About this opportunity

The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) is offering a five-day field-based technical short course that will expose participants to paleoearthquake studies and their application to understanding fault behavior in space and time. Topics to be integrated include principles of subsidence stratigraphy, ecology-based paleoseismic studies, tsunami deposit mapping, trench-based active fault paleoseismology, high resolution lidar topography, and surficial geologic mapping. The course takes place in Coos County on southern Oregon’s coast and will be based out of University of Oregon’s marine laboratory, the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, a small fishing community situated on the South Slough of Coos Bay. While some time will be spent in the classroom at OIM