2026 AGU Session G011, Measurements and Modeling of the Earth's Response to Surface Mass Variability
Yuning Fu
Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract to AGU Session G011, Measurements and Modeling of the Earth's Response to Surface Mass Variability, or forward this email to your colleagues who may be interested. Abstract submission deadline of this year is 5 August 2026.
Submission Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Session/281074
Session Description:
The Earth’s response to surface mass variations results in deformation and stress perturbations that are resolvable with geodetic measurements and advanced modeling techniques. Modern geodetic tools, such as GNSS, InSAR, and gravimetry, can measure the effect of solid Earth deformation with high accuracy. This session intends to incorporate geodesy’s applications to hydrology, cryosphere, seismology, and solid-Earth studies. We invite presentations that bridge geodetic observations and modeling using elastic and anelastic loading theory and the resulting crustal stress changes from mass movement on land, ocean, cryosphere, and atmosphere. Topics include, but are not limited to, studies that calculate surface deformation or acquire independent loading data, and compare with the geodetic measurements. We welcome presentations using geodetic deformation measurements at local- to global-scale that investigate surface loading processes, thermoelastic models, decipher elastic and anelastic signals, improve Earth structure and rheology, or present correlations between loading deformation and seismic, volcanic, and hydrological activities.
Shfaqat Abbas Khan, Technical University of Denmark
Christopher W. Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Surendra Adhikari, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Esther Oyedele, Virginia Tech