Upcoming Workshop!

Front Row: Torrey. Back Row: Sangwon Ham, Colin Zelt, Biondo Biondi, Roel Snieder, Alan Levander, Gary Pavlis, Jerry Schuster, Christian Poppeliers, Gigi Fradelizio, Rick Aster, Gene Humphreys, Brian Schlottman, Stephane Rondenay, Bill Symes, Ken Dueker, Mike Fehler, Paul Earle, Ru-Shan Wu, Michael Bostock, Bogdan Nita, Art Weglein, Peng Shen, Fenglin Niu. Gary Pavlis and Ru-Shan Wu illustrate the optical effect of opacity with Jerry Schuster and Michael Bostock. Mike Fehler and Paul Earle illustrate partial shadowing.

We would like to thank IRIS for generous support of this workshop as a pre-Earthscope activity.

Discussion Topics:

• High-resolution seismic wavefield imaging of the crust and mantle with the USArray Bigfoot/Flexible Array
  1. Flexible Array Design Criteria
  2. Lithosphere/Lithosphere Imaging
  3. Lower Mantle Imaging
  4. Joint Inversion of Active and Passive Seismic data
• R&D in imaging science
• Collaboration between imaging scientists from industry and from academic
• IT and data needs for rapid advances in imaging science
• Community benchmarks and synthetics for imaging algorithms

Workshop Participants
Workshop Agenda

Working Group Reports

Array Design and Data Distribution
Migration/Joint Inversion/Inverse Scattering
Information Technology
Turning the Image into Earth Science

Imaging the Lithosphere: The Cheyenne Belt Archean Proterozoic Suture in southern Wyoming