FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS - DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOCIENCIAS

Tectonic Geodesy, GEOC3302

OBJETIVOS:
Profesor
J. Pearse

Oficina

Seccin

Hora

Correo

ML 306

01

Mi y V: 9:30-10:50

j.pearse@uniandes.edu.co

Saln
Z104

Geodesy is the study of the Earth's time-varying shape,

orientation, deformation and gravity field. Thel focus wil
be on interpretation and modelling of geodetic data,
including GPS, Gravity and InSAR,mainly applied to
volcanoes and earthquakes.

Metodologa:

Students will be expected to complete a series of homework sets, reading and writing
assignments, and presentations; there will be no exams. Students will evaluate each
other's written work and presentations (peer review). The aim is to develop not only
conceptual knowledge and quantitative skills in Geodesy, but also some of the research
and language skills applicable to any Geoscience career
Fecha

Sem

Clase

TEXTO GUA:
There is no book that covers all the course content. Readings
will be taken from Segall, "Earthquake and Volcano
Deformation", Strang and Borre "Algorithms for global
positioning" and selected research articles

Temas

Lectura

Mi

3-Aug

Motivation and Introduction

Vi

5-Aug

Grand Challenges Modern geodetic techniques and applications in tectonics, volcanoes and the earthquake cycle

Mi

10-Aug

Grand Challenges Independent reading assignment (no class)

Vi

12-Aug

Poland et al. 2006 Discussion of reading assignment +additional topics (led by Scott Henderson)

Mi

17-Aug

InSAR summaries/
treatise

Vi

19-Aug

Burgmann

Mi

24-Aug

InSAR: Introduction and review

Making sense of interferograms: interpretation exercise

Cashman, 2013

hand in writing assignment 1

Volcano deformation: Interpreting the InSAR observations

Mogi, 1953; Segall

Forward modelling: Mogi sources in an elastic medium
Ch. 7

Vi

26-Aug

Mi

31-Aug

Vi

2-Sep

10

"Realistic" forward modelling: research questions

Mi

7-Sep

11

Student classes

Vi

9-Sep

12

Mi

14-Sep

13

Student classes

Vi

16-Sep

14

Student classes

Mi

21-Sep

15

Segall Ch 2

Vi

23-Sep

16

Segall Ch. 2, 3

Segall Ch 7

Forward modelling: other source shapes

Hand in Homework 1

**Guest Lecturers on Geodesey from University of Bristol: 12:30-2pm, room TBA (no regular
class today)

Gravity field of the Earth; the geoid

8
Gravity measurements and interpretation

SEMANA DE TRABAJO INDIVIDUAL DEL 26 AL 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE; SEPTIEMBRE 30 ENTREGA DEL 30%

9

Mi

5-Oct

Vi

7-Oct

Mi

12-Oct

15

Segall Ch. 4

Gravity and crustal deformation

hand in writing assignment 2

16

Segall Ch. 6

GPS Measurement: context, applications and methods

OCTUBRE 7 ULTIMO DIA DE RETIROS

17

10

GPS measurement: Plate motion

Vi

14-Oct

18

Simons, Geodesy
treatise

Mi

19-Oct

19

Borre and Strang

Working with GPS time series
Part III

Vi

21-Oct

20

Modelling with GPS data

Mi

26-Oct

21

Deformation and the earthquake cycle: introduction hand in peer reviews of writing
assignment 3

Vi

28-Oct

22

Mi

2-Nov

23

Vi

3-Nov

22

Mi

9-Nov

23

Student classes

Vi

11-Nov

24

Student classes

Mi

16-Nov

25

Student classes

Vi

18-Nov

26

Wrap-up

11

12

13

GPS measurement: deformation

hand in first draft of writing assignment 3

Williams-Jones and
Earthquake cycle: elastic dislocation models
Rymer 2000
Sandwell et al.
Earthquake cycle: post-seismic deformation
2014
Segall Ch. 9

Earthquake cycle: complications

Hand in final draft of writing assignment 3

14

15

Evaluacin:
30%
40%
20%

Writing assignments (3 x 10%).

Homework (2 x 20%)
Student lectures (2x10)%

10%

Peer review of student work

Nota definitiva: La nota se calcula

sobre 5 y se usar una
aproximacin a 1 punto decimal

(2x2% for lectures, 6% for writing assignment 3)

hand in Homework 2
Class attendance is compulsory during the student-led
classes and attendance is strongly recommended for
the rest of the classes. A series of in-class discussions
and exercises will give you the opportunity to receive
help and feedback on assignments in progress.
Assigned readings should be done before the next class
so they can be discussed in class