Project Overview The first continuous GNSS station on South Georgia Island was installed in February 2013 as a collaboration between the University of Luxembourg, the British National Oceanographic Centre, the British Antarctic Survey, and UNAVCO. Field Season The field team visited King Edward Point (KEP) research station for one week. GNSS station KEPA was built … Continued
Project Overview Two sites at the most southern part of the North American continental plate were installed in Mexico as part of the ongoing Continuously Operating Caribbean GPS Observational Network (COCONet). COCONet is funded by the National Science Foundation with the aim of developing a large-scale geodetic and atmospheric infrastructure in the Caribbean that will form … Continued
Project Overview The Toutle River is a 17.2-mile (27.7 km) tributary of the Cowlitz River in the U.S. state of Washington. It rises in two forks merging near Toutle below Mount St. Helens and joins the Cowlitz near Castle Rock, 20 miles (32 km) upstream of the larger river’s confluence with the Columbia River. The … Continued
Project Overview In the Burggrafenamt district of South Tirol, Italy, a castle sits on a hill, named by the ancestral seat of the Counts of Tirol during the 12th century. The castle has witnessed a range of historical events, through the Habsburg dynasty, the Napoleonic Wars, two world wars, and now embodies its modern role … Continued
Project Overview Handcart Gulch, named for the handcarts that Colorado miners used to pull outfits up the steep valley, was a rowdy area that reached its peak in 1876-77 with several hundred miners in the area. Today, only some ruins mark the site. It is also the site of a terrestrial laser scanning project that … Continued
Project Overview Megathrust earthquakes occur at subduction zones at convergent boundaries, where one tectonic plate is subducted by another. These earthquakes are among the most powerful and destructive natural hazards on the planet. Over 250,000 people were killed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami generated by the Sumatra-Andaman megathrust earthquake. These events are devastating, not … Continued
Project Overview During July of 2012, 10 new continuous GPS stations were installed around the Lake Malawi region. Lake Malawi is the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. The third largest and second deepest lake in Africa, it is also the ninth largest in the world. Working … Continued
Project Overview In April of 2012, two engineers from UNAVCO conducted a maintenance trip to the Island of Montserrat to service four stations that house continuous GPS systems and borehole strain meters. These four stations were originally installed on the island between 2002 and 2004 as part of the Caribbean Andesite Lava Island Precision Seismo-geodetic Observatory … Continued
Project Overview Tim Dixon of the University of South Florida is working to develop a new, integrated approach for monitoring, verification, and accounting of carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestered in deep geologic repositories. Interest in terrestrial carbon sequestration has increased in an effort to explore opportunities for climate change mitigation. In October of 2011, three continuously … Continued
Project Overview Three of the world’s largest rivers, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghna, converge in the country of Bangladesh and dump one gigaton of sediment there annually to form the world’s largest delta (The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, or GBMD). This delta overlies the rapidly subsiding junction of three tectonic plates. Significance Almost 160 million … Continued