2014 UNAVCO Highlights
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Russian GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System April Outage and UNAVCO |
The Russian GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System experienced a ten-hour outage beginning at 21:00 UTC on April 1st, 2014 that affected a significant number of GNSS receivers operated by UNAVCO and our collaborators. Read more |
2014-12 |
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UNAVCO installs COCONet cGPS site CN18 on Swan Island Honduras |
COCONet cGPS site CN18 was installed on Swan Island, Honduras, and is poised to collect particularly valuable atmospheric and geodetic data because it will provide coverage in a remote part of the world with little data availability. Read more |
2014-12 |
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Join UNAVCO at AGU |
Visit our booth, attend an event, and keep up with UNAVCO work through our staff presentations. Read more |
2014-12 |
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Workshop on Future Seismic and Geodetic Facility Needs in the Geosciences |
A 2 1/2 day workshop will be held May 4-6, 2015 to gather community input for the National Science Foundation on the most important scientific questions, research opportunities, and broader impacts that the community will be pursuing in 2018 and beyond, and the seismic and geodetic facility capabilities that will be required to support this research and associated education, outreach, training and workforce development. Read more |
2014-12 |
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Reaching kids and their parents through hands-on science |
Each fall at Super Science Saturday, hundreds of children and their adult escorts descend on Boulder, CO’s NCAR Mesa Lab to learn about science through fun hands-on activities. Super Science Saturday provides UNAVCO an opportunity to participate in a local outreach event in a community we’ve been a part of for 30 years, and to teach kids how to use a familiar technology—GPS, one of UNAVCO’s specialties—to learn about their world and be scientists. Read more |
2014-11 |
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Free and easy access to online geodetic data: using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for UNAVCO data and metadata |
Free and open access to scientific data is pivotal to the success of geoscience research worldwide. Digital object identifiers (DOIs) allow data sets to be uniformly cited, making it easier for researchers to find the original source of data in publications and for UNAVCO and the researchers we support to be properly acknowledged. Read more |
2014-11 |
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Monitoring Erosion on a Volcano: High Resolution Topographic Surveys of Mauna Kea, HI |
Mauna Kea, a dormant 13,800 foot tall volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, is experiencing substantial natural and human-caused erosion at its summit. UNAVCO is helping Ryan Perroy of the University of Hawaii, Hilo to monitor these erosion rates by providing a baseline high-resolution topographic map of the summit area to quantify natural and anthropomorphic influences. This project will help to establish a habitat suitability model for the Wekiu bug, a rare endemic invertebrate species that is only found on Mauna Kea. Read more |
2014-10 |
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Data event response to the 14 October 2014 Mw 7.3 earthquake 67km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua |
In response to the Mw 7.3 earthquake 67km WSW of Jiquilillo, Nicaragua on October 14, 2014, UNAVCO is downloading high-rate GPS data from a total of 25 stations within 1,000 km of the epicenter (Figure 2). One-sample-per-second (1-sps) GPS data were collected for a five-day period around the event (day of event plus two days before and after). Five-sample-per-second (5-sps) GPS data, where available, will also be collected for a 12-hour period (± 6 hours) around the event. These data are available from ftp://data-out.unavco.org/pub/highrate/. Read more |
2014-10 |
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Join UNAVCO at GSA |
Visit our booth, see a TLS demo, take a short course, attend an event, and keep up with UNAVCO work through our staff presentations. Read more |
2014-10 |
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RESESS Summer 2014 Wrap-up |
The 2014 cohort of RESESS interns has departed Boulder after successfully completing their research internship summer. Ten interns from ten different institutions across the country participated in a summer full of research, writing, and communications training. Five of the interns were returning for their second year with RESESS and five of the interns participated for the first time. Read more |
2014-09 |
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Data Event Response to the 25 September 2014 Mw 6.2 Earthquake 94km WNW of Willow, Alaska |
The Alaska Earthquake Center located a strong earthquake that occurred on Thursday, September 25th at 9:51 AM AKDT in the Cook Inlet region of Alaska. This earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and was located at a depth of about 64 miles (103 km). As a response, UNAVCO is downloading one-sample-per-second (1-sps or 1 Hz) data from GPS stations within an approximately 100 km radius of the epicenter, as well as from stations near Anchorage, where shaking was felt. Read more |
2014-08 |
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Data Event Response to the 24 August 2014 Mw 6.0 South Napa Earthquake - 6km NW of American Canyon, California |
A Mw 6.0 earthquake with its epicenter located 6 km (4 miles) northwest of American Canyon, California and 8 km (5 miles) south southwest of Napa, California, occurred at 3:20 a.m. PDT on August 24, 2014 at a depth of 11.3 km. As a response, UNAVCO is currently downloading data recorded at five-samples-per-second (5 sps) for the full 24 hour UTC day of the event, and one-sample-per-second (1 sps) data for 3 days before and 3 days after the earthquake (7 days total). UNAVCO also produced a fully processed 1-sps borehole strainmeter (BSM) dataset spanning the time period of this event. Read more |
2014-08 |
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Detecting change through the Clouds: Revealing climate change from a high elevation glacier in the Alaska Range |
The main goal of this collaborative Dartmouth-University of Maine-University of New Hampshire project is to reconstruct the history of precipitation and atmospheric circulation in Alaska during the last thousand years using ice core records of snow accumulation. Read more |
2014-08 |
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Site upgrades bring stations online in the Dominican Republic |
During the last part of April, UNAVCO and the Oficina Nacional de Meteorología (ONAMET) upgraded communications on COCONet sites CN06, CN08, and CN27 and Jurisdicción Inmobiliaria (JI) sites BARA, LVEG, and SROD in the Dominican Republic, and brought site CN06 online for the first time since it was installed in August 2012. Read more |
2014-08 |
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UNAVCO installs COCONet cGPS sites CN13 and CN14 in the Bahamas |
Even stainless steel in the Caribbean starts to rust anywhere it has been welded or is in contact with another type of alloy such as aluminum. While the hardware used in the Plate Boundary Observatory works well in temporate climates, COCONet requires hardware better suited to hot, humid, and salty environs. Read more |
2014-08 |
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The RESESS internship program kicks off its 10th year |
UNAVCO welcomes the 2014 RESESS cohort! This is the 10th group of RESESS interns and we have had a fantastic kick-off to the summer. Already, the group has survived orientation and leadership training and the interns are digging in on their research. Read more |
2014-07 |
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Reaching educators in Alaska |
In March of 1964, a magnitude 9.2 earthquake devastated Anchorage and other communities along the Alaskan coast. Fifty years later, Alaskan museum and park interpretive professionals, naturalist guides, instructional specialists, and K-12 teachers gathered at the USGS Alaska Science Center in Anchorage to participate in one of two separate workshops exploring the region’s tectonics. Read more |
2014-06 |
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UNAVCO installs COCONet cGPS site CN21 in Honduras |
In collaboration with Fausto Ramirez and Oscar Meza of the Honduras Instituto de la Propiedad and Luis Eveline of the Universidad Politécnica de Ingeniería de Honduras (UPI), UNAVCO engineer Michael Fend installed CN21 in San Lorenzo, Honduras. Read more |
2014-06 |
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Data Event Response to the 23 June 2014 Mw 7.9 Earthquake 24km SE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska |
A Mw 7.9 earthquake occurred on June 23, 2014, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. As a response, UNAVCO is downloading high-rate GPS data from Plate Boundary Observatory stations within 1000 km of the epicenter of the event. PBO borehole strainmeter, seismometer, and tiltmeter data are also available. Read more |
2014-06 |
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PBO Featured at EarthScope Symposium and Reception |
Scientists, funders, and policy makers celebrated the successes of EarthScope's first ten years on May 14 and 15, 2014, in Washington, D.C. The Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) was featured as one of EarthScope's three major observatories, along with USArray and the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD). Events included Congressional briefings, a half-day science symposium, and an evening reception. Read more |
2014-06 |
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2014 UNAVCO Science Workshop |
The bi-annual UNAVCO Science Workshop has continued its tradition of bringing the UNAVCO community together to share advances in geodesy-related research and education. The 2014 UNAVCO Science Workshop was held in Broomfield, Colorado, 4-6 March 2014, with a theme of Celebrating Thirty Years of Geodesy Innovation for Science. Read more |
2014-05 |
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UNAVCO installs COCONet cGPS site CN46 in Carriacou, Grenada |
While most people in the Caribbean were enjoying their time off for Easter weekend, UNAVCO engineers Jacob Sklar and Michael Fend were installing COCONet GPS site CN46 on Carriacou Island, Grenada. Read more |
2014-04 |
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Earthquake and tsunami science and preparedness for coastal Cascadia educators |
Through a grant from the EarthScope Program of the National Science Foundation, the Cascadia EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program (CEETEP) offers four-day workshops to foster community engagement in earthquake and tsunami science and preparedness and to encourage collaboration and exchange between formal and informal educators. Read more |
2014-04 |
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Connecting museum visitors to geohazard science and GPS technology |
Monitoring a Shifting Earth is a new science exhibit on display at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center, a Sea Grant Institution in Newport, Oregon. Read more |
2014-04 |
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Data Event Response to the 28 March 2014 Mw 5.1 Earthquake 2 km East of La Habra, California |
A Mw 5.1 earthquake with its epicenter located 2 km east of La Habra, California, occurred at 9:09 p.m. on March 28, 2014 at a depth of 7.5 km. As a response, UNAVCO is downloading high-rate GPS data from Plate Boundary Observatory stations near the epicenter of the event. PBO borehole strainmeter data are also available. Read more |
2014-04 |
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Data Event Response to the 10 March 2014 Mw 6.8 Earthquake 77 km WNW of Ferndale, California |
A Mw 6.9 earthquake occurred on March 10, 2014, off the coast of northern California. As a response, UNAVCO downloaded high-rate GPS data from Plate Boundary Observatory stations within 500 km of the epicenter of the event. PBO borehole strainmeter data are also available. Read more |
2014-04 |
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Community Event Response to the 1 April 2014 Mw=8.2 Iquique, Chile Earthquake |
A magnitude 8.2 earthquake ruptured the subduction zone off the coast of northern Chile at 11:46:46 p.m. GMT on April 1, 2014. The event ruptured the Iquique seismic gap, a segment of the Nazca-South American subduction zone that last ruptured in 1877. Read more |
2014-04 |
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GSAC Software Makes the Grand Tour In Europe |
UNAVCO’s Geodesy Seamless Archive Centers (GSAC) software system enables efficient searches for geodesy data at any number of independent data centers. Current GSAC-enabled data centers include sites in Portugal, Italy, Greece, Iceland, France, and Belgium. Read more |
2014-03 |
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Seals, a Lava Lake, and Subglacial Microbes: 2013-2014 Antarctic TLS Highlights, Part 1 |
UNAVCO provided terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) support for seven projects in Antarctica during the 2013-2014 summer season. Here, polar engineer Brendan Hodge highlights three of them. Read more |
2014-03 |
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UNAVCO installs COCONet cGPS sites CN04 and CN47 in Saint Lucia |
UNAVCO engineers, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies and Saint Lucia’s Ministry of Physical Development, Housing and Urban Renewal, installed cGPS sites CN47 and CN04 in Saint Lucia during a 2.5-week trip spanning February and March 2014. Read more |
2014-03 |
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Maintaining POLENET Sites from the South Pole |
The POLENET Antarctic Network (ANET) has produced a valuable dataset of GPS and seismic measurements since 2007. These sites endure some of the harshest weather conditions on the planet, and consequently many must be visited at least every two years. The South Pole provides an ideal logistical hub for servicing geophysical stations that are up to 400 miles away. Read more |
2014-03 |
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UNAVCO installs COCONet cGPS site CN05 in the Dominican Republic |
Site CN05 at the Puna Cana International Airport in the Dominican Republic will provide insight into movement within the Puerto Rican Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean. CN05 was installed by UNAVCO in collaboration with the Oficina Nacional de Meteorología (ONAMET); Geomedición, Instrumentos y Sistemas; Holasa; and the Punta Cana Group of the Punta Cana International Airport. Read more |
2014-02 |
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Tracking subsidence in Houston |
UNAVCO is supporting the design and construction of more than 40 new permanent GPS stations in the greater Houston metropolitan area. This network, called HoustonNET, will provide data for a ground subsidence study aimed at reducing flood risk. Read more |
2014-01 |
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Repairing GGN site HARV to keep up with calibration of global sea level measurements |
UNAVCO field engineer Andrea Prantner visited the Harvest oil platform to repair infrastructure for GGN site HARV. HARV is used by NASA to calibrate the long-term satellite-based record of global sea level. Read more |
2014-01 |
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