JULY 10, 2026 · 9 SLIDES
The Machine That Hears a Mountain Think
Three Alaska volcanoes are on elevated alert at once, and an AI built in Fairbanks is what stands watch over them.
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Sources
Sources for today's deck. - USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory, July 3 2026 weekly update (Great Sitkin Watch/Orange; Kupreanof and Shishaldin Advisory/Yellow; Kupreanof has no real-time network) https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hans-public/notice/DOI-USGS-AVO-2026-07-03T18:33:40+00:00 - Volcanica, "A generalized deep learning model to detect and classify volcano seismicity" (VOISS-Net, more than 270,000 spectrograms, 87 percent accuracy, 7 volcanoes across 3 regions) https://www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php/volcanica/article/view/349 - UAF Geophysical Institute, "Alaska-developed volcano monitoring system will expand across US" (VolcSARvatory, InSAR to 1 cm, Edgecumbe swarm April 11 2022, five USGS observatories, shared NASA award) https://www.gi.alaska.edu/news/alaska-developed-volcano-monitoring-system-will-expand-across-us - USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory overview (130+ volcanoes, 50+ active since about 1760, 50,000 people a day overhead) https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/avo