S41B:
Geophysics for National Security Needs I Posters

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Robert J Mellors, LLNL L-046, Livermore, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Locating the Origin of Scattered Waves By Simulating Time Reversal of the Seismic Wavefield
Stephen C Myers, Arben Pitarka, Bjorn Sjogreen, Anders Petersson, Nathan A Simmons and Gardar Johannesson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
On the Transportability of Ms Versus Yield Relationships
Howard John Patton and George E Randall, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Hydrodynamic Modeling of the Near-Source Environment at a Jointed Site
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, NM, United States
 
Large-N Over the Source Physics Experiment (SPE) Phase I and Phase II Test Beds
Catherine Mary Snelson1, Joshua D 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, CA, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Regional Attenuation of Southern Nevada Using Multiphase Inversion
Moira L. Pyle, William R Walter and Michael Pasyanos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Comparative study of large scale simulation of underground explosions inalluvium and in fractured granite using stochastic characterization
Oleg Vorobiev1, Souheil M Ezzedine2, Tarabay Antoun1 and Lew Glenn1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Shallow Refraction and Rg Analysis at the Source Physics Experiment Site
Joshua D Carmichael1, Charlotte A Rowe1, Howard John Patton2, Catherine Mary Snelson1, David D Coblentz2, 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
 
The Use of Signal Dimensionality for Automatic QC of Seismic Array Data
Charlotte A Rowe1, Richard J Stead1, Michael L Begnaud2, Deyan Dragonov3, Monica Maceira2 and Martin Gomez4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory - LANL, Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (4)Argentina National Atomic Energy Commission, Bariloche, Argentina
 
Small Arrays for Seismic Intruder Detections: A Simulation Based Experiment
Arben Pitarka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Modeling the Combined Effects of Deterministic and Statistical Structure for Optimization of Regional Monitoring
Christopher J Sanborn, Michele Fitzpatrick, Steven Walsh, Vernon F Cormier and Nil Mistry, Univ Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
 
Implementation and Testing of an Improved Mathematical Framework for the Bayesian Infrasonic Source Localization Method
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
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
Nimar S Arora, Bayesian Logic, Inc., Union City, CA, United States
 
Seismic Source Characterization of Small-Scale Contained Explosions Utilizing Near-Source Empirical Data
Mason David MacPhail and Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
 
Regional Moment Tensor Source-Type Discrimination Sensitivity Analysis
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
Colin T O'Rourke1, Glenn Eli Baker2, Anne F Sheehan1 and Steven H Harder3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)AFRL/RVBYE, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (3)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
Michael L Begnaud1, Sanford Ballard2, Christopher J Young3, James R Hipp3, Andre V. Encarnacao3, Monica Maceira1, W. Scott Phillips1, Eric Paul Chael3 and Charlotte A Rowe4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory - LANL, Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Depth Estimation of Earthquakes in Southwest Asia using Back Projection of Multiple Seismic Phases
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
Xiaoning Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and William Scott Phillips, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Wenchuan Event Detection And Localization Using Waveform Correlation Coupled With Double Difference
Megan Slinkard1, Stephen Heck1, David Paul Schaff2, Christopher J Young1 and Paul G Richards2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Lg-Wave Cross Correlation and Epicentral Double-Difference Relative Locations in China
David Paul Schaff1, Paul G Richards2, Megan Slinkard3, Stephen Heck3 and Christopher J Young3, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 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
Arthur J Rodgers, Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Livermore, CA, United States and Thorne Lay, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Upper mantle and crustal P-wave attenuation beneath the North Korea region
Michael Cleveland, George E Randall, Howard John Patton and W. Scott Phillips, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Regularization of Instantaneous Frequency Attribute Computations
Matthew J Yedlin1, Gary F Margrave2, Daryl G Van Vorst1 and Yochai Ben Horin3, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)National Data Center, Soreq Nuclear Research Center,, Yavne, Israel
 
A Study of Regional Wave Source Time Functions of Central Asian Earthquakes
Jiakang Xie1, Matthew Robert Perry2, Frederick R Schult1 and Justin Wood3, (1)Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States, (2)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, United States, (3)Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Geology, Carbondale, IL, United States
 
Investigation of an unusually shallow earthquake sequence in Mogul, NV from a discrimination perspective
Ileana Madalina Tibuleac, John G Anderson, Glenn P Biasi, David H von Seggern and Marlon Dale Ramos Jr., University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
 
Characterization of S-waves Generated from Aboveground and Underground Explosions in Alluvium
Jessie Lafayette Bonner, Weston Geophysical, Lufkin, TX, United States, Vanessa Napoli, Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, 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
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
Pierrick Mialle, David John Brown, Ronan Le Bras, Maurice jean-claude Charbit and Jeffrey W Given, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
 
Seismo-acoustic Signals Recorded at KSIAR, the Infrasound Array Installed at PS31
Tae Sung Kim, Il-Young Che, Jeong Soo Jeon, Heon-Cheol Chi and Ik-Bum Kang, KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea
 
Observation and Modeling of Infrasound Signals Generated By Rocket Motor Tests and Rocket Motor Demolitions in the Western US
Junghyun Park, Chris Hayward and Brian William Stump, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, United States
 
Determination and Statistical Analysis of Infrasound Sources Near Socorro, New Mexico
Tierney Larson, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Jonathan M Lees, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Daniel C Bowman, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Kyle Richard Jones, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Recent Infrasound Calibration Activity at Los Alamos
Rodney W Whitaker, Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Omar E Marcillo, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Imaging the Subsurface with Upgoing Muons
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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