The 2026 iSTRUM Community Workshop is complete!
Thank you to all attendees for making it an enjoyable, thought provoking week. If you attended but have not completed the post-meeting survey, please check your email or contact the organizers! Your feedback is immensely helpful.
Workshop Resources#
A number of resources are available for both attendees and the wider community:
Talk slides, meeting materials#
The google drive used during the meeting remains publicly accessible in a read-only view: iSTRUM 2026 Community Workshop Google Drive
it includes:
- an archive of the full agenda and participants ( link)
- slides from talks contributed by speakers ( link)
The padlet discussion board has been frozen but can still be viewed at this link. Additionally, a PDF archive of the discussion board is available at this link.
Workshop Recordings#
All plenary sessions are available for streaming on vimeo, the links below will take you directly to the noted speakers.
Day 1#
Earth’s mechanical response across timescales
- Welcome and Introduction - Zach Eilon
- Session Introduction - Colleen Dalton
- "(Transient) Rheology of the Upper Mantle From Geodesy" - Roland Burgmann
- “From Seismic Frequencies to Convective Timescales: Experimental and Geophysical Constraints on Transient Mantle Rheology” - Fred Richards
- Group Project Introductions and Discussion
Day 2#
A Rock and mineral physics view of transient rheology
- Session Introduction - Lars Hansen
- “Transient dislocation creep of olivine controlled by the evolution of backstress” - David Wallis
- “Experimental Approaches to Understanding Polycrystal Anelasticity” - Hatsuki Yamauchi
- “Dissipation mechanisms of olivine rocks: an experimental perspective” - Uli Faul
- “Transient Deformation and Attenuation/Damping: A State-Variable and Dissipation-Rate Perspective” - Reid Cooper
Day 3#
Macroscopic inferences of complex rheology
- Session Introduction - Harriet Lau
- “Imaging mantle density and attenuation and their implications for viscosity” - Arwen Deuss
- “Observing Earth’s transient rheology with space geodesy” - Kristel Chanard
- “Insights into Oceanic Mantle Dynamics, Rheology, and Thermodynamic State from Seismic Attenuation” - Josh Russell
- “Strong Tidal Dissipation Inside Saturn’s Moon Titan Revealed by Gravity Field Measurements” - Flavio Petricco
Day 4#
Observing complex rheology
- Session Introduction - Zach Eilon
- “Using Teleseismic Body-Wave Attenuation and Velocity Tomography to Infer the Thermodynamic State of the Upper Mantle” - Cristhian Salas
- “Geodynamically Consistent 3-D Mantle Viscosity Across Timescales: A Case Study in West Antarctica GIA” - Donna dePolo
- “Temperature, Melt, and Grain Size in the Mantle Wedge Revealed by Body-Wave Attenuation and Velocity” - Shawn Wei
- “Linking Deformation Across Timescales and Mechanisms with the Very Broadband Rheology Calculator” - Chris Havlin
Day 5#
Relating measurements of viscoelastic transient creep across timescales
- Session Introduction - Ben Holtzman
- “Thermodynamics-based machine learning of generalized constitutive models from mechanical data” - Tushar Mittal
- “Viscoelasticity for decadal to multi-million year time scale mantle deformation: Current Status” - Erik Ivins
- Panel discussion on future directions for transient rheology
- Reports from project groups and breakout groups