Environmental Seismology: A Geophysical Tool to Study Surface and Near-Surface Processes
Environmental Seismology: A Geophysical Tool to Study Surface and Near-Surface Processes
Session ID#: 118780
Session Description:
Recent work has highlighted the generation of elastic waves by processes at or near Earth’s surface, and seismic techniques are being utilized to examine increasingly diverse processes, hazards and materials. Seismic detection, monitoring and characterization methods provide continuous, real-time observations with high temporal resolution and broad spatial coverage of multiple sources and inaccessible environments. Areas of recent advancement include: mass movement (landslides, rockfalls, debris flows, lahars); hydrologic (groundwater, open water waves/tides, floods, turbulence, sediment transport), cryospheric (avalanches, icequakes, ice calving/fracture/deformation, glacial hydrology/sliding), atmospheric and oceanic phenomena (microseisms, extreme weather, gravity waves); use of large-N arrays; 4-d imaging of substrate, material and structural attributes; and analysis of anthropogenic seismic sources and wave propagation. This session connects scientists applying theoretical, field-based and experimental seismic methods to surface and near-surface dynamics across disciplines. We invite contributions from geomorphology, cryospheric sciences, seismology, near-surface geophysics, hazards, volcanology, soil sciences, rock mechanics, hydrology and related fields.
Co-Organized:
- C - Cryosphere
- EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:
7299 General or miscellaneous [SEISMOLOGY]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Primary Convener: Bradley Paul Lipovsky, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners: Danica L Roth, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Kate Allstadt, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States, Richard C Aster, Colorado State University, Geosciences Department, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Bradley Paul Lipovsky, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Bradley Paul Lipovsky, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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