Link to 2026 Geodesy TSC Jupyter-book
June 15–17, 2026 | Virtual
This repository contains materials for the Strain Accumulation and Release from GNSS technical short course offered through CRESCENT.
This course provides requisite tools for recognizing how earthquake cycle signatures in the Cascadia Subduction Zone are expressed in geodetic observations. It will introduce basic processing of geodetic time series to interpret longer-term strain accumulation processes and slow slip events. It will cover extracting velocities and displacements from geodetic time-series observations and introduce basic inverse methods to use geodetic data to constrain fault slip patterns.
For course details, please visit the course webpage.
Day 1
Lecture Slides: Course and Geodesy Intro (Tim Melbourne)
Lecture Slides: Intro to GNSS (Brendan Crowell)
Notebook 1: GNSS Fundamentals (Brendan Crowell)
Notebook 2: GNSS Time Series (Brendan Crowell)
Day 2
Lecture Slides: Fault Slip and Displacement (Jack Loveless)
Notebook 1: Fault Displacement (Jack Loveless)
Day 3
Lecture Slides: Earth Structure Effects (Kaj Johnson)
Notebook 1: Slip Inversion Demo (Kaj Johnson)
Notebook 2: Layered Model Demo (Kaj Johnson)
Notebook 3: Compliant Wedge Model Demo (Kaj Johnson)
Notebook 4: Viscoelastic Cycle Demo (Kaj Johnson)
Notebook 5: Slip Inversion Activities (Kaj Johnson)
Brendan Crowell (Ohio State University)
Jack Loveless (Smith College)
Kaj Johnson (Indiana University Bloomington)
Tim Melbourne (Central Washington University)