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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy these days.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">As a replacement for the many department seminars which were cancelled as a result of COVID-19 and lockdowns, I am starting an International Virtual Seminar Series in Geophysics and
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">This<b class=""> G&T Seminar</b> will be held on<b class=""> Zoom at 11:00am Eastern time on Wednesdays</b>. The seminars will be <b class="">50 minutes</b> plus 10 minutes for questions. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">If you are interested in joining in the seminar series, please <b class="">sign up for the mailing list</b> on the seminar website: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nuiKCQnMBZf4gD2ztxCMHh?domain=sites.google.com/" class="">https://sites.google.com/g.uky.edu/gtseminar/</a>
(or by emailing me directly). </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Each week I will send out the Zoom link and details of our upcoming seminar speaker to the mailing list.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Our first seminar will be next week on <b class="">Wednesday June 3rd</b>. Our speaker is <b class="">Fabio Crameri</b> from <b class="">CEED at Oslo University</b>. His talk will
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">A trans-disciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation </b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">I will provide an overview over subduction zone initiation (SZI) and its study involving geologic evidence, plate reconstructions, seismic tomography, and geodynamic modelling. Moreover,
I will introduce our brand-new trans-disciplinary, community-driven SZI database and timely online platform, how to use it, and what we already learned from it.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Here is the Zoom link and password for our first seminar: </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/OG82CROND2uPoKM7FNlqtg?domain=uky.zoom.us" class="">https://uky.zoom.us/j/96579702112?pwd=NWpDVjdCUGNIcHZKTXJidEtOMlhMUT09</a></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Please forward these details to any colleagues you think might be interested in joining the seminar series and direct them to sign up for the mailing list by visiting our website:
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nuiKCQnMBZf4gD2ztxCMHh?domain=sites.google.com/" class="">https://sites.google.com/g.uky.edu/gtseminar/</a> (or emailing me directly). More details about the seminar, including upcoming and past speakers can be found on the website.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">If you have any questions, or would like to give a talk in the future, please email me (<a href="mailto:k.ofarrell@uky.edu" class="">k.ofarrell@uky.edu</a>).</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Take care and stay safe, </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Keely </div>
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Dr. Keely O’Farrell
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<div class="">Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences</div>
<div class="">108B Slone Research Building</div>
<div class="">University of Kentucky</div>
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