Project Title

IRIS/PASSCAL seismic support

Summary

Event Number:
T-299-M
NSF Agreement

Program Director:
Dr. Michael Jackson

ASC POC/Implementer:
John Rand / Jenny Cunningham

Principal Investigator(s)

Mr. Kent Anderson
kent@iris.edu
EarthScope Consortium

Project Web Site:
http://www.passcal.nmt.edu/content/polar

Location

Supporting Stations: McMurdo Station
Research Locations: Continent-wide, McMurdo-based

Description

EARTHSCOPE SAGE is the new name for the restructured and consolidated IRIS/PASSCAL and UNAVCO activities. The organization continues to provide support to NSF/OPP-funded projects requiring seismic detection and monitoring equipment and expertise. Support provided specific to Antarctic requirements include: 1) equipment testing and availability in cold regions; 2) training to researchers; 3) on-continent instrument troubleshooting, performance evaluation, and data QC; 4) assistance to researchers with data backup and archiving; and 5) field support, including installation and maintenance as required. The organization develops cold-station deployment strategies, collaborates with vendors to develop and test equipment rated to -55°C / -67°F, builds and maintains an equipment pool, and sustains a cold-station techniques repository.

Field Season Overview

This season the Earthscope SAGE team will support a number of deep field and local area projects. Emerging developments may lead to some revisions of the current plans, which include equipment, and in some cases, field support to the following projects: T-312-M Anderson (Erebus Backbone Network), C-442-M Anandakrishnan (Thwaites GHOST), C-446-M Tulaczyk (Thwaites TIME), G-298-S Shen, and G-079-E Wilson (POLENET). Earthscope SAGE participants will also conduct equipment testing near Castle Rock and on Observation Hill (local to McMurdo Station) and will manage and maintain seismic equipment (nodes) at the Cray Lab facility at McMurdo Station.

Deploying Team Members