2024 Summer EW Course In-Person!

 

One of ISTI’s popular classes. Photographer, ISTI Staff.

 
“I just took the week-long ISTI EW class, and as the saying goes, ‘like drinking from a firehose’ it was a fun and rewarding week. I learned a lot!”
— Angel Rodriguez

Details

When

  • Date: June 24-28 Monday through Friday

  • Time: 9am-4:30 pm M-Th, 9am-1pm Friday. Eastern Daylight Time

  • Schedule: (5 days) Monday through Friday

Where

Kingston, NY

How to Get to Kingston, NY

If I didn't mind multi-leg air travel, I'd fly into Albany and rent a car from there. * 

If I wanted to take public transportation, I'd fly into Newark and take 2 longish busses from there. **

Other options are doable but often more complicated. 

Asterixes of the 2 recommendations above match up to details below. 

Don't like busses and trains and are fine renting a car?

Recommend flying in to Newark, NJ or Albany, NY if you want to rent a car. 

o *Albany Airport: One can usually not get a direct flight to Albany, NY. However the drive from Albany to Kingston is only 1 hr. 

o Newark Airport: One can get a direct flight to Newark, NJ from most major airports in the US, but time saved in flying with fewer airplane hops means doubling the drive time -- a rental car takes 2hr to get to Kingston NY 

Hotels

If you drive you have more hotels you can choose from, not just the walking distance expensive Kinsley or the inexpensive but lackluster Best Western. The Hampton Inn, Residence Inn, Holiday Inn Express and the Hutton Brickyards Riverfront Hotel are all a 10 min drive from the course. 

Don't want to rent a car? Don't mind busses? Don't want to use a taxi?

o ** Fly to Newark, NJ (EWR) -> Airport shuttle bus - coachusa.com (45min) to Port Authority in NYC -> Trailways bus to Kingston, NY (2hr) 

o Fly to  New York, NY (JFK) -> Air Train to Jamaica Station(5 min) -> Long Island Railroad (20 min) to Penn Station -> 1/2 mile walk (10 min) (or 3 min subway ride) to Port Authority ->  Trailways bus to Kingston, NY (2hr) 

Don't want to rent a car? Prefer train to busses? Don't mind a taxi?

o Newark, NJ (EWR) -> NJ Transit or Amtrak to Penn Station -> Amtrak train to Rhinebeck NY (2hr) -> Taxi (or Lyft, Uber) to your Kingston hotel (20min)  $40+tip. 

o New York, NY (JFK) -> Air Train to Jamaica Station (5 min) -> Long Island Railroad (20 min) to Grand Central Station -> Metro North train to Poughkeepsie, NY (2hr) -> Taxi (or Lyft, Uber) to your Kingston hotel (30min) $55+tip 

Walking Distance Hotels

If you can afford to stay at the recently renovated Kinsley, its set of buildings are walking distance from the bus station, and then the course at the Good Work Institute is walking distance from the Kinsley hotel. (Kinsley seems to be sold out for Sunday night though.) If you can't afford to stay at Kinsley, but can stand to stay at the somewhat beat Best Western, then that's also walking distance though slightly farther away. If you're renting a car or using Lyft/Uber, see Hotels above.

You're welcome to try your luck with Air B&B, but ISTI has no recommendations on those.

Any questions? Let us know? Any issues on your day of transit? Give us a call.


ISTI’s Paul Friberg trains a student in one-on-one seismic software instruction, 2014.

Overview

This  June 24-28 2024, ISTI will host another of our popular Earthworm training courses in person. Earthworm is the popular open-source automatic regional earthquake locator and data acquisition system. Originally invented by the USGS, Earthworm is now maintained and improved by a group of open-source developers that ISTI helps organize.

In the course, we will provide an expert’s insight into the system. You will learn tricks and tips from our decades of experience operating and programming Earthworm. You will learn how to set up regional automatic earthquake detection with the latest release of Earthworm.

This course will be useful to anyone setting up, managing, tuning, or developing for an Earthworm system.

Photo ISTI 2017

+ What We'll Cover

The Immersive Hands-On Course Will Cover:

  • Installation including ewconfig
  • Configuration
  • Troubleshooting
  • Archiving and Playback of data
  • Data exchange
  • Visualization tools
  • Overview of various non-Earthworm post-processing options
  • Tuning for Earthquake Location and Magnitudes
  • Programming new modules, learning APIs

In addition, we will provide a tuning session for anyone that wants to bring their network’s Earthworm configuration to the course. We will show you how to playback your data and tune the earthquake location engine.

Note: If you’d like to learn something specific, please contact us in advance, and we will attempt to address your interests.

Paul Friberg, Stefan Lisowski, and Mitch Gold will teach the course; their combined Earthworm experience is over 61 years!

+ Content

Please note these may vary based on class interest and time available.

  1. Earthworm Setup – This will cover the basics of getting an Earthworm system up and running. The class will configure an Earthworm system with a seedlink feed from remote stations’ data loggers. We will store the data into a WaveServerV and Winston Waveserver and pull data to files.
  2. Earthworm Configuration – This will include initial configuration using the new ewconfig tool and will cover tricks and frequently seen problems with earthworm configurations.
  3. Basic Modules for Troubleshooting – Sniffwave, sniffring, get menu, logging review, debug and verbosity flags.
  4. Advanced Earthworm Modules – We will review an existing and running Earthworm system (CalTech) that processes over 370 stations. In addition, we will cover AQMS for those students interested in learning more about those systems.
  5. Earthworm Library – Learn the basic Earthworm APIs for messaging, logging, configuration, threads, and wave server API/Protocol. How to ensure the work you do to a library is compatible across operating systems, etc.
  6. Playback – How to playback events for turning a system: waveman2disk, trig2disk, and tank player. The class will work with an existing tank and run it through the picker, binder, and hyp2000 via the Earthworm MegaModule.
  7. Locating Events – The Picker/Binder and Earthworm MegaModule will be explored and parameters explained.
  8. Programming an EW Module – The class will write an Earthworm module that interacts with information in a shared memory ring.

Note: If you’d like to learn something specific, please contact us in advance, and we will attempt to address your interests.

+ Instructors

Paul Friberg

Senior Seismologist; Chief Operating Officer – Paul has worked with Earthworm since 1998. Over the years, he has developed and fixed many modules and installed and provided Earthworm support for many organizations worldwide.

Stefan Lisowski

Senior Software Developer – Stefan has been working with Earthworm since 2006. In addition to developing and supporting new modules, Stefan has installed Earthworm systems worldwide.

Mitch Gold

Senior Seismic Analyst - Mitch's experience with Earthworm dates to 2004 with the LCSN (Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismograph Network) and continues with his ISTI earthworm installation work.

+ Requirements

  • Students are required to bring a laptop capable of running Earthworm.

+ Recommended Prerequisites

  • Have a basic understanding of seismology. Videos on basic seismology may be found on the IRIS site and under their related video tab.
  • Having administrator privileges on your laptop will allow you to do more/learn more, but it isn't required.
  • If you wish to be able to compile the latest Earthworm from scratch, or you wish to learn how to program Earthworm yourself, you’ll need a C compiler for your laptop.
  • If you’re using Windows, then Microsoft Visual C Compiler (2003 or newer). Free Microsoft Visual Studio Express is okay.
  • For the Programming Day: Some experience with C programming is important.

What People are Saying About ISTI Courses:

 

Payment

Price — $2495 USD per student for government and academic organizations. Commercial organizations, please contact us for pricing. Payments can be made anytime up to a week before the start day of the class. Please call (518) 602-0001 if you need additional information.

Class dinner. Photographer, ISTI Staff. — the online course won’t have a class dinner, but there will be some informal meeting time where participants can get to know one another.

Deadline: May 10 2024

We strongly encourage you to sign up as soon as possible to secure your seat.

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