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Room: Key Ballroom 9

Date: 4/15/2025

Session Time: 4:30 PM to 5:45 PM (local time)

Geophysics in a Changing World: Monitoring Applications from Seismology and Beyond

Recent developments in environmental monitoring with geophysical tools demonstrate their utility for mapping small-scale changes in the shallow subsurface. Such innovative applications are becoming increasingly relevant as society faces challenges related to sustainability in the context of changing environments. Passive seismic investigations have used recordings of ambient noise to resolve groundwater fluctuations on the basin scale, and to monitor and characterize fluvial system bedload transport and flood response. Resistivity and electromagnetic techniques have been used for soil characterization and to map saltwater intrusion, with implications in hazards, resource mapping, and climate change. Microgravity and passive-seismic surveys have been used independently and jointly to assess dam stability, to detect karst, and for other near-surface applications. Moreover, seismic and infrasonic data have become useful for real-time landslide detection and have shown potential for detecting severe weather phenomena such as tornadoes and hurricanes. While focusing on seismology, this session invites presentations from a wide range of geophysical applications to study Earth’s surface and near-surface processes, and other aspects of the emerging fields of environmental seismology and geophysics.

Conveners

Jochen Braunmiller, University of South Florida ( jbraunmiller@usf.edu) 
Seth Carpenter, Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky (seth.carpenter@uky.edu) 
Felix Rodriguez Cardozo, University of South Florida (felixr1@usf.edu) 
Glenn Thompson, University of South Florida (thompsong@usf.edu)

Oral Presentations