Overview Over two and a half weeks in June 2017, graduate student Gorki Ruiz from The Pennsylvania State University (PSU), Omar Espinoza and Javier Cornejo from Instituto Geografico Nacional “Tommy Guardia” – Departamento de Geodesia, and Mike Fend from UNAVCO traveled throughout much of Panama to collect episodic GPS data (eGPS) and service previously installed … Continued
Project Overview In 21 days, UNAVCO field engineer Mike Fend, Kendall Wnuk of Penn State University, and Allan Morales of INETER visited three active volcanoes and 25 GPS stations. This tally includes both COCONet stations and stations in local volcanic networks in Nicaragua. By air and ground, the team performed maintenance on 15 telemetered cGPS … Continued
Project Overview Determining how the Caribbean plate moves with respect to the neighboring North America and South America plates has been a major challenge. Geologic plate motion models using seafloor magnetic anomaly rates, transform fault azimuths, and slip vectors are challenging due to sparse data. The only rates come from the Cayman Spreading Center, and … Continued