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Jack Loveless, Associate Professor of Geosciences at Smith, will be this January's faculty speaker. 

Associate Professor Loveless's talk titled, "Seeing Earthquakes From Space," will explore advancements in GPS technology that for the past 20 years have given us a detailed picture of how tectonic plates move, and how dangerous faults are building up toward earthquakes. Loveless will talk about how we use space-based observations to understand earthquakes in Japan, Chile, and Southern California.

SCCLA members plus a guest are complimentary and it's $20 per person for Smith alum non-members and additional SCCLA member guests.

SPEAKER BIO: After growing up in Northampton, Jack Loveless received a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of New Hampshire in 2002 and a doctorate in structural geology from Cornell University in 2007. Loveless was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at Harvard University from 2007 until 2011, when he joined the Smith College faculty as an assistant professor. His research focuses on assessing earthquake-related processes using high-precision GPS data that records the motion of Earth's surface in tectonically active regions. Additionally, Loveless compares contemporary deformation to that accumulated over longer time spans as expressed in the geomorphic and geologic records. Sites of past and current research include the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, southern California, Japan, the Tibetan Plateau and the Olympic Peninsula.

Questions? Email rsvp@smithclubla.org.

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