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SENSOR: Fishing geophones from a helicopter in Greenland

February 13, 2023
SENSOR: Fishing geophones from a helicopter in Greenland
Photo of crevasse and ice surface of Sermeq Kujalleq taken from helicopter Photos: Ana Nap

“SENSOR” – stands for Seismological Experiments, Network Systems, Observations and Recovery In this blog series, we share news about recent or upcoming seismic experiments around the globe! And this time we’re checking in with Ana Nap, a PhD student from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, about her work on Greenland’s fastest glacier… Installing instruments on Greenland’s fas ...[Read More]

SENSORChat: Go with the UPFLOW – detecting powerful motions deep within Earth’s interior

February 25, 2022
SENSORChat: Go with the UPFLOW – detecting powerful motions deep within Earth’s interior

“SENSOR” – stands for Seismological Experiments, Network Systems, Observations and Recovery In this blog series, curated by Chiara Civiero, we share news about recent or upcoming seismic experiments around the globe! Could you explain what your project is about? While downward mantle flow (subduction) is well constrained, a grand challenge in Earth sciences is to understand mid-plate, deep upward ...[Read More]

SENSORChat: The challenges of the Chilean seismologists in the Atacama desert

October 20, 2021
SENSORChat: The challenges of the Chilean seismologists in the Atacama desert
Northern Chile: In The Field

“SENSOR” – stands for Seismological Experiments, Network Systems, Observations and Recovery In this blog series, curated by Chiara Civiero, we share news about recent or upcoming seismic experiments around the globe!  Could you explain what your project is about? As part of the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) from Universidad de Chile, the Geological Resources Exploration, Characterizatio ...[Read More]

A unique opportunity: volcanologists chase a spectacular volcanic eruption in Iceland

June 11, 2021
A unique opportunity: volcanologists chase a spectacular volcanic eruption in Iceland

The second blog of the SENSOR series shares the experiences of three scientists from the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS, Ireland), Dr. Patrick Smith, Dr. Nima Nooshiri, and Dr. Ka Lok Li, who are working on the exciting ‘EUROVOLC’ project to bring the European volcanological community closer together. In March, they flew to Iceland to deploy two seismic arrays near the volcano at Fagr ...[Read More]