EarthScope Seismic Data Processing Short Course Application
http://www.iris.edu/hq/es_course
The short course will be held August 25-29, 2010, at the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  To apply for the short course please submit your completed application before June 18, 2010.  Participants will be selected by the short course steering committee.  
Travel and subsistence costs for participants in the workshop short course will be covered by financial support from the EarthScope Program of the National Science Foundation.
The answers provided on this application will be used by the organizers to select who will be accepted into the course. Please provide sufficient information so that the organizers can make well-informed decisions.
Please submit completed application at: http://www.iris.edu/hq/es_course/apply

	1.	Applicant Name_________________
Institution	_________________
E-mail		_________________
Phone		_________________
	2.	What level are you in your career?
___Graduate student (Years of post-graduate work__________)
___Post-doctoral research scientist
___Early career faculty/research scientist (Years since PhD______)
	3.	PhD advisor ____________________
	4.	Indicate whether you have taken formal courses in each of the following subject areas:
___Time series analysis 
___Inverse methods
___Computer programming (If yes specify language_____________)
___Applied mathematics course in numerical methods
___Seismic data processing
___Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
___Scientific Computing
	5.	Expertise in software languages commonly used in seismology.  For each of the following answer according to this key:  1.  Never used; 2. I am vaguely familiar with this language; 3.  I have occasionally modified or otherwise worked with an application in this language; 4.  I am reasonably familiar with language; or 5. I have written several applications in this language.
___FORTRAN
___C
___C++
___Java
___C  (csh) or Bourne (sh or bash) shell scripts
___Matlab scripts
___perl
___python
___Other ______________________
	6.	Experience with database systems.  For each of the following answer with a number from 1 to 5 according to this key:  1.  I have no knowledge of this; 2.  I have a rough knowledge of the concepts; 3.  I have some knowledge of this but need to learn more to be functional; 4.  I know enough to be functional but am not an expert; 5.  I use this a lot and am very familiar with it.
___Relational database theory
___Datascope (antelope) DBMS 
___Oracle DBMS
___SQL-based DBMS (Oracle, mysql, postgres)
___GIS database interfacesystems
___Other DBMS Specify_____________________

	7.	What access tools do you use to obtain data from the IRIS DMC?  (If someone else in your group handles this task describe how you interact with the local data management system.) 
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	8.	Are you using USArray data in your current research efforts?  If so, describe:  (a) how you are processing these data today and (b) what you would like to learn in this workshop short course to be able to do your work more effectively.
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	9.	What other data processing experience have you had that would prepare you for this workshop short course (e.g. seismic reflection processing experience, processing other types of geophysical data, etc.)
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	10.	Have you done any software development?  If so, briefly describe what you have developed to date. 
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