S53D:
Geophysical Approaches for Global Security II

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Session ID#: 17856

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 Kristin E Phillips-Alonge, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ting Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy and Natural Resources Security, Los Alamos, 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:

New Insights into a Physical Basis for mb:Ms Discrimination from Results of the Source Physics Experiments (Invited) (151526)
Howard J Patton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Carene S Larmat, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Imaging an Explosion with a 1000 Sensors: The SPE Large N Array (167334)
Robert J Mellors1, Catherine Mary Snelson2, Arben Pitarka3, Ting Chen4, Eric Matzel1 and William R Walter3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Energy and Natural Resources Security, Los Alamos, United States
Path-Specific Effects on Shear Motion Generation Using LargeN Array Waveform Data at the Source Physics Experiment (SPE) Site (153635)
Arben Pitarka1, Robert J Mellors2 and William R Walter1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Seismic Signals from Multiple Near-Simultaneous Nuclear Explosions (126899)
Jeffry L Stevens and Michael O'Brien, Leidos, San Diego, CA, United States
Citizen Science Seismic Stations for Monitoring Regional and Local Events (180535)
John J Zucca, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Steve Myers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States and Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Technology for Global Security, San Francisco, United States
Integrated Remote Sensing Modalities for Classification at a Legacy Test Site (175290)
Dennis J Lee, Dylan Anderson and Julia Craven, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Local Explosion Monitoring using Rg (152368)
Colin T O'Rourke, US National Research Council of the National Academies, Washington, DC, United States and Glenn Eli Baker, Kirtland Air Force Base, Kirtland AFB, United States

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