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This issue of the IRIS newsletter includes information about IRIS activities at AGU and the slate of candidates for the IRIS Board of Directors.
Idaho's Governor Otter actively participates in a high school seismology lesson using an AS-1.
The IRIS Nominations Committee has announced the slate of candidates to fill open positions on the Board of Directors. Information about the candidates and the upcoming Annual Membership Meeting of the IRIS Consortium is available at http://www.iris.iris.edu/09_bod_election/.
A meeting on Ground-Based Geophysics on the Moon will be held January 21-22, 2010, in Tempe. The goal is to bring together planetary and terrestrial geophysicists to review the current state of knowledge of the Moon and past geophysical studies, to discuss current plans, and to begin planning for the future.
A report by Q13 Fox News in Seattle-Tacoma describes EarthScope research in Cascadia.
A 'Teachable Moment' powerpoint presentation about the September 29 Magnitude 8.0 Samoa Islands earthquake is now available for your use.
The first joint Seismology/Earthquake Engineering/DOD symposium on seismic instrumentation technology will take place November 11-12, 2009 in Palm Springs, California. The symposium will address advances in instrumentation and measurement techniques across the entire seismic spectrum.
A one-day workshop highlighting new methods, tools, and best practices for archiving PASSCAL and Flexible Array data will be presented prior to the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
The Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has established a postdoctoral fellowship in memory of Paul Silver and a group of colleagues is organizing a session of presentations at AGU to recognize his contributions to seismology and earthquake research.
All scientists interested in the future of EarthScope, including those with little or no past involvement with EarthScope, are encouraged to apply by SEPTEMBER 3 to participate in this broad-based community workshop to evaluate and update the Earthscope Science Plan.
Mollie Pettit, an alumna of the 2008 IRIS Internship Program and a graduate of West Virginia University, has recently been awarded an American Geological Institute/American Association of Petroleum Geologists internship in Geoscience Public Policy.
The IRIS Consortium has been awarded $1.9M in Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) funding from the US National Science Foundation for the 3-year development of a Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network (GLISN).
Heather Shelford recently joined IRIS as Accounting Manager. She oversees accounts receivable, accounts payable, and procurement functions.
Long-term IRIS supporter and Carnegie scientist Paul Silver died tragically in an automobile accident, along with his daughter Celine, on August 7.
We invite you to contribute to the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting session U19: Scientific Progress in Geophysics from 25 Years of Sharing Data and Resources. This session focuses on the pivotal role that organized sharing of resources and data has played and continues to play in advancing geophysical research.
The Global Seismographic Network (GSN) station at Mount Kent, on East Falkland Island, has recently been upgraded to the next generation system (NGS) by the IRIS-funded University of California, San Diego Project IDA group as a part of a complete network upgrade of the GSN acquisition system.
Featuring eight major sections, the new PASSCAL web site has all of the equipment and procedural documentation contained in its former web site, plus much more - all in a visually appealing and easy-to-use format.
A team of scientists led by Brian Stump of Southern Methodist University is installing ten portable seismic stations from the PASSCAL instrument pool at sites surrounding the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area to learn more about the recent earthquake swarm that's making national news.
This summer, 14 undergraduates from across the US will have the opportunity to work with leaders in seismological research, to travel to exotic sites for fieldwork, and to produce research products worthy of presentation at large professional conferences.
Elections for important positions on the IRIS Board of Directors will be held during the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting in San Francisco on December 14. 2009. This year, members will elect three Directors who will each serve three years. Members of the IRIS community are encouraged to contact the Nominations Committee with suggestions for candidates for these open positions.
The newly published report, Earth Science Literacy Principles: The Big Ideas and Supporting Concepts of Earth Science, identifies the major ideas of Earth science that all citizens should know.
A short course is being offered at Northwestern University, August 3-7, to train young scientists in the foundations of robust methods in seismic data processing.
The Third Annual IRIS Science Award at Socorro High School was awarded to Ushnik Ghosh.
Twenty-five years ago, on May 8, 1984, the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) was formally certified as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in the State of Delaware, organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes.
A coalition of earth science organizations hosts a very successful event to acknowledge and recognize the contributions of agencies and institutions that have been essential to EarthScope's first five years.
A Symposium focused on EarthScope science and discovery will be held from 3:00-5:30 PM on April 29, prior to the EarthScope Reception.The speakers and their presentation topics are now posted.
All are invited to attend this community-based event to acknowledge and recognize the contributions of agencies and institutions that have made the first five years of EarthScope a resounding success.
The Lahr family and IRIS are pleased to announce the establishment of a fund to support Seismographs in Schools within the IRIS Education and Outreach program.
The final version of "Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems," the report from the September LRSPS Workshop, is now available in electronic form.
A four-page "Summary for Policy Makers," drawn from the report Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems, is now available in both electronic form (4mb PDF) and in print.
Listening to the Earth's deepest secrets, the cover story in the April 11 issue of New Scientist magazine, provides an in-depth look at USArray.
This online issue features articles about Quality Control and Waveform Workflow at the Data Management Center.
Two project proposals were presented last month at the Third China-U.S. Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation in Qingdao, China.
IRIS seeks a staff member to develop activities and secure funding to support sustainable technical infrastructure and develop human capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
A workshop to develop the scientific objectives, engineering interests, and instrument needs of a Rapid Array Mobilization Program (RAMP) will be held April 7, in Monterey, California.
A new Mailman ListServ has been established to provide support to users of the IRIS Data Management Center.
The EarthScope National Meeting takes place May 12-15, 2009, in Boise, Idaho. Submit an abstract by March 13. Register online. Find out about workshops and field trips.
The selection committee for this jointly-sponsored annual national lecture series in seismology seeks nominations for two lecturers for 2010. Nominations must be received by March 6, 2009. Self-nominations are encouraged.
The IRIS Data Management System and the ORFEUS Data Centre are organizing a workshop focused on the management of metadata and time series data from seismological networks. The goal is to enable open data sharing and exchange of ideas between networks.
IRIS E&O has launched its new Seismographs in Schools website. The website provides a wealth of resources to help teach seismology in the classroom and allows teachers to share ideas and seismic data that their students have recorded.
The Division of Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Gregory Anderson as the EarthScope Program Director.
Representatives from the IRIS Member Institutions, members of the seismological community, interested students and friends, and a group of IRIS staff gathered at the Yank Sing Restaurant in San Francisco on Monday evening, December 15, 2008, for the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting.
The Earth science community seeks your input by January 15 on a draft document that identifies the “Big Ideas” and supporting concepts that all Americans should know about the Earth sciences.
The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America includes several sessions which may be of particular interest to the IRIS community.
The IRIS Consortium is very pleased to announce the results of 2008 Board of Directors election. Click the link below for the results.
The IRIS Data Management System will host a Shortcourse titled "Using IRIS DMC Tools and Services: Answering your questions".
To register for the shortcourse and for more information please visit http://www.iris.edu/workshops/2008/data .
An NSF-funded workshop to engage the seismological research community in development of a Long-Range Science Plan for Seismology (LRSPS) was held in Denver CO, September 18-19, 2008.
A report entitled "Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems", prepared by the workshop writing group and reviewed by the workshop participants, is now being made available for general commentary at:
Long Range Science Plan for Seismology
PASSCAL invites all AGU Fall Meeting attendees to visit the PASSCAL booth in the AGU exhibit hall. Located adjacent to the IRIS booth in the 2300 aisle, this PASSCAL-specific booth provides opportunities for hands-on practice with PASSCAL instrumentation and software.
IRIS PASSCAL sent 10 Rapid Array Mobilization Program (RAMP) seismographs to Southern California to assist faculty and students in evaluating their response plan following a major earthquake in southern California.
Need an image of a seismometer or scientists installing instruments at a site in Antarctica for your upcoming class presentation? The IRIS Image Gallery may have just the image you need!
Starting on July 31, 2008 (julian day 213 2008), the SiRF-type ublox Trimble module started to shift in time by a second. Since then, the mysterious time shifts (back and forth) continue.
The IRIS Nominations Committee has announced the slate of candidates to fill open positions on the Board of Directors. Information about the candidates and the upcoming Annual Membership Meeting of the IRIS Consortium is available at http://www.iris.iris.edu/08_bod_election/.
Geophysicists from China and the US will exchange ideas for joint seismological and geodetic research in Boulder, Colorado, November 11-14, during the 2008 Bilateral Workshop under the Sino-US Earthquake Studies Protocol.
The Global Seismographic Network has established in collaboration with Spain's Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) a new GSN station, MACI, in the Canary Islands through the efforts of its US Geological Survey Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory team.
The Annual IRIS Membership Meeting will be held on Monday, December 15, 2008, at the Yank Sing Restaurant, 101 Spear Street, San Francisco, California, starting at 7:00 pm. The reception begins at 6:00 pm.
A team from the Global Seismographic Network (IRIS, USGS, UCSD, and associates) traveled to Russia August 24 - September 3 to visit the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) to renew our long and successful collaboration. September marks the twentieth anniversary of the first IRIS GSN station installed at Obninsk by the IRIS/IDA group at USCD. The meetings with Russian colleagues in both Obninsk and Moscow reflected upon this great long friendship. Hosted by Alexey Malovichko, Director of GS RAS, and Oleg Starovoit, Vice Director and colleague since the earliest days of GSN collaboration, the GSN met in Obninsk seeking ways to improve collaboration in the face of apparent challenges in customs and data flow. Substantial success was achieved.
Daniel H. López, president of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, authorized the expansion of the on-campus building that houses the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center and the EarthScope Array Operations Facility. The new wing, scheduled for completion and occupation by early 2009, will provide laboratory and office space for PASSCAL’s Polar Program activities.
Representatives Norman Dicks (D-WA) and Ralph Regula (R-OH) were presented with the first USGS Coalition Leadership Award at a congressional reception on Monday, September 15, 2008.
Over the summer, 32 students and 10 professors from universities in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas identified sites for more than 325 future Transportable Array stations in those states.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Geosciences has appointed Robert Detrick of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as its new director of the Division of Earth Sciences.
The Arizona Geological Survey and its partners at Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Arizona were awarded nearly $500,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to acquire eight Transportable Array stations. The stations were deployed as part of EarthScope, a program funded by the National Science Foundation.
The IRIS DMC has installed a new server for real-time data feeds using the SeedLink and LISS protocols. Users currently getting data from the DMC using these protocols will need to redirect their collection software to the new server.
After consulting with the IRIS Board of Directors, David Simpson has appointed Anne Meltzer as the new chairperson of the IRIS International Working Group.
The National Science Foundation has directed the IRIS Consortium to assist the seismological research community in preparing a Long-Range Science Plan for Seismology (LRSPS) by the end of this year. As part of the LRSPS process, we are organizing a 2-day NSF-funded workshop to gather community input. The application deadline for full consideration is August 1.
Thorne Lay, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and immediate past Chair of the IRIS Board of Directors, and Paul G. Richards, Mellon Professor of the Natural Sciences at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, and a member of the IRIS Board of Directors, 1988-1990, were elected to the 2008 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Elections for important positions on the IRIS Board of Directors will be held during the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting in San Francisco, California, on December 15, 2008. This year, members will elect three Directors who will each serve for three years. Members of the IRIS community are encouraged to contact the Nominations Committee with suggestions for candidates for these open positions.
Rick Callender is IRIS' new Graphics and Media Specialist and Lisa Green is the new Senior Accounting Analyst.
The USGS Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory installed its first next generation system (NGS) at the Global Seismographic Network (GSN) station ANMO in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 30, 2008.
IRIS participated in the annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition and Reception on Capitol Hill this week.
Staff from IRIS, UNAVCO and the EarthScope National Office conducted a professional development workshop for teachers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in early June.
The 19th IRIS Workshop was held June 4-6, 2008, at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington. More than 275 people from the US and numerous countries around the world attended the 3-day meeting to learn about innovative research being conducted in seismology and to exchange ideas with colleagues.
The 2008 IRIS undergraduate internship class kicked off their summer experiences by participating in a week-long orientation, May 25-31, 2008.
This new website represents a significant step for IRIS in our effort to better serve the seismology community, educators, and the public. Among the major goals of this project were to provide easier navigation, highlight several lesser-known IRIS activities and raise awareness of the many ways in which seismic data can be accessed.
The Second Annual IRIS Science Award at Socorro High School was given to Kristen Royal on May 7, 2008.
The first fully-integrated Next-Generation Global Seismographic Network System (NGS) was installed on April 29 by Project IDA at the Piñon Flats Observatory (PFO) in Southern California.
The EarthScope Magnetotelluric Backbone station at Blacksburg, Virginia, began operating on April 6, 2008.
Proposals are invited to design and implement a third-party program evaluation of the IRIS Education and Outreach Program that will inform the work of an external panel review process.
http://www.iris.edu/about/ENO/rfp
Registration closed on April 25th.
