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Friday Night Lecture Feb. 12th

  • Portland State University Cramer Hall 1721 Southwest Broadway Portland, OR, 97201 United States (map)

Investigative Geology: Combining Historic and Paleoseismic Data to Characterize Earthquake Hazard

Dr. Ashley Streig has sixteen years experience in active tectonics, paleoseismology, structural geology and tectonic geomorphology. Her research experience includes the study of active faults and folds, earthquakes and associated hazards, earthquake recurrence, fault behavior, and rupture characteristics. Dr. Streig has investigated pre-historic seismic activity of fault systems around the world, including local studies of the San Andreas Fault, CA and crustal faults along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. 

At 6:00 p.m. join GSOC members at Pizzicato Pizza, 1708 SW 6th Ave. before the lectures for an informal dinner and conversation.

Free parking is available at Portland State University Friday nights after 5 p.m. in Parking Structure 2 on Broadway Ave. directly across from Cramer Hall, and on level one of Parking Structure 1, bounded by Broadway and 6th Aves. and Harrison and Hall Streets.