Articles
Fall 2016 Education Corner
2016-10-23
For every InSights issue, we feature two of the dozens of tools, modules, and activities that utilize EarthScope data to benefit a wide variety of users. We intend to reach K–12 and university educators, as well as informal programs like museums.
Good Times, Better Ages
2016-10-11
How the EarthScope AGeS program evolved
Triangulation Point, Oregon
2016-10-10
PBO Station P405 battles the elements at an energetic plate boundary
Getting Hands On With EarthScope
2016-10-10
By ESNO - Spring 2016
"Wow, it's moving!" was called out frequently in the busy hall that housed the largest (and free!) national science festival. More than 365,000 people of all ages and
Creeping Calamity
2016-09-20
Using the Plate Boundary Observatory to monitor landslide motion. GPS Station AC55 in Alaska was moving more than expected. Some movement was normal due to tectonic plate movement and residual motion from previous earthquakes—other GPS stations...
A Magnetic Meeting of Space and Earth
2016-09-20
Magnetic storms, triggered by the interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s magnetosphere, not only produce our aurora light shows, but can also induce electric fields in our planet’s subsurface.
Summer 2016 Education Corner
2016-09-20
Over the years, an array of tools, modules, and activities applying EarthScope scientific data have been developed for a wide variety of users. K–12 and university educators, or informal programs like museums, can benefit from these resources.
Recent Craton Growth by Under-accreting an Ocean Plateau Beneath Wyoming
2016-09-20
Science Nugget - By Eugene Humphreys (University of Oregon Eugene) and Robert van der Hilst (MIT) - NSF # EAR 952194 | 2010-2012
Seismic tomography images high-velocity…
Crustal Strength Profiles Across the Brittle-Ductile Transition
2016-09-20
Science Nugget - By John Platt (University of Southern California) and W. M. Behr (University of Texas Austin) - NSF EAR # 0809443 | 2008-2012
In this project we…
The Vertical Fingerprint of Earthquake Cycle Loading in Southern California
2016-09-19
Science Nugget - By Bridget Smith-Konter (University of Hawaii at Manoa), David Sandwell (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), Xiaopeng Tong (University of Washington…
