Workshop Information

List of Topics

Registration

Preliminary Information:

Workshop Characterstics

Workshop will be hands-on, as such, users will be expected to have:

1. At a minimum, the following should be installed on the user's machine:
   - PQL II - downloadable from: http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/announcements/pqlII.htm
   - MySQL - downloadable from mysql.org
   - PQLX - if not successfully installed, then at least downloaded http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/staffweb/mcnamara/Software/PQLX.html

2. A reasonable dataset to work with:
   - Data should span at least a week, ideally, a month.
   - Gaps between trace files should be minimized.
   - Data should include BH- and LH-style channels
   - Data may also include other non-PSD channels, if desired (all channel data is viewable in the time domain within PQLX).
   - Response Files are required for all PSD channels; format as produced by rdseed program.

Limited to 24 participants

Workshop Outline

1. Part I - Briefly cover installation and compilation; Resolve any problems encountered
2. Part II - Data Setup, Database Setup
3. Part III - Server execution - Required input, description of various outputs, Cron job Setup
4. Part IV - Client execution and overview - PQL, PDF, and STN viewers
5. Part V - Data Quality Control Possibilities
6. Part VI - Scientific Possibilities:
      6.1 McNamara - Data extraction from large datasets and their uses
      6.2 Alvarez - PDF Movies - Creation, Interpretation, and other possibilities
      6.3 Anderson - Data Extraction, its manipulation, use within MatLab, and other types of informative plots that can be made with this data

The one day workshop will be held on June 8, 2010 before the IRIS Workshop in Snowbird, UT.