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Participants of the 2015 EarthScope National Meeting field trip in Vermont observe the Champlain Thrust Fault.

Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) stations have been established all across North America by EarthScope and UNAVCO.

A participant in the Southwest Native Science Educators Workshop (NSEW) demonstrates the theory of plate tectonics with a cookie.

Participants in the Southwest Native Science Educators Workshop (NSEW) piece together a cut-out map of tectonic plates around the world.

Participants in the Southwest Native Science Educators Workshop (NSEW) explore Tempe Butte (aka 'A Mountain') at ASU after the lecture series.

Numerous Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO) stations (right) and seismic monitoring stations (left, with solar panels) have been placed throughout North America by UNAVCO, the Incorporated Research Institute for Seismology (IRIS), and EarthScope.

Decade Symposium Reception, Washington D.C.

EarthScope National Meeting was held in Raleigh, NC.

Interpretative professionals gathered in and around Acadia National Park, Maine

Anyone can fix a strain meter! A very friendly horses checks out a strain meter in Washington (No threat to the strain meter)

Instruments in the vault, Harwood, Maryland

The Plate Boundary Observatory has had GPS stations operating all over Alaska. Soon PBO will be joined in Alaska by the Transportable Array Stations

Kayak Island GPS installation, Prince William Sound AK

EarthScope National Meeting in Raleigh, NC

Educational Workshop: Educators working with EarthScope data.

Central Appalachians Interpretive Workshop

Dr. Steve Jaume pointing out earthquake damage on Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston for the EarthScope Southeastern Regional Interpretive Workshop in January 2013

EarthScope Southeastern Regional Interpretive Workshop

Educational Workshop in the Rocky mountains.

EarthScope-related workshop in Yellowstone Park.

Installation of an STS-2 three-component broadband seismometer

Pacific Northwest wet weather installation site

SAFOD Section of coring material at Gulf Coast Repository

A sample is extracted from a section of SAFOD core material

Alaska PBO GPS Monument (Augustine, Alaska)

Alaska PBO GPS Monument (Akutan, Alaska)

Mendocino Triple Junction Observatory synthesis workshop

Mendocino Triple Junction Observatory synthesis workshop field trip

4D Evolution of the North American Continent synthesis workshop

EarthScope National Meeting field trip in Anchorage, AK in May 2017

EarthScope booth at AGU 2016 in San Francisco, CA.

SinoProbe and EON-ROSE visit the Alaska Earthquake Center in Fairbanks, AK.

Educator workshop at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Southern Margin of North America synthesis workshop

Evolution of the Southern Appalachian Lithosphere synthesis workshop

Towards a 3D model of the Cascadia Subduction Zone synthesis workshop

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This/these photos were provided by the EarthScope National Office, a National Science Foundation funded project. EarthScope scientists study the structure and evolution of the North American continent using three primary observatories, the Plate Boundary Observatory (PBO), USArray, and the San Andreas Observatory at Depth (SAFOD). For more information, visit www.earthscope.org.

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