RIP Muawia Barazangi Thank you for the kindness over the years and the many lessons about building community, (loudly) questioning the status quo and having fun along the way. And of course, for how to read analog seismic records. Cornell Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

USGS #3DEP #lidar covering areas impacted by #Hurricanelan are now available from OpenTopography. For #Ian we've temporarily lifted restrictions on access to 3DEP. 131K sq mi (3.4 trillion lidar pts) are open for hurricane response, recovery & rebuilding: opentopography.org/news/usgs-3dep…

New publication by OpenTopography team member Emily Zawacki, PhD et al: "Exploring #TikTok as a promising platform for geoscience communication" (doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-3…). Paper summarizes experiences using the Terra Explore channel as a platform for geoscience communications.

.USGS Earthquakes & School of Earth and Space Exploration are mapping the creeping #SanAndreasfault through rugged ranchlands in central CA. The fault is expressed as sharp rock type and color contrasts in canyons, aligned cracks in parched soil, elongate ridges, and beautiful sheared and striated minerals.

I am recruiting a #paid #intern to work on OpenTopography this summer. The intern will apply Machine Learning to #lidar #topography and topographic change results to characterize geologic and geomorphic features. Due March 1 opentopography.org/news/opentopog…

Job Alert! If you are interested in a postdoc position focused on the use of optical imagery to study plate boundaries with USGS Earthquakes NASA JPL School of Earth and Space Exploration contact research advisors and discuss a proposal: usgs.gov/centers/menden… #earthquake #usgs #tectonics

Pre-print alert! 👋Introducing a probabilistic displacement hazard assessment framework for distributed ruptures from strike-slip earthquakes on immature faults. We are VERY interested in community feedback, Mike Oskin and I are pretty new to PFDHA! eartharxiv.org/repository/vie…

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈) Tools of the Trade highlight by OT Advisory Committee member Alba Rodriguez: "Decoding earthquake mechanics with repeat pass airborne #lidar": rdcu.be/daNyD Many of the repeat lidar datasets highlighted are available via OT.

Great NSF EarthCube “Advancing the Analysis of High Resolution Topography (HRT)” workshop last week. ~55 folks received training in HRT processing & analysis with PDAL, lidR, Landlab toolkit. Thx to National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, CSDMS, our hosts at School of Earth and Space Exploration: opentopography.org/workshops/eart…

3D print of Meteor Crater, AZ #lidar by the Dept. of Physical Sciences at ScottsdaleCC. This model was made using the ready-to-print STL files available from the OT OpenLandform Catalog: opentopography.org/learn/lidarlan… Learn more about 3D printing of topography: opentopography.org/learn/3D_print…

Just published geosociety Geosphere: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/… very interesting project lead by ChelseaScott in collaboration with Rich Koehler and many others including Christopher Madugo Tim Dawson Albert Kottke Alana Williams Oz ⚒️ Mike Oskin School of Earth and Space Exploration

New study: students use OT to evaluate how well geomorphology-based fault mapping predicted #earthquake surface rupture. For seven past earthquakes, students compared their mapping on pre-event #lidar & imagery with documented ground rupture. Learn more: opentopography.org/blog/mapping-s…

New OT blog post: "Topographic Change w/ 3D Prints". 3D prints provide a tactile way to explore the Earth’s surface & learn about the geologic processes that shape it. We created 3D prints of pre- & post-event topography from the 2014 Oso, WA landslide: opentopography.org/blog/change-3d…

Congratulations to the OpenTopography team, Principal Investigators Vishu Nandigam, Ramon Arrowsmith, ChelseaScott, Chris Crosby for being awarded the 2023 AGU (American Geophysical Union) Open Science Recognition Prize! agu.org/honors/open-sc… #AGU23 #aguhonors #NSFfunded

Happy to announce that you can now use OpenTopography tools to compute topographic change on overlapping datasets in the USGS #3DEP & NOAA Coastal Lidar collections. Dynamically compute landscape change for ~20% of CONUS w/ publicly available #lidar in OT: opentopography.org/news/3dep_noaa…

So proud of these amazing @seseasu @asu faculty for being recognized at #AGU23 for their incredible achievements — congratulations to my colleagues Everett Shock, Vernon R Morris, ChelseaScott, & Ramon Arrowsmith!!

Summer 2024 student data science #internship with OpenTopography. Work with the OT team for 11 weeks (paid!) to ingest & process #lidar topographic data, & develop workflows and services. Via the EarthScope Consortium internship program. Due Feb 15th. More info: opentopography.org/news/opentopog…

🌟 Excited to share our latest work on PBRs! Grateful for the amazing collaboration. Check out this brief video for an overview of our project 📹: [drive.google.com/file/d/1Suge7p…] #Research #Collaboration #PBRs

The Governor of CA declared a state of emergency on Sept 3rd due to quickening landslides in Rancho Palos Verdes near LA. Topographic differencing with NOAA Digital Coast #lidar in OT shows Earth’s surface change from 2010-2014. The red and blue areas highlight persistent landslides.