{"id":1689,"date":"2011-10-27T20:16:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T20:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:40:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:40:28","slug":"oct-27-2011-booming-dunes-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Oct 27 2011: Booming Dunes and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.me.caltech.edu\/hunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Melany Hunt<br \/>\n<\/a>Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Caltech<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the southwestern United States and at approximately 40 locations around<br \/>\nthe world, large sand dunes can generate a loud booming sound during a<br \/>\nnatural or induced avalanche. The sound builds over time to a single<br \/>\nfrequency varying from 75 to 105 Hz plus harmonics depending on the<br \/>\ndune location and time of the year. This talk will outline the<br \/>\nhistorical references to this phenomenon, as well as our field work<br \/>\ninvolving seismic refraction, ground penetrating radar and sand<br \/>\nsampling. In addition, the talk will describe some of our related work<br \/>\non flows of granular materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Hunt10.pdf'>Hunt &#038; Vriend, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Prof. Melany Hunt Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Caltech Abstract: In the southwestern United States and at approximately 40 locations around the world, large sand dunes can generate a loud booming sound during a natural or induced avalanche. The sound builds over time to a single frequency varying from 75 to 105 Hz plus harmonics depending &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1689\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oct 27 2011: Booming Dunes and Beyond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13237,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}