November 13, 2025      03:30pm        POST 723

(*Special date/time: Thursday at 3:30 pm)

Thomas A. Lee

Assistant Professor, Geology, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

Historic Seismograms for Interdisciplinary Interdecadal Analyses

Ground motion has been recorded for over a century, but much of it is unusable today because it remains in an analog format. It is a significant undertaking to digitize these records, but it is possible. Moreover, even today, novel and unique science can be done with this irreplaceable data set.
 
In this talk, work utilizing recovered historical data in the fields of both earthquake and climate science will be covered. Additionally, the vast potential of this data for continued work will be discussed.