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