Keith Koper

SSA’s Global #Travel #Grant program offers early-career and student members financial support to participate in scientific conferences and workshops anywhere in the world. Learn more here and apply by 28 February: buff.ly/H5BRlQE

You asked for it, you got it. Here is the video of the @Mana_Carvalho22 punt return for a TD in Saturday night's game against the Cincinnati Bearcats at @Rice_Eccles synced up with the seismic data. @UUtah @utahathletics @Utah_Football @raspishake

Researchers working on the #Kamchatka #Russia #earthquake and #tsunami, consider submitting your early analyses and reports to The #Seismic Record #TSR for rapid #OpenAccess publication. Learn more here buff.ly/mQ6Xar0

Congrats to Alysha Armstrong for winning the Dept. of Geology and Geophysics 2025 award for Outstanding PhD Student. Alysha won for her work with Dr. Keith Koper and Dr. Ben Baker, using machine learning to find and process small earthquakes in the Yellowstone volcanic region.

🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 📣PRESS RELEASE📣 Remote Single‐Station Seismic Monitoring of the July–October 2022 Earthquake Swarm at Ta‘ū Volcano, American Samoa #TSR (1/n) Press release: seismosoc.org/news/scientist… Paper: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/articl…

The University of Utah Seismograph Stations (UUSS) reports that a minor earthquake of magnitude 3.9 occurred at 05:59 PM on January 28, 2025. The epicenter of the shock was located about 4 mi northwest of Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park.

This Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote clip was director Chuck Jones' one of the most favorites. He included it in his compilation of the best Road Runner gags in his 1979 "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie".

🌟OPEN ACCESS🌟 In a new #TSR paper, @LosAlamosNatLab and @USGS scientists present a new way to optimize parameters for neural network-based phase-pickers. buff.ly/3BWjBg0

Despite its importance, earthquake magnitude is a surprisingly ambiguous concept. Here we combine analysis of a large dataset of earthquakes in the western US with synthetic experiments to understand the relation between different magnitude scales. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/articl…

@IntrovertProbss The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.

@UofUGeo's  Peter Lippert (@utahpmag) and Sean Hutchings are helping bring attention to the hidden star of a 3,500 kilometer major sporting event this summer. Introducing the Geo Tour de France project ⬇️ science.utah.edu/faculty/what-d…

📢 New paper and graduate student opportunity for geothermal imaging! Check out our work characterizing iso- and anisotropic structure beneath the Hengill geothermal fields, Iceland. Students interested in studying geothermal system at University of Hawaii please reach out 🙂

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ Determining Stress Orientation in Rock Valley, Nevada, Using Ambient Seismic Noise #TSR Telling the difference between earthquake vs explosion requires understanding the stress field and mechanical properties of the ruptured rocks. buff.ly/4e8fL27

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ In northern California, the Mendocino Triple Junction marks the transition from San Andreas strike-slip faulting to Cascadia subduction. In Dec. 2021 and 2022, earthquake sequences struck this region. @USGS_quakes scientists explore in #TSR buff.ly/4a5tyEl

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ In a new #TSR paper, @USGS_quakes scientists applied an automated deep-learning workflow to improve earthquake catalogs for two northern California sequences: the Dec. 2021 Petrolia sequence, and the Dec. 2022 Ferndale sequence. buff.ly/4a5tyEl

Today is the 90th anniversary of the M6.6 Hansel Valley earthquake, the biggest earthquake ever observed in Utah! Check out the KSL article on this historic event: ksl.com/article/509477…

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ Interested in the onshore transition from San Andreas style faulting to Cascadia subduction zone tectonics? Check out this new #TSR paper! buff.ly/3TcfJxP

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ An unexpected discovery beneath the western Mediterranean of an overturned subducted oceanic slab may help scientists better understand rare and deep earthquakes in southern Spain. #TSR Paper: buff.ly/3woztFw Press release: buff.ly/49o9Weh

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ In a new #TSR paper, scientists found that beneath the western Mediterranean, a subducted oceanic slab has completely flipped over! Paper: buff.ly/3woztFw Press release: buff.ly/49o9Weh

✨OPEN ACCESS✨ Deformed Latest Pleistocene Fluvial Terraces Reveal Complex Active Faulting within Tectonic Transition Zone, Mendocino Triple Junction, Northern California #TSR Scientists explore where Cascadia and the San Andreas meet. buff.ly/3TcfJxP