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Education and Outreach - UNAVCO Short Course Series
June10-12, 2008
UNAVCO, Boulder, Colorado
This 2.5 day workshop will cover the main topics involved in processing strainmeter data with the purpose to help make EarthScope data useful to a broad scientific audience. The target audience is graduate students and practicing scientists interested in studying plate boundary, earthquake, and volcano deformation.
Faculty: Kathleen Hodgkinson, UNAVCO; Evelyn Roeloffs, USGS; Duncan Agnew, University of California, San Diego
June 16-18, 2008
UNAVCO: Boulder, Colorado
InSAR (Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar) is a powerful tool for measuring Earth surface deformation due to earthquakes, volcanic unrest, ground water migration, and anthropogenic activity. InSAR is also being increasingly used in studies of cryosphere (motion of glaciers and ice sheets) and atmosphere (water content in the troposphere). New techniques and applications of InSAR are rapidly developing, including stacking, time-series analysis of surface deformation, ScanSAR, polarimetric InSAR, and along-track interferometry. A three day workshop will introduce InSAR processing and applications to new users. If you have considered using InSAR data and imagery in your research or want to learn more about how to apply InSAR to new areas of research, this workshop is for you. The workshop includes an overview of the technology and its application to Earth Science, an introduction to a common processing package, and an overview of different processing packages.
Faculty: Paul Rosen, JPL; Yuri Fialko, University of California San Diego; Eric Fielding, JPL
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Previous Short Courses Sponsored by UNAVCO
April 29 - May 1, 2008
Arizona State University: Tempe, AZ
LiDAR—Light Detection and Ranging (also Airborne Laser Swath Mapping-ALSM) topographic data are of broad interest to earth scientists. Many datasets are or will be available freely to the scientific community, especially for fault systems in the western United States via the GeoEarthscope project. These data have exciting and powerful applications in geomorphology, active tectonics, and geoscience education. Participants in this course will learn about LiDAR technology, access to publicly available datasets, software and hardware considerations for working with the data, data processing (raw or classified point clouds, digital elevation models, other derived products), and approaches for analyzing the data to answer their research questions.
Faculty: Chris Crosby, GEON Project, SDSC; Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University; David Phillips, UNAVCO
Using GPS Data to Study Crustal Deformation, Earthquakes, and Volcanism: A Workshop for College Faculty*
March 18, 2008: 1:00-5:00pm
Geological Society of America Cordilleran / Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Las Vegas, NV
Helmut Mayer, mayer unavco.org, Cornee Kreemer, kreemerunr.edu; Susan Eriksson, erikssonunavco.org
This course is geared toward faculty at two- and four-year institutions who teach general science education and introductory or lower level geoscience courses in which plate tectonics is a topic. Faculty will be introduced to place-based, data-rich educational materials about GPS and plate tectonics to use in their classrooms, receive an introduction to high-precision GPS, and have the opportunity to discuss pedagogical strategies for classroom implementation. Anticipated topics include recent advances in researching slow earthquakes in Cascadia, movement along the San Andreas fault, and monitoring volcano deformation. Although individuals with GPS experience are welcome, knowledge of GPS is not required. Participants should bring a laptop computer, preferably with wireless internet capability. Those without access to a lap top computer should contact Helmut Mayer, mayerunavco.org, 303-381-7551. Course materials can be accessed on the GSA 2008 Workshop Page on UNAVCO's Community Website.
* This course is not part of the official UNAVCO Short Course Series.
October 28, 2007: 1:00-5:00 pm
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition: Denver, CO
Susan C. Eriksson, UNAVCO; Shelley E. Olds, UNAVCO
This course is geared toward educators in middle and high schools who teach earth science or a science course in which plate tectonics is a topic. Educators will be introduced to place-based, data-rich educational materials about global positioning system (GPS) and plate tectonics to use in their classrooms, receive an introduction to high-precision GPS, and have the opportunity to discuss pedagogical strategies for classroom implementation. Anticipated topics include faulting along the San Andreas fault, monitoring volcano deformation, and recent advances in researching slow earthquakes in Cascadia. Although individuals with GPS experience are welcome, knowledge of GPS is not required. Participants are encouraged but not required to bring a laptop computer.
* This course is not part of the official UNAVCO Short Course Series.
Processing and Analysis of GeoEarthscope and Other Community LiDAR Topography Datasets
October 27, 2007
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition: Denver, CO
Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University; Chris Crosby, Arizona State University; David Phillips, UNAVCO
LiDAR—Light, Distance, and Ranging (also Airborne Laser Swath Mapping-ALSM) topographic data are of broad interest to earth scientists. Many datasets are or will be available freely to the scientific community, especially for fault systems in the western United States via the GeoEarthscope project. These data have exciting and powerful applications in geomorphology, active tectonics, and geoscience education. Participants in this course will learn about LiDAR technology, access to publicly available datasets, software and hardware considerations for working with the data, data processing (raw or classified point clouds, digital elevation models, other derived products), and approaches for analyzing the data to answer their research questions.
Using GPS Data to Study Crustal Deformation, Earthquakes, and Volcanism: A Workshop for College Faculty
October 22-25, 2006
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Geared toward college faculty who teach introductory/general education geoscience courses, participants will be introduced to place based, data-rich educational materials about GPS and plate tectonics to use in their classrooms. Anticipated topics include episodic tremor and slip in the Cascadia Subduction Zone and monitoring volcano deformation. Participants will also receive a GPS primer and have the opportunity to discuss pedagogical strategies for implementing the activities in their classrooms.
June 12-14, 2006
UNAVCO: Boulder, Colorado
This is a 2.5 day intermediate-level short course in GPS analysis using the GAMIT/GLOBK software for crustal motion studies. Topics include automatic processing of continuous and survey-mode networks; handling step-displacements due to earthquakes and instrument changes; temporal and spatial filtering of time series. The course instructors are: Tom Herring, MIT, and Robert King, MIT. Online registration is available now.
June 14-16, 2006
UNAVCO: Boulder, Colorado
This 2.5 day workshop will cover the main topics involved in processing strainmeter data with the purpose to help make EarthScope data useful to a broad scientific audience. The target audience is graduate students and practicing scientists interested in modeling plate boundary, earthquake, and volcano deformation. Faculty are Kathleen Hodgkinson, Plate Boundary Observatory; Evelyn Roeloffs, USGS; and Duncan Agnew, University of California, San Diego. Limited funding is available for student participation. Online registration is available now.
Click here for information on registration, travel, and course details.
Working with Strainmeter and Tiltmeter Data: A Short Course for New Users
July 12-14, 2005
UNAVCO: Boulder, Colorado
Topics covered included: Overview of strainmeter/tiltmeters, viewing/editing raw strainmeter data, power spectra and noise in strainmeter data, Earth tides, BAYTAP, predicting tides, intermediate to long term trends, data filtering and minimum phase filters, cross-spectral analysis and theory, laser strainmeter correction series, calibration of 3-component borehole strainmeters, ocean loads, SPOTL, hydrological coupling, PBO strainmeter metadata.
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