Several of the Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings planned as part of the 2020 in-person GAGE/SAGE workshop are more timely this year so that important community feedback can be gathered to inform shorter-term activities.
IRIS and UNAVCO, both university consortia, are interested in identifying member institutions that may be willing to host one or more functions of a future (post-2023) merged IRIS-UNAVCO organization.
We at IRIS join our colleagues from across the country and around the globe in unequivocally denouncing racism. BLACK LIVES MATTER. We also know that racism is persistent in STEM and that there are systemic inequalities in academia and particularly in the geosciences.
The IRIS Earthquake Browser, a freely available online interactive application to explore recent and historical global seismicity and tectonic plate boundaries, was awarded the National Science Teaching Association’s 2020 Best of Show in the Tried & True Technology Teaching and Learning: Earth Science category.
Due to the COVID-19 situation, the Board of Directors for UNAVCO and IRIS have agreed to postpone the in-person GAGE/SAGE Science Workshop until August 2021.
This handbook is the product of a two-day short course with three remote follow-on sessions that covered responsible communication of geohazards with a focus on earthquakes and volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, but is applicable to communicating about geohazards of all types, anywhere in the world.
The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Robert L. Woodward as President effective July 1, 2020.
IRIS is continuing to closely monitor the COVID-19 outbreak and the latest information and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and state and local public health officials.
The Spring issue includes articles on the Mars quake catalog, an expanded Super Ground Motion Visualization and MUSTANG Metrics for PH5-format data at the IRIS Data Management Center.
Researchers who study Earth’s movement are seeing a drop in seismic noise as a result of transport networks and other human activities being shut down.
Proposals may be submitted by individual Consortium members or groups of members by September 1, 2020, to the Chair of the relevant IRIS Standing or Advisory Committee.
The joint IRIS/UNAVCO Negotiation Committee held its second meeting on January 28. The meeting was positive and productive, reaffirming our shared values and the complementary strengths of our two consortia.
The IRIS Board of Directors wishes to draw your attention to the Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on the “Competition of Operations of an NSF-supported Geophysical Facility to Succeed the GAGE and SAGE Facilities” issued by the National Science Foundation on January 23, 2020.
The National Science Foundation is gathering information in preparation for a competition for a future cooperative agreement to support a single, unified geophysical facility as the successor to the Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (SAGE) and the Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE).
The selection committee for this jointly-sponsored national public lecture series in seismology seeks nominations from the seismological community for two lecturers for calendar year 2021.
The IRIS Nominations Committee has announced the slate of candidates to fill several positions on the Board of Directors. Information about the candidates and the upcoming Annual Membership Meeting of the IRIS Consortium is available here.
