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New Mexico Tech Volcano Geophysics Field Course
-Ecuador, June 7 - 27, 2009-

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Course Description

A course in the deployment of maintenance of acoustic-seismic arrays, data processing and physical volcanology.

This course provides hands-on instruction in volcano seismology and infrasound instrument deployment at an active volcano (Tungurahua, Ecuador) followed by data retrieval, processing, and analysis.  Course is equally divided between field work, lectures, physical volcanology field trips, and hands-on data analysis.  Focus of the 2009 course will be on array seismic deployments and infrasound networks (For 2008 field course information click here).  Weeks one and three will be based in Baños and students will be responsible for doing data analysis with PASSCAL software and in MATLAB. 

Instructors: Jeff Johnson1 jeff.johnson@ees.nmt.edu,  Mario Ruiz mruiz@igepn.edu.ec2, Omar Marcillo1,2 omar.marcillo@ees.nmt.edu
1New Mexico Tech, USA; 2Insituto Geofísico- Escuela Politécnica Nacional (IG-EPN), Ecuador

Guest Lectures by: Mark Murray1, Bill Macintosh1, Nelia Dunbar1, Richard Aster1, Patricia Mothes2, Pete Hall2, Patricio Ramón2
1New Mexico Tech, USA; 2Insituto Geofísico- Escuela Politécnica Nacional (IG-EPN), Ecuador

In-Country Facilitator: Jonathan Hall, Ecuadorian Journeys, www.ecuadorianjourney.com

Graduate Student Participants

Branden C Christensen Branden.Christensen@gmail.com
Geophysical Institute-University Alaska Fairbanks-Alaska Volcano Observatory-USA

Andrea Parmigiani
University of Geneva-Switzerland

Kirsten Chojnicki
Arizona State

Niranjan Khalsa
New Mexico Tech-USA

Hunter Knox
New Mexico Tech-USA

Carolyn Parcheta
University of Hawaii at Manoa-USA

Ezer Pataln
University of Texas at El Paso-USA

Ashley Edelman
University of New Mexico-USA

Sarah Hanson-Hedgecock
University of Buffalo-USA

Sarah Myer
University of California Santa Cruz-USA

Aida Reyes
UNAM-Mexico

Aaron Gutierrez
UNAM-Mexico

Dawn Sweeney
University of Buffalo-USA

IG-EPN Participants

Freddy Basconez
Instituto Geofisico-Ecuador

Pablo Marcillo
Instituto Geofisico-Ecuador



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