S31E:
Imaging the Earth IV Seismic Studies of Crust and Mantle Structure

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Paula Koelemeijer, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland and Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Conveners:  Monica Maceira, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-conveners:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Andreas Fichtner, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Paula Koelemeijer, University of Cambridge, Bullard Laboratories, Cambridge, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaisons:  Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Three-dimensional P- and S-wave velocity structure along the central Alpine Fault, South Island, New Zealand
Bin Guo1, Clifford H Thurber2, Steven W Roecker3, John Townend4, Chris Rawles5, Calum John Chamberlain4, Carolin Morag Boese6 and Stephen C Bannister7, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Univ Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy, NY, United States, (4)Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, (5)Univ of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (6)The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (7)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
8:15 AM
 
8:30 AM
 
Offshore Structure of the Cascadia Subduction Zone from Full-wave Tomography
Haiying Gao, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Application of Adjoint Method and Spectral-Element Method to Tomographic Inversion of Regional Seismological Structure Beneath Japanese Islands
Seiji Tsuboi1, Takayuki Miyoshi1, Masayuki Obayashi2, Yoko Tono2 and Kazuto Ando1, (1)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (2)IFREE, JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan
9:00 AM
 
Crustal and mantle structure of the North America Continent using SEM based Full Waveform Seismic Tomography and Trans-Dimensional Inversion.
Marco Calo1, Thomas Bodin1, Barbara A Romanowicz1,2, Clouzet Pierre3, Carene S Larmat4 and Monica Maceira4, (1)Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Collège de France, Paris, France, (3)University Denis Diderot Paris VII, Paris Cedex 13, France, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
9:15 AM
 
A Three-Dimensional Shear-Velocity Model of the Atlantic Upper Mantle from Analysis of a Regional Dataset of Fundamental-Mode Rayleigh Waves
Esther James, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Colleen A Dalton, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States and James B Gaherty, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
9:30 AM
 
Imaging upper mantle structures in regional, continental and global scales using long-period surface waves (50-300 sec) from ambient noise
Yingjie Yang, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Jun Xie, Macquarie University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems and GEMOC, Sydney, Australia
9:45 AM
 
Automated and Reproducible Full Waveform Inversion with Multiple Data Sets
Andreas Fichtner1, Antonio Villasenor2, Lion Krischer3, Laura Anna Ermert4 and Michael Afanasiev1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ICTJA-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, (3)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany, (4)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
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