8/13/10 to 8/19/10
2010 Metadata Workshop - Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
9/26/10 to 9/29/10
Experiments with Portable Ocean Bottom Seismographs - Snowbird, UT
10/4/10 to 10/5/10
IRIS GSN Standing Comittee - Albuquerque, NM
10/7/10 to 10/8/10
DMS Standing Committee - Menlo Park, CA
10/8/10 to 10/9/10
QUAKE SUMMIT 2010: NEES & PEER Annual meeting - San Francisco
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IRIS Notices
Changes in IRIS Management
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CHAMP Instruments Record July 14 Aftershock in Chile; US Team Arrives to Collect Data
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GSN Quality Assessment Initiative
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NSF Announcement - EarthScope National Office
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NSF Announcement - Frontiers in Earth System Dynamics
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Registration is Open for “Experiments with Portable Ocean Bottom Seismographs Workshop”
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IRIS News 
06/25/2010
View Photos from the 2010 IRIS Workshop in the Image Gallery
Nearly 150 photos taken during the IRIS Workshop held June 9-11, in Snowbird, Utah, are now posted in the IRIS Image Gallery.
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06/02/2010
GLISN Station Installed in Thule, Greenland
The first NSF-funded station TULEG has been installed at Thule Air Base, Greenland, in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS).
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05/25/2010
New Mexico High School Student Receives 2010 IRIS Science Award
The 4th Annual IRIS Science Award at Socorro High School was presented to Moaaz Soliman at the annual Awards Ceremony on May 12, 2010.
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05/21/2010
Michael Hubenthal Recognized for Educational Poster Research
Michael Hubenthal, IRIS Education Specialist, receives praise for his research on educational posters from Binghamton University.
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05/20/2010
The EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey (EARS) Data Product Now Available at the IRIS DMC
The EarthScope Automated Receiver Survey (EARS) is now implemented at the IRIS Data Management Center. Developed by the University of South Carolina as an EarthScope/USArray data product, EARS calculates bulk crustal properties at IRIS station locations using receiver functions.
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05/19/2010
Rick Aster Receives NMT Distinguished Researcher Award
New Mexico Tech selects Rick Aster, Chair of the Earth and Environmental Science Department and Principal Investigator for the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center, as the recipient of its 2010 Distinguished Researcher Award.
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PASSCAL Experiments
August/September 2009 New Mexico Earthquake Swarm in the Central Rio Grande Rift
Seismicity in central New Mexico, southwestern United States, is dominated by earthquakes occurring above the mid-crustal Socorro Magma Body (SMB).Beginning in late August 2009, a very productive swarm of over 580 earthquakes (as of September 17, 2009) marks the most active period since 2005.
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Batholiths Onland 2009
In July 2009, several IRIS/PASSCAL scientists assisted with the Batholiths Onland project. This large group effort involved over 50 scientists and grad students, for the purpose of making "a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada."
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Sierra Negra Volcano, Galapagos Islands Deployment
In July and August of 2009, seven scientists deployed several seismic sensors for a two-year multidisciplinary study of one of the world's most active volcanoes, the Sierra Negra Volcano of the Galapagos Islands.
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Map of PASSCAL Experiments
Current and Future Experiments
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Recent Major Earthquakes
July 23, 2010
Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines - 7.6
July 18, 2010
Papua New Guinea - 7.3
June 16, 2010
Near the North Coast of Papua, Indonesia - 7.0
June 15, 2010
Southern California - 5.7
June 12, 2010
Nicobar Islands, India Region - 7.5










