8/20/09 to 8/21/09
IRIS Board of Directors Meeting - Socorro, NM
9/2/09
Public Lecture (Dr. Aaron Velasco) - Tempe, Arizona
9/16/09 to 9/17/09
AGI Geoscience Congressional Visit Days - Washington, DC
10/15/09
Public Lecture (Dr. Richard Aster) - Golden, Colorado
10/18/09 to 10/21/09
GSA National Meeting - Portland, OR
10/28/09 to 10/29/09
IRIS Board of Directors Meeting - Tucson, AZ
Seismic Monitor
Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information. You can also view seismograms and make dataset requests via its WILBER interface.
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IRIS Notices
IRIS Board of Directors Appoints a Nominations Committee for 2009 Elections
Elections for important positions on the IRIS Board of Directors will be held during the Annual IRIS Membership Meeting in San Francisco on December 14. 2009. This year, members will elect three Directors who will each serve three years. Members of the IRIS community are encouraged to contact the Nominations Committee with suggestions for candidates for these open positions.
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Report Released from the Long Range Science Plan for Seismology Workshop
The final version of "Seismological Grand Challenges in Understanding Earth's Dynamic Systems," the report from the September LRSPS Workshop, is now available in electronic form.
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IRIS News 
07/01/2009
The PASSCAL Instrument Center Launches New Web Site
Featuring eight major sections, the new PASSCAL web site has all of the equipment and procedural documentation contained in its former web site, plus much more - all in a visually appealing and easy-to-use format.
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06/18/2009
PASSCAL Instruments May Provide Clue to Cause of Recent Texas Earthquakes
A team of scientists led by Brian Stump of Southern Methodist University is installing ten portable seismic stations from the PASSCAL instrument pool at sites surrounding the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area to learn more about the recent earthquake swarm that's making national news.
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06/18/2009
2009 IRIS REU Internship Program Kicks Off with Orientation Week
This summer, 14 undergraduates from across the US will have the opportunity to work with leaders in seismological research, to travel to exotic sites for fieldwork, and to produce research products worthy of presentation at large professional conferences.
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06/04/2009
NSF and Other Organizations Release a Report on the Importance of Earth Science Literacy
The newly published report, Earth Science Literacy Principles: The Big Ideas and Supporting Concepts of Earth Science, identifies the major ideas of Earth science that all citizens should know.
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PASSCAL Experiments
Map of PASSCAL Experiments
Current and Future Experiments
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High Lava Plains
Why is eastern Oregon's High Lava Plains so volcanically active? None of the accepted paradigms about crustal formation and magmatism fit eastern Oregon.
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AGAP - Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province
A broadband seismic experiment designed to determine the mechanism driving uplift of the Gamburtsev Mountains
and what role did they play in the formation of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?
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USArray - Flexarray Along Cascadia Experiment for Segmentation
Study of the potential links between episodic tremor and slip and 3-D structure of overriding plate in northern California through Oregon
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Recent Earthquakes
07/04/2009
M 6.0, Panama
07/03/2009
M 5.5, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
07/03/2009
M 6.0, Gulf of California
07/01/2009
M 5.8, Molucca Sea
07/01/2009
M 6.4, Crete, Greece
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