S53E:
Recent Progress in Nuclear Test Monitoring Capability Posters


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Session ID#: 48776

Session Description:
The 2012 National Research Council report “The CTBT: Technical Issues for the United States” reviewed the state of nuclear test monitoring technologies and analyzed theoretical capabilities, finding that “Seismic [and other] technologies have the potential to improve event detection, location, and identification substantially over the next years to decades.” Advances in understanding containment of radionuclides, atmospheric transport, infrasound, hydroacoustics, satellite remote sensing, and seismic measurement of small, evasive tests rely on development across many geoscience disciplines. Since analysis for the NRC report during 2010, the Departments of Defense, Energy, and State have invested in R&D and improved monitoring capabilities and systems. In parallel, fundamental science supported by NSF, USGS, NOAA and others has enhanced geoscience capabilities while new technology has enabled better observational systems, data processing, and simulation. This session brings together geoscientists to review subsequent scientific progress and policy experts to compare capabilities with policy goals.
Primary Convener:  Raymond J Willemann, Air Force Research Laboratory, Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research Program, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Convener:  Glenn Eli Baker, AFRL/RVBYE, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Raymond J Willemann, Air Force Research Laboratory, Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research Program, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Chairs:  Raymond J Willemann, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States and Glenn Eli Baker, AFRL/RVBYE, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Raymond J Willemann, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • PA - Public Affairs
Index Terms:

1040 Radiogenic isotope geochemistry [GEOCHEMISTRY]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification [SEISMOLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

An Advanced Analysis of the 2017 North Korea's Nuclear Test through Seismic and Satellite Radar Observations (389378)
Tae Sung Kim, KIGAM Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea, Won-Kyung Baek, University of Seoul, Department of Geoinformatics, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) and Hyung-Sup Jung, University of Seoul, Department of Geoinformatics, Seoul, South Korea
Surface Change Detection of the 6th Nuclear Test of North Korea on 3 September 2017 using SAR and InSAR Techniques (431318)
Jisang Yoon, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea, Republic of (South) and Hoonyol Lee, Kangwon National University, Department of Geophysics, Chuncheon, South Korea
Relative Seismic Source Scaling of Pn Phases from Six North Korean Underground Nuclear Explosions (365987)
Junghyun Park1, Brian William Stump2, Il-Young Che3 and Chris Hayward2, (1)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (2)Southern Methodist University, Roy Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Dallas, United States, (3)Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, Earthquake Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea
A One-dimensional P-velocity Crustal Model of the China-North Korean Border Region (389285)
Jiayu Ma, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China and Lianxing Wen, Stony Brook University, Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook, United States; University of Science and Technology of China, Laboratory of Seismology and Physics of Earth's Interior & School of Earth and Space Sciences, Heifei, China
P/S ratios and seismic discrimination from the Source Physics Experiment (400046)
Dr. Michael Pasyanos, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Investigating the Effectiveness of P/S Amplitude Ratios for Event Discriminant at Local Distances (400277)
Moira L. Pyle and William R Walter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Near-Source Mechanism for Creating Shear Content from Buried Explosions (410924)
David W Steedman and Christopher R Bradley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Waveform modeling of SPE chemical explosions and shallow earthquakes and its application to local distance P/S amplitude ratio (394437)
Andrea Chiang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division, Livermore, United States, Arben Pitarka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States and William R Walter, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
On the Performance of ML-MC as a Depth Discriminant for Small Seismic Events Recorded at Local Distances in Yellowstone, Oklahoma, and Italy (423865)
Monique Maria Holt1, Zongshan Li2, J. Mark Hale1, Keith D. Koper3, James C Pechmann3, Relu Burlacu4, Jonathan Ross Voyles5 and Sebastiano D'Amico6, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, (3)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)University of Malta, Department of Geosciences, Msida, Malta
Classification of Local Seismic Events in the Utah Region: A Comparison of Amplitude Ratio Methods with a Machine Learning Approach (380037)
Lisa Linville1, Rigobert Tibi1, Christopher J Young1 and Ronald Brogan2, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)ENSCO, Inc, Melbourne, FL, United States
Test of a Magnitude-Based Depth Discriminant Using Revised Magnitudes and Locations of Explosions in the Utah Region, USA (415583)
Jonathan Ross Voyles1, Monique Maria Holt2, J. Mark Hale2, Keith D. Koper3, James C Pechmann3 and Relu Burlacu4, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States, (4)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Using Phase Amplitude Ratios to Differentiate Blast, Collapse, and Fault Slip Seismic Events from Deep Gold Mines in South Africa (409532)
Austin White-Gaynor1, Andrew Nyblade2, Raymond J Durrheim3, Prof. Charles J Ammon, PhD1 and Michael Cleveland4, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States, (3)University of the Witwatersrand, School of Geosciences, Johannesburg, South Africa, (4)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
CEPSTRAL DEPTH ESTIMATES FOR SEQUENCES OF SHALLOW EVENTS (444639)
Robert Chester Kemerait Sr, Air Force Technical Applications Center Melbourne, Melbourne, FL, United States and Ileana Madalina Tibuleac, Air Force Technical Applications Center Patrick AFB, Patrick AFB, FL, United States
High frequency Seismic Noise Models of the Conterminous United States (460263)
Aaron N Ferris, Weston Geophysical Corp, Lexington, MA, United States and Seung-Hoon Yoo, Weston Geophysical Corp., Lexington, MA, United States
Improving Spectral Image Classification through a Custom Data Sparsing and Pixel Clustering Algorithm (460453)
Christopher Burt1, Mary O'Neill2, Ian McKenna2, Clare Kimblin3 and Fred Kruse4, (1)Special Technologies Laboratory, MSTS, LLC, Santa Barbara, United States, (2)Special Technologies Laboratory, MSTS, LLC., Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Special Technologies Laboratory, MSTS, LLC., Santa Barbara, United States, (4)Horizon GeoImaging, LLC, Frisco, United States
Comparison of seismic waves generated by mining blasts in Jordan, Sweden and North Korea (401112)
Ivan O Kitov1,2, Mikhail Rozhkov2 and Matthew J Yedlin3, (1)Institute of Geosphere Dynamics RAS, 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
Moment tensor estimation and uncertainty quantification using mtuq, instaseis, obspy and pymc (420612)
Ryan Modrak, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Vipul Silwal, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute and Department of Geosciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Celso R Alvizuri, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland and Carl Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
Modeling Pn Geometric Spreading and Attenuation by the Viscoelastic Finite-Difference Method with Applications to the North Korean Test Site (386000)
Lei Zhang1, Lian-Feng Zhao2, Xiao-Bi Xie3 and Zhen-Xing Yao2, (1)IGG Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Beijing, China, (2)Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
Hybrid waveform modeling for small-scale source complexity at teleseismic distances (380312)
Marta Pienkowska-Cote1, Stuart E.J. Nippress2, David Bowers2 and Tarje Nissen-Meyer3, (1)ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)AWE Blacknest, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
Earthquake Similarity through Graphical Modeling of Arrival Time Data (460694)
Clara Daniels1, Jonathan MacCarthy2 and Michael L Begnaud2, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
The Iterative Processing Framework: A New Paradigm for Automatic Event Building (379869)
Rigobert Tibi1, Andre V. Encarnacao1, Sanford Ballard2, Christopher J Young1 and Ronald Brogan3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)ENSCO, Inc, Melbourne, FL, United States
Detecting P-waves in Streaming Seismic Data Using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) (375669)
Lynne Burks and Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Detecting Seismic Events Using Ensembles of Features (398391)
Robert Forrest and Lynne Burks, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Empirical Evaluation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization’s Seismic Network’s Detection Capability (365337)
Colin Pennington, U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Science Center, Moffet Field, United States and Raymond J Willemann, Air Force Research Laboratory, Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research Program, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
Pycheron: A python-based library for automated real-time seismic quality control with applications to nuclear explosion monitoring (394811)
Katherine Anderson Aur, Jessica Bobeck and Chris Young, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Qualification of Nanometrics Trillium 120QA Seismometers and Centaur CTR4-3A for Use in the International Monitoring System (418459)
Andrew Owen Moores1, Henry Seywerd2, Sylvain Pigeon3, Bruce Townsend1, Tim Cote4, Yuri O Starovoit5 and Scott Dodd4, (1)Nanometrics Inc, Kanata, ON, Canada, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Nanometrics Inc., Ottawa, Canada, (4)Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, Canada, (5)CTBTO, Vienna, Austria
Establishing a Baseline Signal Detection Capability for the 2018 Dynamic Networks Data Processing and Analysis Experiment (DNE18) (419888)
Joshua Carmichael1, Michael L Begnaud2, Charlotte A Rowe2, Fransiska Dannemann3 and Jonathan MacCarthy2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, EES-17, Los Alamos, NM, United States
The 2018 Dynamic Networks Data Processing and Analysis Experiment (DNE18) (394375)
Christopher J Young1, Stephanie Teich-McGoldrick1, Katherine Anderson Aur1, Michael L Begnaud2, Jonathan MacCarthy2, Richard J Stead2, Joshua Carmichael3, Stanley Dean Ruppert4, Jessie Gaylord4, Brian Schrom5, Jennifer Mendez5 and Keith D. Koper6, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (6)University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, United States
Testing the Effects of Velocity Models for Seismic Location in the DNE18 Virtual Experiment (395142)
Michael L Begnaud, Ellen M Syracuse, Christine N. L. Gammans and Jonathan MacCarthy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Tracking Virtual, Atmospheric Emissions from Time-Varying and Short-Term Sources during the DNE18 Study Time Period (436538)
Keeley R Costigan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Effect of zeolitization on noble gas transport through natural materials (380459)
Joshua Feldman1, Scott Broome2, Matthew Paul3, Tina Nenoff2, David Rademacher2, Jason E Heath1, Kristopher L Kuhlman1, Guangping Xu2 and Michelle Williams1, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Nuclear Waste Disposal Research & Analysis, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Multi-Phenomenology Explosion Experiment in New Hampshire (375818)
Anastasia F Stroujkova1, Mark Austin Person2, Sofia Avendano3, Melinda Horne4, Mark Leidig5, James Lewkowicz1, Eugene Gorman6, Vanessa Napoli7, Peter George Hubbard1, Jeremy Salerno1 and Aaron N Ferris1, (1)Weston Geophysical Corporation Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)New Mexico Tech, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Socorro, United States, (3)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, (4)New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Earth and Environmental Science, Socorro, NM, United States, (5)Weston Geophysical Corp., Houston, TX, United States, (6)Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Weston Geophysical Corp, Lexington, MA, United States

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