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Projects

• Korea Antarctic Seismic and Hydro-acoustic Network (KASHN)

Project Name and Acronym:

Korea Antarctic Seismic and Hydro-acoustic Network (KASHN)

Principal Contacts for Data

Minkyu Park at Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)

Project Scientists

Minkyu Park, Korea Polar Research Institute, minkyu@kopri.re.kr
Young Keun Jin, Korea Polar Research Institute, ykjin@kopri.re.kr
Jong Kuk Hong, Korea Polar Research Institute, jkhong@kopri.re.kr
Yongcheol Park, Korea Polar Research Institute, ypark@kopri.re.kr
Won-Sang Lee, Korea Polar Research Institute, wonsang@kopri.re.kr

Project Locations

• The King George Island in the northern Antarctic Peninsula (1 GPS/Seismic station)
• The Bransfield Strait from Dec. 2005 to Dec. 2007 (5 moored hydrophones)
• The Eastern Scotia Sea from Dec. 2007 to Dec. 2008 (5 moored hydrophones)
• The Bransfield Strait since Dec. 2008 (5 moored hydrophones)

Project Activities

• Deploying a hydrophone array consisting 5 hydrophones in the Bransfield Strait during 2005-2007.
• Moving the array to the Eastern Scotia Sea in 2008.
• Moving the array to the Bransfield Strait again in 2009.

Principal Science Objectives

• Constructing and maintaining a polar wide-range monitoring network using Autonomous Underwater Hydrophones (AUHs) and seismic network.
• Monitoring submarine tectonic activity.
• Detecting alteration in the submarine environment in order to delineate characteristics of various geodynamics and evolutionary process of regional tectonics.

Research Highlights

• Developing a hydrophone system working in extreme condition.
• Developing location and discrimination systems between tectonic and glacial earthquakes.
• Observing thousands of swarm events occurring in the Bransfield Strait

Published Papers

Robert P. Dziak, et. al., JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 115, B01102, doi:10.1029/2009JB006295, 2010

Institutes / Agencies that provided project support

Korea Polar Research Institute

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