This $161,641 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to apply active and passive seismic imaging techniques to provide a high-resolution three-dimensional image of the subsurface summit structure of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. Funded from February 1, 2023 to January 31, 2026, the award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will integrate an active-passive seismic survey of the Kilauea summit with a temporary nodal array. Researchers will use the seismic data for various processing techniques to obtain an unprecedented image of the volcano's magma plumbing system, which will provide critical insights into magma storage, transport, and future eruption prediction. The work also supports student training and links the geophysical results to geochemistry from erupted samples to better understand relationships between reservoir geometry and geochemical signals.
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