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Wilson Infrasound Observatories Dedication Ceremony
As part of this Workshop, the UAF/GI Infrasound Group will officially take on a new name in the form of the Wilson Infrasound Observatories (WIO), in honor of the pioneering infrasonic work of Professor Charles R. "Buck" Wilson. A dedication ceremony and reception for the WIO and Professor Wilson will be held at the Szuberla home on Tuesday night, 26 September 2006. Transportation to and from the event will be provided and a light dinner with hors d'oeuvres will be served. Participants are asked to bring a sample of their favorite national beverage to the event to share with the Workshop participants and to toast Buck. Homemade Alaskan beers will be provided by the Convener.Program
This program is tentative and will be updated as abstracts are received.Sunday: 24 September 2006
16:00 – 19:00 Pre-registration at the Westmark Hotel – a registration desk will be set up in the Board Room (to the left, as you walk past the front desk).Monday: 25 September 2006
08:00 – 08:30 Busses from Hotel to UAF/GI08:30 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 09:45 Workshop opening • Curt Szuberla, Convener
09:45 – 10:15 Welcome to UAF • Mark Hamilton, President of the University of Alaska
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome to GI • Hans Stenbaek-Nielsen, Associate Director of the Geophysical Institute
10:30 – 11:00 Break
Session I: IMS Network and IDC Processing • John Coyne & Tom Hoffmann
11:00 – 11:20 Establishment of the CTBT IMS Infrasound Network - A status report
Thomas L. Hoffmann and the IMS Infrasound Monitoring Unit Staff
11:20 – 11:40 Operation and Maintenance of IMS Infrasound Stations
Marta Galindo and Thomas L. Hoffmann
11:40 – 12:00 Current and Future Contribution of Infrasound Stations to the REB
John Coyne and Nicolas Brachet
12:00 – 12:30 A Myopic History of Infrasound Sensors
Daniel L. Osborne
12:30 – 14:00 Working lunch provided in the Globe Room
14:00 – 14:20 Latest Developments in the Automatic and Interactive Processing of
Infrasound Data at the IDC
Nicolas Brachet, John Coyne and Ronan Le Bras
14:20 – 14:40 Recent Experiences of IDC Analysts Reviewing Infrasound Data
Abdou Salam Ndiath, Misrak Fisseha, Mehves Feyza Ocal, Kirill Sitnikov,
Gadi Turyomurugyendo, Nicolas Brachet and John Coyne
Session II: Propagation and Modeling • Doug Drob & Michael Hedlin
14:40 – 15:05 Recent Advances in Predicting Infrasound Using the Time-Domain Parabolic
Equation (TDPE) Model
David Norris
15:05 – 15:30 Numerical modeling of Infrasound Propagation in a Realistic Atmosphere
Olaf Gainville, Pierre-Franck Piserchia, Bruno Depres, Pascal Have, Philippe Blanc-Benon
and Francois Aballea
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:25 Assessing Ground-Truth Infrasound Events for Validating Wind Models
Michael O'Brien, Roger Bowman and Douglas Drob
16:25 – 16:50 HWM Upgrade for Infrasound Propagation Calculations
Douglas Drob, Michael O'Brien and Roger Bowman
16:50 – 17:00 Summary & Administrative Remarks • Curt Szuberla
17:00 – 17:30 First bus from UAF/GI to Hotel
17:30 – 18:00 Second bus from UAF/GI to Hotel
Tuesday: 26 September 2006
08:15 – 08:45 Busses from Hotel to UAF/GISession III: Source Localization • David Brown & Carrick Talmadge
09:00 – 09:30 Artificial Event Data Constrained by Empirical Models for Testing
Automatic Processing Systems
David J. Brown
09:30 – 10:00 A Ray-based Automatic Infrasonic Source Location Algorithm
M. Garces, S. McNamara, D. Drob and N. Brachet
10:00 – 10:30 Bias in the Least Squares Estimates of the Back Azimuth and Magnitude Slowness
Joe Galbraith and Curt A. L. Szuberla
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 A Performance Comparison of Near-field Source Localization Techniques
Curt A. L. Szuberla, Kenneth M. Arnoult and John V. Olson
Session IIII: Chemical Explosions • Lars Ceranna & Läslo Evers
11:30 – 12:00 Infrasound from Suites of Mining Explosions at Large Distances - Observations and modeling
Hans Israelsson and Ben Kohl
12:00 – 12:30 Identification of the Oil-well Gas Flair Group as a Unique Infrasound Source
Using I31KZ Data
A. A. Smirnov
12:30 – 14:00 Working lunch provided in the Globe Room
14:00 – 14:30 Seismo-acoustic Analysis of Explosions and Evidence for Infrasonic Forerunners (i – iii)
(i) Läslo Evers, Lars Ceranna, Hein Haak, Alexis Le Pichon and Rod Whitaker;
(ii) Läslo Evers, Lars Ottemöller;
(iii) Läslo Evers and Hein Haak
14:30 – 15:00 The Buncefield Oil Depot Explosion: Extending signal coverage using airwaves
recorded on seismometers
David Green, David Bowers, Douglas Drob and Matthew Hort
15:00 – 15:30 The Buncefield Fire: A benchmark for infrasound analysis in Europe
Lars Ceranna and Alexis Le Pichon
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:30 A Preliminary Analysis of Infrasound Signals from Chemical Factory Explosions
at Jilin in China on November 13, 2005
Hee-il Lee, Il-young Che and Alexis Le Pichon
16:30 – 17:00 On Infrasonic Signals From Air Explosions
Sergey Kulichkov, Gregory Bush and Alexander Svertilov
17:00 – 17:30 First bus from UAF/GI to Hotel
17:30 – 18:00 Second bus from UAF/GI to Hotel
18:00 – 19:00 Busses from Hotel to Szuberla home
19:00 – 23:00 Reception at the Szuberla home and WIO dedication ceremony
23:00 – 23:30 Busses from Szuberla home to Hotel
Wednesday: 27 September 2006
08:15 – 08:45 Busses from Hotel to UAF/GISession V: Volcano Monitoring • Milton Garces & Hugo Yepes
09:00 – 9:20 Monitoring Volcanoes and the CTBT IMS Infrasound Network
Paola Campus
09:20 – 9:45 The Detection of Signals from the Cleveland Volcano: An application
of the pure-state filter to infrasound data
John V. Olson and Charles R. Wilson
09:45 – 10:05 Infrasonic and Seismic Signatures of Mount St. Helens Activity
Robin Matoza, Michael Hedlin, Milton Garces, David Fee, David McCormack and Henry Bass
10:05 – 10:30 Validating Upper-wind Models Using Infrasound From Active Volcanoes in Vanuatu
A. Le Pichon, K. Antier, S. Vergniolle, M. Lardy and D. Drob
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Azores Seismo-volcanic Activity Monitoring Program
N. Wallenstein, T. Ferreira, G. Queiroz and J. L. Gaspar
11:30 – 12:00 A Parametric Study of the Explosive Eruptions of Augustine Volcano,
Alaska, January 11-28, 2006
S. R. McNutt, S. A. Estes, S. Stihler, S. De Angelis, T. Petersen
12:00 – 12:30 Infrasonic Wave Observations at Fairbanks, AK, of Augustine
Volcano Eruptions During Jan, 2006
Charles R. Wilson, Steve McNutt and John V. Olson
12:30 – 14:00 Working lunch provided in the Globe Room
14:00 – 14:25 2006 Near Field Infrasonic Records of Explosive Eruptions at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador
H. Yepes, H. Kumagai, P. Palacios and Ramón
14:25 – 14:50 Infrasound Associated with Stratospheric Ash Injections at Tungurahua Volcano, Ecuador
Milton Garces, David Fee, Sara McNamara, Andrea Steffke, Hugo Yepes,
David McCormack and Henry Bass
14:50 – 15:00 Summary & Administrative Remarks • Curt Szuberla
15:00 – 16:30 Busses from UAF/GI to Chena Hot Springs Resort
18:30 – 22:00 Workshop banquet
22:00 – 23:30 Busses from Chena Hot Springs Resort to Hotel
Thursday: 28 September 2006
08:15 – 08:45 Busses from Hotel to UAF/GISession VI: Signals and Instrumentation • Nicolas Brachet & Roger Bowman
09:00 – 09:30 Advances in Surf Infrasound Monitoring
D. Fee, M. Garces, S. McNamara, J. Park, J. Aucan and M. Merrifield
09:30 – 10:00 Signals Recently Observed at the I53US Array in Fairbanks, Alaska
Kenneth M. Arnoult, Curt A. L. Szuberla, John V. Olson, and Charles R. Wilson
10:00 – 10:30 Detected Infrasound Signals and Noise Condition of IS30, Japan
T. Murayama, M. Nogami and N. Arai
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:25 Characterizing the Mechanical Sensitivity of Three Piezo-based Infrasound Sensors
Scott DeWolf
11:25 – 11:45 Wind Noise Reduction at Infrasound Monitoring Stations
Douglas R. Christie
11:45 – 12:05 The Elginfield Infrasound Array (ELFO): Construction and early results
Peter G. Brown and Wayne N. Edwards
Session VII: Bolides • Peter Brown & Rod Whitaker
12:05 – 12:30 Preliminary Observations of Meteor Infrasound at the Elginfield Infrasound Array – ELFO
Wayne N. Edwards and Peter G. Brown
12:30 – 14:00 Working lunch provided in the Globe Room
14:00 – 14:20 The Washington State Bolide: Observations and modeling
Douglas P. Drob, Stephen J. Arrowsmith, Michael A. H. Hedlin and Wayne Edwards
14:20 – 14:40 Simultaneous Infrasound and Optical Observations of Meteors
Peter G. Brown, Wayne N. Edwards, D. O. ReVelle and P. Spurny
14:40 – 15:00 Co-Located Infrasound/Seismic Observations of the NASA Stardust Sample
Return Capsule: Calibration and examination of acoustic/seismic coupling
Wayne N. Edwards, David Eaton, Philip J. McCausland, D. O. ReVelle and Peter G. Brown
Session Summaries
15:00 – 15:30 Session Summaries: I – IIII
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:30 Session Summaries: V – VII
16:30 – 17:00 Recommendations to PTS/IMS/IDC, Workshop closes
17:00 – 17:30 First bus from UAF/GI to Hotel
17:30 – 18:00 Second bus from UAF/GI to Hotel