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Session Proposal: Geophysics in the Oceans: Observations, Modeling, and New Frontiers (AGU25)

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Geophysics in the Oceans: Observations, Modeling, and New Frontiers

Session ID#: 250430

Session Description:
The ocean basins are a fundamental expression of plate tectonics, covering the majority of Earth’s surface and encompassing the entire plate life cycle. However, the seafloor is sparsely instrumented compared to the continents. Ongoing concerted efforts to deploy in-situ geophysical arrays help fill these observational gaps, illuminating fundamental solid earth processes from localized submarine volcanism, to hydration of oceanic crust and lithosphere, to multi-scale mantle convection. In addition, promising new seafloor technologies have come online, such as DAS and GNSS-Acoustic, expanding the range of accessible spatial and time sampling. We invite contributions that integrate seafloor observations to investigate chemical and physical interactions between the ocean, crust, lithosphere, and/or asthenosphere. Topics include imaging and/or geodynamic modeling of the oceanic lithosphere/asthenosphere, lower mantle discontinuities, mantle convection and plumes, presence/role of melt and volatiles, intraplate volcanism, seafloor geodesy, deformation/seismicity at plate boundaries, and new seafloor instrumentation and analysis techniques.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

3040 Plate tectonics [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
3050 Ocean observatories and experiments [MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS]
7208 Mantle [SEISMOLOGY]
8121 Dynamics: convection currents, and mantle plumes [TECTONOPHYSICS]
Primary Convener:  Joshua B Russell, Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States
Conveners:  Dr. HyeJeong Kim, ; University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, Tolulope M. Olugboji, University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, United States and Samer Naif, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, United States
 
Extracting Rayleigh-Wave Dispersion Curves From Microseism Noise Recorded at a Single Ocean Bottom Seismograph (1851500)
Han Deng1, Chao An1, Chen CAI2 and Jinyu Tian1, (1)Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Shanghai, China, (2)Sun Yat-sen University, School of Geosciences and Engineering, Zhuhai, China
 
Underwater WiFi system for the long-term BBOBS data retrieval using the ROV (1852886)
Hajime Shiobara1, Shuhei Nishida2, Eiichiro Araki2 and Aki Ito3, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Yokosuka, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Electrical Resistivity Distributions in Megathrust Earthquake Zones of the Japanese Island Arcs (Invited) (1856230)
Hiroshi Ichihara1, Hayato Nakamura1, Manaka Kuroda1, Takafumi Kasaya2 and Tada-nori Goto3, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)University of Hyogo, Himeji, Japan
 
Deep seafloor ambient seismic noise monitoring for oceanic and atmospheric pressure changes (1866337)
Bingxu Luo, The University of Arizona, Geoscience, Tuscon, United States; University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, United States, Shuo Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, Geosciences, Richardson, United States; University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States, Nozomu Takeuchi, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Ocean Hemisphere Research Center, Tokyo, Japan, David E Lumley, The University of Texas at Dallas, Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, Richardson, United States, Dou Li, Boston University, Boston, United States, Hejun Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Shenzhen, China and Susan Beck, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, United States
 
Seismic structure and estimated composition of arc crust in the Andreanof segment of the Aleutian Arc from wide-angle refraction data (1868025)
Hannah F Mark, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States; Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Daniel Lizarralde, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Donna J Shillington, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Valeria Cortes-Rivas, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Mark D Behn, Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States
 
Strain Accumulation Associated with Locked Subduction Megathrusts Observed in Deep-Ocean Boreholes (1874270)
Tianhaozhe Sun1,2 and Earl Davis2, (1)University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Pacific Geoscience Centre, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada
 
The waves within the waves: Improving global shear-wave splitting coverage through beamforming of OBS data (1875474)
Daniel Andrew Frost, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, United States, Joseph S Byrnes, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States, Jonathan Wolf, Yale University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, New Haven, United States, Joseph Phillips, NOAA National Weather Service, Ocean Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, Anant Hariharan, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, James B Gaherty, Columbia University in the City of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Zachary Eilon, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Donald W Forsyth, Brown Univ, Providence, United States
 
What Causes Seafloor Flattening? (1877966)
Fred Richards1, Jay Haley2 and Luke Broadley1, (1)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom
 
Spreading rate control of ocean cooling subsidence, LAB depth in oceans, type of ocean margins, and hotspot distribution (1883150)
Irina M M Artemieva, SinoProbe Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, China; GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, Section of Marine Geodynamics, Kiel, Germany
 
Long-term Marine Seismic and Acoustic Monitoring using Distributed Acoustic Sensing and Deep Learning (1884835)
Chun Zhang1, Weiqiang Zhu2, Barbara A Romanowicz2 and Richard M Allen2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
Improved detection of mid-ocean ridge seismicity: global statistics, fault coupling, and earthquake triggering (1888748)
Shunjie Wang1, Zefeng Li1, Jun Zhu1 and Lihua Fang2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, State Key Laboratory of Precision Geodesy, Hefei, China, (2)China Earthquake Administration, Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, Beijing, China
 
T-phase picking via semi-supervised learning of global hydrophone data (1889677)
Shunjie Wang1, Hanqi Zhu2, Zefeng Li1, Wenbo Wu3, Min Xu4 and Yong Zhou4, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, State Key Laboratory of Precision Geodesy, Hefei, China, (2)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Earth & Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (4)Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China
 
Spar Buoys for Seafloor Geodesy and Physical Oceanographic Observations on the Shallow Continental Shelf (1896630)
Timothy H Dixon, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States, Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States, Jason Law, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Randy Russell, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, United States, Sherryl Gilbert, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. petersburg, United States, William S D Wilcock, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, David A Schmidt, University of Washington Seattle, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, United States, Nicola Fraticelli, Hydra Solutions, Casalserugo, Italy and Jason Dennis, Hornbeck Offshore Services, Covington, United States
 
Joint VP and VS Tomography Using Converted Phases in Controlled-Source OBS Experiments: Application to the Ridge-to-Trench Dataset from the Juan de Fuca Plate (1896825)
Hanchao Jian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Juan Pablo Canales, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States
 
Rayleigh Waves from the OHANA Project Indicate Low Mantle Velocities in the Northeast Pacific (1901841)
Gabi Laske, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, John A Collins, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Donna K Blackman, University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Environmental Influences on HVSR Analysis from OBS Data (1910525)
Su Young Kang, Pusan National University, Institute of Geohazard Research, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South), Kwang-Hee Kim, Pusan National University, Department of Geological Science, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South) and Hyeon Ju Lee, Pusan National University, Institute of Geohazard Research, Busan, South Korea
 
Quantifying the Improvements in Earthquake Locations by Introducing OBS Observations (1911678)
Yujin Sohn and Kwang-Hee Kim, Pusan National University, Department of Geological Science, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Body-Wave Imaging in the Oceans: Plume vs. Plates (1912014)
Tolulope M Olugboji and Ziqi Zhang, University of Rochester, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States
 
From whale to plume: Charting the bio- and geosphere with UPFLOW data and beyond (Invited) (1917782)
Ana MG Ferreira, University College London, Department of Earth Science, London, United Kingdom, Alex Saoulis, University College London, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, United Kingdom, Maria Tsekhmistrenko, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Afonso Loureiro, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação - ARDITI, Funchal and Lisboa, Portugal, Katrina Harris, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Michael Witek, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States, Sung-Joon Chang, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea, Jorge Miguel A Miranda, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisboa, Portugal and UPFLOW and AtlanticArray teams
 
"Leveraging Geochemical Proxies for Seafloor Sediment Models: Predicting Bulk Density and P-Wave Velocity Using XRF" (1922764)
Karina Ledezma, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Taylor Runyan Lee, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Washington, DC, United States, Davin J. Wallace, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Chelsea Pederson, The University of Southern Mississippi, School of Ocean Science and Engineering, Stennis Space Center, United States
 
A Multimethod Analysis of T-phases from the September 2023 Ruby Seamount Eruption Recorded by MERMAIDs (1924771)
Alexander Pacubas, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Robin S Matoza, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States; University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States, Joel D. Simon, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States; Bathymetrix, LLC, Portland, OR, United States, Matthew M Haney, U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK, United States, Catherine D de Groot-Hedlin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and The EarthScope-Oceans Consortium
 
Downward Continuation Streamer Tomography and Reflection Imaging of the Northern Hikurangi Plateau (1925583)
Jackie R Harris, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States and Andrew Gase, Boise State University, Boise, United States
 
Pacific Upper Mantle at the NoMELT Site Characterized by Differential Body Wave Travel Time Measurements (1934574)
Raymond Hughes, UC Santa Barbara, San Jose, CA, UNITED STATES, Anant Hariharan, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Zachary Eilon, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States, Joshua B Russell, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States and James B Gaherty, Columbia University in the City of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States
 
Updates to and New Applications of the ATaCR Package for Tilt and Compliance Removal (1939198)
Helen A Janiszewski, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Earth Sciences, Honolulu, United States, Joshua B Russell, Syracuse University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States, Pascal Audet, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Yuechu Wu, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
 
Constraining Localized Diffractors in the Oceanic Upper Mantle using Novel Analyses of Surface Wave Arrival Angles (1940739)
Anant Hariharan, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Zachary Eilon, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, United States and Gabi Laske, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
 
Güralp Ocean Bottom Monitoring Solutions: Autonomous Nodes, Cabled Observatories and SMART Cables (1942907)
James Lindsey1, Neil Watkiss1, Federica Restelli2 and Phil Hill3, (1)Guralp Systems Ltd., Reading, RG7, United Kingdom, (2)Guralp Systems, Aldermaston, United Kingdom, (3)Guralp Systems Ltd., Reading, United Kingdom
 
A Study Toward Full-Waveform Tomography of Seismic Waves in the Ryukyu and Japan Trenches (1957739)
Taro Okamoto, Institute of Science Tokyo, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, Hiroshi Takenaka, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, Takeshi Nakamura, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Abiko, Japan and Masanao Komatsu, Okayama Gakuin University, Kurashiki, Japan
 
Geophysical Constraints on the Lithosphere Beneath Plume-less Ocean Bathymetric Swells (1960566)
William Frazer and Lara S Wagner, Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States
 
Locating Submarine Events in the Pacific Ocean Based on T-waves (1985848)
Jinqian Xie, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Yong Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China, Sidao Ni, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China and Zhichao Shen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Seismic Characterization of the Offshore Guerrero Seismic Gap Using Ocean Bottom Seismometers: Site Response, Attenuation, and Shallow Structure (1991578)
Raymundo Plata Martinez, Instituto de Geofísica Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, MEXICO, Yoshihiro Ito, Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan, Aristóteles Jaramillo-Rivera, Geoexplora, Mexico City, Mexico, Francisco J Sanchez-Sesma, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ingeniería, Coyoacán, CDMX, Mexico, Arturo Ronquillo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Mexico City, Mexico, Victor M Cruz-Atienza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geofísica, Mexico, Mexico and Jorge Arturo Real, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Sismilogia, Didtrito Federal, Mexico