State of the Consortium

14th Annual IRIS Workshop

Waikoloa, Hawaii

June 13, 2002

David Simpson

In the beginning . . .

and reports from the National Academy

1983

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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”

December, 1984

“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

1960’s to 1980’s - WWSSN Equipment

2002 - the GSN “Family Portrait”

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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

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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 Funding History

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

• the Consortium

• the FacilityGSNPASSCALDMSE&O

• the Corporation

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