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Overview: Quantitatively skilled Earth science graduates are critical to meeting the needs of the workforce and the country. This virtual workshop will introduce Earth science instructors to co-curricular math and statistics modules and work with instructors to develop implementation plans for using the materials during the 2025-26 academic year. This workshop will gather ~20-30 undergraduate instructors and facilitators to … Continued

This technical short course, facilitated by the EarthScope Consortium, is designed to introduce participants to MsPASS, a powerful framework for processing seismic data on HPC and cloud systems. The course aims to teach seismologists how to effectively manage waveform metadata using MongoDB, understand modern computing cluster concepts, and leverage cloud computing for seismic data analysis.

This course will cover the theory and application of repeat-pass synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) using the software GMTSAR. Lectures and exercises will be given to teach the basic theoretical aspects of InSAR. Labs will include software installation, running test data sets for standard interferogram formation, as well as more advanced processing for time series with Sentinel-1A TOPS-mode data.

This 5-day course will cover basic & advanced InSAR theory, InSAR processing with the JPL/Caltech InSAR Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE), methods for mitigating noise in InSAR data, access the ARIA & OPERA standard InSAR products and prepare them for time-series analysis, InSAR time-series analysis with the MintPy software, pixel offset tracking, and basic data interpretation and modeling.

Speaker: Noel Jackson, University of Kansas This presentation will give updates on the Near Trench Community Geodetic Experiment deployment of GNSS-Acoustic and bottom pressure instruments, and our ongoing Seafloor Optical Fiber Strainmeter (SOFS) experiment aimed at detecting shallow slow slip near the base of the locked zone in Cascadia. Preliminary velocities now exist for some … Continued

Speaker: Sunyoung Park, University of Chicago Mantle rheology is one of the least constrained properties despite its importance in mantle dynamics. This talk will introduce a novel approach for understanding the rheological structure by examining the Earth’s response to deep earthquakes occurring near the bottom of the upper mantle. A major challenge in utilizing the … Continued

Many in the geophysical community are coming together for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. and some of us at EarthScope will be joining you. Here’s a handy list to help you find us!

Speaker: Solene Antoine, CalTech Surface deformation associated with continental earthquake ruptures generally includes localized deformation on the faults and distributed and/or diffuse deformation of the off-fault medium. However, the interplay between the different deformation components, and their relative role in the rupture process is not yet well understood, especially for the diffuse component. Moreover, the … Continued

Speaker: Karen Viskupic, Boise State University Bachelor-level geoscientists make up the majority of the geoscience workforce, and job opportunities for bachelor-level geoscientists are expected to grow over the next decade. Jobs for geoscientists span a wide range of industry sectors (e.g., government, private corporations, resource industries) and occupations (e.g., geophysicist, hydrologist, geologist, geo-engineer, environmental scientist). … Continued