EarthScope Consortium Newsletter - February 2023

[Scott Johnson]

Notice anything different? On January 1, IRIS and UNAVCO officially completed the merger to become EarthScope Consortium. Ahead of that final milestone, we launched our new presence at the AGU Fall Meeting. With a number of complex hurdles cleared, we're hitting our stride and focusing on critical efforts like the migration of our data systems to a common cloud platform. We'd like to thank everyone in our community that provided input and assistance getting us to this point, and invite you all to stay involved and inform our future direction. A note on Türkiye Our hearts go out to the great many people affected by earthquake damage in Türkiye. Terrible events such as this remind us all of the deep importance of work in this field. We can only hope to contribute to knowledge and systems that enable communities to better protect life. New web presence If you haven't seen, we have a new website and social media accounts. The website is also the new home for news, calendar events, and geophysical event information—like the M 7.8 Türkiye earthquake. GAGE/SAGE Community Science Workshop This year's workshop is March 27-29 in Pasadena. The early bird registration deadline is February 24. DETAILS Blast felt 'round the world Human ears heard acoustic waves produced by the eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in places like New Zealand, Hawai’i, and Alaska. As the audible shockwave of the explosion propagated through the atmosphere, so too did infrasound. READ MORE Disappearing glacial lakes The drainage network beneath a glacier could be “efficient”—swiftly transporting meltwater away—or it could be “inefficient”, in which case a sudden delivery of meltwater could pond up and change the conditions governing the glacier’s speed. READ MORE Yellowstone Lake A relatively simple measurement—lake level—has yielded big dividends in Yellowstone, from the hydrology of stream flow to the physical properties of the magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone Caldera. READ MORE https://www.earthscope.org/