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2006 UNAVCO Highlights

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Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip Event Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip Event The next Cascadia Episodic Tremor and Slip Event is predicted to begin between late October 2006 and late January 2007 (95% confidence limits). A few bursts of tremor lasting three to four days have been reported by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and the Pacific Geoscience Centre since November 8, 2006 but the expected event, usually associated with 10 to 20 days of continuous tremor, has not happened yet. Strain anomalies have been noted beginning November 4, 2006 but these could well be caused by the record rainfall which occurred in the area at that time.
Read more 		2006-11-14
BSM Parkfield Update BSM Parkfield Update During the period spanning October 10th through November 2nd, five BSM installations were completed by a single fully staffed installation team. These installations included down-hole instrumentation, up-hole electronics, and communications systems installed with data flowing to the EarthScope archive. Sites installed include, B073 Varian 1, B075 Flengte Flats, B076 Donna Lee, B078 Gold Hill and B079 Jack Canyon.
Read more 		2006-11-14
Augustine Installation Update Augustine Installation Update AV18 was started and completed in one day (Sunday) just before Karl Feaux and Austin Baldwin arrived at the island on a float plane. On Monday the crews started and completed AV16, a site located on the west island across the lagoon from base camp. Meanwhile, two potential locations for GPS monuments were found during reconnaissance. Excellent weather and clear skies allowed crews to work continuously through both days.
Read more 		2006-09-06
UNAVCO Returns to Augustine Volcano UNAVCO Returns to Augustine Volcano UNAVCO field crews have returned to Augustine Volcano to install five permanent EarthScope GPS stations. These stations will add to the data footprint from those installed by UNAVCO exactly two years ago in 2004.
Read more 		2006-09-05
UNAVCO UNAVCO "Education Day" Inspires Students at Pathfinder Ranch Science and Outdoor Education School UNAVCO participated in an "Education Day" at the Pathfinder Ranch Science and Outdoor Education School in Mountain Center, California, on July 27, 2006. Pathfinder Ranch is hosting two of the eight EarthScope borehole strainmeters in the Anza region to study the area between the San Andreas Fault and the San Jacinto Fault.
Read more 		2006-08-25
The Plate Boundary Observatory's 400th GPS Station The Plate Boundary Observatory's 400th GPS Station On July 21, 2006, the 400th permanent GPS station of the EarthScope Plate Boundary Observatory was installed. Near the midway point of completing 852 installs by September 30, 2008, this milestone reinforces the dedication and vigor of the community and staff involved in completing this 5-year construction phase.
Read more 		2006-08-18
GeoEarthScope Working Group Meetings GeoEarthScope Working Group Meetings All three GeoEarthScope working groups (LiDAR, InSAR and Geochronology) have now met at UNAVCO. These working groups are charged with identifying and prioritizing potential targets for airborne and satellite imagery and geochronology acquisitions through GeoEarthScope. Each group will submit a report to UNAVCO by August 31, 2006. These group reports will be subsequently reviewed and an overall GeoEarthScope acquisition plan based upon the three reports will be presented at open forums during GSA in October and AGU in December.
Read more 		2006-08-08
Borehole Strainmeter Installation in Anza Region Borehole Strainmeter Installation in Anza Region The Plate Boundary Observatory is installing a cluster of seven borehole strainmeter instruments in the Anza region in southern California. This area is of geophysical interest because of its position between two major faults: the San Andreas Fault and the San Jacinto Fault.
Read more 		2006-07-21
INSAR InSAR: What it is and why you should care Measurement of changes in the shape of the Earth provides critical insight into a variety of processes of interest to science and society - from subsurface movements of magma, strain before, during and after earthquakes, to motion of ice sheets. Until the late 20th century, measurement of Earth deformation was always time-consuming and frequently perilous because it required the observer to physically touch a point on the Earth's surface with a surveying instrument or establish an expensive observatory.
Read more 		2006-07
100th Plate Boundary Observatory GPS Station Installation in Northern California 100th Plate Boundary Observatory GPS Station Installation in Northern California Congratulations to the UNAVCO Richmond, California office for completing the 100th Plate Boundary Observatory GPS station installation in Northern California on June 2, 2006. Short-drilled GPS station P183 was installed on Bodega Head, a spit off of Bodega Bay, California. Bodega Head is one of the few places north of San Francisco where a GPS station can be located on the west side of the San Andreas Fault. Several years ago Bodega Bay was considered as a location for a nuclear power plant. Fortunately, once they discovered the fault line underneath Bodega Bay they decided to look elsewhere.
Read more 		2006-06-16
GeoEarthScope LiDAR Working Group Meeting GeoEarthScope LiDAR Working Group Meeting The GeoEarthScope LiDAR working group met at UNAVCO on May 24-25, 2006 to identify and prioritize targets for Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (ALSM) acquisition for GeoEarthScope, the geologic component of the NSF funded EarthScope project. The participants identified numerous data acquisition targets in the EarthScope footprint, and the working group's final report will be submitted to UNAVCO and NSF in mid June.
Read more 		2006-06-05
UNAVCO Welcomes Eric Calais UNAVCO Welcomes Eric Calais UNAVCO welcomes Eric Calais as the new UNAVCO Chairman of the Board and PBO Representative on the EarthScope Facility Executive Committee (EFEC). Eric is an Associate Professor of Geophysics at Purdue University and has been closely involved with UNAVCO for several years.
Read more 		2006-04-25
UNIVISION Interviews UNAVCO/PBO Field Crew UNIVISION Interviews UNAVCO/PBO Field Crew UNIVISION, a leading Spanish television network in the United States and Mexico contacted PBO to conduct interviews and gather footage for segments of a television show called Aquí y Ahora. Part of the segments covers what the scientific community is doing to better understand geodetic hazards (such as earthquakes) on the west coast and what is being done to better prepare for such emergencies.
Read more 		2006-03-27
PBO Core/Log/Strain Workshop Held at UNAVCO PBO Core/Log/Strain Workshop Held at UNAVCO The installation of the first ten PBO borehole strainmeters (BSMs) represents a major accomplishment for the EarthScope community. These instruments provide high resolution geodetic data spanning the frequency band from seismic data to GPS data, giving scientists good insight into processes with durations of hours to weeks.
Read more 		2006-02-18
Data Analysis of the 2005 Olympic Peninsula Semi-Continuous GPS Network Data Analysis of the 2005 Olympic Peninsula Semi-Continuous GPS Network The regular occurrence of episodic deformation transients in Cascadia provides an ideal opportunity to study processes occurring within subduction zones capable of producing great megathrust earthquakes. GPS provides a unique observation of these events, during which the lower part of the subduction interface releases strain without detectable seismic shaking.
Read more 		2006-01-24
Teaching in Small Groups Gets Big Results for an Introductory Geology Class Professor Michael Hamburger of Indiana University recently finished leading his fourth G188 class through the Eastern Sierra Nevada in California.
Read more 		2006-07
Roger Groom of Portland, Oregon is UNAVCO's 2006 Master Teacher UNAVCO is pleased to announce its out-of-state selection for the 2006 master teacher summer program, Roger Groom, from Mt. Tabor Middle School in Portland, OR. Groom has a Masters of Education from Portland State University and completed the Graduate Teacher Education Program at Portland State University.
Read more 		2006-03
2006 UNAVCO Faculty-in-Residence Summer Program The UNAVCO Faculty-in-Residence summer program is a new initiative designed to involve a college/university faculty member in UNAVCO education and outreach endeavors. The successful candidate will be an energetic, active member of the UNAVCO community who teaches introductory/general education college geoscience courses. This individual will work at UNAVCO headquarters in Boulder, CO for one week in June 2006.
Read more 		2006-06
Teacher Workshops to Teach Teachers to Teach About Technology and Tectonics On January 26-27, UNAVCO education specialist Becca Walker worked with middle and high school Earth science teachers at the IRIS Consortium's Yuma Union School District Earth science teacher professional development project. Held at Cibola High School in Yuma, AZ, the workshop was designed to improve and align Earth science instruction in grades 7 and 9/10 and included activities by IRIS, UNAVCO, Boston College, Purdue University, and SCEC.
Read more 		2006-02
NSF Funds Joint Major Research Infrastructure Proposal between IRIS and UNAVCO The National Science Foundation recently awarded funding to IRIS and UNAVCO for a unique proposal to design and build a reliable power and communication system for autonomous polar station operation. This development effort will involve close collaboration with Antarctic seismologists and GPS scientists.
Read more 		2006-07
A Successful Meeting: The 2006 UNAVCO Science Workshop UNAVCO held its Science Workshop March 14-16, 2006 at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado. 154 attendees converged on the Brown Palace for the 2 ½ day event. 18 of those attendees were UNAVCO members and another 18 were students receiving support from UNAVCO to attend the meeting.
Read more 		2006-04
2006 Short Courses: GPS and Strainmeter Data UNAVCO is pleased to announce the 2006 Short Courses will commence in June with two programs: GPS and Strainmeter Data. Both courses will be held at UNAVCO headquarters in Boulder, Colorado with experts in the UNAVCO community leading the instruction.
Read more 		2006-06
International Collaboration for GPS Research in Iceland Is Hot Continuous GPS made the national news in Iceland this month after the Icelandic Center for Research (RANNIS) awarded funding for a significant expansion of continuous GPS networks in Iceland. The project titled "High-rate continuous GPS observations in Iceland" represents an international collaborative effort to construct a spatially dense high-rate continuously operating GPS network across the island of Iceland.
Read more 		2006-02
2006 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting: 24-27 July 2006, Beijing China The Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting will be held in Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2006. It is sponsored by AGU and several other societies in the western Pacific region. This is an excellent opportunity for members interested in the research of the western Pacific region and all related aspects of geophysics.
Read more 		2006-07
2006 UNAVCO Science Workshop The 2006 UNAVCO Science Workshop will be held at the Brown Palace Hotel, in Denver, Colorado. The 2 1/2 day workshop will include planned science sessions, poster presentations, breakout discussions, and informal meetings, along with a field trip to Red Rocks Park.
Read more 		2006-03
GPS Measurement Corrections for Geophysicists: A Calibration Procedure for Pseudorange Data A Thermotron environmental test chamber was recently purchased providing the capability to test system components in a controlled environment at extreme temperatures (-70 deg C - 70 deg C).
Read more 		2006-06
Harvest Oil Platform The two GPS stations (HARV and HAR2), on the Harvest Oil platform (Figure 2), which sits roughly 15 km off the coast of central California, were brought online December 15, 2006, after an extended communications outage.
Read more 		2006-12
Rio Grande Rift Network Installation The Rio Grande Rift project continues to be the main focus of the PBO EarthScope Campaign support group, with four more monuments installed in early December. The network will consist of 25 semi-permanent GPS stations in Colorado and New Mexico, 21 of which have now been completed.
Read more 		2006-07
ICYLANDS Measurement Campaigns in Thule, Greenland The ICYLANDS project, at the University of Washington, is aimed at quantifying the coupling of the carbon and water cycles and the interacting physical, chemical, and biological (PCB) processes that control carbon exchange between cold, dry terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere.
Read more 		2006-07
McCall Glacier RTK Survey 2006 Mass balance measurements, surface velocities, cross-section profiles and continuous topography of McCall Glacier were made using real-time kinematic (RTK) surveys. The mass balance profiles were first measured in the 1990s with an airborne laser survey.
Read more 		2006-06
Summit Camp Permanent RTK Station Installation, Greenland A permanent GPS base station was installed at Summit Camp with real-time kinematic (RTK) surveying capability. Summit Camp is a research station located at the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet, and supports a variety of multinational research, including atmospheric and snow chemistry studies, and deep ice core drilling operations.
Read more 		2006-04
Socorro Survey Training A 17-person, 2.5-day course was taught by UNAVCO at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Feb-March 2006. The class was a hands-on introduction to scientific surveying using UNAVCO GPS equipment, specifically, Topcon GB-1000 receivers.
Read more 		2006-02
Nicoya Peninsula Recon, Costa Rica An initial deployment of a prototype network of at least four permanent GPS stations is to occur between mid-April through mid-May. In preparation, two reconnaissance trips were made. The first took place in June 2005 during which time the local collaborator was met and several potential site locations were visited.
Read more 		2006-01
Calabria Long-term Campaign Installation Participants from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Dalhousie University, Universita della Calabria, and the UNAVCO Facility installed nine continuous GPS sites on a transect across Calabria, Italy, in November 2006. Calabria, in the boot of Italy, lies over an active Benioff zone in a complex subduction system.
Read more 		2006-11
Kilauea Volcano Site Upgrades, Hawaii 11 sites in the Stanford-HVO Kilauea GPS network were upgraded from Trimble 4000 receivers and Trimble groundplane antennas to Trimble NetRS receivers and Trimble Zephyr Geodetic antennas. Communications for each site were also upgraded.
Read more 		2006-08
UNAVCO Facility Supports the AFREF Technical Workshop The UNAVCO Facility, in support of NASA GGN and IGS activities, participated in the AFREF Technical workshop at the University of Cape Town in South Africa on July 9-13, which was attended by approximately 40 delegates from national surveying and mapping agencies around Africa.
Read more 		2006-09
Santorini, Greece Permanent Stations In collaboration with Stathis C. Stiros from Patras University and The Institute for the Study and Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano (I.S.M.O.SA.V.) three permanent GPS stations were installed along the Santorini Caldera on the islands of Thira and Thirasia.
Read more 		2006-05
Nicoya Peninsula CGPS, Costa Rica The Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica offers a unique opportunity with the use of GPS technology to advance the understanding of subduction zone dynamics as it is situated above an active seismogenic zone. Most such zones are typically located offshore.
Read more 		2006-04
Record Antarctic Season 2005-2006 A record Antarctic season was just completed, with 80 geodetic GPS receivers provided in support of 25 individual PI-based science project campaigns, with six left for long term data collection.
Read more 		2006-02
BARGEN Expansion 2006 Three new GPS sites were added to the existing Basin and Range Geodetic Network (BARGEN) in north-central Nevada as a response to recent findings in data indicating the existence of coherent sub-continental scale transient deformation signals.
Read more 		2006-11
Sierra Negra Volcano Monitoring Systems Upgrade, Galapagos, Ecuador Two new continuous dual-frequency GPS sites and a repeater were installed on Sierra Negra volcano, on the island of Isabela, Galapagos, Ecuador. These stations augment a continuous, telemetered network installed in 2002 (2002 Network Installation) of two dual-frequency sites and four single-frequency GPS sites.
Read more 		2006-07
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium DGPS System Upgrade and Training UNAVCO coordinated an annual site visit to the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) facility with the arrival of the research team from University of Texas, El Paso (UTEP), to both upgrade parts of the GPS system and train the UTEP team on the system.
Read more 		2006-06
Richmond Real-Time Station Installation The new NASA-JPL high-rate real-time station RCM7 was installed at the CSTARS (Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing) facility, which is part of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, located on the University of Miami Richmond campus in Southern Miami-Dade, Florida.
Read more 		2006-04
Yucca Mountain Expansion Project The second round of installations was completed for the Yucca Mountain Expansion project for the California Institute of Technology and Harvard-Smithsonian. The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, is part of the Yucca Mountain feasibility study.
Read more 		2006-04
Joshua Tree Survey UNAVCO provided 12 GPS systems for a campaign in Joshua Tree National Park. A total of 13 monuments were surveyed, 12 within the park and one outside the park. The network was established in 2005 to better understand the details of the crustal strain rate field between the southernmost San Andreas fault zone (SAFZ) and the eastern California shear zone (ECSZ). Additional campaigns are planned for May and September this year.
Read more 		2006-02
 
 

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