S31A:
Advances in the Science of Nuclear Test Detection I Posters

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Session ID#: 13461

Session Description:
The session will focus on CTBT verification methods, including seismoacoustic methods for the detection, location and characterization of potential nuclear tests in the earth, oceans and atmosphere as well as particulate and gaseous radionuclide detection in the atmosphere and subsurface, and geophysical methodologies for on-site inspection. The integration (fusion) of data from multiple methodologies is of special interest. Data acquisition, processing and interpretation are all emphasised, covering for example the use of artificial intelligence to build seismic event lists, atmospheric transport modelling for the provenance of radionuclides, and advances in radio-xenon detection systems. The session will also explore novel approaches that might feature in future verification efforts, for example using synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR), gamma ray pulses, small-scale ionospheric disturbances and neutrinos.
Primary Convener:  W. Randy Bell, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
Conveners:  Elisabeth Blanc, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France, Theodore W. Bowyer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Seiji Tsuboi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Chairs:  Elisabeth Blanc, CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, Arpajon Cedex, France, Theodore W. Bowyer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Seiji Tsuboi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Seiji Tsuboi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Co-Organized with:
Seismology, Atmospheric Sciences, and Ocean Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0360 Radiation: transmission and scattering [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3336 Numerical approximations and analyses [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4259 Ocean acoustics [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Improvements in Calibration and Analysis of the CTBT-relevant Radioxenon Isotopes with High Resolution SiPIN-based Electron Detectors (156127)
Kirill Khrustalev, Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Radioxenon Production from an Underground Nuclear Detonation (190656)
Yunwei Sun, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Laboratory Noble Gas Migration Experiments through Rock (176474)
Scott Broome1, Avery Cashion2, Joshua Feldman2, Aviva J Sussman3, Erika Swanson4 and Jennifer Wilson3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-14, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Monitoring Radiation Fallout Using Locally Available Biotopes (173459)
Buddha Ram Shah, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, Faaculty of Science, Kathmandu, Nepal
Unified Geophysical Cloud Platform (UGCP) for Seismic Monitoring and other Geophysical Applications. (149070)
Yuri O Starovoit, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic Inc., Palo Alto, CA, United States, Sychevsky Henadiy, Jelastic Inc., Malaga, Spain, Vadym Lobzakov, Geoseis Services, Berges du Lac, Tunisia and Leonid Kolesnikov, Ukrainian National Data Center, Kiev, Ukraine
IMS Seismic and Infrasound Stations Instrumental Challenges (161033)
Ilya G Dricker, Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, Yuri O Starovoit, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria and Julien Marty, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Detection of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) from various man-made sources using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) (199005)
Jihye Park, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, Ralph R B von Frese, The Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH, United States, Joseph Helmboldt, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Dorota A Grejner-Brzezinska, Ohio State University Main Campus, College of Engineering Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States
Value of Spaceborne Remotely Sensed Data Products in the Context of the Launch Phase of an On-Site Inspection (178733)
Aled Rowlands1, Peter Labak1, Gregor Malich1, Anthony Charlton1, Emily S Schultz-Fellenz2 and Julia Craven3, (1)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-14, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
A Trends Review of Geophysics Research in Nuclear Explosion Monitoring (127731)
Megan Slinkard1, Monica Maceira2, Stephen Arrowsmith3, Michael L Begnaud3, Philip S. Blom3, Sean Ricardo Ford4, Michael P Foxe5, Jonathan MacCarthy3, Omar E Marcillo3, Bion John Merchant6, Greg J Orris7, Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D.4 and Leslie A Casey8, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (7)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (8)Department of Energy Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Automatic recovery of aftershock sequences at the International Data Centre: from concept to pipeline (155503)
Ivan Kitov1, Dmitry Bobrov2 and Mikhail Rozhkov2, (1)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, IDC, Vienna, Austria, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
An Improved Method for Seismic Event Depth and Moment Tensor Determination: CTBT Related Application (154524)
Mikhail Rozhkov1, Josh Stachnik2 and Ben Baker2, (1)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, (2)Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc., Saratoga Springs, NY, United States
Testing the Reviewed Event Bulletin of the International Data Centre Using Waveform Cross Correlation: Repeat Events at Aitik Copper Mine, Sweden (156906)
Nikita Rozhkov1, Dmitry Bobrov2, Ivan O Kitov2, Mikhail Rozhkov2 and Matthew J Yedlin3, (1)SYNAPSE Science Center, Moscow, Russia, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria, (3)University of British Columbia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Porting and redesign of Geotool software system to Qt (128126)
Vera Miljanovic Tamarit, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, IDC/SA/SI, Vienna, Austria, Luiza Carneiro, Naviog Consulting, Kensington, Berkeley, CA, United States, Ivan H Henson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Elena Tomuta, CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria
Initial Evaluation of Signal-Based Bayesian Monitoring (190223)
David Moore, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Stuart Russell, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
BayesMT: Bayesian inference for the seismic moment tensor using regional and teleseismic-P waveforms with first-motion data and a calibrated prior distribution of velocity models (154373)
Sean Ricardo Ford, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Andrea Chiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, United States, Seongryong Kim, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Jean Letort, Isterre, Grenoble, France, Hrvoje Tkalčić, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and William R Walter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Presentation of the results of a Bayesian automatic event detection and localization program to human analysts (174512)
Noriyuki Kushida1, Fekadu Kebede2, Paulino Feitio2 and Ronan J Le Bras1, (1)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Organization, Vienna, Austria
Fine-Scale Event Location and Error Analysis in NET-VISA (173103)
Nimar S Arora, Bayesian Logic, Inc., Union City, CA, United States and Stuart Russell, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Accurately determining direction of arrival by seismic array based on compressive sensing (131119)
Jing Hu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, Haijiang Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth’s Interior, Hefei, China and Haiying Yu, Shanghai Siesmological Bureau, Shanghai, China
Investigating the Relationship Between Waveform Correlation and Seismic Source Mechanisms (142472)
Monique Maria Holt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Glenn Eli Baker, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, United States and Megan Slinkard, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
A Waveform Detector that Targets Template-Decorrelated Signals and Achieves its Predicted Performance: Demonstration with IMS Data (148385)
Joshua Carmichael, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Global-scale Joint Body and Surface Wave Tomography with Vertical Transverse Isotropy in the Crust and Mantle (161093)
Nathan A Simmons and Steve Myers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Navy’s "Full Ship Shock Trials" as Opportunities for USGS/CTBTO Seismic System Evaluation and Calibration (143694)
Rong-Song Jih, US Department of State, Washington, DC, United States
Relative Earthquake Locations Using Surface Waves in Continental Regions (167099)
Jonas A. Kintner, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Prof. Charles J Ammon, PhD, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Michael Cleveland, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Advanced real time monitoring system and simulation researches for Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Japan Part2-Towards disaster mitigation on Earthquakes and Tsunamis- (169456)
YoshiYuki Kaneda1, Narumi Takahashi2, Takane Hori3, Katsuyoshi Kawaguchi4, Eiichiro Araki5, Hiroyuki Matsumoto4, Takeshi Nakamura6, Shin'ichiro Kamiya4, Dr. Keisuke Ariyoshi4, Mamoru Hyodo4, Ryoko Nakata3, Masaru Nakano4, Jin-Kyu Choi4, Shuhei Nishida5 and Shin Aoi7, (1)Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan, (2)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Research Institute for Marine Geodynamics, Yokosuka, Japan, (6)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilence, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan
Seismic Discrimination between Explosions and Natural Earthquakes Based on the Source Radiation Pattern Property (167718)
Soung Eil Houng1, Eunyoung Jo1,2, Young Soo Jeon1,2, Dukkee Lee3 and JongHo Lee1, (1)National Institute of Meteorological Research, Global Environment System Research Division, Seogwipo-si, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Korea Meteorological Administration, SEOUL, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea
Magnitude Based Discrimination of Manmade Seismic Events From Naturally Occurring Earthquakes in Utah, USA (169222)
Keith D. Koper1, James C Pechmann1, Relu Burlacu2, Kristine L Pankow3, Jared R Stein4, J. Mark Hale4, Paul Roberson5 and Michael K. McCarter4, (1)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, (2)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
Comparison of results of relative location methods and moment tensor inversion for the nuclear explosions experimented in North Korea (168043)
Changsoo Cho1, Jin Soo Shin2 and Geunyoung Kim2, (1)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Integrated Earthquake Monitoring Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Northern Korean Peninsula 1-D velocity model from surface wave dispersion and full-waveform data (167218)
Sang-Jun Lee, Korea University, The Institute of Basic Science, Seoul, South Korea, Junkee Rhie, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, Seongryong Kim, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Tae-Seob Kang, Pukyong National University, Division of Earth Environmental System Science, Busan, South Korea and Changsoo Cho, KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea
Measurement of Surface Deformation due to the 2016 Nuclear Test of North Korea Using SAR Interferometry (159632)
Min-jeong Jo1, Sang-Wan Kim2 and Joong-Sun Won1, (1)Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Sejong University, Department of Energy Resources and Geosystems Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
Estimation on the yield ratio between the DPRK’s 2013 and 2016 underground nuclear explosions using P wave amplitude and corner frequency ratios (137335)
Tae Sung Kim1, Il-Young Che2 and Inho Kim1, (1)KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea
Fifty Years of Seismic Monitoring in Davao,Philippines (120488)
Daniel J McNamara, Ateneo de Davao University, Quezon City, Philippines; Science Officer, research, Davao, Philippines
Crustal structure and Seismic Hazard studies in Nigeria from ambient noise and earthquakes (152051)
Umar Afegbua Kadiri, Centre for Geodesy and Geodynamics Toro, Toro, Nigeria

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