Development of Integrated Seismic, Geodetic and Volcanic Gas Surveillance Instrumentation for Volcanic Research

0116577Kyle该奖项由美国国家科学基金会极地项目办公室、地球科学部和综合活动办公室提供，支持开发用于监测火山气体、地震活动和海拔变化的综合仪器包。地震和大地测量方法是用于监测火山的主要工具，因为这些方法已被证明是通过遥感偏应力释放以及岩浆的侵入和排出质量流量来预测火山爆发的最有用手段。在过去10年中，技术进步导致地震学和大地测量学出现了新一代的仪器和数据采集方法。这一合作项目涉及北地中海技术研究人员、联合国志愿人员组织工作人员和Guralp系统公司，将开发和部署一套低功率、成本效益高的地震、大地测量和环境传感器实时综合仪器，主要用于监测活火山和构造活跃地区的活动。将在本项目下开发和安装的综合监测仪器站的功率要求很低（约2瓦），在最恶劣的环境条件下无人值守运行长达12个月。该计划要求在Mt.埃里伯斯和一个在新墨西哥州。在埃里伯斯山，该项目将监测与持久的斜长石响岩岩浆湖有关的持续火山活动。NM站将监测与格兰德河裂谷中膨胀的索科罗岩浆体有关的持续地震和长期变形活动。所开发的仪器应可广泛应用于应用和基础地球科学项目，有可能为更好地预测火山和地震自然灾害的社会目标作出重大贡献。

0116577KyleThis award, provided by the Office of Polar Programs, the Division of Earth Sciences, and the Office of Integrative Activities at NSF, supports development of an integrated instrument package for surveillance of volcanic gas, seismic activity, and elevation change. Seismic and geodetic methods are the principal tools used to monitor volcanoes, as these have been shown to be the most useful means of forecasting volcanic eruptions through the remote sensing of deviatoric stress release and intruding and withdrawing mass fluxes of magma. During the past 10 years, technological advances have resulted in a new generation of instrumentation and data acquisition methods in both seismology and geodesy. This collaborative project involving NM Tech researchers, staff from UNAVCO, and Guralp Systems will develop and deploy a low-power cost-effective real-time integrated instrument package of seismic, geodetic and environmental sensors primarily for monitoring the activity at active volcanoes and in tectonically active areas. The Integrated Surveillance Instrumentation (ISI) stations that will be developed and installed under this project are intended to have low power requirements (approximately 2 watts) and to run unattended for periods of up to 12 months under the harshest of environmental conditions. The plan calls for deployment of 5 ISI stations at Mt. Erebus and one in New Mexico. At Mt Erebus, the project will monitor on-going volcanic activity associated with the persistent anorthoclase phonolite magma lake. The NM station will monitor ongoing seismic and long-term deformational activity associated with the inflating Socorro magma body in the Rio Grande rift. The instrumentation developed should have wide application in both applied and basic earth science projects with the potential to contribute significantly to societal goals of better predicting volcanic and seismic natural hazards.