10-14 December. O. Zielke participates at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Washington DC​, with two invited talks

26-28 November. O. Zielke attends the Seismic Hazard Assessment (SHA) Workshop as hosted speaker.

19-21 November. Prof. Mai serves on the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Consortium.

13-15 November. Invited speaker presents "Rupture dynamics and seismic radiation on multi-scalegeometrically complex faults"

21-25 October. Sherilyn Williams-Stroud (President & CEO, Confractus Inc.) gives a short course on “Modeling Discrete Fracture Networks (DFN’s)” at KAUST

The EGU Council is the decision-making body of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).

8-12 September. Annual Meeting of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), Palm Springs, CA.
At the SCEC meeting, over 500 participants gather to discuss latest research on earthquake process (on all space-time scales), with a focus on the fault system in Southern California.​​

The Associate Deans at KAUST deal with all student-related matters in their respective Division. ​​

June​ 15 - August 31: Prof. Mai invited by Prof. Wikelski for collaboration visit to Max-Planck-Institute at Radolfzell/University of Konstanz, Germany​

Paper "Mantle Transition Zone Thickness Beneath the Middle East: Evidence for Segmented Tethyan Slabs, Delaminated Lithosphere, and Lower Mantle Upwelling" by A. Kaviani, E. Sandvol, A. Moradi, G. Rumpker, Z. Tang, and P. M. Mai published in the Journal of Geophysical Research -Solid Earth.

Paper "Apparent splitting of S waves propagating through an isotropic lowermost mantle" by L. Parisi, A.M.G. Ferreira, and J. Ritsemma published in the Journal of Geophysical Research -Solid Earth.

Paper "Mach wave properties in the presence of source and medium heterogeneity" by Y. Vyas, P.M. Mai and other in Geophysical Journal International​

Paper​ "Evidence for crustal low shear-wave speed in western Saudi Arabia from multi-scale fundamental-mode Rayleigh-wave group-velocity tomography" by Tang, Z. , J. Julia, and P.M. Mai ​in Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett, (accepted).​​

April 26 - June 2: Prof. Mai on field work in Tanzania: taking out our broadband seismic stations after nearly 2 years of recording seismic data

Paper "Earthquake Recurrence and the Resolution Potential of Tectono-Geomorphic records" by O. Zielke published in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America​​​​​​​​

April 8 -14, 2018​: CES team at General Assembly of the European Geoscience Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria

February 4 - 8: Prof. Mai as Chair of the conference's Scientific Committee; CES team participates with multiple poster and oral presentations

Two weeks of intense work in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania​ where the OPS seismic network is located.​

Paper " Induced seismicity provides insight into why earthquake ruptures stop" by M. Galis, J.P. Ampuero, P.M. Mai, and F. Cappa published in Science Advances​

​December 10-14 2017: CES team at Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, USA; Prof. Mai gives invited talk on "The Source Inversion Validation project: Summary-Status-Outlook"​​​