GEOLOGY and GEOPHYSICS Department
Scientific and Technical Staff
Axrtivity Reprot For The Years 1999 to 2000
For Tom Bolmer
Tom Bolmer, A brief Summary for 1999 to 2000.
Accomplishments during 1999-2000:
A.Unpublished results/Technical reports or others:
- Transcription of 9-Track Tapes to CD-ROM,
- Bolmer, DuBois, Hoskins, and Sass
- WHOI Technical Memorandum WHOI-05-99
- I collated, laid out, and oversaw creation of this report.
B.Web Authoring
a)Maintain G&G's Department web page
- b)Maintain work group's web site.
- c)Laid out and maintained a cruise report web page at sea on the R/V
Maurice Ewing for Bob Detrick in April, 2000.
- d)Created and am now maintaining a web page for class 12.571 at MIT
for Ralph Stephen. Also did the same for class 12.712.
C.Programming
- a)Created a Matlab script that replaces the Spyglass program
Transform. This plots Ralph Stephen's Finite Difference snapshot outputs.
- b)Wrote some Matlab scripts for Rob Evans to remove test spikes from
data collected in the Slave Lake project.
- c)Fixed some Y2K problems in the OBH/ORB processing programs for
the OBH group at sea. This was in C and PERL.
- d) Wrote a series of Matlab scripts to control the transcription of the data
from OBH and ORB disks to SEGY. This was used on two
different cruises by the OBH group on the R/V Maurice Ewing
this year.
- e)Wrote and maintain PERL scripts to create personal CV pages and
personnel tables for the G&G web page. This also involves
maintaining a data base of the G&G personnel.
- f)Wrote a Matlab GUI front end to run a Fortran executable that plots
seismic and Finite Difference time series data.
D.Graphics Work
a) Continue to provide final figures for Ralph Stephen and Steve Swift
for reports and publications.
Computer maintenance and processing
A)Maintained 5 UNIX workstations, 3 Macintoshes, and 1 486 PC as System Manager,
Operator, and User
- 1) These include:2 Solaris systems
- 2 HPUX systems
- 1 Digital DecStation Ultrix system
- 2) Maintained a library of programs needed on all systems
Especially:
- Matlab, GMT, SioSeis, MBsystem (multi-beam), and
GNU (ghostscript, zgip, gcc...) products
- 3) Provide Unix support and advice for our work group and others in the
department, as they needed it.
B)Work up Seismic and 3.5 kHz data for site survey for a drilling
proposal at the H2O site for Ralph Stephen.
C)Processed Slave Lake data for Rob Evans.
D)I retrieved H2O seismic data from IRIS. Spent alot of time checking for
the data contiguousness. This data set needed alot of correcting
and adjusting since it was not in the state that it was thought to
be in.
E)Wrote Matlab and Unix Shell scripts to automatically do Spectral
analysis for Broadband Ambient Noise of several months each of
H2O and OSN data. This data was then plotted and used for
poster sessions. These analyses were part of the
W.H.O.I. Committees, etc.:
WHOI Diving Safety Board
Other committees, panels, societies, etc.:
WHOI First Responders Team
WHOI Certified Scuba Diver
Participation in Cruises:
- January R/V KNORR
Mike McCartney Chief Scientist.
- Worked with Peter Lemmond to learn how to operate the SeaBeam system.
- March-April
R/V Maurice Ewing Bob Detrick Chief Scientist.
- Responsible for operating 3 Sun computers and transcribing and
archiving all of the ORB and OBH data from raw disk to SEGY
format. Wrote a series of Matlab scripts to control the ORB and
OBH transcription programs. Fixed some Y2K problems in the
processing code. Created and maintained a web page for the
cruise that was the basis for the final cruise report.
- July R/V OCEANUS
dead head.
- Rode the ship from WHOI to St. Johns, Newfoundland, so that I could document and add to
the Matlab scripts that control the ORB and OBH processing. This package was used by a student
of Steve Holbroke's to transcribe and archive the ORB and OBH data during a joint cruise of the
Oceanus and Ewing. I also taught the student how to run the series of scripts
before they sailed.
- JulyR/V Asterias and September Coast Guard ships out of Boston.
- Two trips for Bill Martin to deploy and recover tripods in Buzzard's
Bay using scuba gear. This same gear was deployed and
recovered during two trips off of US Coast Guard ships off of
Boston Harbor in September.
Courses taken during year:
Supervision:
- I helped a summer student, Irene Zeldenrust, of Ralph Stephen learn
Matlab and do some processing of Seismic data.
This page was updated by Tom Bolmer on 10/30/00.
Send comments and questions to: tbolmer@whoi.edu