• Cooke, Crider, Yanites, Morell, and Karlstrom. Energy Budget of Orogenesis and Implications of a Lazy Earth.
• Elston and Cooke, Velocity influence on restraining bend evolution
  
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Workshops:
SCIWS2: Developing Onboarding Courses to Expose the Hidden Curriculum of Graduate School and to Increase Graduate Student Success
Karen Viskupic, Chris Bell, Michele Cooke and Naomi Levin

The Hidden Curriculum: Making explicit the tacit knowledge of our disciplines and programs fosters inclusion. Presentation at the AGU Heads and Chairs workshop. Michele Cooke and Naomi Levin

• Panel T34B: Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: 
• Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: How do Lithospheric Layers and Asthenosphere Interact, and What are Their Rheological Properties as a Function of Depth? Vera Schulte-Pelkhum, Victor Tsai, Laura Wallace, Roland Burgmann, Michele Cooke and Whitney Behr
• Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: What are the transient rheologies of Earth’s lithosphere over the spectrum of deformation timescales, from milliseconds to tens of millions of years? Whitney Behr, Vera Schulte-Pelkhum, Victor Tsai, Laura Wallace, Roland Burgmann and Michele Cooke
• Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: What causes some faults to slip in major earthquakes, while others appear to creep and/or undergo episodic slow slip? , Laura Wallace, Roland Burgmann,Michele Cooke, Whitney Behr, Vera Schulte-Pelkhum and Victor Tsai
• Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: What is the Absolute Stress in the Lithosphere and Below? Roland Burgmann, Michele Cooke, Whitney Behr, Vera Schulte-Pelkhum, Victor Tsai and Laura Wallace,
• Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: What is the role of inelastic off-fault deformation in the fault life cycle? Michele Cooke, Whitney Behr, Vera Schulte-Pelkhum, Victor Tsai, Laura Wallace, and Roland Burgmann.
• Great Unsolved Questions in Tectonophysics: What physics governs fault networks? Can models make non-retrospective predictions that can be supported and/or falsified with near-future observations? Victor Tsai, Laura Wallace, Roland Burgmann, Michele Cooke, Whitney Behr and Vera Schulte-Pelkhum.

T53B-05: Prediction of Off-Fault Deformation from Experimental Strike-slip Fault Structures using the Convolutional Neural Networks, L. Chaipornkaew, H. Elston, M. Cooke, T. Mukerji, S. Graham.
You can watch a 12 min recording of the talk at this link.

Cooke, Michele. Energy Budget of Orogenesis and Implications of a Lazy Earth. Invited talk at the 40th anniversary of the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division celebration T20,133-3

You can watch a recording of the talk at this link.

Elston, Hanna, Michele Cooke and Alex Hatem, Non-steady-state slip rates emerge along evolving restraining bends under constant loading

Cooke, M L Chaipornkea, H Elston, T Mukerjee and S Graham Prediction of Off-Fault Deformation from Experimental Strike-slip Fault Structures using the Convolutional Neural Networks

Anderson-Merritt, E., & Cooke, M. (2021, 08). Estimating tractions along the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults prior to ground-rupturing earthquakes of the last four centuries. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting.

Elston, H. M., Cooke, M. L., Loveless, J. P., & Marshall, S. T. (2021, 08). Combining forward and inverse approaches to resolve interseismic deep slip and locking depths on closely spaced faults. Poster Presentation at 2021 SCEC Annual Meeting

Upcoming presentations at the 2021 SSA meeting

• Using Focal Mechanisms to Distinguish Between Alternative Active Fault Configurations of the Southern San Andreas Fault at the San Gorgonio Pass. Elston, H., Cooke, M. L., Marshall, S. T., Loveless, J. P. Thursday, April 22, 10:30 am Pacific (1:30 Eastern)
• Kinematic Compatibility of Fault Geometry and Slip Rates Within the San Gorgonio Pass Region, Southern California. Hatch, J., Cooke, M. L., Elston, H. Friday April 23, 3:00 Pacific (6:00 Eastern)

It is important to learn new things and step outside your comfort zone every now and then. Michele will do this on Friday March 19th when she presents at the APS March meeting

• Cooke, What can deformation of colloids tell us about earthquake hazards, American Physical Society March Meeting, DSOFT invited speaker, abstract Y07.00001

• Buczkowski, Fattaruso, McGowen and McGill, P029-01 – Geology of the V-18 Lachesis Tessera Quadrangle: Evaluating how geologic maps could help us pick landing sites on Venus, 10:00-10:04 Wednesday Dec 9th.
• Cooke and Caicedo, ED015-0001The Mind Hears provides a mutual-mentoring forum for deaf and hard-of-hearing academics, iposter Wednesday Dec 9th.
• Fattaruso, Cooke, McBeck, Renard and Kandula. MR010-0010Simulating crack growth and coalescence from distributed flaws, iposter Tuesday Dec 15th
• Cooke, Elston, Hatch, Marshall and Loveless, T056-03Using mechanical models, interseismic focal mechanisms, GPS velocities, and long-term slip rates to constrain the geometry of the southern Big Bend of San Andreas fault, California, oral 13:10-13:15 Wednesday Dec 16th

• Hanna Elston & Michele Cooke, Non-steady state slip rates emerge at restraining bends under constant remote loading. GSA 2020 code: 9-8; Live presentation 3:15-3:30 pm Monday.
• Michele Cooke & Ana Caicedo, The Mind Hears provides a mutual-mentoring forum for deaf and hard-of-hearing academics, GSA 2020 code 63-4; Live presentation 10:50-11:05 am Tuesday.
• Laura Fattaruso, Debra Buczkowski, Eileen McGowen & George McGill, Geology of Lachesis Tessera – A quadrangle of Venus containing tessera terrains, coronae, ridge belts, shield flows, pancake domes and regional plains, GSA 2020 code 106-5; Live Presentation 11:05-11:20 am Wednesday.
• Michele Cooke, Chris Bell Mya Breitbart, Emily. Cooperdock, Naomi Levin, Anita Marshall, Nathan Neimi & Liane Stevens. Making the hidden curriculum transparent through 1st year courses for geosciences graduate students. GSA 2020 code 153-6; Live presentation 2:45-3:00 pm Wednesday
• Michele Cooke, Lucile Bruhat, Juliet Crider, Luca Malatesta, Kristin Morell, Jean-Arthur Olive. What can subduction margin land- and sea-scapes tell us about the system’s processes and energy budget?, GSA 2020 code 240-1; Live presentation 10:05-10:20 am Friday.