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.
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.
Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Field Seminar
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. Attendance is limited to 46 people.
Participants should be prepared for loose surfaces and variable weather (rain, wind, heat, etc…). The National Park may be hot or cold, windy, and rainy (down to the high 50s) depending on location and daily weather variability. It is suggested that participants bring sturdy footwear, water, sunscreen and raingear. For safety reasons, children under the age of 12 are not permitted on the field trip.
Field Trip Leaders:
- Thomas Lee, Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
- Ashton Flinders, Research Geophysicist, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
