Radar reveals a Greenland glacier’s daily balancing act
Terrestrial Radar Interferometry can help detect how rising sea levels put pressure on Greenland’s Helheim Glacier.
A popular earthquake figure gets a major update
We’ve published a new version of this popular figure with a significant change to clarify comparisons between earthquakes and other kinds of events.
Ghosts and swarms put spotlight on seismicity in South Carolina
Could a set of local railroad ghost stories be related to small, understudied earthquakes?
Cloud case study: Separating GNSS slow slip signals from noise
Dig into the machine learning technique behind a recent paper in this conversation with one of the authors.
Using geodetic tools to monitor a changing Arctic
Two projects show how remote sensing and geodetic tools can help us study changing ecosystems and landscapes.
Monitoring microearthquakes of energy-storing salt domes in the Southeast US
Seismic imaging can map out hidden weaknesses around salt caverns used to store oil and gas.
As above, so below: how geophysics can help us unlock secrets of the cosmos
Geophysical instruments make key contributions to some large astrophysics experiments.
Antarctica’s Mt. Erebus gets a seismic network upgrade
This field season, EarthScope staff spent time on Mt. Erebus for some major upgrades to the seismic network, including a new station. Final tally on batteries hauled around by helicopter? About 14,000 pounds.
Cloud 101 short course at 2025 NSF GAGE/SAGE Community Science Workshop
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Measuring California groundwater after a wet 2023―with seismometers
In early 2023, an incredible amount of precipitation fell on drought-stricken California. The surface effects were quite visible but it’s not quite so easy to track how this affected groundwater.