17 February 2022–Six leading experts in seismic tomography will present their most recent research and their perspective on where their field is headed at Seismic Tomography: What Comes Next? The in-person conference, presented by the Seismological Society of America, is scheduled for 28-30 October 2022 in Toronto, Canada. The keynote … Continue Reading »
14 February 2022–At the Colorado School of Mines, where Delaine Reiter was an undergraduate, she found her interests in math and Earth physics turned toward exploration seismology and near-surface studies. “I was looking at big reflection surveys of the very shallow crust, trying to find oil and gas plays,” she … Continue Reading »
9 February 2022–Field surveys conducted in the days after the 7 January 2020 Puerto Rico earthquake documented more than 300 landslides and severe liquefaction in southern coastal regions, according to a new study by U.S. Geological Survey and University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez researchers. The ground failure that resulted from … Continue Reading »
18 January 2022–For as long as Alicia Hotovec-Ellis can remember, she’s had “three core pieces of identity,” she said. “I like to draw, my favorite color is fire, and I want to be a scientist when I grow up.” She spent hours during her college days writing and illustrating a … Continue Reading »
15 December 2021–Just days after a 2020 magnitude 5.1 earthquake in Tangshan, China, researchers turned nearly 8 kilometers of unused telecom fiber optic cable into a seismic array that detected dozens of aftershocks that were missed by permanent seismic stations. The rapid deployment of the distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology … Continue Reading »
15 December 2021–The plan was to become a lawyer, says James Kaklamanos, recalling his early years as an undergraduate. But an interest in math and science, and encouraging science mentors at Tufts University, soon had him wondering if law school was really in his future. The Sumatra earthquake and tsunami … Continue Reading »