Peering Beneath the Pacific
An array of 30 OBS will collect data on the remote Pacific seafloor to image shallow mantle convection and fill in gaps of coverage for global tomography. Click to follow the progress of the crew aboard the R/V Kilo Moana. (Photo: Zach Eilon)
OBS Science Takes Center Stage in Portland, Maine
The 2017 OBS Symposium gathered around 120 attendees for a two-day program to highlight the research made possible by current OBS technology and to discuss what lies ahead. Presentations are now available on the symposium website.
Alaska Amphibious Experiment Gears Up For Spring 2018
The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment (AACSE) will deploy across the Alaska Peninsula subduction zone in the spring of 2018 and will include 75 broadband OBS from OBSIP as well as 30 land broadband sensors.
2017 OBS Symposium - September 18-19 - Portland, Maine
The 2017 OBS Symposium was held September 18-19 in Portland, Maine. The agenda included a diverse array of science speakers, a poster session, as well as two forums on future technologies, open-source software, and community thoughts on OBS facilities.
WHOI Engineers Test “Bubblephone” for Yellowstone Lake
The experiment will include ten stations deployed to the bottom of Yellowstone Lake in summer of 2017. Instruments will record microearthquakes as well as signals from the gases released at hydrothermal vents. (Photo: Rob Sohn)
PICTURES Experiment Off the Coast of Chile
Read about the participants via their cruise blog as they deployed and recovered 51 Scripps ocean bottom seismometers. Click for links and information about this active-source experiment led by PI Dr. Anne Tréhu from Oregon State University.
Subduction Zone Dynamics Refined By Community Experiment
Data from the Cascadia Initiative experiment was used in a study published in Science that imaged the subduction zone offshore Washington and Oregon. Click for links to the article and more information about the five-year deployment. (Photo: Erik Fredrickson)
HOBITSS Featured in Smithsonian Article on Slow Earthquakes
During this year-long deployment the Lamont-Doherty shielded instruments recorded a shallow slow-slip event that occurred offshore New Zealand in 2015. Click for a link to the Smithsonian article as well as more information on the HOBITSS experiment.
NoMelt Study Challenges Views of Mantle Dynamics
A study recently published in Nature uses OBS data from the 2011-2013 NoMelt experiment in the Pacific to show that large-scale plate motion may not be the greatest driver of deformation in the oceanic mantle. Click for more information about the NoMelt experiment. (Photo: Jim Gaherty)
An OBS Perspective
A video by Ernie Aaron of Scripps Institute of Oceanography shows the experience of an ocean bottom seismometer from deployment to recovery during the 2014-2015 ENAM community seismic experiment.
The Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool (OBSIP)
The U.S. National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool provides instrumentation to support research to further our understanding of marine geology, seismology and geodynamics. Funded through the NSF, the Pool makes ocean bottom seismic equipment available to all interested researches, to private and public organizations, and to industry.
Highlights
The International OBS Town Hall at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting hosted 16 speakers representing 7 different countries. Titles, speakers, and presentations are now available on the OBSIP website.
The Ocean Bottom Seismology Symposium in Vancouver, WA, was attended by over 100 participants and featured 18 talks covering a wide range of research topics. Specifications for future OBS instrumentation were also discussed.
OBSIP has created a mailing list for ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) related information and technical discussion of OBS issues. All subscribers are encouraged to contribute. Click here to sign up and join the conversation.
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