GE5950 Volcano Seismology
Spring semester 2008
3 credits
Description and scope of the course: This course will prepare students, including those with no seismology background, to interpret seismic and acoustic signals from volcanoes. Topics: basic seismology, monitoring techniques, tectonic and volcanic earthquakes, infrasound, and deformation over a range of time scales. Download a PDF of the syllabus here.
Instructor:
Dr. Greg Waite
Dow 204
Office phone: 7-3554
e-mail: gpwaite@mtu.edu
Lecture:
M from 1435-1550 in Dow 633.
W from 1535-1650 in Dow 633.
Guest lectures in the latter part of the course will be facilitated over the Internet using Marratech software in EERC B11.
Lab:
Th from 1130-1300 in Dow 211
Texts: There is not a required textbook as most of the material will be handed out. But I recommend the following:
Stein, S. and M. Wysession, (2003). An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure, Blackwell Publishing this is an excellent general-purpose seismology textbook that also covers advanced topics we wont address.
Zobin, V.M. (2003), Introduction to Volcanic Seismology, Elsevier this is the only volcanic seismology textbook that covers most of the topics we will cover in the course.
Prerequisites: MA1160/61, GE2000, PH2100, or permission from instructor. Labs and homework assignments will be done in Matlab, but you need not be an expert in Matlab to take the course.
Readings: Journal articles and book sections will be assigned.
Course web page: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~gpwaite/teaching/volcanoseismo
Grades: Final grade will be based upon homework (25%), laboratories (25%), mid-term (25%) and final exams (25%).
General Course Outline(Some lectures or partial lectures are posted below as PDFs):
| Week | Date | Lecture Topics | Lab |
| 1 | Jan 14 | NO CLASS THIS WEEK | No Lab |
| 2 | Jan 21 | Introductory earthquake seismology: stress and strain, seismometry, ray paths, source mechanisms, earthquake magnitudes, earthquake statistics, phase identification.
Lecture 1 | No Lab |
| 3 | Jan 28 | Lecture 2 | An Introduction to Earthquake Data Analysis in Matlab |
| 4 | Feb 04 | Lecture 3 Lecture 4 | No Lab (Winter Carnival) |
| 5 | Feb 11 | Lecture 5 Lecture 6 | Focal Mechanisms |
| 6 | Feb 18 | Lecture 7 Lecture 8, 9 & part of 10 | Volcanic Earthquake Discrimination |
| 7 | Feb 25 | Lecture 10 | Tremor Array Analysis |
| 8 | Mar 03 | Lecture 11 & 12 |
| 9 | Mar 10 | SPRING BREAK | No Lab |
| 10 | Mar 17 | Lecture 13 & 14 | Very-Long-Period Particle Motion Analysis |
| 11 | Mar 24 | Lecture 15 | Signal Stacking |
| 12 | Mar 31 | Volcanic infrasound | Calibration, Differentiation & Integration |
| 13 | Apr 07 | Waveform modeling | RSAM, SSAM, Seismometer Response |
| 14 | Apr 14 | Imaging magma systems | Review for Lab Final |
| 15 | Apr 21 | Seismology and deformation on volcanoes | Lab Final |
| 16 | Apr 28 | FINAL EXAMS | No Lab |
Other readings:
Click for a link to a list of good papers on, and related to, volcano seismology. PDFs are provided when possible.
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