Foreign Affiliate Member Institutions

The IRIS Consortium welcomes universities, academies of science, government agencies, and other nonprofit institutions outside of the United States as Foreign Affiliates. There is no cost to join IRIS as a Foreign Affiliate, nor are affiliates required to participate in IRIS meetings in the United States or host IRIS meetings locally. Nevertheless, IRIS Foreign Affiliates are expected to promote IRIS goals within their own countries. Promotional activities could involve working with agencies of an Affiliate’s own national government for more open data policies or making geophysical data collected by their government freely available.

When seismologists from IRIS Member institutions in the United States visit the country of an IRIS Foreign Affiliate, they may seek collaborators to join them in field work and data analysis, or help obtain permission to import equipment or visit field areas.When IRIS approaches international agencies such as the United Nations or the World Bank, it may ask Affiliates in regions of proposed activities to evaluate the local benefits and, if appropriate, to seek support of the Affiliate’s national government.

Membership Benefits

Receive copies of all IRIS publications, including newsletters and annual reports.
Use the IRIS bulk e-mail system to advertise job vacancies and announce significant developments.
Become eligible for long-term loans of retired IRIS instrumentation.
Faculty, staff, and students can participate in IRIS workshops.
Send a representative to IRIS Member meetings.
Faculty and staff can join IRIS committees and working groups.
Download selected seismological software from IRIS, including:
Portable Data Collection Center, developed by IRIS to facilitate organizing and archiving data
Seismic Analysis Code, developed at Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory to process and visualize digital time series.
Join the list of IRIS contacts that US Members use to find in-country collaborators for international experiments.

Download a Foreign Affiliates brochure

Current Members

INSTITUTION		REPRESENTATIVE
Academy of Sciences, Seismological Center, Albania		Betim Muço
Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica (INPRES), Argentina		Patricia Alvarado
Central Queensland University, Australia		Mike Turnbull
Australian National University		Hrvoje Tkalcic
The University of Queensland, Australia		Peter Mora
Azerbaijan Republic Center of Seismic Service		Gurban Yetirmishli
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh		Syed Humayun Akhter
Royal Observatory of Belgium		Michel van Camp
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil		Joao Willy Rosa
Observatório Nacional, Brazil		Jorge Luis de Souza
Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil		Joaquim Mendes Ferreira
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil		Marcelo Assumpção
Institute of Geophysics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences		Svetlana Nikolova
University of Alberta, Canada		Jeff Gu
University of Calgary, Canada		David Eaton
University of British Columbia, Canada		Michael G. Bostock
Ecòle Polytechnique, Canada
GEOTOP, Universitè du Quebec à Montreal, Canada		Fiona Darbyshire
Geological Survey of Canada, Continental Geoscience Division		Isa Asudeh
Simon Fraser University, Canada		Andrew Calvert
University of Saskatchewan, Canada		Igor B. Morozov
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Chile		Sergio Barrientos
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia		German Prieto
Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica		Marino Protti-Quezada
Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sceinces, Czech Republic		Jan Zednik
Masaryk University, Czech Republic		Jan Svancara
Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland		Soren Gregersen
Escuela Polytécnica Nacional, Ecuador		Mario Ruiz
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo, Egypt		Amin Ibrahim Hussein
University of Helsinki, Institute of Seismology, Finland		Pekka Heikkinen
University of Oulu, Findland		Elena Kzlovskaya
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France		Geneviève Roult
Geosciences Azur, France		Guust Nolet
Universite Montpellier II, France		Goetz Bökelmann
Seismological Monitoring Center of Georgia		Tea Godoladze
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece		Constantinos Papazachos
AWE Blacknest, United Kingdom		Sheila Peacock
British Geological Survey, United Kingdom		Brian Baptie
University of Bristol, United Kingdom		George Helffrich
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom		Keith Priestley
University of Leeds, United Kingdom		Roger Clark
University of Leicester, United Kingdom		Alex Brisbourne
University of Southampton, United Kingdom		Nick Harmon
Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute of Hungary		Tamás Fancsik
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India		Supriyo Mitra
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland		Sergei Lebedev
International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran		Manouchehr Bahavar
Geophysical Institute of Israel		Rami Hofstetter
Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy		Salvatore Mazza
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - Trieste, Italy		Enrico Priolo
Jordan Seismological Observatory		Tawfiq Al-Yazjeen
KMA Korean Meteorological Administration, Korea		Young-Soo Jeon
Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea		So Gu Kim
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico		Cecilio J. Rebollar
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México		Carlos Mendoza
KNMI /ORFEUS, Netherlands		Bernard Dost
Technical University of Delft, Netherlands		Kees Wapenaar
Utrecht University, Netherlands		Hanneke Paulssen
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand		Mark Peter Chadwick
University of Otago, New Zealand		Andrew Gorman
Victoria University, Institute of Geophysics, New Zealand		Martha Kane Savage
University of Bergen, Norway		Eystein S. Husebye
Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan		Mona Lisa
Instituto Geofisico del Peru		Edmundo Norabuena
Centro Regional de Sismología para América del Sur, Peru		Daniel Huaco Oviedo
Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA, PRC		Qi-fu Chen
China Earthquake Networks Center, PRC		Ruifeng Liu
Institute of Geology, Beijing, CEA, PRC		Qiyuan Liu
Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy Geological Sciences, PRC		Meijian An
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PRC		Ai Yinshuang
Institute of Geophysics, CEA, Beijing, PRC		Gongwei Zhou
China University of Geosciences, Beijing, PRC		Xinfu Li
Nanjing University, PRC		Liang-shu Wang
National Cheng Kung University, PRC		Ruey-Juin Rau
Harbin Institute of Technology, PRC		Hengshan Hu
Hong Kong Observatory, PRC		Wong Wing Tak
University of Hong Kong, PRC		Lung Sang Chan
Peking University, PRC		Shao Xian Zang
Tongji University, PRC		Kin-Yip Chun
University of Science and Technology of PRC		Sidao Ni
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland		Pawel Wiejacz
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal		Joao F.B.D. Fonseca
Universidade do Porto, Portugal		Rui Carneiro-Barros
National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania		Andrei Bala
University of Bucharest, Romania		Marian Ivan
Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia		Alexey A. Malovichko
Institute of Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia		Vitaly V. Adushkin
Kuban State University, Russia		Vladimir A. Babeshko
Council for Geoscience South Africa		Artur Cichowicz
King Fahd University Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Instituto de Ciències de la Terra "Jaume Almera", Spain		Antonio Villaseñor
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland		Domenico Giardini
Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taiwan		Bor-Shouh Huang
National Central University, Taiwan		Kuo-Fong Ma
National Taiwan University (NTU)		Shu-Huei Hung
Mahidol University, Thailand		Passakorn Pananont
General Directorate of Disaster Affairs, Turkey		Yildiz Iravul
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey		Tuncay Taymaz
Kandilli Observatory, Bogazici University, Instanbul, Turkey		Nurcan Özel
Tubitak-Marmara Research Center, Turkey		M. Namik Yalçin
ICSU World Data Center for Geoinformatics, Kiev, Ukraine		Liudmyla Farfuliak
University of the West Indies		Richard Roberts