S41B:
Geophysics for National Security Needs I Posters

Session ID#: 3420

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States
Primary Convener:  Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States and Robert J Mellors, LLNL L-046, Livermore, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robert J Mellors, LLNL L-046, Livermore, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Locating the Origin of Scattered Waves By Simulating Time Reversal of the Seismic Wavefield (14427)
Stephen C Myers1, Arben Pitarka2, Bjorn Sjogreen3, Anders Petersson1, Nathan A Simmons2 and Gardar Johannesson1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Livermore, CA, United States
 
On the Transportability of Ms Versus Yield Relationships (16024)
Howard J Patton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States and George E Randall, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Near-Source Environment at a Jointed Site (17727)
Christopher R Bradley1, Catherine Mary Snelson1, David W Steedman1 and Esteban Rougier2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
 
Large-N Over the Source Physics Experiment (SPE) Phase I and Phase II Test Beds (20592)
Catherine Mary Snelson1, Joshua Carmichael1, Robert J Mellors2 and Robert E Abbott3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)LLNL L-046, Livermore, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
 
Regional Attenuation of Southern Nevada Using Multiphase Inversion (24994)
Moira L. Pyle1, William R Walter2 and Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D.1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
Comparative study of large scale simulation of underground explosions inalluvium and in fractured granite using stochastic characterization (26328)
Oleg Vorobiev1, Souheil M Ezzedine2, Tarabay Antoun1 and Lew Glenn1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States
 
Shallow Refraction and Rg Analysis at the Source Physics Experiment Site (30599)
Joshua Carmichael1, Charlotte A Rowe2, Howard J Patton3, Catherine Mary Snelson1, David D Coblentz4, Carene S Larmat2 and Xiaoning Yang2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
 
The Use of Signal Dimensionality for Automatic QC of Seismic Array Data (25929)
Charlotte A Rowe1, Richard J Stead1, Michael L Begnaud1, Deyan Draganov2, Monica Maceira3 and Martin Gomez4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Argentina National Atomic Energy Commission, Bariloche, Argentina
 
Small Arrays for Seismic Intruder Detections: A Simulation Based Experiment (24191)
Arben Pitarka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
 
Modeling the Combined Effects of Deterministic and Statistical Structure for Optimization of Regional Monitoring (11649)
Christopher J Sanborn1, Michele Fitzpatrick1, Steven Walsh1, Vernon F Cormier2 and Nil Mistry1, (1)Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
 
Implementation and Testing of an Improved Mathematical Framework for the Bayesian Infrasonic Source Localization Method (13958)
Philip S. Blom, Stephen Arrowsmith and Omar E Marcillo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Blind Source Separation in CTBTO Expert Technical Analysis Procedures (13692)
Mikhail Rozhkov, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria and Ivan Kitov, Institute of Geosphere Dynamics RAS, Moscow, Russia
 
Threshold Monitoring Maps for Under-Water Explosions (27598)
Nimar S Arora, Bayesian Logic, Inc., Union City, CA, United States
 
Seismic Source Characterization of Small-Scale Contained Explosions Utilizing Near-Source Empirical Data (9409)
Mason David MacPhail, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States and Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States
 
Regional Moment Tensor Source-Type Discrimination Sensitivity Analysis (4862)
Andrea Chiang1, Douglas Scott Dreger1, Sean Ricardo Ford2 and Arben Pitarka2, (1)UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Explosion-Earthquake Discrimination at Local Distances (23299)
Colin T O'Rourke, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Glenn Eli Baker, AFRL/RVBYE, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, Anne Sheehan, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, United States and Steven H Harder, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
 
Extending SALSA3D: Adding Secondary Phases to a Global 3D P-Velocity Model for Improved Seismic Event Location (26815)
Michael L Begnaud1, Sanford Ballard2, Christopher J Young3, James Richard Hipp3, Andre V. Encarnacao3, Monica Maceira4, W. Scott Phillips1, Eric Paul Chael3 and Charlotte A Rowe1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Depth Estimation of Earthquakes in Southwest Asia using Back Projection of Multiple Seismic Phases (26941)
Garrett G Euler, Hans E Hartse and George E Randall, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Region-Specific Pn Geometric-Spreading Models for Eurasia (27114)
Xiaoning Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and W. Scott Phillips, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Wenchuan Event Detection And Localization Using Waveform Correlation Coupled With Double Difference (18536)
Megan Slinkard1, Stephen Heck1, David Paul Schaff2, Christopher J Young1 and Paul G Richards3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
 
Lg-Wave Cross Correlation and Epicentral Double-Difference Relative Locations in China (28232)
David Paul Schaff1, Paul G Richards2, Megan Slinkard3, Stephen Heck3 and Christopher J Young3, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Numerical Simulations of Surface Topography Effects on Shallow Explosion Ground Motions with Applications to S-Wave Generation and North Korean Nuclear Tests (10846)
Dr. Arthur J Rodgers, PhD, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Thorne Lay, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Upper mantle and crustal P-wave attenuation beneath the North Korea region (29667)
Michael Cleveland1, George E Randall1, Howard J Patton2 and W. Scott Phillips1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
A Study of Regional Wave Source Time Functions of Central Asian Earthquakes (9842)
Jiakang Xie, Air Force Research Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Matthew Robert Perry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, Frederick R Schult, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States and Justin D Wood, Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology, Carbondale, IL, United States
 
Investigation of an unusually shallow earthquake sequence in Mogul, NV from a discrimination perspective (30837)
Ileana Madalina Tibuleac1, John G Anderson1, Glenn P Biasi2, David H von Seggern1 and Marlon Dale Ramos Jr.1, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Characterization of S-waves Generated from Aboveground and Underground Explosions in Alluvium (19027)
Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States, Vanessa Napoli, Weston Geophysical Corp, Lexington, MA, United States and Robert Reinke, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Effect of Velocity of Detonation of Explosives on Seismic Radiation (15752)
Anastasia F Stroujkova, Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, Mark Leidig, Weston Geophysical Corp., Houston, TX, United States and Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States
 
IDC Infrasound technology development (24726)
Pierrick Mialle1, David John Brown2, Ronan J Le Bras1, Maurice jean-claude Charbit2 and Jeffrey W Given2, (1)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
 
Seismo-acoustic Signals Recorded at KSIAR, the Infrasound Array Installed at PS31 (14811)
Tae Sung Kim1, Il-Young Che2, Jeong Soo Jeon3, Heon-Cheol Chi3 and Ik-Bum Kang3, (1)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea, (3)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Observation and Modeling of Infrasound Signals Generated By Rocket Motor Tests and Rocket Motor Demolitions in the Western US (10771)
Junghyun Park1, Chris Hayward2 and Brian William Stump2, (1)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States
 
Determination and Statistical Analysis of Infrasound Sources Near Socorro, New Mexico (12664)
Tierney E Larson, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Jonathan M Lees, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chapel Hill, United States, Daniel C Bowman, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and Kyle Richard Jones, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, United States
 
Imaging the Subsurface with Upgoing Muons (30084)
Nedra Bonal1, Leiph A Preston1, Dave Schwellenbach2, Wendi Dreesen2 and Andrew Green3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)National Security Technologies - NSTec, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)National Security Technologies, Las Vegas, NV, United States
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