Imaging Magma Under St. Helens

Watch for a blog entry soon to give lots of information about watching the seismograms from the permanent Mount St. Helens monitoring network of the PNSN for the active seismic experiment shots.

One of the last few stations left is installed is just west of Mount St. Helens. From near the site, on the way in five different volcanoes could be spotted.

With crews diminishing in size as members leave for returns to the normal world the last few groups are struggling to finish all sites up.

A report from Geoff Abers: I am home now and finally have a chance to catch up on some reporting.

While one team was giving TV interviews others made real progress on more installations. 12 now completed.

Seven sites are now up and running.

Here are some details on the first installation day for passive seismic stations.

IRIS PASSCAL shipped us the equipment last week for one seismic station. Today we installed this as a test at the home of a PNSN staff member. Some details of the test installation are covered here.

There is a nice review article about the iMUSH project just published in The Columbian. An interview with Seth Moran, a USGS seismologist participating in iMUSH provides a good summary of the goals and our plans for the coming years.

The iMUSH web page has been under construction for the past month but had enough technical problems to make it inappropriate for general use by participants. While not totally completed it is now in a state to go public and iMUSH participants are encouraged to review it and make changes.

Official Start date and receipt of funding.

Participants received preliminary results of NSF reviews, tentative approval of the project and a revised budget was submitted.

Collaborative Proposal submitted to National Science Foundation for funding the iMUSH project.