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AGU Special Sessions

Members of the PPEM Community are encouraged to organize and contribute to Special Sessions at the Annual AGU Meeting held each Fall and Joint Assemblies held each Spring. In particular, we are interested in developing interdisciplinary Special Sessions that explore applications of rock mechanics and materials science approaches to a broad range of geophysical problems. Please feel free to contact any member of the PPEM Steering Committee regarding your ideas for innovative sessions that may address provocative topics or further the exchange of ideas. Feel free to contact members of the AGU program committee who can help facilitate your Special Session, inform you of other, related sessions and critical deadlines for entering your session into the program. We are privileged to have members of the Program Committee who represent Mineral and Rock Physics as well as Tectonophysics.

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AGU Program Committee Representation:

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Mineral and Rock Physics	Heather Watson Tel: +1 925 423 0578 watson40@llnl.gov
Tectonophysics Section	Clint Conrad Tel: +1 (410) 516-3922 conrad@jhu.edu Marin Kristen Clark Tel: +1 734 615 0484 marinkc@umich.edu

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Special Sessions 2007 Fall Meeting (San Francisco, Dec. 10-14, Mon-Fri):

• (MR02) PLASTICITY OF MINERALS AT HIGH PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DEEP FOCUS RHEOLOGY AND ANISOTROPY

Conveners: Sebastien Merkel sebastien.merkel@univ-lille1.fr Yanbin Wang wang@cars.uchicago.edu Shun-ichiro Karato shun-ichiro.karato@yale.edu

• (DI07) MECHANISMS OF DEEP EARTHQUAKES

Conveners: Linda M. Warren lmwarren@email.arizona.edu Michael R. Brudzinski brudzimr@muohio.edu

• (MR05) SHOCK METAMORPHISM AND MINERAL PHYSICS OF DYNAMIC COMPRESSION

Conveners: Oliver Tschauner olivert@physics.unlv.edu Thomas Sharp tom.sharp@asu.edu

• (MR09) DIFFUSION, DEFECTS AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF GEOMATERIALS

Conveners: Heather C. Watson watson40@llnl.gov Daniele Cherniak chernd@rpi.edu

• (MR10) QUANTIFICATION OF ROCK FABRICS

Conveners: Joern H. Kruhl kruhl@tum.de Frank Fueten ffueten@craton.geol.brocku.ca Cristian Suteanu cristian.suteanu@smu.ca

• (MR11) ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF EARTH MATERIALS

Conveners: Razvan Caracas razvan.caracas@uni-bayreuth.de Julian D. Gale julian@ivec.org Taku Tsushiya takut@sci.ehime-u.ac.jp Bijaya B. Karki karki@csc.lsu.edu Mainak Mookherjee mainak.mookherjee@yale.edu Renata Wentzcovitch wentzcov@cems.umn.edu

• (T03) RHEOLOGICAL ANISOTROPY: COMBINING GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES

Conveners: Einat Lev einatlev@mit.edu Pascal Audet paudet@eos.ubc.ca Prederik J. Simons fjsimons@Princeton.EDU Thorstein Thorsteinsson thor@os.is

• (T07) SHEAR LOCALIZATION FROM OBSERVATION, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTATION

Conveners: Nicholas Austin naustin@mit.edu Phil Skemer philip.skemer@yale.edu

• (T11) FAULTS IN THE OCEAN CRUST: PERSPECTIVES FROM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS

Conveners: Nicholas W. Hayman hayman@utig.ig.utexas.edu Del Bohnenstiehl drbohnen@mac.com

• (T15) DEFORMATION OF SEDIMENT AND SEDIMENTARY ROCK AT SCALES FROM GRAINS TO BASINS: FIELD AND LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS, THEORY AND NUMERICAL MODELS

Conveners: Ronaldo I. Borja borja@stanford.edu Peter Eichhubl peter.eichhubl@beg.utexas.edu David D. Pollard dpollard@pangea.stanford.edu

• (T20) SURFACE PROCESSES, CRUSTAL RHEOLOGY, OR REGIONAL GEOLOGY: WHAT CONTROLS THE STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURES OF CONVERGENT CONTINENTAL OROGENS?

Conveners: Eric Cowgill cowgill@geology.ucdavis.edu Adam Forte forte@geology.ucdavis.edu Rasmus C. Thiede rasmus@umich.edu Michael Murphy Michael.Murphy1@mail.uh.edu

• (T21) UNDERSTANDING THE EARTH'S DEEP LITHOSPHERE

Conveners: Michael E. Pasyanos pasyanos1@llnl.gov Irina M. Artemieva irina@geol.ku.dk

• (T22) CRUSTAL CHANNEL FLOW: PROCESSES AND EVIDENCE FROM ANCIENT AND ACTIVE OROGENS

Conveners: Djordje Grujic dgrujic@dal.ca George Hilley hilley@stanford.edu

• (T23) STRESS IN THE LITHOSPHERE: TOP-DOWN OR BOTTOM-UP CONTROL?

Conveners: Noah Fay nfay@email.arizona.edu Flesch Lucy lmflesch@purdue.edu

• (T24) HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING OF ACTIVE FAULT ZONE STRUCTURES

Conveners: Zhigang Peng zhigang.peng@eas.gatech.edu Elizabeth S. Cochran cochran@ucr.edu

• (T26) CONTINENTAL COLLISION: THE LITHOSPHERE SCALE

Conveners: Wang-Ping Chen wpchen@uiuc.edu Sun-Lin Chung sunlin@ntu.edu.tw Robert L. Nowack nowack@purdue.edu Bor-Shouh Hunag hwbs@earth.sinica.edu.tw

• (T33) INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES KNOW NO BOUNDARIES

Conveners: Charles A. Langston clangstn@memphis.edu Lorraine Wolf wolflor@auburn.edu

• (T40) FRAGMENTATION PROCESSES IN THE EARTH

Conveners: Charles G. Sammis sammis@usc.edu Karen Mair karen.mair@fys.uio.no Bjorn Jamtveit bjorn.jamtveit@geo.uio.no

• (S05) THE HAYWARD FAULT: THE STATE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE 140 YEARS AFTER THE 1868 HAYWARD EARTHQUAKE

Conveners: Tom Brocher brocher@usgs.gov Roland Burgmann burgmann@seismo.berkeley.edu

• (S15) INSIGHTS FROM COMBINED LABORATORY AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE AND ASEISMIC FAULT SLIP

Conveners: Yuri Fialko yfialko@ucsd.edu Nadia Lapusta lapusta@caltech.edu Ares Rosakis rosakis@aero.caltech.edu

• (S21) THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC AND THERMAL ANOMALIES DURING EARTHQUAKES

Conveners: Dimitar Ouzounov ouzounov@core2.gsfc.nasa.gov Sergey Pulinets pulse@geofisica.unam.mx Michel Parrot mparrot@cnrs-orleans.fr Katsumi Hattori hattori@earth.s.chiba-u.ac.jp Patrick Taylor patrick.taylor@nasa.gov

• (G02) FROM MICRONS TO METERS AND MILLISECONDS TO DAYS: TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF HIGH-RATE GPS MEASUREMENTS AND REAL-TIME SEISMIC DATA

Conveners: Jessica R. Murray jrmurray@usgs.gov John Langbein langbein@usgs.gov Peggy Hellweg peggy@seismo.berkeley.edu Paul Bodin bodin@u.washington.edu

• (G12) PLATE MOTION AND HOW IT IS TAKEN UP IN DEFORMING ZONES

Conveners: Donald F. Argus Donald.F.Argus@jpl.nasa.gov Jeffrey T. Freymueller jfreymue@gi.alaska.edu

• (G16) POSTSEISMIC DEFORMATION: MEASUREMENTS, MECHANISMS AND CONSEQUENCES

Conveners: Eric Fielding Eric.J.Fielding@jpl.nasa.gov Andy Freed freed@purdue.edu Ingrid Johanson ijohanson@usgs.gov

• (H40) INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FLUIDS AND FRACTURES

Conveners: Larry Murdoch lmurdoc@clemson.edu Leonid Germanovich leonid@ce.gatech.edu

• (V05) MAGMA FRACTURE IN LAVA DOMES AND CONDUITS

Conveners: Rosanna Smith rosanna.smith@ucl.ac.uk John S. Pallister jpallist@usgs.gov Peter R. Sammonds p.sammonds@ucl.ac.uk

Submission information:

Abstracts must be submitted by SEPT. 6, 2007, 2359 UT (electronic deadline). See http://submissions3.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp. The abstract deadline is a firm deadline. IMPORTANT: All authors, regardless of invited status, keynote, etc., must submit an abstract by the appropriate deadline. Authors are encouraged to send a copy (by email, fax, or mail) to one of the conveners. However, sending an abstract to session conveners and not to AGU does not constitute its receipt and acceptance.

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2008 Joint Assembly (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 27-30):

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We encourage individuals interested in organizing and convening Special Sessions for the Spring 2008 Joint Assembly to contact a member of the Program Committee (Heather Watson, Tel: +1 (925) 423 0578, watson40@llnl.gov, Clint Conrad, Tel: (410) 516-3922, conrad@jhu.edu) or Marin Kristen Clark Tel: +1 (734) 615 0484 marinkc@umich.edu) about your Special Session ideas. All that you need to submit in your Special Session Proposal is a Title, Descriptive Paragraph about the proposed session and Convener Name(s). Session Proposals can be made electronically (see http://www.agu.org/meetings/) and they are due November 5, 2007. Special Sessions will be listed on the AGU Web Site. They can further be advertised on this Web Site and by e-mailing to the PPEM Membership using our Correspondence List.