[OBSIPtec] TODAY (4/25/16): Webinar - Potential of an Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment

[Kasey Aderhold]

A friendly reminder that the webinar on the potential Alaska Amphibious 
Community Seismic Experiment is today, April 25th, at 1pm EDT. See the 
link below to register.

> *Announcing a Webinar on the potential of an Alaska Amphibious 
> Community Seismic Experiment *
>
> When: Monday, April 25 2016, 1:00p EDT
> Register to Attend: 
> https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8988913650872822532
> */Standard IRIS-hosted webinar format applies; attendees can type 
> questions into the webinar interface, which will be communicated to 
> the organizers./*
>
> Likely Presenters: Susan Schwartz, Geoff Abers, Rob Evans, Jeff 
> Freymueller, Emily Roland, Doug Wiens
>
> On March 16, NSF released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL; NSF16-061; 
> http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16061/nsf16061.jsp) encouraging 
> proposals for community-driven shoreline-crossing seismological arrays 
> along the Alaska subduction margin. The concept follows directly from 
> the success of the Cascadia Initiative (http://cascadia.uoregon.edu/) 
> community experiment, and is targeted toward subduction-related 
> problems of relevance to GeoPRISMS and EarthScope science plans. The 
> Alaska experiment would take advantage of the Alaska component of the 
> Earthscope Transportable Array currently being deployed, in a region 
> of great earthquakes and abundant volcanism. A workshop in October, 
> 2014 provided scientific rationale for such successors to the Cascadia 
> Amphibious Array, as outlined in a 2015 report 
> (https://www.iris.edu/hq/files/workshops/2014/10/amphibious_array_facility/docs/AAFW_Report_FINAL.pdf). 
> Much of that report emphasized the seismogenic megathrust and volatile 
> cycling through the subduction factory as the two major science 
> targets that require broad, shoreline-crossing observations in 
> subduction zones. Both targets could be optimally addressed by studies 
> of the Alaska margin. The DCL specifically invites community 
> experiment proposals to be submitted to the July 15, 2016 GeoPRISMS 
> deadline.
>
> This webinar discusses some of the scientific opportunities for such a 
> shoreline-crossing deployment of seismometers across the Alaska 
> Margin, and opportunities for complementary magnetotelluric, geodetic, 
> and other geophysical observations. It focuses on opportunities in the 
> regions off the Alaska Peninsula and south-central Alaska, where the 
> on-land Transportable Array exists, extending onshore and offshore.
>
> The presenters will also discuss ways community members could become 
> involved in a community proposal for such a deployment, along the 
> lines described by the DCL. A web page 
> (http://geoprisms.org/research/community-projects/alaska/) has been 
> set up to engage community members and communicate strategies, 
> including a mechanism for qualified PI’s to volunteer to join the PI team.
>
> This is an exciting opportunity to collect what should be one of the 
> seminal data sets from an active subduction zone.
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Kasey Aderhold
Project Associate | IRIS OBSIP Management Office
202-682-2220 x163 | kasey at iris.edu

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