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Announcements
23 October 2024

Cloud case study: Using DAS to listen to glacial meltwater streams

A recent paper used DAS on Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps to infer the discharge of meltwater streams. We talked with one of the authors about how they wrangled this large dataset.

Science and Society
10 October 2024

Seismologists use earthquake doublets to see how inner core flips its motion

A set of studies explores questions pertaining to the rotation of the inner core relative to Earth’s mantle.

Science and Society
23 September 2024

A series of unfortunate events: climate change causes remote landslide, tsunami, and seiche

In East Greenland, a mysterious tsunami hit a military base on a remote island tucked into the fjords. At the same time, seismologists noticed a weird signal on seismic stations located around the world.

Announcements
17 September 2024

Pancakes are the future of geophysical data processing

What can’t be explained by a delicious food metaphor? Maybe geophysical research in the cloud, but we’re going to try anyway.

Science and Society
13 September 2024

Scientists explore past eruptions—and periods of quiet—at Mount St. Helens

When seismic sensors aren’t detecting earthquakes, they’re picking up other vibrations—even shakes too subtle for people to feel. This ambient seismic noise might be able to tell scientists what’s happening at Mount St. Helens during times of activity and purported respite.

Announcements
3 September 2024

OpenTopography Receives Funding Renewal from the National Science Foundation

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed funding for OpenTopography, a science gateway that provides online access to Earth science oriented high resolution topography data and processing tools.

Science and Society
14 August 2024

InSight data may have revealed water deep below the surface of Mars

A new paper using InSight data presents a noteworthy conclusion—seismic velocity data is best explained by the presence of liquid water.

Science and Society
12 August 2024

The Rainier volcanic hazards detection system has been growing

Over the past few years, the Rainier Lahar Detection System has been upgraded with 25 new stations to better detect volcanic hazards on the mountain.

Announcements
8 August 2024

Deprecation for irisFetch MATLAB client

We regret to inform you that the irisFetch Matlab-based client is not compatible with recently released Matlab versions 2023a and onward.

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