S44B:
Geophysics for National Security Needs III

Session ID#: 4254

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
303 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States and Robert J Mellors, LLNL L-046, Livermore, 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:  Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation [COMPUTATIONAL GEOPHYSICS]
0933 Remote sensing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Welcoming Remarks
S44B-01
Numerical modeling of explosions for nuclear monitoring (Invited) (3142)
Jeffry L Stevens, Leidos, San Diego, CA, United States
S44B-02
A Micromechanical Damage Mechanics Model for the Seismic Coupling of Underground Nuclear Explosions (13309)
Marshall A Rogers-Martinez, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Charles G Sammis, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jon M Mihaly, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Harsha S Bhat, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
S44B-03
Numerical Simulations of Underground Explosions: Effect of Joints Near the Source on Energy Coupling, Shear Motions and Gas Flow (26896)
Tarabay Antoun1, Souheil M Ezzedine2, Oleg Vorobiev1 and Lewis Alan Glenn3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States, (3)LLNL, Danville, CA, United States
S44B-04
Seismic Methods of Identifying Explosions and Estimating Their Yield (Invited) (4033)
William R Walter1, Sean Ricardo Ford2, Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D.2, Moira L. Pyle2, Stephen C Myers2, Robert J Mellors2, Arben Pitarka2, Dr. Arthur J Rodgers, PhD2 and Teresa F Hauk2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
S44B-05
Source Time Functions of the Dprk Announced Nuclear TESTS of 2006, 2009 and 2013 (3806)
Anton Ziolkowski, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom
S44B-06
Moment Tensor Descriptions for Simulated Explosions of the Source Physics Experiment (SPE) (18669)
Esteban Rougier1, Earl E. Knight2, Xiaoning Yang2 and Howard J Patton3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States
S44B-07
The use of waveform cross correlation for creation of an accurate catalogue of mining explosions within the Russian platform using joint capabilities of seismic array Miknevo and IMS arrays (12853)
Ivan Kitov1, Mikhail Rozhkov2 and Irina Sanina1, (1)Institute of Geosphere Dynamics RAS, Moscow, Russia, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
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