OBSIPtec -- A mailing list forum for the discussion of technical and operational issues relating to Ocean Bottom Seismographs
About OBSIPtec	English (USA)
**As of January 31, 2019, the OBSIPtec mailing list will be transferred to the OBSIC facility to continue to be used for the OBS community.** The IRIS OBSIPtec mailing list provides a forum for the discussion of technical and operational issues relating to Ocean Bottom Seismographs, in particular, the instruments operated by and data produced by the Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool. The goal of this mailing list is to encourage collaboration between the OBS operators and researchers and to provide a public discussion forum for the complex issues and challenges of using OBS data. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the OBSIPtec Archives. The archive can be searched using Google. For example, to search for the word ‘data’ put the following into a Google search: data site:http://www.iris.washington.edu/pipermail/obsiptec/
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