S54A:
Geophysical Approaches for Global Security III

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Session ID#: 17861

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:  Moira L Pyle, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Xiaoning Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Xiaoning Yang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 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:

Accurate source location from waves scattered by surface topography: Applications to the Nevada and North Korean test sites (Invited) (124600)
Yang Shen1, Nian Wang1, Xueyang Bao1 and Ashton F Flinders2, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)USGS California Volcano Observatory, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Results of a Study Demonstrating Automated Techniques for Waveform Correlation Applied to Regional Monitoring of Eastern Asia (139592)
Amy Sundermier1, Megan Slinkard1, James Perry1, David Paul Schaff2, Christopher J Young1 and Paul G Richards3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
Investigating Gravity Anomalies Associated with Underground Nuclear Explosions (182694)
Charlotte A Rowe1, Elizabeth Miller2, Dea Musa3, Emily S Schultz-Fellenz4, Aviva J Sussman1 and Erika Swanson4, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-16, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)LANL, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-14, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Seismic resonances of acoustic cavities (173240)
Felix Michael Schneider1, Sofi Esterhazy2, Ilaria Perugia1,3 and Götz Bokelmann4, (1)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (2)University of Vienna, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria, (3)University of Vienna, Mathematics, Vienna, Austria, (4)University of Vienna, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria
Global Source Parameters from Regional Spectral Ratios for Yield Transportability Studies (187605)
W. Scott Phillips1, Mark D Fisk2, Richard J Stead1, Michael L Begnaud1 and Charlotte A Rowe1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Orbital ATK, Dulles, VA, United States
Near-Field to Far-Field Uncertainty Propagation and Quantification of Ground Motions Generated by the Source Physics Experiments (SPE) (193960)
Tarabay Antoun1, Souheil M Ezzedine1, Oleg Vorobiev1, Arben Pitarka2, Ryan Hurley1, Evan Tyler Hirakawa1, Lew Glenn1, William R Walter2 and SPE Modeling Team, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
An Overview of P/S Methods of Discriminating Explosions from Earthquakes with Insights from the Source Physics Experiments (149708)
William R Walter1, Sean Ricardo Ford2, Arben Pitarka1, Moira L Pyle2 and Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D.2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Rg Wave Scattering from Collapse Craters in Yucca Flat, NV (174760)
Jesse Lafayette Bonner, National Security Technologies, Las Vegas, NV, United States and Arben Pitarka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States

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