2017 OBS Symposium Location and Date Announced
The 2017 OBS Symposium will be held September 18-19 in Portland, Maine. Details on registration, travel, and speakers will be announced through the OBSIPtec mailing list and will be made available on the OBSIP website.
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)
International OBS Town Hall at 2016 AGU Fall Meeting
OBSIP hosted a town hall meeting at AGU for all international ocean bottom seismometer operators and users. Click for slides from the event as well as a list of OBSIP-related AGU abstracts. (Photo: Emilie Hooft)
New “Data Mine” Column Debuts With SEGMeNT Experiment
Seismological Research Letters debuted their new "Data Mine" column with an article on the Malawi Rift (SEGMeNT) experiment headed by Dr. Donna Shillington. Find a link to the article and more information on the experiment page by clicking here.
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.
First Seismometers Deployed in Yellowstone Lake
The very first lake bottom seismometers have been installed in Yellowstone Lake to record the hydrothermal vent activity within this well-known caldera. Dr. Robert Sohn’s experiment uses Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ocean bottom seismometers modified to operate in the freshwater environment. (Photo: Louis Garcia)
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)
Cascadia Initiative Data Used in Tsunami Forecast Study
In a study published by Geophysical Research Letters and featured by Eos, researchers used OBSIP seafloor pressure recordings of the tsunami from the 2012 Haida Gwaii earthquake to test a potential forecast method fed by real-time wave data. Click to read the Eos article. (Photo: Daniel Zietlow)
CREST Experiment Completed in the South Atlantic
Dr. Robert Reece led this expedition to image the longest transect of oceanic crust to date, 1500 kilometers from ridge to rise. Click to learn more about this experiment and read about the deployment and recovery on board the R/V Langseth via their science blog.
(Photo: Clint Koch)
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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