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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Nick Van De Giesen, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, Tom Oliver Trevett Read, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, NR4, United Kingdom, John S Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and Scott W Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, 5612, Netherlands, John Steven Selker, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States and Scott W Tyler, University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Nick Van De Giesen, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, 5612, Netherlands

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Advances in Using Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing to Identify the Mixing of Waters
Martin A Briggs1, Frederick David Day-Lewis1, Donald O Rosenberry2, Jud W Harvey3, John W Lane Jr1, Danielle K Hare4, David F Boutt4, Emily B. Voytek1 and Sean Buckley1, (1)USGS Office of Groundwater, Branch of Geophysics, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)USGS Central Region Office, Lakewood, CO, United States, (3)USGS, Reston, VA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
8:15 AM
 
Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing of Recharge Basin Percolation Dynamics
Matthew Becker1, Emily Marie Allen1 and Adam Hutchinson2, (1)California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, United States, (2)Orange County Water District, Fountain Valley, CA, United States
8:30 AM
 
Monitoring seasonal basal melting of ice shelves using fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing
Scott Kobs1, Scott W Tyler2, David M Holland3, Victor Zagorodnov4 and Alon A Stern3, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Nevada, Geological Sciences and Engineering, Reno, NV, United States, (3)New York University, New York, NY, United States, (4)Ohio State Unicersity, Columbus, OH, United States
8:45 AM
 
Advances in the use of Distributed Temperature Sensing for measuring soil moisture
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, 5612, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
9:00 AM
 
Recent developments in the use of DTS to monitor atmospheric flows
Matthias J Zeeman1, Christoph K Thomas2, John Steven Selker2 and Matthias Mauder1, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
9:15 AM
 
Quantification of Natural Gradient Flow Using Active Fiber Optic DTS in Sealed Boreholes
Thomas I Coleman1, Beth L Parker1, Jonathan D Munn1, Athena Chalari2 and Michael Mondanos2, (1)G360 Centre for Applied Groundwater Research, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Silixa Ltd., Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
9:30 AM
 
Field Trial of Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Active Sources at Garner Valley, California
Herbert F Wang1, Neal Edward Lord1, Athena Chalari2, Chelsea Lancelle1, Jonathan Alexander Baldwin1, Ethan Castongia1, Dante Fratta1, Robert L Nigbor3 and Rumen Karaulanov2, (1)University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Silixa Ltd., Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
9:45 AM
 
Development of a surface-wave imaging system for geotechnical applications based on distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and ambient noise interferometry
Jonathan Blair Ajo Franklin1, Thomas M Daley1, Barry M Freifeld1, David G Tang1,2, Ruxun Zhang1, Anna M Wagner3,4, Shan Dou5, Nate Lindsey1, Kevin Bjella3 and Roman Pevzner6, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (3)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Curtin University, Department of Exploration Geophysics, Perth, WA, Australia