ESS 8 field trip to Vasquez Rocks, to the San Andreas Fault at Palmdale Lake, and HWY 14 road cut in Palmdale, CA.
Pictures here.

C.B. gives invited talk at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds (UK): “Seismic Anisotropy From the Core to the Crust”
Graduate student Kaiqing Yuan joins our group and will be working on modeling global azimuthal anisotropy
C.B. is awarded the 2009-2010 UCLA COR Faculty Research grant. To be used to work on the High Lava Plains seismic data
C.B. went to Peru for the ESS 136 class! See pictures here
C.B. received the UCLA Faculty Career Development Award. These awards “are given annually to assistant professors, providing research support at a critical time in the pre-tenure stage”.
ESS 8 field trip to Vasquez Rocks, to the San Andreas Fault at Palmdale Lake, and HWY 14 road cut in Palmdale, CA.
Pictures here.
C.B. is awarded NSF EAR grant #0838605 “Seismological Constraints on Global Mantle Anisotropy”
C.B. gives invited seminar in the Berkeley Seismo Lab: “Seismic Anisotropy in the Nevada Great Basin: Evidence for Lithospheric Delamination?”
C.B. gives invited seminar in the Caltech Seismo Lab: “Effect of Seismic Anisotropy on the Coupling of the Earth’s Normal Modes”
C.B. received the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists 2005 (given by the EGU)