Investigations related to how complexities in explosive and/or earthquake sources (e.g., point sources, finite source geometries, source depth, source energy) and near-source parameters (e.g., topography, material properties, damage) could potentially impact the resultant seismic waves for monitoring are areas of active and challenging research. This session intends to highlight physics-based capabilities of numerical modeling codes as well as laboratory source characterization and wave propagation for monitoring applications. We are open to a wide range of studies related to explosion source dynamics, earthquake rupture dynamics, source geometry/characterization, velocity structure, prestress, and other material properties around sources including fracturing and permanent deformation. We also encourage contributions on novel research that explores scaling between numerical models and laboratory experiments applicable to monitoring.

• NG - Nonlinear Geophysics