Review of IRIS Education and Outreach February 2009
IRIS PASSCAL Review February 2008
EarthScope Operations and Maintenance Proposal
March 2007
2006 IRIS Proposal
Project Description. A concise summary of the IRIS Consortium: the facilities that it operates, the science that is accomplished, activities proposed during the next five years, and a budget plan. Download Project Description (5.1 Mb pdf).
Program Descriptions. Synopses of each of the IRIS core programs (GSN, PASSCAL, DMS and E&O) and of IRIS Consortium Governance and Management, including the history, current status, and plans for each program. Download Project Descriptions (3.2 Mb pdf).
Accomplishments. Two-page summaries of recent advances in several fields of seismology and a topically organized collection and one-page descriptions of research projects that used IRIS facilities or were otherwise facilitated by IRIS. Download Accomplishments (12.5 Mb pdf).
IRIS Review February 2004
The IRIS Consortium: Twenty Years of Support for Seismological Research 1984–2004 | Download 6.6 Mb pdf
EarthScope MREFC Proposal January 2003

2001 IRIS Proposal
Project Description | Download 28.1 Mb pdf
Appendix 1. The Impact of IRIS on the Geosciences | Download 52.6 Mb pdf
Appendix 2. IRIS Programs | Download 27.3 Mb pdf
Older Proposals and Reviews
Some of these documents have been broken into several pieces to reduce file size. These are still very large documents so be wary that they may take a while to download. All documents are Adobe PDF files.
1995 IRIS Proposal
1991 IRIS Proposal
- Proposal Cover (1MB)
- Understanding the Earth's Dynamic Structure (30MB)
- Impact (32MB)
- Detailed Plan (50MB)
1984 Original IRIS Proposal
- Proposal Cover
- An IRIS Proposal to NSF
- Chapter 1 - Executive Summary
- Foreword
- Chapter 2 - Background and Motivation
- Chapter 3 - IRIS Scientific Programs
- Chapter 4 - Technical Plan (5MB)
- Chapter 5 - Organization and Management
- Chapter 6 - Budget
- Appendix 1A - Science Plan for a New Global Seismographic Netowork (8MB)
- Appendix 1B - Letters of Comment on Science
- Appendix 1C - Design Considerations
- Appendix 1D - IRIS-USGS Letter of Understanding
- Appendix 2A - The Program for Array Studies of the Continental Lithosphere (11MB)
- Appendix 2B - Seismological Studies of the Continental Lithosphere (9MB)
- Appendix 3A - DMC Program Plan
- Appendix 3B - Effective Use of EQ Data
- Appendix 3C - Excerpts from NAS Reports



