Alana and Nikodemos (“Nik”) are two of our 2026 Geo-Launchpad Interns. This summer, they are working on computer modeling of burial sites using Ground Penetrating Radar at the Kansas Geological Survey in Lawrence, Kansas.

Rachelle is a Geo-Launchpad intern this summer, working at the USGS on calculations, maps, and 3D models to be considered in the 2029 iteration of the National Seismic Hazard Model.

Is the Pioneer Fragment really stuck to the Pacific plate beneath a part of North America that’s extremely seismically active?

EarthScope Data Services will be retiring the irisws-timeseries web service and its associated microservices as part of our strategic initiative to refine the NSF National Geophysical Facility’s portfolio of data and metadata access capabilities in the cloud.

Nathan is using ambient noise tomography to image Earth’s crust in southeastern New Mexico. Nicolas is studying critical minerals at the Steeple Rock Mining District in New Mexico.

We are migrating the archiving of miniSEED data in the NSF National Geophysical Facility repository from our legacy Seattle data center to a new cloud platform.

Our fdsnws-availability web service will be out of service for an undetermined period of time starting on July 27.  We are working on a replacement system and will make it available as soon as possible.

Our PH5 web services will be migrating and retiring. The data and metadata previously served by these web services will be migrated to our FDSN web services.

Using geodesy and the paleoseismology record, researchers investigate how the Cajon Pass in SoCal could influence the next big earthquake.