Prospective Students
The Adventure
If you are interested in exploring one of the most spectacular parks in North America, here is your chance. Over the next few years we need graduate students to help us deploy and maintain nearly thirty broadband seismic stations in Katmai National Park. This means helicopter rides to volcanic peaks, pontoon plane flights to remote wilderness lakes, boat trips up pristene rivers. Katmai an Kodiak Island are also home to some of the best baer viewing in the world!
The Learning
Through fieldwork you will learn about the many common difficulties that hinder modern seismology such as station timing errors. You will also have the opportunity to process data that nobody has ever seen before. Seismic projects include tomography (either travel time or attenuation), earthquake location, receiver function analysis, surface wave inversion, and ambient noise studies. While very challenging, it is an amazing experience to be the first to explore the subsurface with brand new data. You will be able to help us determine the fait of the downgoing Pacific slab. You could help us learn how continuous subduction transforms into localized volcanic centers.
Contact Us
If you want to join BLINK, please contact Jesse Lawrence at Stanford via email or by phone (+1 650 723-9390).
Photo of Mount Katmai by R.F. Griggs of the 1915 and 1916 expedition.
