CLIMBS researchers from the University of Kentucky, Seth Carpenter and Zhenming Wang, recently spent time in Western Kentucky, specifically in the Jackson Purchase region, to select appropriate instrumentation for the passive-seismic groundwater characterization project. The team evaluated candidate nodal seismometers and were assisted at the West Farm Complex by Murray State University’s Hannah Conner. UK EES Graduate student Seth Thompson also joined Carpenter and Wang in the installation. After uninstalling, the team is currently assessing the recordings of the nodal seismometers and if they perform well, they may replace the expensive, traditional instruments.
Best of all, the UK team hopes to continue the collaboration with Murray State in the Jackson Purchase area throughout the CLIMBS project.
This part of Project 3, Safeguarding Kentucky’s Water Supply.
UK’s Carpenter, Wang, Partner with Murray State to Install Seismological Equipment
