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Rick
Benson - Director of Operations
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Benson began working full time at the IRIS DMC in the summer
of 1993, following 11 years as the lead analyst in the Seismology
Lab at the University of Washington. He has been affiliated
with IRIS since the early days of the DMC in the late 1980's,
when the DMC was transferred to Seattle from Austin, TX. Becoming
Director of Operations in July 1994, Rick leads what is affectionately
known as the 'Engine Room'. The Operations group is responsible
for archiving and distributing data through data requests. They
currently oversee approximately 40,000 data requests and archive
approximately 3 terabytes of data annually. Rick's mission statement
is to enable access to data. He works with a relatively small
staff of 3 full time employees who have automated the bulk of
the data handling and management by leveraging robotic technology
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For
more information about how the Engine Room runs, view
this related article.
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