Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth
Faculty at UCR! Earthquakes! Fault creep! InSAR! GNSS! Seismology! He/him! Executive Editor at @weareseismica.bsky.social! Yes!
The four-legged lawn service is currently working at *my* house. Bet you're jealous!
November 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The four-legged lawn service is currently working at *my* house. Bet you're jealous!
Envious of the neighbors' lawn service
October 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Envious of the neighbors' lawn service
In Oakland at the UC Office of the President for a meeting, and the chances are good that we will be shaking out later on...
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In Oakland at the UC Office of the President for a meeting, and the chances are good that we will be shaking out later on...
The show was fantastic – the band were into it, the crowd were into it, a fire alarm went off, the drummer fell off his plinth, there were outbreaks of moshing, they played the greatest hits and I watched the whole thing from the pit about five rows from the front!
October 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The show was fantastic – the band were into it, the crowd were into it, a fire alarm went off, the drummer fell off his plinth, there were outbreaks of moshing, they played the greatest hits and I watched the whole thing from the pit about five rows from the front!
Pomona, what's up? (Very excited about this one!)
October 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Pomona, what's up? (Very excited about this one!)
Well it was gorgeous, and the lighting was spectacular! They played all of Pure Phase, and then Cop Shoot Cop for an encore!
September 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Well it was gorgeous, and the lighting was spectacular! They played all of Pure Phase, and then Cop Shoot Cop for an encore!
Since I love Spiritualized, and since Pure Phase was the first album of theirs I bought, and since it's a perfect title for someone who does InSAR and GNSS, and since they are here in LA, and since Jen got us tickets...
September 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Since I love Spiritualized, and since Pure Phase was the first album of theirs I bought, and since it's a perfect title for someone who does InSAR and GNSS, and since they are here in LA, and since Jen got us tickets...
However, for LCD Soundsystem (pictured) I definitely do not remember the *second* time, also at the Hollywood Bowl. If someone (thanks, Cari!) gets you and all your friends (and Bunny's mom) into a Champagne festival and it's just up the road, and it ends an hour before concert, what do you expect?
September 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
However, for LCD Soundsystem (pictured) I definitely do not remember the *second* time, also at the Hollywood Bowl. If someone (thanks, Cari!) gets you and all your friends (and Bunny's mom) into a Champagne festival and it's just up the road, and it ends an hour before concert, what do you expect?
Pulp: "Do you remember the first time?"
Me: "I think it was 1996! Fuck I'm old."
Me: "I think it was 1996! Fuck I'm old."
September 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Pulp: "Do you remember the first time?"
Me: "I think it was 1996! Fuck I'm old."
Me: "I think it was 1996! Fuck I'm old."
If this is Thursday, I must be in... Boston?
September 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If this is Thursday, I must be in... Boston?
It was epic! I barely slept last night, and my voice is comically hoarse this morning, but it was worth it!
September 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It was epic! I barely slept last night, and my voice is comically hoarse this morning, but it was worth it!
OK, so we're doing this!
September 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
OK, so we're doing this!
Day 3 of the ISCE+ #InSAR course, and we are heading into time series territory. Besides presentations from Ann Chen and Eric Fielding on atmospheric noise and interferogram stacks, today saw Scott Staniewicz's instructor debut, presenting on PS/DS methods in InSAR time series! Welcome!
August 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Day 3 of the ISCE+ #InSAR course, and we are heading into time series territory. Besides presentations from Ann Chen and Eric Fielding on atmospheric noise and interferogram stacks, today saw Scott Staniewicz's instructor debut, presenting on PS/DS methods in InSAR time series! Welcome!
Day 2 of #InSAR fest, and we spent most of today's session being guided through Sentinel-1 TOPS processing by @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy – from SAR data all the way to this unwrapped interferogram! And then (not pictured) I talked about line-of-sight, downsampling and inverse modeling!
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Day 2 of #InSAR fest, and we spent most of today's session being guided through Sentinel-1 TOPS processing by @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy – from SAR data all the way to this unwrapped interferogram! And then (not pictured) I talked about line-of-sight, downsampling and inverse modeling!
And we stopped at one point to have a group picture! Great day! More tomorrow!
August 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
And we stopped at one point to have a group picture! Great day! More tomorrow!
Here is Ann Chen on a deep dive into InSAR theory, explaining the basis of using InSAR in mapping topography. (Later she will talk about measuring deformation and the causes of decorrelation, all the good stuff!)
August 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Here is Ann Chen on a deep dive into InSAR theory, explaining the basis of using InSAR in mapping topography. (Later she will talk about measuring deformation and the causes of decorrelation, all the good stuff!)
It's Day 1 proper of this year's EarthScope #InSAR Processing and Analysis short course (the "ISCE+" course)! Here, Franz Meyer is leading participants through a simple Mogi source modeling exercise using InSAR data from Okmok volcano! Real data and real models on an interactive online platform!
August 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It's Day 1 proper of this year's EarthScope #InSAR Processing and Analysis short course (the "ISCE+" course)! Here, Franz Meyer is leading participants through a simple Mogi source modeling exercise using InSAR data from Okmok volcano! Real data and real models on an interactive online platform!
Very diligent lawn service here: saw these guys on my way into work, and then in front of the same house on my way home
August 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Very diligent lawn service here: saw these guys on my way into work, and then in front of the same house on my way home
With my favourite girl from Athens, Alabama watching her favourite band from Athens, Alabama.
August 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
With my favourite girl from Athens, Alabama watching her favourite band from Athens, Alabama.
Getting my Phil at the Bowl tonight!
August 6, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Getting my Phil at the Bowl tonight!
First Sentinel-1 interferogram from southern Kamchatka! Lots of what I am assuming are tropospheric signals (e.g. over the volcanoes), but I also see long-wavelength fringes that change in azimuth from the NE (~shore-perpendicular) to the SW (~shore-parallel). Optimistic it could be the earthquake!
August 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
First Sentinel-1 interferogram from southern Kamchatka! Lots of what I am assuming are tropospheric signals (e.g. over the volcanoes), but I also see long-wavelength fringes that change in azimuth from the NE (~shore-perpendicular) to the SW (~shore-parallel). Optimistic it could be the earthquake!
M4.4, about 18 km away from my location near UCR, strike-slip mechanism, plausibly on a strand of the San Jacinto fault
July 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
M4.4, about 18 km away from my location near UCR, strike-slip mechanism, plausibly on a strand of the San Jacinto fault
I wonder if my ionosphere correction (left) is broken somehow? It seems to be flat on land and very large offshore. Perhaps it is using too many looks in range and azimuth (80 and 448!) and aliasing the lower and upper band phase (center). The water mask (right) seems to be correct.
July 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I wonder if my ionosphere correction (left) is broken somehow? It seems to be flat on land and very large offshore. Perhaps it is using too many looks in range and azimuth (80 and 448!) and aliasing the lower and upper band phase (center). The water mask (right) seems to be correct.
...and the answer is: maybe? There is a big cluster of fringes by the shore in about the right place for the earthquake, but also a ridiculously large (and uncorrected) ionosphere signal which makes a mess of everything.
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
...and the answer is: maybe? There is a big cluster of fringes by the shore in about the right place for the earthquake, but also a ridiculously large (and uncorrected) ionosphere signal which makes a mess of everything.
I'd better get some Oasis tickets or something at the end of this, AGU
July 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I'd better get some Oasis tickets or something at the end of this, AGU