New Zealand Plate Boundary Experiment homepage

From about December 2000 to May 2002 we deployed 50 short-period L22 sensors and 7 broadband sensors across the strike-slip faults in the north end of the South Island of New Zealand (see map below). The goal is to determine how the plate boundary changes with depth, primarily through observation of anisotropy in the crust. Two deployments were made: one a year long across the Wairau Fault (in red), the other about 6 months long across the southern faults (in pink). These were the planned deployments; actual arrays are shown elsewhere.

Field Headquarters, Red Deer Lodge, St. Arnaud, South Island, Dec. 2000

Computers setup under the deer residents of the Red Deer Lodge

Part of our huddle test, Red Deer Lodge and St. Arnaud Range

Removal Photos, late May 2002

Cows are coming home--must be time to leave St. Arnaud

"It never snows on Beeby's Knob"-Charlie Wilson, earlier that month. BBKW1 on removal

So long R boxes, so long St. Arnaud Range.

People

University of Colorado
Craig Jones cjones@terra.colorado.edu voice: 1-303-492-6994 fax: 1-303-492-2606 CB 399, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301-0399, USA	Anne Sheehan afs@terra.colorado.edu voice: 1-303-492-4597 fax: 1-303-492-2606 CB 399, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301-0399, USA
Peter Molnar molnar@terra.colorado.edu voice: 1-303-492-4936 fax: 1-303-492-2606 CB 399, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301-0399, USA	Charlie Wilson wilsonck@lithos.colorado.edu voice: 1-303-492-7296 fax: 1-303-492-2606 CB 399, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301-0399, USA
Oliver Boyd oliverb@terra.colorado.edu 1-303-492-7296 fax: 1-303-492-2606 CB 399, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80301-0399, USA
Victoria University
Tim Stern tim.stern@vuw.ac.nz Ph 64 4 463 5112 fax 64 4 463 5186 School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand	Martha Savage martha@geo.vuw.ac.nz Ph 64 4 463-5961 School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand
Mathieu Duclos duclosmath@scs.vuw.ac.nz School of Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600 Wellington, New Zealand
Others who have helped with finding huddle test locations and equipment include John Tabor (VU) and Martin Reyners (IGNS)
PASSCAL Instrument Center
Tim Parker tparker@passcal.nmt.edu ph 505-835-5075 fax 505-835-5079	PASSCAL Instrument Center passcal@passcal.nmt.edu ph 1 505 835-5070 FAX 1 505 835-5079 Noel Barstow and Marcos Alvarez familiar with this project IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, 100 East Road, Tech Industrial Park, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM 87801 USA
Kintetsu World Express (U.S. shipper)/Owens Global (New Zealand shipper)
Joseph Bennett joseph.bennett@am.kwe.com El Paso, TX, USA ph 1- 915-772-3611	Richard Murdoch Owens Global Logistics Auckland phone (64) (9)-571-1466 Wellington (64) (4) 472-2520 AFC Building Southern Access Road Wellington Airport PO Box 4144 Wellington, New Zealand Wellington airport (usual home of Murdoch) (64) (4)-388-8236 fax: (64) (4) 388-1301
Field Owners
See contacts page

Issues/ToDo.

Study the data (playback data coming from NZ, make SEED for DMC)
Add IRIS, AGU abstracts here for reference

Notes

U.S. postings as month/day/year, NZ postings as day.month.year

6/5/02

All the field notes are now on the archive page. Array notes now include all the field notes from 2002. Some serious gaps exist. At this point this page will now begin to accumulate interpretation information, abstracts, etc.

C. Wilson will have a poster on our current understanding of the firt ~6-7 months of data at the IRIS meeting later this month.