1 Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et de Tectonophysique, BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France 2 Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 3 Institut de Physique du Globe, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France 4 now at: Laboratoire de Modélisation et d’Imagerie en Géosciences CNRS FRE 2639, Université...

The increased availability and fidelity of broadband seismic instruments have played a key role in bridging the gap between exploration and global seismic applications. Long gone are the days when global structure mapping and source characterization/monitoring relied on the manual digitization of WWSSN (World-Wide Standard Seismographic Network) analogue records or hours in front of microfiche ...

The Field Experiences for Science Teachers (FEST) Program, based in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University, provides field seismology experiences to secondary school science teachers in Connecticut. Research experiences for K-12 science teachers have been shown in the past to improve students’ test scores and encourage inquiry-based teaching in the science classroom. FEST p...

We provide an introduction to the use of the spectral-element method (SEM) in seismology. Following a brief review of the basic equations that govern seismic wave propagation, we discuss in some detail how these equations may be solved numerically based upon the SEM to address the forward problem in seismology. Examples of synthetic seismograms calculated based upon the SEM are compared to data...

obtain a uniform di stribution of peri aps i s longitudes over the surface of Mars, and both Sand Xband data were used where possible to elimi nate charged part i c l e effects. I nc lu sion of-the Vik ing data arcs altered the Mart i an geoid features, as defined by previous short-arc analysis techniques of Mariner 9 data, by about 80 meters in the Southern Hemisphere 1 and about 140 meters i ...

In this chapter, we summarize and synthesize our investigations of the use of evolutionary algorithms to automatically program robots, particularly for application to space exploration. In the Space Robotics Group at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, we were motivated to begin work in this area a decade ago when the concept of network science became popular in the space...