Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

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IGPP's Geoff Davis shares, with Spiceworks, his experieces with snake chaps, poorly defined public easements (and armed land owners), protecting hardware from moisture damage in the desert, and much more as the technical lead for HPWREN. Learn more about what IGPP's ANZA/HWPREN team has to work through (Wild West meets modern networking) to keep its high-bandwidth sensor network running: https://community.spiceworks.com/…/2132918-extreme-it-hpwre…

Dr. Debi Kilb represented Scripps and IGPP at the UC San Diego Women’s Conference for International Women’s Day. Kilb spoke about bridging the gender gap and what UC San Diego and Scripps are doing to promote STEAM education.

Stratéole-2, a collaboration of a small group of researchers from the United States and France—including IGPP's Jennifer Haase—has been featured in March 1, 2018 issue of EOS Buzz https://eos.org/project-updates/around-the-world-in-84-days. Stratéole-2 is a new initiative to study the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) and lower stratosphere using long-duration balloon platforms drifting near and within the TTL. To read the original white paper, visit: http://www-das.uwyo.edu/…/Strate…/Strateole2_White_Paper.pdf

Congratulations to Maya Becker, recipient of an AGU 2017 Outstanding Student Paper Awards (OSPA). Becker, a graduate student working with Helen Fricker, won the award for her presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting titled "Mapping Ross Ice Shelf with ROSETTA-Ice airborne laser altimetry."

Congratulations to Frank Vernon, Director of IGPP's Broadband Seismic Data Collection Center, who has been awarded CENIC's (California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) "Innovation in Networking Award for Experimental Applications." The application was the implementation of real-time, data-driven simulation, prediction and visualization of wildfires. He has deployed high-speed wiresless networks that allow data collection from hundreds of stations, and developing fire cameras and multi-hazard (e.g. earthquakes) tracking systems that support rapid, we’ll-informed responses. The work was presented as "Unprecedented."

Sally Ride Science's San Diego Library NExT program, which offers STEAM workshops at San Diego library branches, has unveiled its expanded course lineup covering everything from Marine Mammals and Kitchen Chemistry to Wearable Electronics and The Science of Harry Potter. Winter offerings for the Library NExT program, a partnership between the San Diego Public Library and UC San Diego, include more than 40 hands-on workshops at library branches around the city. The new schedule represents a tripling of the number of courses offered each month.  Many instructors for this the NExT program are Scripps graduate students recruited by IGPP seismologist and science outreach director for Sally Ride Science, Debi Kilb "...younger scientists can act as both instructors and role models.”

Congratulations to Cathy Constable who has been named one of 396 new Fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! Constable, who is being honored for “for seminal contributions to computational geomagnetism and the development of the Giant Gaussian process,” and “key leadership roles in scientific organizations,” will receive her award at the annual AAAS meeting February 2018. To read about other UC San Diego honorees, please visit https://scripps.ucsd.edu/…/six-uc-san-diego-professors-name….

IGPP's Yehuda Bock, distinguished researcher and director of the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center (SOPAC), is part of a campus wide team monitoring seismic impact on campus structures. The team has been working recently at the Geisel Library, using "lasers and drones to create a digital record of the structure that will serve as a baseline health assessment." Bock, who also applied sensors to measure ground motion to the Giesel Library six months ago, currently aims to "integrate structural monitoring into his early-warning prototype system for earthquakes and tsunamis." To read the full article visit Scripps News (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/drone-truthing). For more information about SOPAC, visit sopac.ucsd.edu.

Another science "fan-girl" post! My office at IGPP was just three doors down from Helen's! Such fun to work in the midst of such wonderfully intelligent people!

IGPP's Helen Fricker interviewed by the BBC on berg calving from the Antarctic Peninsula: http://www.bbc.com/…/sci…/ice-shelves-need-to-calve-icebergs

IGPP Seismologist, Debi Kilb, has been an active advocate for K12 science for decades. Now, as the science outreach director for the Sally Ride Science Junior Academy, Debi welcomes 6th-12th grade students to join her for up to three weeks of fun with science and art when the Junior Academy hosts its second annual summer workshops starting June 26. The completely hands-on classes include Messy Science, Pirate Science, the Music of Earthquakes and so much more. To learn more about the program, read the “This Week” article here http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/…/summer_programs_at_sally_ride_sc… or visit the Junior Academy website here https://www.sallyridescience.com/junior-academy/

Huge congratulations to IGPP Professor of Geophysics, Peter Shearer for his nomination by the Seismological Society of America's board to become the SSA's next president! Shearer has previously served the society as the SSA Honors Committee chair, on the SSA Publication Committee, and he has also worked to help increase SSA membership. As an organization, SSA aims to "Advance seismology and the understanding of earthquakes for the benefit of society." Congratulations, again, to the President Elect!

Oceanography International North America (OINA) will be honoring IGPP’s first director, Walter Munk in a special edition of Catch The Next Wave, February 16, 2017. Several speakers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, including Director Margaret Lenin and former IGPP Director, current Distinguished Professor of Geophysics at IGPP, John Orcutt will share presentations during the days-long Catch the Wave—in a program designed to honor Walter by discussing innovation in, and the current trajectory of ocean science. For more information, view the full program: http://www.oceanologyinternationalnorthamerica.com/…/Catch-…