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Thursday, 21 May 2009 08:59 |
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David James and Steven Golden with several other members of the HLP team in eastern Oregon. Photo: Maureen Long. | Members of the High Lava Plains (HLP) Seismic Experiment group, including David James, Rick Carlson, field seismologist Steven Golden, current postdoctoral fellow Nick Schmerr, former postdoctoral fellows Katie Cooper, now at Washington State University, Maureen Long of Yale University, Lara Wagner, now at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and former intern Erin Wirth of New York University, are back in the field for a service run during these last two weeks of May. A total of 104 broadband stations will be serviced during this time and more than 200 GB of seismic data will be collected and archived. Starting in 2005 and extending into 2010, the HLP project seeks to establish a better understanding of why the Pacific Northwest, specifically eastern Oregon’s High Lava Plains, is so volcanically active. This region, chosen for study because of its accessibility, its high volcanic flux (this is the most volcanically active area of the continental United States), and its relatively young age, provides the team with an interesting and challenging problem: none of the accepted paradigms about crustal formation and magmatism fit eastern Oregon. To read more about HLP, click here.
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