Call for Abstracts: Environmental Seismology Session at AGU 2025
Brad Lipovsky
Dear colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to our upcoming session on Environmental Seismology at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting. This session will explore how seismic tools are transforming our understanding of Earth's dynamic surface and near-surface processes. Submit your abstract here.
This session welcomes submissions on the use of seismic methods—whether theoretical, experimental, or field-based—to investigate:
🪨 Mass movements: landslides, rockfalls, debris flows
💧Hydrological activity: floods, sediment transport, groundwater fluctuations
❄️ Cryospheric phenomena: icequakes, glacier dynamics, rift propagation, crevasse formation, calving
🌊 Atmospheric/oceanic interactions: microseisms, weather-related signals
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🚗 Anthropogenic sources and their environmental interpretations
We especially encourage contributions that leverage novel techniques such as large-N arrays, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), and 4D subsurface imaging, which are advancing how we observe and interpret Earth’s active systems.
This session aims to foster a cross-disciplinary dialogue across seismology, near-surface geophysics, hydrology, cryosphere science, natural hazards, and geomorphology. We seek to identify key knowledge gaps, instrumentation challenges, and research priorities that will guide future innovation and collaboration in environmental seismology.
S008 - Environmental Seismology
Conveners:
Bradley Paul Lipovsky, University of Washington
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Richard C. Aster, Colorado State University
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Danica L. Roth, University of Colorado Boulder
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Yifei Cui, Tsinghua University
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John Mitchell McLaughlin (Student/Early Career), New Mexico Tech
Cross-listed Sections:
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NS (Near-Surface Geophysics)
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NH (Natural Hazards)
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H (Hydrology)
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C (Cryosphere)
Join us as we build the future of environmental seismology. We look forward to your contributions!
Sincerely,
Brad Lipovsky (on behalf of the conveners)