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Education and Outreach - UNAVCO Short Course Series
2009 UNAVCO Short Course Series and Workshops
In response to community requests, UNAVCO instituted an annual series of short courses to increase the capacity of our scientific community by using various data. These courses are aimed at current researchers who want to update their skills or branch into new areas of research, and younger scientists such as post doctoral fellows, graduate students, and upper level undergraduates.
Register today! We look forward to seeing you.
August 17-19, 2009
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. Terrabytes of InSAR data were collected for the EarthScope program that spans the entire US. Training new scientists for the interpretation of these important data sets is critical to the EarthScope mission. InSAR is also being increasingly used in studies of cryosphere (motion of glaciers and ice sheets) and atmosphere (water content in the troposphere). This short course will also help prepare scientists for the upcoming NASA InSAR mission, now called DESDynI (Deformation, Ecosystem Structure and Dynamics of Ice). 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. An additional optional module* will cover subpixel ground motions from glaciers, landslides, earthquakes, etc. measured from pairs of optical and SAR images using a technique called pixel or feature tracking.
Faculty: Paul Rosen, JPL; Eric Fielding, JPL; and Matthew Pritchard, Cornell University
Workshop & Science Planning for the Evaluation, Monitoring and Communication of Volcanic and Seismic Hazards in East Africa (not part of the UNAVCO Short Course Series)
***Registration is now CLOSED***
August 17-20, 2009
ICTP - Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall, Trieste, Italy
We are seeking U.S. participation for a workshop and business meeting that will be convened for US, African, and European scientists to develop and enhance plans for investigations of processes leading to volcanic eruptions and large earthquakes in continental rift zones, with emphasis on the evaluation, monitoring and communication of volcanic and seismic hazards in East Africa. The two-day workshop (August 18-19) and associated planning/business sessions (August 17, 20) are planned to provide strategic guidance to the international community based on lessons learned from natural hazards in Africa and elsewhere.
NSF has provided funds for US participants to travel to Trieste for the workshop and science-planning meeting. These will precede a two-week professional development course for African geoscientists supported by ICTP, ICSU, African Union, Royal Society/NERC, and UNAVCO in Trieste, Italy.
NSF funding for African scientists through in-country per diem expenses (Trieste, Italy) for participation in the NSF science and planning activities will be managed by ICTP.
The workshop goals are to establish a new initiative for cooperation in East Africa, to design programs to comprehensively evaluate and monitor the time and length scales of plate boundary and volcanic deformation, and to develop networks for exchange of ideas and expertise. In so doing, participants will augment and strengthen research plans, ensuring the broadest impact with future volcanic and seismic hazard-related projects. The science and planning results will feed directly into the international workshop.
Participants should be willing to actively contribute to a workshop report and to participate in an on-line forum prior to the August workshop to discuss ideas that will feed into the workshop discussion. The report will inform a science plan for the National Science Foundation regarding priorities for funding research in the East African Rift region.
Organizing Committee:
Cindy Ebinger, University of Rochester
Eric Calais, University of Purdue
Abdelkarim Aoudia, ICTP, Italy
Gezahegn Yirgu, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
UNAVCO PI: M. Meghan Miller
Invited speakers include: Ross Stein, Robert Tilling, Simon Carn, Andy Nyblade, Giday WoldeGabriel, Roger Buck
Airfare, lodging, per diem (2 days travel; 4 days participation), and some transportation will be offered to participants. Due to budget constraints, space is currently limited to approximately 14 participants including 3-4 graduate students. NSF is particularly interested in supporting several early career scientists. Early career scientists and graduate students will be selected based on research related to the workshop topic and potential contributions to the NSF-sponsored science planning. You will be requested to provide this information at the time of registration.
Applicants are encouraged to participate in the longer ICTP workshop, although NSF support is not currently available for this.
If you are currently a Graduate Student you are required to fill out the Registration form (link below) as well submitting an Application for Support (below), which includes information from your advisor.
To apply to participate in the workshop, please complete the registration form accessed through the link below.
Registration deadline is June 15, 2009. Acceptances and offers of travel support will be made by June 22, 2009.
Registration (***Registration is now CLOSED***)
Application for Support- please note this form should only be submitted by graduate students or post docs
Previous Short Courses Sponsored by UNAVCO
May 12, 2009
EarthScope National Meeting, Centre on the Grove - Boise, Idaho - Cottonwoods South Conference Room
This workshop is designed to provide information, activities, and materials that teachers can use in their classrooms to teach Earth and physical sciences. Teachers will be shown how to use seismic and Global Positioning System (GPS) data in the classroom to enhance their students' basic understanding of abstract science concepts and develop critical thinking skills as they investigate multiple lines of evidence gathered through data from the EarthScope program. Teachers will be shown demonstrations of different types of visualizations that researchers have developed from EarthScope data that make the geophysical processes ‘come alive’ for the students. All activities are aligned with National Science Standards. Through an exploration of EarthScope learning activities as they relate to the geology and geophysics of the Snake River Plain and evolution of the Yellowstone hotspot, participants will:
- Hear researchers describe how and why EarthScope is investigating the geophysics of the local area
- Understand how past and present day geologic and geophysical phenomena can help us understand what could happen in the future
- Improve participants’ foundation in basic physics concepts as applied to earth science
- Be able to implement selected EarthScope activities in their classrooms
Lunch provided; mileage and one night’s hotel available for non-local participants. EarthScope will work with you and your school district to pay for a substitute teacher. Registration will be provided for those local teachers who wish to attend EarthScope national meeting sessions. Funding provided by the National Science Foundation.
Level: Limited to teachers of middle through high school Earth science and physical science.
Instructors: IRIS and UNAVCO education staff with EarthScope research scientists
May 12, 2009
EarthScope National Meeting, Centre on the Grove - Boise, Idaho - Firs South Conference Room
PBO strainmeters provide better strain resolution than GPS and can record strain transients at periods much longer than broadband seismometers. This workshop will describe how the strainmeters work, present examples of tectonic strain transients recorded by PBO strainmeters, and outline how to access and work with the data. Although this will not be a hands-on workshop, we will provide a guide to online documentation and software that facilitate working with the strainmeter data. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Instructors: Evelyn Roeloffs, USGS; Kathleen Hodgkinson, UNAVCO; and Duncan Agnew, SIO
Agenda
May 12, 2009
EarthScope National Meeting, Centre on the Grove - Boise, Idaho - Pines Conference Room
EarthScope witnessed an explosion of new data and data access tools in 2008. The focus of this workshop is a hands-on introduction to these data and tools. New data access tools include the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) Core Viewer, which allows users to view high-resolution photographs of the entire main borehole drill core via a Google Maps interface and which is being extended to support the SAFOD sample request program. UNAVCO's new Data Archive Interface Version 2 offers a much more intuitive and powerful way of locating and accessing Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) continuous GPS data. The EarthScope Data Portal extends the suite of available tools to allow seamless station discovery and data download across all EarthScope station types. New EarthScope data include large airborne LIDAR acquisitions over active faults and volcanic domains in the Western United States and Alaska, meteorology data sets from recently installed met stations at PBO continuous GPS sites, and tiltmeter measurements from instruments collocated with PBO borehole strainmeters and seismometers. Geophysically interesting examples from all three data sets will be presented along with a broader overview of the data and specifics of data access.
Instructors: Adrian Borsa and Fran Boler, UNAVCO
UNAVCO SAR Archives and Data Services
UNAVCO Data Archive Interface Version 2 (DAIv2) Web GUI
UNAVCO Data Center GNSS Archives
May 12, 2009
EarthScope National Meeting, Centre on the Grove - Boise, Idaho - Snake River Conference Room
The purpose of this half-day workshop is to present and discuss methods for determining a GPS velocity field that unifies all available campaign and continuous GPS into a single solution with a common reference frame. The ultimate goal of this exercise is to create such a unified velocity field and make it widely available through UNAVCO for research in active tectonics and earthquake mechanics and application to natural hazards and precise geodetic positioning. The workshop format will permit a small number of invited presentations, breakout groups to consider particular technical issues, and sufficient time for extended discussion. The expected output is a series of recommendations for further research, public archiving of raw data and velocity products, and candidate methodologies for producing first general velocity fields for the western US. For more information, please contact the conveners.
Conveners: Wayne Thatcher (USGS), Tom Herring (MIT), Chuck Meertens (UNAVCO)
Agenda
Registrants
September 23-25, 2008
UNAVCO: Boulder, Colorado
This course will provide group and (some) individual instruction in GPS data analysis, with Tuesday devoted to GAMIT and GLOBK
for tectonic studies, Wednesday to polar and other kinematic applications of TRACK, and Thursday to tutorials and in-depth
discussion of advanced topics for both static and kinematic analysis. Participants should bring laptops with the software
installed or with remote access to the software in their own labs. They will be expected to have read the documentation, run the
provided examples, and attempted to process their own data.
Faculty: Tom Herring, Bob King, and Simon McClusky, MIT; Matt King, University of Newcastle
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
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
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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