state of the consortium 14th annual iris workshop waikoloa, hawaii june 13, 2002 david simpson
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1983 Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy
The Briefing Panel has identified five research areas in which significant dividends can be expected as a result of incremental federal investment in FY1985. •These five research areas are:
•Seismic Investigations of the Continental Crust
•Continental Scientific Drilling
•Physics and Chemistry of Geological Materials
•Global Digital Seismic Array
•Satellite Geodesy
IRIS Articles of Incorporation
May 8, 1984
• Purposes:
• to promote and conduct geophysical investigation of the Earth’s interior using seismic and other geophysical methods;
• to promote the exchange of information and knowledge and to create, foster, and encourage cooperative efforts between the members of the Corporation and other organizations, research workers, students and other institutions involved in the area of the study of Earth sciences;
• to solicit, raise and receive funds for the advancement and furtherance of the foregoing purposes; and
• to do any other acts that may further the general purposes of the Corporation as set forth herein.
“The Rainbow Proposal”
Imaging the Earth’s Interior:
Detailed Studies of the Earth and of the Seismic Source
with New Global and Transportable Arrays
A Proposal to the National Science Foundation
from
IRIS: The Incorporated ResearchInstitutions for Seismology
Duration: 10 years
Requested Starting Date: January 1, 1985
Amount Requested: $107 M for initial 5 years
Estimated: $281 M 10-year total
Thomas V. McEvilly Shelton A. AlexanderChairman, Board of Directors Vice Chairman, Board of Directorsand Acting President
December, 1984
Rainbow Proposal - Outline
This proposal is for support of the ten-year IRIS program for the implementation of four major national facilities for seismology:
• A Global Digital Seismic Arrayfeaturing real-time satellite telemetry from one hundred modern seismographic observatories
• A Mobile Array comprised of one thousand portable digital seismographs to be used for studies of the continental lithosphere
• Central Data Management and Distribution Facilities to provide rapid and convenient access to the data sets for the entire research community
• A Major Computational Facilitycapable of supporting the analyses of these new data
A Global Digital Seismic Array
featuring real-time satellite telemetry from one hundred modern seismographic observatories
1984
~45 digital stations
GDSN, RTSN, IDA and GEOSCOPE
2002
~125 GSN stations
~200 station total with FDSN partners
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ANSS
US Array
JSP Arrays
Regional-Trig
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FDSN
PASSCAL-RR
PASSCAL-BB
GSN
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Central Data Management and Distribution Facilities
to provide rapid and convenient access to the data sets for the entire research community
1984
Data input - 150- 350 Gbyte /year Large data sets ( >200 Gbytes)
treated as statistical outliers
2002
20 terabytes in 12.5 millions files
6 terabytes/year
1 Gbyte
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PASSCAL: A Mobile Array comprised of one thousand portable digital seismographs to be used for studies of the continental lithosphere
2002 PASSCAL Inventory
6 channel recorders 270 BB
3 channel recorders 250 SP
Single channel recorders 440 HF UTEP
400 HF IRIS
Multi-channel instruments 4 x 60 chs
Telemetry components 75
IRIS Membership
1984 26 Founding Members
2002 99 Full Members2 U.S. Affiliates
43 Foreign Affiliates1 Educational Affiliate
• the ConsortiumForum for communicationSetting of community prioritiesDevelopment of community resourcesInternational cooperationFocus for interdisciplinary research
• the FacilityCore Programs
GSNPASSCALDMSE&O
• the CorporationAdministrative, fiscal, and legal structure
NSF- IRIS Cooperative Agreement No. EAR-0004370
Exploring the Earth at High Resolution
EFFECTIVE DATE:July 1 , 2001 EXPIRATION DATE:June 30, 2006
It is the intent of the Foundation to provide up to $69,377,900 to support the IRIS Consortium over the next 5 years.
Contingent on the availability of funds, up to $68,000,000 of the total amount will be awarded by the NSF Earth Sciences Division Instrumentation and Facilities Program (EAR/IF) to support IRIS core programs as set forth in this Agreement.
Core support for FY 2001 Year 1 funds is $12,600,000.Core support for the out-years is as follows:
FY 2002 - $13,100,000FY 2003 - $13,600,000FY 2004 - $14,100,000FY 2005 - $14,600,000
In addition, the $68,000,000 may be supplemented, through amendments to this Cooperative Agreement, up to a five-year maximum total of $20,000,000 for an approved NSB total of up to $88,000,000. The supplements will be from other NSF Programs, other Federal agency or other funds, when available and as appropriate, in support of projects or other scientific activities deemed compatible with the scientific and educational mission of IRIS.
Special Requirements:
GSN Review
IRIS will carry out and report to NSF by July 1, 2003, an in-depth study of the operation, personnel and instrument costs, and support of the Global Seismographic Network, in collaboration with NSF, USGS, representatives of the Federation of Digital Seismic Networks (FDSN), and GSN network operators.
Management Review
NSF will conduct, in coordination with the Awardee and its appropriate governance committees, a review of IRIS management to be completed by July 1, 2004. A report of this review will be submitted to the National Science Board (NSB) during the second half of 2004, and will provide more information for the basis of the decision to either allow the submission of a renewal proposal or to recompete the operation of this facility.
NSF- IRIS Cooperative Agreement No. EAR-0004370
Exploring the Earth at High Resolution
EFFECTIVE DATE:July 1 , 2001 EXPIRATION DATE:June 30, 2006
2001-2002 IRIS Program Miscellany
GSNIMS interactions
Auxiliary Stations and Communications Interface
H2O Operational and funded
ANSS - GSN collaboration
DMSInformation Technology Research
project with SCEC and SDSC
Real Time BUD, Data Handling Interface
PASSCAL
Congressional/ DOE instrument funding
$ 1M FY’02 25 element array
$2.5 M FY’03
Next Generation Instrument
Development and testing
Arrays
SAFOD experiment
Transitions
Visit Posters and Program Forums this Afternoon for details!
Education and Outreach
Program Plan
Educational Affiliates
Trinity College - Glenn Kroeger
IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturers
Walter Mooney
Roger Bilham
Museum Program
IRIS Governance, 2002
Executive Committee
Göran Ekström (Chair)Harvard University
Tom Owens (Vice Chair)University of S. Carolina
Susan BeckUniversity of Arizona
Steve Malone University of Washington
Gary PavlisIndiana University
Cliff ThurberUniversity of Wisconsin
Rob van der Hilst MIT
Andy Nyblade (Secretary)Penn State
Candy Shin (Treasurer)IRIS
Standing Committees
Data Management SystemMonica Kohler, UCLA Tim Ahern
Education and OutreachRick Aster, New Mexico Tech John Taber
Global Seismographic NetworkBarbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley Rhett Butler
PASSCALRoy Johnson, U. of Arizona Jim Fowler
Special CommitteesPlanning Committee Adam Dziewonski, Harvard Greg van der Vink
Coordination CommitteeTom Owens, U. of South Carolina Shane Ingate