Graduate Field Affiliation Geological Sciences In the News Japan’s deep-sea vessel digs for answers to 2011 earthquake ↗ Slow motion precursors give earthquakes the fast slip ↗ At a glacier near the South Pole, Grace Barcheck, Patrick Fulton, and collaborators have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fast-slip earthquakes many miles away. $7.2M grant funds exploratory research into Earth Source Heat ↗ The Earth Source Heat project, of which Teresa Jordan and Patrick Fulton are major collaborators, secured a U.S. Department of Energy grant, expected to total about $7.2 million to help verify the feasibility of using a novel geothermal energy system to heat Cornell's campus.