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WHAT'S HOT
view all- COCONet seeks applicants for two graduate research fellowships. Apply by July 15, 2013.
- GPS Data Processing and Analysis with GAMIT/GLOBK/TRACK (July 8-12, 2013)
- Update: the fourth round of requests for SAFOD Phase III core samples will begin 1 July 2013
- Apply Now: Short Course on InSAR Processing and Theory (June 26-28, 2013)
- Notice to UNAVCO GPS Data Product Users: File Format Update on March 25th 2013
HIGHLIGHTS
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UNAVCO helps incorporate GPS into introductory field course
June 11, 2013
This marks the fifth year that UNAVCO has sent both a real-time-kinematic GPS system and a field engineer to assist with the GPS portion of a Volcanoes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada field course.
The RESESS internship program kicks off its 9th year
May 21, 2013
Aisha R. Morris is excited to join the UNAVCO team as an Education and Community Engagement Specialist, and Director of the RESESS Program. Most recently, Aisha worked in the office of Representative Rush Holt (NJ-12) as the 2011-2012 William L. Fisher Geosciences/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Congressional Science Fellow.
COCONet station installed in Anguilla
May 8, 2013
With assistance from the Anguillan government, UNAVCO installed a continuous GPS/MET site in Anguilla, one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and directly north of Saint Martin.
COCONet station installed near Anegada Passage
May 2, 2013
Puerto Rico and the northern Virgin Islands define the eastern terminus of the Greater Antilles, which extend eastward from offshore eastern Central America to the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc and mark the boundary between the Caribbean and North America plates.
SCIENCE SNAPSHOTS
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Dangerous Outflow After Massive Inflow: Estimating the 2011 Japan Tsunami Current Velocity With Terrestrial Laser Scanning
June 11, 2013
The damaging March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake caused significant tsunami waves that were recorded on videos by eyewitnesses. Two survivor videos from building rooftops at Kesennuma Bay were combined after the catastrophe and compared with on site terrestrial laser scans, using ground-based LiDAR.
How the Mantle Moves You: Connecting Plate Motions to Mantle Dynamics with Global GPS
June 11, 2013
The many tectonic plates that make up the surface of the Earth giving us mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, coastal plains, seamounts, mid-ocean ridges and other features are tied to flow in the deeper mantle.
Solar Storm Creates Geomagnetic Disturbance Captured by South Pole GPS
February 25, 2013
A coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun that was directed toward the Earth created a significant ionospheric and geomagnetic disturbance at the South Pole. Observations from satellites, the Antarctic GPS network and seven GPS scintillation receivers installed in 2010 mapped out the disturbance.
Observing Abrupt Melting in the Greenland Ice Sheet and Relating Air Mass Changes to Bedrock Changes
November 2, 2012
Snow and ice melts in Greenland every summer, but the summer of 2010 melting season was so much longer and hotter than in previous years that an extra 100 billion tons of ice melted from the ice sheet and flowed out to sea.
Sea Level Rise on the U.S. Gulf Coast
February 6, 2013
The Mississippi Delta along the Gulf Coast of the United States is a major site of sediment deposition from the Mississippi River and conversely a major site of wetland loss from rising seas and subsidence. There is debate about how much and when the delta has risen or fallen due to deposition, subsidence, sea level change, and erosion.
UNAVCO's Strainmeters Record the Arrival of Tsunamis on the west coast of North America
August 15, 2012
UNAVCO’s Plate Boundary Observatory includes 75 borehole strainmeters installed predominantly throughout the west coast of North America. Strainmeters work by detecting changes in the size of the borehole, and are sensitive enough to detect a 4 picometer change (smaller than the width of a hydrogen atom). Because they are so sensitive, they pick up every thump and shake in their vicinity, including the arrival of a tsunami wave from across the ocean.
Quality Assessment: A new technique to assess and monitor long-term quality of GPS data
March 7, 2013
Geoff Blewitt and Corne Kreemer of UNR’s Geodetic Laboratory have devised a new processing-based technique for evaluating site quality on an ongoing basis.
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