Other Activities

GLISN

Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network

The GLISN (Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network) project will establish a real-time sensor array of 25 stations to enhance and upgrade the performance of the scarce existing Greenland seismic infrastructure for detecting, locating, and characterizing glacial earthquakes and other cryo-seismic phenomena, and contribute to our understanding of Ice Sheet dynamics...Read more

International Development Seismology

International Development Seismology

International Development Seismology (IDS) is an interface between IRIS NSF-sponsored scientific mission and the need to ensure that scientific progress enables socially important outcomes. This effort responds to the recognized importance of developing the partnerships, technical infrastructure, and human capacity required for effective...Read more

IRIS Community Instrument Deployment in Chile

IRIS Community Instrument Development in Chile

The IRIS Consortium, on behalf of its Member Institutions, worked with scientists from US universities and the University of Chile to deploy 60 broadband seismic instruments to collect an open community dataset in an aftershock study following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that occurred off the coast of Chile on February 27, 2010...Read more