VBRc Virtual Workshop Recap#
The Very Broadband Rheology Calculator (VBRc) Virtual Workshop was held July 15-18 with support from the iSTRUM Project. 30-35 attendees joined for 4 days of tutorials and presentations focused around the VBRc – including talks from people who have used the VBRc in their own research as well as tutorials that dive into using the VBRc for interpreting the thermodynamic state of the upper mantle and for understanding the mechanical response of the earth over very large time and frequency ranges. Thanks to all who attended and contributed to a great workshop!
Workshop Recordings#
The talks and tutorials were recorded and are available for viewing at the following links:
- Day 1 - Welcome to the VBRc Virtual Workshop (5 minutes)
- Day 1 - Introducing the VBRc (18 minutes)
- Day 1 - Tutorial: Getting Started with the VBRc (77 minutes)
- Day 1 - Tutorial: Introduction to Anelasticity with the VBRc (74 minutes)
- Day 2 - Joseph Byrnes - Connecting the Upper Mantle to Volcanoes in the Western United States (52 minutes)
- Day 2 - Tutorial: Interpreting Seismic Observations with the VBRc (52 minutes)
- Day 3 - Josh Russell - Unlocking Pacific upper mantle state using the VBRc: What are the roles of mantle grain size and melt? (50 minutes)
- Day 3 - Lightning Talks(60 minutes)
- Day 3 - Harriet Lau & Chris Havlin - Introducing Apparent Viscosity (41 minutes)
- Day 3 - Harriet Lau - Inference of the Timescale-Dependent Apparent Viscosity Structure in the Upper Mantle Beneath Greenland (28 minutes)
- Day 4 - Chris Havlin - Open source, the VBRc and YOU! (70 minutes)
- Day 4 - Tutorial: Setting up your VBRc development environment and submitting pull requests (54 minutes)
Lightning talk session recording#
The full lightning talk session recording is available at this link. To jump to a particular presentation:
- Oliver Boyd - The USGS National Crustal Model for Seismic Hazard Studies: link
- Ivan Rojas-Churkovic - Kinematic rupture parameters of two Earthquakes in southern Peru (2013, 2018): link
- Mingqi Liu - The effect of grain size reduction on the origin of the mid-lithospheric discontinuity link
- Leif Karlstrom - New perspectives on viscoelastic deformation and opportunities for interpretation of ground deformation timeseries: link
- Eva Golos - On the use of geophysical interpretive toolkits as mantle thermometers: link
- Keneni Godana - Exploring Mid-Ocean Ridge Dynamics Using VBRc: link
- Christian Salas - Seismic Body-Wave Velocity and Attenuation Tomography of the Crust and Upper Mantle Beneath Alaska: link
- Sam Ofori - Elecrical Conductivity (EC) and the VBRc: link
- Walid Ben Mansour - 3-D thermochemical tomography from probabilistic joint inversion of multi-observable geophysical datasets: link
Workshop Documents#
Workshop documents are available in the public google drive including:
Archived versions of the presentations are also available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12823718
Workshop Repository#
Finally, there is a workshop code repository where the sample code has been archived: https://github.com/vbr-calc/VBRc_2024_workshop