Announcing an Early Career Scientist Seismic Data Webinar Series!

Mar 9, 2017
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Informational Webinars for NSF-UNOLS Early Career Scientist Training in Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded an Early Career Scientist Training Cruise in Seismic Data Acquisition and Processing to take place aboard the R/V Revelle in September 2017. The official announcement and application form for this opportunity will be forthcoming. As part of this effort, the program's Principal Investigators will be hosting a three-part webinar series, which will provide participants with necessary information to complete the application package, including a 2-page (maximum) science proposal. The webinars will introduce the participants to the process of defining science goals, developing detailed cruise plans to meet those goals, and to fundamentals of active source marine seismology.  The course will also cover the use of currently available data and open source processing and interpretation tools to help develop a proposal.

The program PIs are: Masako Tominaga (TAMU), Anne Trehu (OSU), Mitch Lyle (OSU), and Gregory Mountain (Rutgers), with additional support from Nathan Bangs (UTIG).

* this cruise has been designed for (but is not limited to) graduate students and early career scientist who are "non-specialists" in active source seismic, but we welcome any interested parties for this webinar series!

Webinar Schedule:

Title: How to Develop Science Hypotheses and Address Them with Marine Seismics
Date: Monday 4/10 (4:30-6pm EDT):
Topics: Introduction to the ECS opportunity and application process, Introduction to science in the Cascadia Margin 
Seismic Primer-1: Overview of Currently Accessible Seismic Data and US Seismic Facilities
 

Title: How to Develop Marine Seismic Proposals
Date: Tuesday 4/11 (4:30-6pm EDT):
Topics: Introduction on how to plan marine seismic surveys for non-seismic specialists, Writing tips for NSF/seismic proposal, IHA permit process 
Seismic Primer-2: Introduction of Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data Acquisition and Processing
 

Title: How to Develop a Marine Seismic Acquisition Plan
Date: Wednesday 4/12 (4:30-6pm EDT):
Topics: Introduction to the UNOLS Ship Time Request System and cruise budget, familiarizing ourselves with data management, data planning, the Academic Seismic Portal (ASP) and other data resources, and the role of R2R.
Seismic Primer-3: Seismic Cruise Planning and Useful Software
 

Webinar Registration (Required): 

Registration for the Webinar is now closed. Please email the UNOLS Office with any questions. 

Questions about the training cruise?

If you have any questions about the training cruise, please contact Masako Tominaga and Estefania Ortiz <ecs.seismiccruise2017@gmail.com>