CONSORTIA/INSTITUTIONS
type: Concept

IRIS
type: Concept
in scheme: providers
definition: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology IRIS IRIS Data Management Center: "http://www.iris.washington.edu/HTM/dms.htm" IRIS Headquarters: "http://www.iris.edu/" General Overview The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is a consortium of 73 universities with research programs in seismology. The major source of funding for IRIS is the National Science Foundation. IRIS is composed of three principal programs. The Global Seismographic Network (GSN) is charged with deploying a new network of permanent stations distributed around the world. The Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere (PASSCAL) has developed a new line of portable seismographic recording systems that can be used for recording a wide variety of seismographic data, and the Data Management System (DMS) is charged with managing the data generated by the PASSCAL and GSN programs and to effectively distribute these data to the seismological community. The Global Seismographic Network: The GSN has developed two lines of standardized stations employing very-broadband (VBB) sensor technology. Network operating facilities are now in place at the U.S. Geological Survey Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory and the IRIS/IDA group at Scripps Institution of Oceanography of the University of California, San Diego. Through the US/USSR Joint Seismic Program, a cooperative effort of IRIS, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Institute of Physics of the Earth in Moscow, funded through the Air Force, at least 13 stations are to be established in the Soviet Union. IRIS operated this program because of its direct contribution to the goal of establishing near-uniform global coverage of digital seismic stations and its role in fostering new experiments in array and network seismology and data telemetry using state-of-the-art instrumentation. The Program for Array Studies: PASSCAL has developed a line of 6-channel, standardized, portable dataloggers to serve as the backbone of …