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2010 UNAVCO Highlights

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Drilling into the San Jacinto Fault Drilling into the San Jacinto Fault The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) worked hard in the fall of 2010 to install instrumentation in deep boreholes in the San Jacinto Fault area of southern. The area of focus was in the region of the town of Anza, located roughly halfway between the Salton Sea and the city of Riverside, California.
Read more 		2010-12-20
PBO Responds to Magnitude 8.8 Chile Earthquake PBO Responds to Magnitude 8.8 Chile Earthquake A magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred on February 27th, 2010 at 3:34 AM local time (06:36 UTC) off the coast of the Maule region of central Chile (Figure 1). Intense shaking lasted for about three minutes and a tsunami generated in the Pacific Ocean.
Read more 		2010-05-16
New EarthScope Airborne LiDAR Data Products from California and Washington State Released in January 2010 New EarthScope Airborne LiDAR Data Products from California and Washington State Released in January 2010 New EarthScope airborne LiDAR data products from California and Washington state were announced in January 2010. With this release, DEM tiles and KML files from all southern and eastern California targets are now available, including faults in the Mojave (Lenwood, Helendale, Calico, Blackwater), eastern California (Panamint, Tin Mtn, Mud Hills, Hunter Mtn, Owens) and San Cayetano.
Read more 		2010-05-04
Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Observed by PBO Strain and Seismic Network Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Observed by PBO Strain and Seismic Network Beginning Jan 17th, 2010 at about 1:00 PM (MST) a significant swarm of earthquakes started in the Yellowstone area located about 16 km northwest of Old Faithful. According to the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO), "swarms have occurred in this area several times over the past two decades." As of Feb 5th, 2010 there have been 1778 recorded events, with the largest single event having a magnitude of 3.8 and the cumulative magnitude of the swarm near magnitude 4.4.
Read more 		2010-03-05
Gorda Earthquake Recorded in PBO GPS 15-second Time Series Gorda Earthquake Recorded in PBO GPS 15-second Time Series The January 10, 2010 M6.5 Gorda earthquake offshore California's Cape Mendocino occurred within 50 km of four GPS stations in the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) network. Static processing of data from these sites by the PBO analysis centers and the US Geological Survey has revealed up to 1 cm of primarily eastward displacement of these sites.
Read more 		2010-02-26
PBO GPS Stations 'Capture' Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake, Northern California PBO GPS Stations 'Capture' Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake, Northern California On Jan 9, 2010, a Magnitude (M) 6.5 earthquake occurred offshore of Northern California ~ 30 miles WSW of Eureka, CA (Figure 1). As reported by the USGS, the event occurred within the Gorda Plate on a near vertical fault plane oriented ~ N 47 E.
Read more 		2010-02-18
Borehole Strainmeters Observe M4.9 Baja Earthquake Borehole Strainmeters Observe M4.9 Baja Earthquake The Borehole Strainmeter (BSM) stations in Southern California observed an interesting sequence of earthquakes located in the Baja region on 12/30/2009. As with previous larger magnitude events there are smaller but with visible areal and shear strain signals.
Read more 		2010-02-07
Akutan Island GPS Update Akutan Island GPS Update The tiny Aleutian village of Akutan, perched precariously under Akutan volcano, hosts one of the most important data telemetry sites in the entire Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) network. Data from 18 stations converge in this village where they are uploaded through the Internet to the PBO Archive in Boulder.
Read more 		2010-01-28
Summer Internship a Success Imagine having the chance to do mini grad school while still an undergraduate and doing it with extra support. In the RESESS internship this summer, college students did geoscience research with lots of encouragement from mentors and peers. Research topics ranged from looking at earthquake-triggered landslides to finding geologic faults to looking at zircons affected by a huge asteroid impact.
Read more 		2010-11
UNAVCO Presents LiDAR Demonstration on Capitol Hill UNAVCO's David Phillips gave a Terrestrial LiDAR Scanning (TLS) demo on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, as part of the 15th Annual Science-Engineering-Technology Congressional Visits Day (CVD) and LaserFest Reception. Phillips performed LiDAR scans of several congressional representatives and other attendees at an evening reception on Wednesday, April 28, 2010.
Read more 		2010-04
Teaching Geodesy in the 21st Century - An "On the Cutting Edge" and UNAVCO Workshop In March of 2010, UNAVCO Education and Outreach staff and collaborators held a workshop to help college-level teachers incorporate geodesy and new teaching techniques into their courses. Teaching Geodesy in the 21st Century - An On the Cutting Edge - UNAVCO Workshop, drew sixteen enthusiastic and engaged professors, teachers, a post doc, and graduate student from around the country to Boulder, CO.
Read more 		2010-04
UNAVCO Hosts Online GPS Workshop for Faculty in Texas Using online tools, UNAVCO Education Specialist Shelley Olds facilitated a three-hour workshop entitled GPS Geodesy as Windows on Earth: Discoveries using GPS and other Geodetic Techniques on February 3, 2010 during the Earth and Space Science 4X4 series of workshops provided by the Region 12 Education Center in Central Texas.
Read more 		2010-02
In the News: UNAVCO Community Science is 'What's Hot' Recent tectonic activity around the world has sparked a rise in news coverage regarding the UNAVCO science community. We'd like to take this opportunity to remind you how to stay in touch with UNAVCO news. We update the UNAVCO Newsroom with recent articles as they come in.
Read more 		2010-01
Join UNAVCO at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting The AGU Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 18,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting Earth, planets, and their environments in space.
Read more 		2010-12
Cascadia Project Recognized in "100 Recovery Act Projects" Report The National Science Foundation's Earth Sciences (EAR) Division received $5M in facility-related investment as a part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA. Some of this is being awarded to UNAVCO to upgrade the communications at GPS sites in the Pacific Northwest.
Read more 		2010-10
The Scientific Value of High-Rate, Low-Latency GPS Data; A White Paper [PDF] Ongoing upgrades of western U.S. GPS networks to high-rate, low-latency data transmission capabilities has drawn attention to the interest that the scientific community has in these data. GPS provides an essential complement to other geophysical networks (e.g. seismic, strain, gravity) because of its high precision, sensitivity to the longest period bands, its ease of deployment, and its ability to make measurements of displacement that are local to global in scale.
Download PDF » 		2010-09
Community Geophysical Event Response to the Mw=7.0, Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquake, Sept. 3, 2010 A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred Saturday, September 3, 2010 at 04:35:46 AM local time, 50km to the west of Christchurch, New Zealand and 80-90km to the southeast of the Australia-Pacific plate boundary.
Read more 		2010-09
Community Geophysical Event Response to the Mw=7.2 El Mayor-Cucapah Baja California, Mexico, Earthquake April 4, 2010 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred at 3:40 p.m. PT on Sunday, April 4th, 2010, 39 miles (63 km) SSE of Calexico, CA, in the upper Baja California peninsula of Mexico. Tremors lasted 40 seconds causing extensive damage to buildings in the area. The earthquake has been named the El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake.
Read more 		2010-04
Community Geophysical Event Response - Mw=8.8 Chile Earthquake Feb. 27, 2010 UNAVCO operates the NASA/GGN GPS station near Santiago (SANT), which is a high rate station set to log at 1 Hz (Fig. 12). SANT is located on the grounds of NASA's Santiago Tracking Station, 38 Km North of Santiago, Chile.
Read more 		2010-02
Community Geophysical Event Response - Mw=7 Haiti Earthquake 1/12/2010 In response to community requests after the Mw=7 Haiti Earthquake 1/12/2010, UNAVCO has compiled data sets and is preparing campaign GPS and TLS hardware for anticipated deployment to the Haiti region.
Read more 		2010-01
TLS Survey of Fourmile Canyon Wildfire Captures Post-fire Terrain Changes A wildfire occurred in Fourmile Canyon near Boulder, CO in September 2010. The fire provided scientists a rare opportunity to study the geomorphic processes that occur soon after large wildfires. Researchers from the US Geological Survey and the University of Colorado in Boulder, employ a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) to map micro-scale geomorphic features within a small watershed in the burn-zone.
Read more 		2010-12
PLUTONS Project (Part II) UNAVCO finished up its second round of field support for the PLUTONS project in early November of this year. PLUTONS is a collaborative effort involving The University of Alaska Fairbanks, Cornell University, Montana State University, Oregon State University, The University of Alberta, University of Bristol, UC Santa Cruz, and multiple organizations from Chile and Bolivia.
Read more 		2010-11
GPS campaign of East African Rift Zone A GPS survey of the East African Rift Zone in Tanzania occurred over three weeks in August 2010. The project involved researchers, staff and graduate students from Purdue University (USA) and Ardhi University in Tanzania, with equipment, logistic and field support from UNAVCO.
Read more 		2010-08
Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory UNAVCO Facility personnel traveled to Goddard's Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory (GGAO) located in Greenbelt, Maryland in order to setup two temporary GPS campaign systems over known marks as construction was commencing on the area that will be home to the next generation VLBI antenna.
Read more 		2010-07
QUIN IGS/GGN Station Maintenance The GGN station located in Quincy, California recently went offline and a site visit was needed in order to restore its internet link. The station is accessed through the Mount Hough Ranger Station in Plumas County. The station is located on top of a hill, which can only be accessed through a locked gate which is shared with the Plumas County Repellars.
Read more 		2010-06
PLUTONS Project The PLUTONS project is a NSF funded collaborative study including researchers from Cornell University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Montana State University, Bristol University, UC Santa Cruz, Oregon State University, and the University of Alberta.
Read more 		2010-04
St. Helena GNSS Station The St. Helena Island Meteo office is now home to a permanent GNSS station on the island. The station is providing a one second stream of GPS + GLONASS data on the newly constructed pillar monument. The installation of this station was a collaborative effort between NASA-JPL, UNAVCO, SEGAL (UBI,IDL) Portugal, and the St. Helena Meteo office.
Read more 		2010-03
Brewster (BREW) GGN Station Maintenance Starting in 2007, the GGN station located in Brewster, Washington underwent a series of equipment upgrades including: installation of an Ashtech receiver running the latest firmware, CQ00, and installation of a new 2U rackmount computer running Fedora 4.
Read more 		2010-11
Africa Array GPS Network Africa Array, initialized in 2004, is a project that aims to establish research and training programs in the geosciences for Africans, within Africa. The continent is rich in mineral, petroleum, and geothermal resources and demand for trained geoscientists to manage these resources is growing. However, this need is not being met.
Read more 		2010-09
QUIN IGS/GGN Station Maintenance II The GGN station located in Quincy, California (QUIN) continued to exhibit communication problems after a site visit earlier this summer where it was determined that the pole supporting the dish was not sturdy enough and needed to be replaced. During this most recent visit, a new Hughes DW7000 VSAT system was installed in order to restore communications to the station.
Read more 		2010-07
IGS Meeting 2010 During June 28 - July 2, 2010 the Newcastle University geodesy group hosted approximately 200 participants in the International GNSS Service (IGS) Workshop 2010 and the COST Action ES0701 Vertical Rates Symposium. The Workshop focused on the application and status of current IGS operations and possibilities for future improvements.
Read more 		2010-07
SMAP Validation Project The SMAP (Soil Moisture Active & Passive) Validation project is funded by NASA with collaborators from the University of Colorado at Boulder and UCAR. The purpose of the SMAP Validation project is to provide an independent means to validate the results of the SMAP satellite mission using GPS signals received at ground-based sensor sites.
Read more 		2010-05
Haiti Earthquake Response GPS Network PI Eric Calais acquired NSF RAPID funding immediately after the January earthquake in Haiti to conduct a GPS campaign in Port-Au-Prince and other towns in the region of the main fault. UNAVCO received part of this funding to provide equipment and engineering support for the installation of six permanent, continuously operating, GPS stations in Haiti (the first of which Calais installed himself).
Read more 		2010-03
POLENET 2009/10 Seven continuous GPS stations were installed in Antarctica during the 2009/10 field campaign. It was not possible to install all 14 CGPS because of inclement weather in West Antarctica. Thirteen stations installed during the previous two seasons were visited to upgrade them to the latest designs and configurations and in several cases to repair and upgrade the sites.
Read more 		2010-02
Sierra Negra GPS Network Upgrade (Final Phase) The second and final phase of the GPS network upgrade at Sierra Negra volcano on Isabella Island in the Galapagos was completed in November by a field team of four from U.S. and Ecuadorian institutions. The continuous GPS network has been operational since 2002 when six permanent sites were installed by UNAVCO.
Read more 		2010-11
Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network Ð CALM II Since the 1990s, the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) program has conducted long-term studies of the response of the Arctic permafrost to climate change. Every summer, a certain depth of the top layer of the tundra's permafrost thaws and this is known as the "active layer."
Read more 		2010-08
Chile Rapid Response Data Communications A great earthquake of magnitude 8.8 occurred on February 27, in Southern Chile. The Chilean earthquake caused a deadly tsunami, widespread property damage, and at least 521 casualties. This was the single largest event in the world since the December 26, 2004 magnitude 9.1 earthquake in Sumatra that also caused a deadly tsunami.
Read more 		2010-07
Telica Volcano On any given day, approximately 15-30 volcanoes worldwide are either in eruption or show strong signs of unrest (e.g., anomalously high rates of seismic activity, ground deformation, or gas emissions). Volcanic activity, including high-altitude eruptions of ash or emission of large volumes of gas, poses a significant hazard to people and property in the United States and worldwide.
Read more 		2010-03
Antarctic Program Support 2009-2010 During the 2009-10 Antarctic field season, the UNAVCO polar group supported 23 individual PI-based science campaign projects. Forty five receivers were sent to the continent for campaign support, including ten NetRS systems. Nine of these NetRS receivers remain on the ice to support long term data collection at WAIS divide under the upcoming WISSARD project, including one configured to relay data back to UNAVCO via Iridium modem.
Read more 		2010-03
LARISSA 2010, Antarctica LARISSA: Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica is a National Science Foundation funded initiative that brings an international, interdisciplinary team together to address a significant regional problem with global change implications, the abrupt environmental change in Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf System.
Read more 		2010-04
Integration of TLS and Continuous GPS to Study Landslide Deformation Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) technologies provide comprehensive information of landslide deformation in the both spatial and temporal domains, which are critical to study the dynamics and kinematics of landslides.
Read more 		2010-08
Using TLS to Improve Models of Volcano Conduit Processes In volcanology, diverse numerical models of conduit flow have been developed to relate the properties of these flows to processes that occur at the surface during eruptions. Conduit models incorporate varying degrees of complexity and account for the transport properties of magmas, steady-state or transient behavior, and conduit geometry (e.g., 1- to 1.5 D, variable width and erodable conduit walls).
Read more 		2010-08
Introducing TLS to Undergraduate Geology Curricula During the summer of 2010, a pilot version of a week-long module designed to apply Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) to various problems encountered while conducting field geology applications was embedded within the Indiana University G429 field course. The format followed that of a successful module developed to concentrate on surface and groundwater hydrology known as G429e.
Read more 		2010-08
Measuring Above Ground Biomass and Vegetation Structure in the South Florida Everglades Wetland Ecosystem Worldwide, anthropogenic activities are disturbing and disrupting nutrient rich bio-diverse wetland ecosystems. Disturbance of the South Florida Everglades has been particularly acute, but difficult to quantify given its limited accessibility. Successful ecosystem monitoring requires the use of remote sensing.
Read more 		2010-08
 
 

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