Overview

This workshop will provide an opportunity to bring together the Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) community that has matured and expanded over the past three years of the research coordination network. There will be opportunities to present and discuss DAS science and technology. Participants will also have the opportunity to contribute short, 1-2 page white papers outlining their own vision of where DAS-enabled science should head and what is needed to get there. Following the conclusion of the workshop, a report will be developed that provides a vision for the future of DAS-enabled science – based on presentations, discussions, and contributed white papers. A draft of the report will be circulated to the community for comment before being finalized and published to the workshop website. The final report will be delivered to NSF and also circulated to AGU members and federal agencies. 

This workshop will be held in-person with a virtual component, limited to a broadcast of main presentations and sessions only. All participants, in-person and virtual, must register. There is no registration fee and an optional application for travel support is included. Late registration will be accommodated as space permits.

Venue

The workshop will be held on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus in Weeks Hall (1215 W. Dayton Street, UWisc Map, Google Map) in room 140. This is about ~20 minute walk or ~10 minute bus ride ($2 fare) from the Hyatt Place.

Parking is available for visitors on campus with Union South Garage Lot 80 as the closest lot. Check the live availability of parking lots here.

Poster boards are available on request; the size of each board is 6′ by 3′.

Information on how to access guest Wi-Fi while on campus, can be found here. Eduroam is also available.

Code of Conduct

All workshop participants will be required to adhere to the EarthScope Code of Conduct.

Contacts

RCN Co-PIs:

• Herbert Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Reno
• Robert Woodward, EarthScope Consortium
• Kasey Aderhold, EarthScope Consortium

Workshop:

• Krystin Poitra, EarthScope Consortium, Meeting Planner
• Judy Donato, EarthScope Consortium, Controller
• Michelle Szabo, Geoscience Department – University of Wisconsin-Madison, Academic Department Manager

• Registration Opens – March 20th
• Hotel Block Closes – May 26th
• In-Person Registration Closes – May 26th (virtual registration will remain open until capacity is reached)
• White Papers Due – June 5th (for incorporating by the writing team, will continue to be accepted and posted)
• Workshop – June 13th (all day) – June 14th (morning)
• Writing Team – June 14th (afternoon) – June 15th (morning)
• Report Draft Posted – TBD
• Report Feedback Due – TBD
• Final Report Posted – TBD

Agenda

A program for 1.5 days (June 13th 8am-5pm and June 14th 8am-12pm) has been developed and features presentations on the latest science and technical advancements in distributed acoustic sensing.

June 13th, 2023 – Weeks Hall – Room 140 – 1215 W. Dayton St (UWisc Map, Google Map)

8:00 – Coffee/Registration

8:30 –  8:45  – Introductions/Welcome – Herb Wang (slides)

8:45 –  9:15  – Comments from NSF, Q&A/Discussion – Eva Zanzerkia and Maggie Benoit (slides)

9:15 –  9:45  (moved to Day 2) –  Meeting the Challenges of DAS Data Archival & Dissemination  – Jerry Carter (slides)

9:45 –  10:15  –  DAS Instrumentation and Data Management for Real Time Geomechanics and Seismology  – Andres Chavarria (slides)

10:15 –  10:30  –  SeaFOAM: A permanent DAS deployment in Monterey Bay, California for monitoring and earthquake early warning – Richard Allen (slides)

10:30 –  11:15  – Break/Posters 

11:15 –  11:30  –  Eavesdropping at the speed of light: Distributed acoustic sensing of baleen whales  – Léa Bouffaut (slides)

11:30 –  12:00  –  Observational frontiers in physical oceanography enabled by fiber optic sensing  – Ethan Williams (slides)

12:00 –  12:30  –  Insights from the first in-river DAS deployment  – Danica Roth (slides)

12:30 –  14:00  – Lunch – on your own

14:00 –  14:30  –  Distributed Acoustic and Temperature Sensing in Permafrost Tundra in Utqiaġvik, Alaska for Long-term, In-situ Permafrost Monitoring Using Ambient Noise  – Xiaohang Ji (slides)

14:30 –  15:00  –  Cryosphere, Submarine, Urban, and Clean Energy Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) projects at the University of Washington Fiber Lab  – Brad Lipovsky (slides)

15:00 –  15:45  – Break/Posters 

15:45 –  16:00  –  3C DAS array or Applications of borehole DAS Ambient noise – Yingping Li (slides)

16:00 –  16:15  –  Microseismic monitoring of a geothermal reservoir using Fourier Neural Operators – Umair Waheed (slides)

16:15 –  16:30  –  Examples of Dedicated and Dark Fiber DAS Applications in Civil Engineering Infrastructure  – Dante Fratta (slides)

16:30 –  17:00  –  Towards Earthquake Monitoring and Response with DAS: Recent Progress and Outstanding Challenges – Andrew Barbour

June 14th, 2023 – Weeks Hall – Room 140 – 1215 W. Dayton St

8:00 – Coffee 

8:30 –  8:45  –  Geomechanical strain measured by DAS  – Matt Becker (slides)

8:45 –  9:00  –  Comparisons Between Array Derived Dynamic Strain Rate and Fiber-optic DAS Strain Rate  – Gene Ichinose (slides)

9:00 –  9:15  –  Observations of regional and teleseismic events at Sanford Underground Research Facility  – Erin Cunningham  (slides)

9:15 –  10:00  – Open Announcements/Discussion (Upcoming Research Projects, Future Directions)

10:00 –  10:30  – Break/Posters

10:30 –  11:30  – Panel Discussion – CTEMPS, EarthScope, and Community Resources  – Scott Tyler (slides), Bob Woodward (slides)

11:30 –  12:00  – Workshop Conclusion  – Herb Wang

12:00 –  13:30  – Lunch – on your own

14:00 –  17:00  – Writing Team – Weeks Hall – Room A259 – 1215 W. Dayton St

June 15th, 2023

8:00 – Coffee 

8:30 –  12:00  – Writing Team – Weeks Hall – Room A259 – 1215 W. Dayton St

White Papers

Participants will also have the opportunity to contribute short, 1-2 page white papers outlining their own vision of where DAS-enabled science should head and what is needed to get there.

Writing Team

The report writing team will meet in-person on June 14th 2-5pm and June 15th 8:30am-12pm and virtually as needed. If you are interested in serving on this team, please indicate this on your registration or get in touch with kasey.aderhold@earthscope.org.

Hotel

A block is reserved for this meeting at the Hyatt Place Madison/Downtown (333 W Washington Avenue, 1.1 miles from the campus meeting venue). Rates are King single bed rooms for $175/night + 15.5% sales tax and double Queen rooms for $185/night + 15.5% sales tax. Note: EarthScope-supported participants will only be reimbursed for lodging at this hotel at the group rate for nights of June 12th-June 14th (check in on the 12th, check out on the 15th) unless otherwise approved. Overnight parking is $15/night. 

Guests can make reservations online or by calling the phone number 1-888 HYATT HP (1-888-492-8847) (Hyatt Place) and asking for the group code G-EART. If guests try to make reservations outside of the block, the rate will come up as unavailable. Hotel reservations must be made by May 26th.

Airports

This area is served by two nearby airports and one more distant international airport:

• Dane County Regional Airport – MSN (5 miles from venue) – https://www.msnairport.com/
• General Mitchell International Airport – MKE (84 miles from venue) – https://www.mitchellairport.com/
• O’Hare International Airport – ORD (132 miles from venue) – https://www.flychicago.com/ohare/home/pages/default.aspx

Ground Transportation

Regional bus service is available:

• from General Mitchell International airport via BadgerBus (https://badgerbus.com/)
• from O’Hare airport to Madison via CoachUSA (https://www.coachusa.com/airport-transportation/van-galder).

Note: Rental cars are not reimbursable under our travel support policy.

Reimbursement Policy

If selected for travel support, reimbursement of travel expenses (airfare/ground transportation/per diem) to the maximum as awarded to you will require being compliant with NSF policies, EarthScope travel policies, and supplying proper documentation. A specific DAS RCN Workshop reimbursement form will be sent to you to fill out and return with updated instructions.

Itemized receipts are required for out-of-pocket expenses as well as proper documentation. Specific instructions sent to selected participants will include:

• Airfare receipts should show the itinerary, itemization of cost, and class of airfare (NOTE: if using a foreign-flag air carrier, proper justification will be needed otherwise the expense may not be covered.)
• Mileage, if applicable, should be supported by a Google map showing the starting and ending location.
  • If driving more than 500 miles one direction:
    • A printout of a comparison, economy class airfare for the applicable dates of travel between the nearest commercial airport serving the origin and destination cities is required.
    • Reimbursement will not exceed the lesser of the cost per-mile ($0.655/mile) reimbursement plus tolls or the comparison airfare plus transfer costs to and from the airport.
  • Gas purchases are not allowed as this is covered by mileage.
  • Any other transportation expenses, such as taxi cab/Uber/Lyft (to/from airport/hotel), parking, and tolls are allowable.  Receipts should include dates, amounts, and other relevant information.
• Rental cars are not reimbursable under this provided support.
• No other expenses are covered outside of transportation, lodging, and per diem.

Covered hotel nights will be directly billed to EarthScope; a credit card is required at booking and check-in for any additional charges to the room bill. Unless otherwise approved, only nights of June 12th-June 13th will be covered and directly billed to EarthScope for the group rate at the Hyatt Place Madison/Downtown. Participants are responsible for any other charges incurred to their room at check out.

Per diem will be calculated for you based on your travel dates not to exceed June 12th to June 14th, unless otherwise approved, and not including provided meals.

We will be following the local health orders for University of Wisconsin-Madison. As of March 17, 2023, the recommendations are:

• Everyone is “strongly encouraged to get vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19, and to seek their annual flu vaccine.” 
• “Wearing a high-quality face mask is a simple and effective way to help prevent upper respiratory viral infections, including COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).”
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend a minimum of five days of isolation for anyone with COVID-19, followed by five additional days of masking around other people and when in public. Anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 is encouraged to notify their close contacts.

Masks and COVID-19 tests will be available at the workshop registration table.

As part of the registration process, participants will be asked to commit to not attending workshop events if they test positive or develop symptoms during or within 5 days of the start of the workshop, or as otherwise recommended by local health orders. Dane County also maintains a COVID dashboard displaying public health data.

First Name	Last Name	Affiliation	Participating
Arantza	Ugalde	Institute of Marine Sciences	Virtually
Asiye	Aziz Zanjani	Southern Methodist University	Virtually
Shima	Abadi	University of Washington	Virtually
Andrew	Barbour	USGS	Virtually
Sushant	Adhikari	Tribhuvan university	Virtually
Ahadul	Islam	Saint Louis University	Virtually
Abduljeleel	Ajibona	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	In-person
Alison	Laferriere	Scripps Institution of Oceanography	Virtually
Ali	Songhori	University of Tehran	Virtually
Andres	Chavarria	LUNA-OptaSense	In-person
Anna	Makushkina	Australian National University	Virtually
Allen	Pope	NSF	Virtually
Ariel	Lellouch	Tel Aviv University	Virtually
Basem	Al-Qadasi	KFUPM	Virtually
William	Harbert	University of Pittsburgh	Virtually
Birendra	Jha	University of Southern California	Virtually
Brad	Lipovsky	University of Washington	In-person
Chih-Chieh	Chien	Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD	In-person
Celine	Hadziioannou	University of Hamburg	Virtually
Ya-Mei	Yang	Industrial Technology Research Institute	Virtually
Corentin	Caudron	Université libre de Bruxelles	Virtually
Melania	Cubas Armas	Institut de Ciencias del Mar ICM – CSIC	Virtually
Yifang	Cheng	University of California, Berkeley	Virtually
Clara	Yoon	USGS	Virtually
Congcong	Yuan	Harvard	Virtually
Daniel	Adeleke	Villanova University	Virtually
Douglas	Miller	MIT Earth Resources Laboratory	Virtually
R. Arun	Prasath	Institute of Seismological Research	Virtually
Danica	Roth	Colorado School of Mines	In-person
Sakshi	Sakshi	Masters Student	Virtually
Eduardo	Arzabala	Tulane University	In-person
Erin	Cunningham	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Ethan	Williams	University of Washington	In-person
Elisa	McGhee	Colorado State University	Virtually
Emrah	Alpsan	Nanometrics	Virtually
Elisabeth	Clyne	Atlas Technical Consultants	Virtually
Esther	Oyedele	Virginia Tech	Virtually
Fabiana	Fuentes	University of Colorado Boulder	In-person
Feng	Cheng	Zhejiang University	Virtually
Flavio	Cannavo	INGV	Virtually
Frantisek	Stanek	Silixa	Virtually
Dante	Fratta	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Felix Rodrigo	Rodriguez Cardozo	University of South Florida	Virtually
Finhas	Zerai	Bowling Green State University	In-person
G. Eli	Baker	Air Force Research Laboratories	In-person
Gaurav	Kumar	Indian Institute of science education and research Bhopal (IISER Bhopal )	Virtually
Eva	Golos	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Gonzalo	zambrano	University of Alberta	Virtually
Gabriel	Rocha dos Santos	Pennsylvania State University	In-person
Herbert	Wang	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Hiroki	Sone	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Gene	Ichinose	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	In-person
Indra	Gunawan		Virtually
Jan Petter	Morten	ASN Norway AS	Virtually
Justin	Ball	Bureau of Reclamation	Virtually
Jochen	Braunmiller	University of South Florida	Virtually
Jerry	Carter	EarthScope	In-person
Jesse	Hampton	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Jessica	Johnson	University of East Anglia	In-person
Yu	Jiang	Nanyang Technological University	Virtually
Juan	Paniagua-Arroyave	Universidad EAFIT	Virtually
Julián	Pelaez	CNRS	Virtually
Kasey	Aderhold	EarthScope	In-person
Kenechukwu	Obi	Bowling Green State University, Ohio	In-person
Kent	Anderson	EarthScope	In-person
Kittinat	Taweesintananon	NTNU — Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Virtually
Kathleen	Hodgkinson	Sandia National Laboratories	In-person
Khadija	Nadimi	University of Memphis	In-person
Kiran	Pandey	University of Memphis	In-person
Kaushik	Pradhan	University of Texas at El Paso	In-person
Krystin	Poitra	EarthScope	In-person
Kim	Welford	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Virtually
Kyle	Spikes	The University of Texas at Austin	In-person
Léa	Bouffaut	Cornell University	In-person
Lena	Urmantseva	AP Sensing	Virtually
Lucia	Gonzalez	The University of Texas at El Paso	In-person
Luis Manuel	Matias	Instituto Dom Luiz	Virtually
Loic	Viens	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Virtually
Lucas	Zoet	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Maddie	Smith	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	Virtually
Manfred	Niehus	isel/it PT	Virtually
Manuel	Mendoza	CIRES at University of Colorado Boulder	In-person
Marie	Macquet	Carbon management Canada	Virtually
Matthew	Becker	California State University Long Beach Earth Sciences	Virtually
Maggie	Benoit	NSF	Virtually
Mike	Craven	Chevron	Virtually
Maochuan	Zhang	University of Washington	In-person
Megan	Everingham	Silixa LLC	Virtually
Mel	Zhang	Colorado School of Mines	In-person
Marianne	Karplus	University of Texas at El Paso	Virtually
Shaik Nasif	Ahmed	Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research, India	In-person
Nataly	Aranda		Virtually
Neal	Lord	University of Wisconsin-Madison	In-person
Nelofar	Qulizada	MSc Student	Virtually
Navin	Thapa	University of Memphis	In-person
Oluwaseyifunmi	Adeboboye	Georgia Institute of Technology	In-person
Oleg	VALISHIN	Sercel	Virtually
Isaiah	Olayiwola		Virtually
Phuc	Mach	Georgia Institute of Technology	Virtually
Ramaz	Kvatadze	Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association GRENA	Virtually
Rob	Moak	Tensora	Virtually
Robert	Woodward	EarthScope Consortium	In-person
Santiago	Rabade	University of Utah	In-person
Saqib	Zia	CSIR – National Geophysical Research Institute	Virtually
Sascha	Liehr	DiGOS	Virtually
Lynn	Simmons	PNSN	Virtually
Shujuan	Mao	Stanford University	Virtually
Anthony	Sladen	Geoazur – CNRS	Virtually
Siyu	Lu	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Virtually
Süleyman	TUNÇ	Kocaeli üniv.	Virtually
Scott	Tyler	University of Nevada, Reno	In-person
Surya	Pachhai	University of Utah	Virtually
Susanne	Ouellet	University of Calgary	Virtually
Evelyn Susana	Delgado Andino	Student	Virtually
Shihao	Yuan	Colorado School of Mines	Virtually
Jagadeeshwar	Tabjula	Fraunofer	Virtually
Trina	Das	Bowling Green State University	Virtually
Frederik	Tilmann	GFZ Potsdam: German Research Centre for Geosciences	Virtually
Tobias	Megies	LMU Munich	Virtually
Umair	Waheed	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	In-person
Manuel	Loureiro	ARDITI	In-person
Venkadesh	Samykannu	Tamil Nadu Agricultural University	Virtually
Walid	Ben Mansour	Washington University in Saint Louis	Virtually
William	Wilcock	University of Washington	In-person
Wang-Ping	Chen	U. of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) & China U. of Geosciences (Wuhan)	Virtually
Xiaohang	Ji	Pennsylvania State University	In-person
Xulu	Lin	CSIRO	Virtually
Yingping	LI	BlueSkyDas LLC	In-person
Luis	Yegres	Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE)	In-person
Yesim	Cubuk Sabuncu	Icelandic Met Office	Virtually
Yi	Duan	CSIRO	Virtually
Chin-Jen	Lin	Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica	Virtually
Yeshey	Seldon	The University of Texas at El Paso	In-person
Yuancong	Gou	University of California, Berkeley	Virtually
Zahra	Khorrami	University of Tehran	Virtually
Weisen	Shen	Stony Brook University	Virtually
Olivier	Fontaine	ULB	Virtually
Ayrat	Abdullin	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Virtually
Goodluck	Archibong	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)	Virtually
Smaine	Zeroug	SLB (ex. Schlumberger)	Virtually
Yongzan	Liu	SLB	Virtually
Olga	Podgornova	SLB	Virtually
Eva	Zanzerkia	NSF	Virtually
James	St. Clair	PNNL	In-person
Jeff	McGuire	USGS	Virtually
Richard	Allen	UC Berkeley	In-person