powell Center Oct 1-5 workshop (focused on Alaskan tsunamis)

Emphasized need for a logic tree approach.  Workshop highlighted need for databasing information (wrt Alaska, but lesson is relevant to Cascadia). Final workshop is focused on other sources in the Pacific; some advocating another Andy  Cyr described the Mendenhall Fellowship focused on Cascadia landslides now being advertised, encouraging people to solicit candidates.  He noted that the NHMA will fund 4 Fellowships.

Art Frankel described his and others' (mostly Paul Bodin at the PNSN) work to constrain the structure of the Seattle basin using noise recorded on temporary seismic stations.

Chris Goldfinger shared his thoughts on automated turbidite analysis; his slides are attached (click the paperclip at the top of the page). 

Joan Gomberg noted another Mendenhall Fellowship focused on a broad range of aspects of land level changes from a Cascadia megathrust earthquake.  She also described ongoing work on automated turbidite analyses. 

Ruth Harris summarized the Tsunami Powell Center held on Oct 1-5 workshop, which focused on Alaskan tsunamis.  The workshop highlighted needs for a logic tree approach in tsunami hazard assessments and for databasing information. A final workshop will be focused on sources in the Pacific other than those in Alaska, which may include Cascadia, although some participants are advocating for an additional Cascadia-only focused workshop.

Ralph Haugerud - Offshore mapwas not able to attend, but Joan noted that he is planning to begin work on an offshore geologic map of Cascadia during FY19.

SeanPaul La Selle - We are summarized work of the tsunami team, which is continuing work in coastal lakes in Southern Oregon (Floras and Bradley).  Deeper cores from Floras Lake were collected in FY18 and the analyses and dating of these cores are a priority for FY19, along with refining the ages of Bradley Lake tsunami deposits using new dating techniques.  Work on onshore subsidence estimates is still ongoing at sites along the central and northern Oregon coast (Siuslaw River and Nehalem Bay).  Models of tsunami inundation and sediment transport will be further developed for the Salmon River and Floras Lake in FY19. 

Jon Perkins – Mendenhall proposal, coseismic landslide work

Alan Nelson - Re-dating Bradley Lake cores

Jay Patton – geodesy in southern Cascadia

Brian Sherrod – Olympic Peninsula uplift

Tom Brocher – Their slides are attached (click the paperclip at the top of the page).

Alan Nelson summarized his and others' work on Bradley Lake.

Jay Patton described his new geodesy studies in southern Cascadia, which have illuminated differential motion across crustal faults.  His slides are attached (click the paperclip at the top of the page).

Tom Brocher 

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Lydia Staisch - described her work on coastal uplift rates in SW southwest washington.

Janet Watt or Maureen Walton (10-15 min) - CMG activities

Erin Wirth – M9 update

Listeners - Bruce Jaffe (late?)

Unable to attend - Stephanie Ross, Bill Schulz and Nathan Miller, others?Maureen Walton described CMG past and planned activities, as follows:

• USGS, in collaboration with NOAA, collected 22 days of high-resolution multibeam, backscatter, and water column data in July-August 2018 aboard the NOAA Ship Rainier. New data show fault structures and seeps on the seabed.
• CMG recently (Oct 2018) completed the first of several geophysical cruises aimed to obtain comprehensive 2D high-resolution multi-channel seismic, Chirp, and magnetometer data along the Cascadia margin. The 10-day October 2018 cruise took place aboard the R/V Coral Sea as a collaboration with Humboldt State University.
• Later in FY19, CMG is slated to complete 3 additional 10-day high-resolution geophysical surveys in Cascadia using UW's R/V Rachel Carson. These surveys will expand 2D geophysical coverage along the margin and examine turbidity flows in Astoria Canyon.
• Into FY20, CMG is looking forward to involvement with the 2020 R/V Langseth survey led by Suzanne Carbotte at Lamont - USGS will aim to add OBS instruments to the survey to acquire long-offset reflection and refraction data. 
• In FY20-FY21, USGS will pursue collaborations to acquire 3D P-cable high-resolution seismic data in key area(s) and groundtruthing of geophysical surveys via piston coring and other sampling.
• Slides are attached (see paperclip at the top of the page).

Erin Wirth updated everyone on the M9 project, noting there are 2 recently published papers on M9 ground motion simulations (see Frankel et al., Wirth et al.). The simulation output is available on DesignSafe. The City of Seattle has revised design recommendations for tall buildings in the Seattle basin based on their results (see OFR report).  The M9 Project Final Workshop will be Tuesday, March 12, 2019 @ UW; contact Erin if interested in attending.  Erin's presentation may be downloaded (see paperclip at the top of the page).

Tentatively we will have another online meeting toward the end of January and an in-person meeting before or after the SSA meeting in Seattle, in April, 2019.