https://video.osgeo.org/videos/watch/0e1421f7-581e-47a9-b234-dfd0484891de In this session from FOSS4G NA 2025, Sophia Parafina, a cloud advocate for the EarthScope Consortium, presents Geophysics in the Cloud. Sophia introduces the mission of EarthScope, a nonprofit organization funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that provides the global scientific community with access to high-quality geophysical data—including seismic, GNSS, SAR, and magnetotelluric observations. The presentation details EarthScope's massive "lift and shift" migration from legacy on-premise infrastructure to a cloud-native environment in AWS, managing over a petabyte of open data. Sophia showcases "GeoLab," a specialized JupyterHub environment that allows researchers to process large-scale geophysical datasets directly in the cloud using tools like Dask, PyTorch, and Apache Arrow. She also demonstrates real-world applications of geophysics, such as using GNSS reflectometry to measure snowpack and soil moisture with millimeter precision. Highlights: 🛰️ What is EarthScope? An overview of the consortium’s role in providing open access to seismic and geodetic instrumentation and data 🔄 Migration to AWS: Breaking down decades of Fortran-based processing into modern AWS Lambdas and S3-based workflows 🧩 GeoLab & JupyterHub: A deep dive into the cloud-based research environment offering specialized containers for seismic and GNSS analysis ⚙️ Modern Data Formats: How EarthScope is moving toward Apache Arrow and TileDB to enable high-speed, zero-copy data engineering 🌐 Global Seismic Picking: A look at how researchers used EarthScope’s petabyte-scale data to build a global earthquake catalog using machine learning 🏢 Hazard Monitoring: Using seismometers and GNSS stations to track everything from hurricane-induced ocean vibrations to ionospheric disturbances caused by tsunamis 🏗️ GNSS Reflectometry: Explaining how satellite signal noise ratios are used to measure surface deformation, snowpack, and vegetation moisture For more content like this check out www.projectgeospatial.com #Geophysics #FOSS4G #CloudComputing #AWS #EarthScope #Seismology #GNSS #JupyterHub #DataScience #OpenSource #OpenData #ProjectGeospatial #Dask #MachineLearning #NaturalHazards Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:42:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.osgeo.org https://video.osgeo.org/lazy-static/avatars/de841c88-3a57-45ac-9eff-a00237356bfc.png https://video.osgeo.org/videos/watch/0e1421f7-581e-47a9-b234-dfd0484891de All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.osgeo.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.