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Date: 4/22/2021

Session Time: 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM Pacific

Critical Zone, Environmental and Cryospheric Seismology

Environmental seismology is the study of seismic signals generated at and near the surface created by environmental forces in the atmosphere, hydrosphere or solid Earth, and as such covers a broad range of subjects. Contributions to this session are welcome on a wide variety of topics including–but not limited to–seismically focused scenarios associated with the microseism, landslides, rock falls, debris flows, lahars, snow avalanches, cliff or pinnacle resonance, river bedload transport, flood events, fluid flow in open and confined channels, water gravity waves or infragravity waves, tides, sea ice variability, subglacial hydrology, hurricanes, tornadoes or anthropogenic sources. Explorations of the seismic behavior of cryospheric media, including permafrost, ice sheet/shelves modeling, snow and firn dynamics, glacier stick-slip, icequakes, iceberg calving and crevassing and temporal monitoring are also encouraged. Studies focusing on critical zone and engineering applications are additionally welcome and may include studies of groundwater and remediation, site characterization for geologic and seismic hazard applications, monitoring of critical infrastructure and geotechnical applications. Contributions that seek to conduct monitoring, create physical or statistical models of source processes or systems, detect events, characterize a wave propagation environment or interact with other branches of the Earth or social sciences are additionally encouraged. Submissions running the gamut from site-specific case studies to ongoing methodological advances are warmly welcomed.  

Conveners
Julien Chaput, University of Texas at El Paso (jchaput82@gmail.com)
Tieyuan Zhu, Pennsylvania State University (tyzhu@psu.edu)
Richard Aster, Colorado State University (rick.aster@colostate.edu)
Wei Wang, Pennsylvania State University (wpw5162@psu.edu)
Lucia Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso (lgonzalez5@miners.utep.edu)
Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, Rice University (ja62@rice.edu)
Paul Winberry, Central Washington University (paul.winberry@gmail.com)
Grace Barcheck, Cornell University (grace.barcheck@cornell.edu)
James St Clair, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (james.stclair@pnnl.gov)

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