December 2, 2020: 13:00 - 19:00 EST. Online. Applications and Advances in Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) for Earth and Space Sciences (#101675). Registration through AGU Fall Meeting.

Final Schedule

Videos
  1. Part 1: Introductions and Objectives, Recent Advances in DTS – Part 1 (1-4), DTS Industrial Partners (5-9), Discussion (10)
    1. Olivier Bour, Nataline Simon (University of Rennes): Active-DTS in sandbox experiments to validate groundwater fluxes measurements (8:02 - 19:09)
    2. Troy Gilmore (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): Comparison of groundwater discharge estimates with and without guidance from FO-DTS (19:17 - 29:40)
    3. Rosealea Bond (UCSC and NMFS): Using DTS to monitor environmental variability in a seasonally-closed California estuary (31:44 - 42:55)
    4. Christoph Thomas, Karl Lapo (University of Bayreuth): Sensing atmospheric turbulent wind direction and speed (42:56 - 53:10)
    5. Pierre Clément (Febus Optics): Distributed temperature solutions : selecting the right technology (53:54 - 1:03:00)
    6. Agatha Podrasky (Silixa): Basic principles of Silixa’s distributed temperature sensor solutions (1:03:10 - 1:13:47)
    7. Michael Montgomery (AP Sensing): Overcoming DTS Performance Uncertainty: Raman Backscatter Temperature Measurement Technology With Unique Single-Receiver Stability (1:15:31 - 1:24:22)
    8. Doug Norton (AFL): Fiber Optic Cable Selection Considerations for Sensing (1:24:35 - 1:34:52)
    9. Etienne Friedrich (Solifos): Fibers and cable terminations for DTS environmental monitoring (1:34:58 - 1:45:17)
    10. Discussion (1:45:17 - 1:55:32)
  2. Part 2: Recent Advances in DTS – Part 2 (1-4), DTS Basics (5-6), Calibration and Experimental Design (7-8)
    1. Dante Fratta (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Monitoring the response of a district scale geothermal field using a DTS array (0 - 10:54)
    2. Kristen Davis (University of Irvine): Internal wave dynamics on the inner shelf - a new perspective from DTS measurements (11:09 - 23:18)
    3. Ted Scambos (UColo Boulder); Scott Tyler (UNR): An automated DTS Installation on the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Early results (23:22 - 35:23)
    4. Chris Gabrielli (SelkerMetrics): DTS as a means to monitor sedimentation rates continuously over large areas (35:41 - 45:44)
    5. Scott Tyler (UNR): Distributed Temperature Sensing using Fiber Optics - The Basics! (45:45 - 1:11:19)
    6. John Selker (OSU): Some Practical Matters in applying DTS (1:11:48 - 1:30:15)
    7. Scott Tyler (UNR): DTS Calibration: Challenges and Tools (1:32:45 - 1:49:05)
    8. Bart Schilperoort (Delft University of Technology): Calibrating with confidence using the dtscalibration python package (1:49:06 - 2:02:00)
  3. Part 3: Tips and Lessons from the Field (1-3), How to access CTEMPs (4), Closing (5)
    1. Luca Schenato (National Research Council - Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection): DTS for geophysical applications: a brief assessment of suitability (0 - 13:59)
    2. Marty Briggs (USGS): Efficient deployment of cables and analysis of data with the USGS ‘DTS GUI’ (14:05 - 28:55)
    3. Chadi Sayde (North Carolina State University): Actively Heated Fiber Optics DTS: Lessons From the Field (28:57 - 43:07)
    4. Cara Walter (OSU), Chris Kratt (UNR): How to access CTEMPs Instrumentation (43:40 - 56:45)
    5. John Selker (OSU), Scott Tyler (UNR): Closing (59:10 - 1:03:30)