Two more seismometers in the ground today installed by Amy Gilligan and Sophia Baker, first one near Cupar Angus (confusingly in Perthshire) and then heading into Angus farmland to install the second site near allegedly the smallest (ruined) castle in Scotland

Quite a bit of digging and a lot of mud but some scenic views of Clachnaben as Amy Gilligan Heather Kennedy and Sophia Baker deployed another seismometer on the Finzean Estate today!

This is a new temporary station we’ve deployed east of Pitlochry as part of PICTS. The data is already coming into our servers, but it may take a few days before it shows up on our website.

A second real time temporary station as part PICTS going in, this one near Tarland, Aberdeenshire.

Seismometers that we deployed last week near Pitlochry, Perthshire and Tarland, Aberdeenshire as part of the project picked up the waves that had travelled through the Earth from the M6.8 #earthquake in Argentina yesterday, over 10,000km away! BGSseismology

The PICTS data now has a network code from FSDN: 9J! We'll be heading out into the field next week to pick up data from most of the instruments and look forward to sharing what they've picked up over the first few months! fdsn.org/networks/detai…

First day in the field picking up the first lot of data! The first couple of stations seemed to be working great, just a bit of gardening needed to stop grass growing over the solar panels. The final site had some power issues, but hopefully we've improved the set up now!

Bit more Scottish weather today ☔ but we had umbrellas to the rescue to help us keep the laptop dry while downloading data and some pretty flowers to look at Guardswell Farm

Data gathered off two more seismometers today! Unfortunately the one near Finzean needed to be relevelled but we made up for it with a tasty lunch in the Finzean Farm Shop! Great to have Emma, a QUADRAT UG research experience intern joining the fieldwork!

After a bit of a rainy start, it eventually turned into a sunny day for Amy Gilligan and Alice Blackwell collecting the latest batch of data from the Perthshire line of PICTS seismometers

It was the turn of the seismometers in Angus to be visited today by Amy Gilligan and Alice Blackwell - lots of data downloaded to help us understand the Earrh beneath our feet!

Fantastically sunny autumn day for Amy Gilligan and Ahmed Al Madani to visit the sites on the Aberdeenshire line, with a chance to enjoy the views from Cairn o' Mount!

Day 4 of the #30DayMapChallenge, with the theme of green - the start of plotting the geological map for the region around the PICTS, with some green metamorphic rocks. Geological data from British Geological Survey, with some wrangling in python to make it work with TheGenericMappingTools 5!

First fieldwork of 2023! Waiting for Amy Gilligan at East Bog to service one of the PICTS seismometers Aberdeen Geology & Geophysics #seismology #fieldwork

Dawn to dusk* PICTS seismometer servicing today with Dave Cornwell! 5 sites in Angus and Perthshire - all quite dry and batteries not as bad as expected (but still switched them for fully charged ones)! *Not to hard to achieve when sunrise is 08:41 and sunset is 16:00

Quick visit to the PICTS seismometer B1BC to swap over the battery and download some data this morning before teaching this afternoon

Lovely sunny spring day to visit a couple of seismometers in Angus and get some data off them! Was really cool to hear the strange call of the lapwings as they circled overheqd at the Glen Clova site

If you're at #EGU23 next week and still there on Friday (at 17:50 😬) come along to my talk to hear about the what this data from the PICTS can tell us about the deep structure of the crust in Scotland!

Find the seismometer this afternoon with Natural Environment Research Council QUADRAT interns Szymon and Dave, uninstalling one of the PICTS seismometers near Finzean!