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Science and Society
20 February 2025

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.

Science and Society
11 February 2025

Laser scans aid in preserving Antarctic history

One recent Antarctic project supports the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust’s work at Discovery Hut, a remnant of Robert Falcon Scott’s famous expedition.

Science and Society
27 January 2025

Ear to the seafloor: using DAS to help harness offshore wind energy

California is looking to build offshore wind electricity generation―distributed acoustic sensing on existing cables could help site these projects.

Science and Society
8 January 2025

Tracking magma movement during Mauna Loa’s 2022 eruption: an eye to forecasting

Distinguishing between intermittent unrest and an eruption’s prologue poses a major challenge to volcanologists responsible for forecasting earthquake activity. A recent eruption of Mauna Loa, Hawai’i provided scientists a unique opportunity to tackle this problem.

Science and Society
2 January 2025

Yellowstone’s magma system comes into focus

A new study uses a dense array of magnetotelluric measurements to generate a high-resolution image of Yellowstone’s magmatic guts.

Science and Society
12 December 2024

Earthquakes make waves in the ionosphere—another signal to study

In order to extract as much information as possible from ionospheric signals, we need to understand the patterns in great detail. A recent paper used the 2016 magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura earthquake to see what we could learn from testing the data against simulations.

Announcements
10 December 2024

2024 Board of Directors election results

The 2024 election results for the Board of Directors, which serves as non-profit governance to EarthScope Consortium, are compiled and ready to share.

Announcements
8 December 2024

EarthScope presents at AWS re:Invent conference

EarthScope Cloud Architect Alex Hamilton attended the annual Amazon Web Services conference to present on the cloud data systems delivering geodetic data to the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System.

Announcements
4 December 2024

Towards a Global Partnership for Solid Earth Research

Solid Earth Research infrastructures in Europe, the US, and Australia announce landmark agreement to enhance collaboration across continents, inviting global participation.

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