The Oregon Hazards Lab is #DefyingGravity! This week, our field technicians revisited Shaniko to complete the deployment of our newest wildfire detection camera. Climbing telecommunications towers to install cameras can be challenging and dangerous during winter. Over the next few months, we will prioritize other projects like maintenance at low-elevation seismic monitoring stations. #FieldWorkFriday
Oregon Hazards Lab
非盈利组织
Eugene，Oregon 122 位关注者
Building the most advanced all-hazards, environmental, and ecosystem monitoring platform in the United States
关于我们
The Oregon Hazards Lab is a research lab within the University of Oregon’s Department of Earth Sciences. Our mission is to use science, technology, and community engagement to understand, detect, and mitigate multi-hazards within the Pacific Northwest. We are building a statewide sensor network that supports both resilience monitoring and scientific observing. Our work advances knowledge of natural and human-caused hazards and the environment, it helps to protect the public, and it contributes to community-level resilience. Our projects include installing and maintaining seismic monitoring stations for the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, deploying wildfire detection cameras, and utilizing novel environmental monitoring sensors like Wild Sage Nodes. The real-time data these devices collect deliver actionable and equitable information to the public, emergency managers, critical infrastructure providers, and policy makers. They also provide scientists with the open-access data that are the cornerstones of scientific discovery, thereby simultaneously fostering convergent scientific research that contributes to building a more disaster-resilient society. These projects directly contribute to building a more resilient, just, and livable future. The framework of technology, science, and public engagement that strengthens resilience also enhances environmental stewardship and ecological understanding. Our goal is to be international leaders in using hazards monitoring to support stewardship of place and to inform societal responses to climate and land-use changes.
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ohaz.uoregon.edu
Oregon Hazards Lab的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非盈利组织
- 规模
- 11-50 人
- 总部
- Eugene，Oregon
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2018
- 领域
- Earthquake Early Warning、Seismic Monitoring、Field Deployments and Operations、Wildfire Detection、Multi-Hazards and Environmental Monitoring、IT Programming and Networking、Community Engagement和Alerts and Warnings
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主要
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1600 Millrace Dr
US，Oregon，Eugene，97403
Oregon Hazards Lab员工
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Andrew Hadlock
Research Engineer at University of Oregon
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Tamara Beschorner
You’ll find me installing seismic devices in Oregon for PNSN/ShakeAlert
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Autumn O.
Environmental Studies & Political Science student at the University of Oregon | UO Legislative Scholar
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Ben Aldrich
Environmental Geoscience/Spatial Data Science at University of Oregon
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The Green Mountain wildfire detection camera captured an aurora in the night sky on October 7th. Wildfire detection cameras play a pivotal role in detecting and monitoring fires, but also help us observe and understand the broader natural world. Explore auroras, wildfires, and more from wildfire cameras across the West at alertwest.live. #OHAZ #UO #aurora
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New camera alert! Located in Wasco County, the Shaniko camera joins the world's largest public wildfire camera network. Thank you to our partner Oregon Department of Transportation for hosting the camera on your tower. The Shaniko camera will be available soon on the ALERTWest and Watch Duty platforms. Watch live at alertwest.live. #FieldWorkFriday ??: Will Hermann
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Did you read the exciting update in our newsletter? We have surpassed our goals for building a dense seismic monitoring network in Oregon! The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) set an ambitious goal to have 213 seismic monitoring stations in Oregon contributing earthquake detection data to the ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System. A dense seismic monitoring network is essential for speedy and accurate alerting, which could save lives in the next large earthquake. We have now met and surpassed that goal, and actually anticipate operating 235 ShakeAlert-contributing stations in Oregon by late 2025. We will deploy additional stations over the next year because this helps scientists to better estimate earthquake locations. These sites are all part of the PNSN, which is cooperatively managed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the University of Washington, and the University of Oregon. Read more at bit.ly/OHAZNov2024.
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Our fall newsletter is now available! We recap summer field work, the impacts of wildfire cameras this fire season, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network buildout, and our partnership with the Rogue Valley Council of Governments to deploy wildfire cameras across Southwest Oregon. Read and subscribe at bit.ly/OHAZNov2024.
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Happy #FieldWorkFriday! We just completed a power system upgrade at the TBLE seismic monitoring station. During the winter, when snow blocks access to many sites, our field technicians focus more on maintaining existing seismic stations than installing new ones. This work is essential to keeping the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network running 24/7, so it can collect the ground motion data needed to understand earthquake hazards and enable the #ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System.
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Partnerships with local governments play a key role in our monitoring network. Counties host wildfire cameras and seismic stations, provide access to power and telemetry, and share our public safety tools with their residents. These collaborations reflect our shared commitment to safeguard rural and urban communities alike from the increasing threats posed by wildfires, earthquakes, and and other hazards. Thank you Association of Oregon Counties for sharing our work in your latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/g67Tr5zz
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The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet is visible from Earth only once every 80,000 years! Our Quail Prairie Lookout wildfire camera captured footage of this celestial event on October 14. Wildfire cameras are a key component of our vision to develop the most advanced all-hazards, environmental, and ecosystem observing platform in the United States. This statewide sensor network provides the open-access data needed to understand our changing planet (and cosmos!) in addition to delivering actionable information during natural disasters. Watch live feeds from all Oregon Hazards Lab cameras at ALERTWest.live.
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It's #FieldWorkFriday! Oregon Hazards Lab field technicians Sarah and Tamara installed a new seismic monitoring station, SUGAR, on Sugarpine Mountain this week! The data collected by SUGAR will be used for scientific research and real-time alerting in collaboration with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and the #ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System.
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Today is is the Great Oregon ShakeOut! Mitigating the impacts of natural disasters is a core part of our mission. Oregon Hazards Lab staff will participate in the world's largest earthquake drill at 10:17am - and we work to prepare Oregon for earthquakes all year long. As part of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, we operate a network of hundreds of seismic monitoring stations alongside the University of Washington and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). These stations collect real-time ground motion data so scientists can better understand and monitor regional seismic hazards. They also contribute to the #ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System, which gives Oregonians time to protect themselves before you dangerous shaking arrives. Earthquake preparedness doesn't stop when ShakeOut ends. At 6:30pm tonight, we are hosting Quake Questions Answered at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Hear from researchers at the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center about regional seismic hazards and how you can prepare for the Big One. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/g3FHN78p.
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