S51A:
Geophysical Approaches for Global Security I Posters

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Session ID#: 12572

Session Description:
Geophysical methods can be applied to a variety of national and global security concerns.   In light of the continued underground nuclear testing by North Korea and the current potential for other countries to be developing nuclear weapons, it is essential to develop state-of-the-art approaches for detecting, locating and characterizing explosive and other types of testing that could be indicators of nuclear or other types of WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) development activities. We invite submissions in areas such as modeling and characterizing explosive signatures and wave propagation in complex environments, tunnel detection, intrusion detection, remote sensing, and other methods for addressing security threats.  Results and methods from other areas utilizing seismology or infrasound are encouraged if they have applications to global security.
Primary Convener:  Kristin E Phillips-Alonge, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Conveners:  Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy and Natural Resources Security, Los Alamos, United States, Xiaoning Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Moira L Pyle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Chairs:  Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy and Natural Resources Security, Los Alamos, United States and Xiaoning Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Moira L Pyle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Index Terms:

7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification [SEISMOLOGY]
7290 Computational seismology [SEISMOLOGY]
7299 General or miscellaneous [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Characteristic Analysis of Air-gun Source Wavelet based on the Vertical Cable Data (171580)
Lei Xing, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
A New Experimental Field Study of the Effects of Explosive Detonation Products on Seismic Radiation (129173)
Anastasia F Stroujkova1, Mark Leidig2, James Lewkowicz1, Vanessa Napoli3, Carlos Marrero4, Timothy Rath5, Jeremy Salerno6, Kenny Robbins7 and Timothy Bradstreet8, (1)Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)Weston Geophysical Corp., Houston, TX, United States, (3)Weston Geophysical Corp, Lexington, MA, United States, (4)IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France, (5)Explosive Training and Consulting, Saint Albans, VT, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Colby College, Waterville, ME, United States, (8)Pike Industries, Waterford, VT, United States
Moment-Tensor Spectra of Source Physics Experiments (SPE) Explosions in Granite (134506)
Xiaoning Yang and Michael Cleveland, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Seismic Yield Estimates of UTTR Surface Explosions (138880)
Chris Hayward1, Junghyun Park2 and Brian William Stump1, (1)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States
Rapid and Robust Cross-Correlation-Based Seismic Phase Identification Using an Approximate Nearest Neighbor Method (139357)
Rigobert Tibi, Christopher J Young, Antonio Gonzales, Sanford Ballard and Andre V. Encarnacao, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Calibration and Recovery of Nuclear Test Seismic Ground-Motion Data from the Leo Brady Seismic Network (148486)
Brian Young and Robert E Abbott, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Surface-Wave Tomography of Yucca Flat, Nevada (148962)
Liam Toney1, Robert E Abbott2, Hunter Anne Knox2, Leiph A Preston3 and Charles R. Hoots3, (1)-, -, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Developing and Validating Path-Dependent Uncertainty Estimates for use with the Regional Seismic Travel Time (RSTT) Model (149535)
Michael L Begnaud1, Dale N Anderson2, W. Scott Phillips1, Stephen C Myers3 and Sanford Ballard4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Nevada National Security Site, Las Vegas, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Atmospheric Model Effects on Infrasound Source Inversion from the Source Physics Experiments (150397)
Leiph A Preston and Katherine Anderson Aur, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Imaging a Fault Boundary System Using Controlled-Source Data Recorded on a Large-N Seismic Array (150457)
Olivia Catherine Paschall, Appalachian State University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, United States, Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy and Natural Resources Security, Los Alamos, United States, Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Matthew D Ralston, Eiwt, Atascadero, CA, United States and Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Finite-Difference Algorithm for 3D Orthorhombic Elastic Wave Propagation (152052)
Richard P Jensen1, Leiph A Preston2 and David F Aldridge2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Identifying Small Mine Blasts and Earthquakes in Eastern Kazakhstan using Bulletins, Waveform Correlation and Satellite Imagery (152537)
Garrett G Euler1, Hans E Hartse2 and Jonathan MacCarthy1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Coupling Hydrodynamic and Wave Propagation Codes for Modeling of Seismic Waves recorded at the SPE Test. (153020)
Carene S Larmat1, Esteban Rougier2, Andrew Delorey1, David W Steedman1 and Christopher R Bradley3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
High Frequency Attenuation Modeling and Event Amplitude Estimation in the Southern Nevada Region (153187)
Moira L. Pyle1, William R Walter2 and Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D.1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Apparent Explosion Moments from Rg Waves Recorded on SPE: Implications for the Late-Time Damage Source Model (157915)
Howard J Patton1, Carene S Larmat2 and Esteban Rougier2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Modeling Anisotropic Elastic Wave Propagation in Jointed Rock Masses (158380)
Ryan Hurley, Oleg Vorobiev, Souheil M Ezzedine and Tarabay Antoun, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Non-spherical surface wave amplitude radiation patterns identified from spectral ratios of the 2016 and 2013 DPRK nuclear tests (161946)
Gene A Ichinose1, Sean Ricardo Ford1, Steve Myers2, Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D.1 and William R Walter2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
The Simulation of Far-Field Ground Motions from Explosions in Rock with Fracture Anisotropy (165262)
Marshall A Rogers-Martinez1,2, Souheil M Ezzedine1 and Charles G Sammis3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Source analysis of underground chemical explosions (166260)
Andrea Chiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, United States, Sean Ricardo Ford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Arben Pitarka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Rg propagation: Scatter versus Attenuation (166628)
Michael Cleveland, W. Scott Phillips and Jonathan MacCarthy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Study of a long-term series of repeated quarry blasts using spectrograms, waveform cross-correlation and Principal Component Analysis (168787)
Matthew J Yedlin1, Yochai Ben Horin2, Ivan O Kitov3, Gary F Margrave4 and Mikhail Rozhkov3, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Yavne, Israel, (3)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, (4)Devon Canada Corporation, Calgary, AB, Canada
Velocity Model Using the Large-N Seismic Array from the Source Physics Experiment (SPE) (169230)
Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy and Natural Resources Security, Los Alamos, United States and Catherine Mary Snelson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Modeling Elastic Wave Propagation from an Underground Chemical Explosion Using Higher Order Finite Difference Approximation: Theory, Validation and Application to SPE (178914)
Evan Tyler Hirakawa1, Souheil M Ezzedine1, Anders Petersson1, Bjorn Sjogreen2, Oleg Vorobiev1, Arben Pitarka3, Tarabay Antoun1 and William R Walter3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Seismic Analysis of Three Bomb Explosions in Turkey (180621)
Ocal Necmioglu, Korhan Umut Semin, Serdar Kocak, Cem Destici, Ugur Teoman and Nurcan Meral Ozel, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
The amplitude effects of sedimentary basins on through-passing surface waves (183720)
Lili Feng, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael H Ritzwoller, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Detecting seismic waves using a binary hidden Markov model classifier (185336)
Sophia Lefantzi1, Ronald A Brogan2, Robert Forrest2, Clifford W Hansen2, Jaideep Ray2 and Christopher J Young2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Locating S-wave sources for the SPE-5 explosion using time reversal methods and a close-in, 1000 sensor network (186249)
Stephen C Myers1, Arben Pitarka2 and Robert J Mellors1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Lessons Learned from Near Field Modeling and Data Collected at the SPE Chemical Explosions in Jointed Rock Masses (187109)
Oleg Vorobiev, Souheil M Ezzedine, Ryan Hurley, Tarabay Antoun and Lew Glenn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Improvement of Ground Truth Classification of Soviet Peaceful Nuclear Explosions (197971)
Kevin G Mackey, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lansing, MI, United States, Kazuya Fujita, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI, United States and Eric Bergman, Global Seismological Services, Golden, CO, United States
Nuclear Bombs and Coral: Guam Coral Core Reveals Operation-Specific Radiocarbon Signals from the Pacific Proving Grounds (118188)
Allen Hia Andrews, NOAA Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, United States

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