NS41C:
Use of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing in the Study of Geophysical Processes II

Session ID#: 5402

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
302 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Nick Van De Giesen, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, Tom Oliver Trevett Read, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom, John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States
Primary Convener:  Tom Oliver Trevett Read, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Nick Van De Giesen, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nick Van De Giesen, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
  • S - Seismology
Index Terms:

0994 Instruments and techniques [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1830 Groundwater/surface water interaction [HYDROLOGY]
1835 Hydrogeophysics [HYDROLOGY]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

NS41C-01
Advances in Using Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing to Identify the Mixing of Waters (Invited) (2786)
Martin A Briggs1, Frederick David Day-Lewis2, Donald O Rosenberry3, Jud W Harvey4, John W Lane Jr2, Danielle K Hare5, David F Boutt6, Emily B. Voytek2 and Sean Buckley2, (1)USGS Water Mission Area, Storrs, United States, (2)USGS Office of Groundwater, Branch of Geophysics, Storrs, CT, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Water Mission Area, Lakewood, CO, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Earth System Processes Division, Reston, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (6)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, United States
NS41C-02
Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing of Recharge Basin Percolation Dynamics (25940)
Matthew Becker, California State University Long Beach, Earth Science, Long Beach, CA, United States, Emily Marie Allen, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States and Adam Hutchinson, Orange County Water District, Fountain Valley, United States
NS41C-03
Monitoring seasonal basal melting of ice shelves using fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (20522)
Scott Kobs, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Scott Tyler, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, David M Holland, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Victor Zagorodnov, Ohio State Unicersity, Columbus, OH, United States and Alon A Stern, New York University, New York, United States
NS41C-04
Advances in the use of Distributed Temperature Sensing for measuring soil moisture (Invited) (2694)
Susan C Steele-Dunne1, Jianzhi Dong2, Tyson E Ochsner3 and Nick Van De Giesen1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (3)Oklahoma State University, Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, United States
NS41C-05
Recent developments in the use of DTS to monitor atmospheric flows (Invited) (5896)
Matthias J Zeeman1, Christoph K Thomas2, John Steven Selker3 and Matthias Mauder1, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (2)University of Bayreuth, Micrometeorology Group, Bayreuth, Germany, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
NS41C-06
Quantification of Natural Gradient Flow Using Active Fiber Optic DTS in Sealed Boreholes (11640)
Thomas I Coleman1, Beth L Parker2, Jonathan D Munn1, Athena Chalari3 and Michael Mondanos4, (1)G360 Centre for Applied Groundwater Research, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)Silixa Ltd., Elstree, United Kingdom, (4)Silixa Ltd., Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
NS41C-07
Field Trial of Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Active Sources at Garner Valley, California (Invited) (5201)
Herbert F Wang1, Neal Edward Lord1, Athena Chalari2, Chelsea Lancelle1, Jonathan Alexander Baldwin1, Ethan Castongia1, Dante Fratta3, Robert L Nigbor4 and Rumen Karaulanov5, (1)University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Silixa Ltd., Elstree, United Kingdom, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geological Engineering, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Silixa Ltd., Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
NS41C-08
Development of a surface-wave imaging system for geotechnical applications based on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and ambient noise interferometry (31061)
Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin1, Thomas M Daley2, Barry M Freifeld2, David G Tang2,3, Ruxun Zhang2, Anna M Wagner4, Shan Dou5, Kevin Bjella6 and Roman Pevzner7, (1)Rice University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (4)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (7)Curtin Univeristy, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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