• Measured sound levels in ice-covered shallow water caused by seismic shooting on top of and below floating ice, reviewed for possible impacts on true seals 

      Stemland, Helene Meling; Johansen, Tor Arne; Ruud, Bent Ole; Aniceto, Ana Sofia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-01)
      Seismic surveying of the Arctic is important for several reasons, but also introduces some challenges. One is the concern that seismic data may affect the hearing of marine mammals living there, including true seals. We performed two seismic experiments on floating ice on Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in early March 2016 and late May 2017, just before and right after the ringed seal breeding ...
    • Passive seismic recording of cryoseisms in Adventdalen, Svalbard 

      Romeyn, Rowan; Hanssen, Alfred; Ruud, Bent Ole; Stemland, Helene Meling; Johansen, Tor Arne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-20)
      A series of transient seismic events were discovered in passive seismic recordings from 2-D geophone arrays deployed at a frost polygon site in Adventdalen, Svalbard. These events contain a high proportion of surface wave energy and produce high-quality dispersion images using an apparent offset re-sorting and inter-trace delay minimisation technique to locate the seismic source, followed by ...
    • Potential use of time-lapse surface seismics for monitoring thawing of the terrestrial arctic 

      Stemland, Helene Meling; Johansen, Tor Arne; Ruud, Bent Ole (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-09)
      The terrestrial Arctic is warming rapidly, causing changes in the degree of freezing of the upper sediments, which the mechanical properties of unconsolidated sediments strongly depend upon. This study investigates the potential of using time-lapse surface seismics to monitor thawing of currently (partly) frozen ground utilizing synthetic and real seismic data. First, we construct a simple geological ...