Optical Seismology and the
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13 – 16 October 2026 | Kona, Hawaii

Workshops and Field Seminars

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Workshops and Field Seminars

Workshops

DAS Workshop at Keck Observatory Headquarters

Tuesday, 13 October, 9 AM – 5 PM

In this hands-on workshop at the Keck Observatory Headquarters in Waimea, you’ll learn how to use computational tools to analyze Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data, using data from experiments conducted previously on Maunakea. This full-day event includes an overview of DAS, the hands-on tutorial, discussion of new fiber sensing technologies and a special demonstration of optical frequency microcombs.

Registration for the workshop is $120.

Featured speakers include:

  • Luke Broadley, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and COMBS
  • Helen Janiszewski, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Sara Klaasen, ETH Zürich
  • Meghan Miller, The Australian National University and COMBS
  • Arnan Mitchell, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and COMBS
  • Tianwei Sun, The Australian National University and COMBS
  • Chad Trabant, EarthScope Consortium

Round-trip transportation to the Keck Observatory Headquarters will depart from the Outrigger Kona Hotel. Lunch will be provided.

The workshop is aimed at those with limited experience with DAS, especially students and early-career researchers, but anyone may register to attend. Attendance is limited to 60 people.

Keck I and Keck II’s Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics systems peering into the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Image Credit: Sean Goebel
Scientists discussing in an observatory
Image Credit: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS)

Field Seminars

Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

Saturday, 17 October, 8 AM – 6 PM

Examine the structures and deposits that have shaped Kīlauea over timescales ranging from days to thousands of years. We will visit sites that show the effects of caldera collapse and refilling over the last decade at Halema‘uma‘u, as well as intrusion and eruptive activity in the East Rift Zone (including the 2024 activity in Napau crater and the extensive 1969-1974 Mauna Ulu activity). Particular focus will be given to faulting structures in and around the summit that have responded to and constrained these activities.

North and south vents at the summit of Kīlauea
Image Credit: Sean Goebel

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