Margaret Boettcher, Emily Roland, Jessica Warren, Robert Evans, John Collins, Author at Eos

Several people sit and stand around a large map of the seafloor on a table in laboratory space.

Science Updates

Observing a Seismic Cycle at Sea

by Margaret Boettcher, Emily Roland, Jessica Warren, Robert Evans and John Collins 7 March 202325 May 2023

Scientists organized a trio of expeditions to document the buildup of stress leading to a large earthquake on a seafloor fault, developing innovations for successful seagoing research in the process.

Sunset from the R/V Sikuliaq, July 2018, with broadband ocean-bottom seismometers arranged on deck

Science Updates

Examining Alaska’s Earthquakes on Land and Sea

by G. A. Abers, A. N. Adams, P. J. Haeussler, Emily Roland, P. J. Shore, D. A. Wiens, S. Y. Schwartz, A. F. Sheehan, D. J. Shillington, S. Webb and Lindsay Lowe Worthington 26 March 20198 November 2021

The Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment is taking a close look at seismic activity along the Alaska Peninsula to understand earthquakes in this little-studied region.

Alaska’s Augustine Volcano erupting on 27 March 2006

Planning for a Subduction Zone Observatory

by Joan Gomberg, P. Bodin, J. Bourgeois, S. Cashman, D. Cowan, K. Creager, B. Crowell, Alison Duvall, A. Frankel, F. Gonzalez, H. Houston, P. Johnson, H. Kelsey, U. Miller, Emily Roland, D. Schmidt, L. Staisch, J. Vidale, W. Wilcock and E. Wirth 20 May 201618 January 2022

An international, interdisciplinary effort to study and observe earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, and continent building at subduction zones could advance science and protect communities.