<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">OBSIP User Community - <br class=""><br class="">NSF has informed OBSIP that the NSF/GEO science programs have considered the possibility for a multi-year, full Amphibious Array study to follow the Cascadia Initiative. In addition to the dominant factor— scientific readiness, MGG’s ability to sustain support for a large, multi-year project (while also maintaining a broad portfolio of marine geoscience research) is an important consideration. Both of these factors come into play this year, leading GeoPRISMS, MGG, and EarthScope to the view that 2015 is likely to be too soon for a full, multi-year Amphibious Array proposal to be competitive enough to become a high priority for support. Researchers with ideas to use a portion of the Amphibious Array or to conduct a shorter term study with it would be welcome to propose work in July or Aug 2015 proposals. NSF does expect to be able to seriously consider full array, multi-year proposals in the future. Support for any partial array or short-term projects should be managed in a manner that would maintain access to a large array by a 2017 experimental season.</div><div class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br class="">The Amphibious Array (Cascadia) instruments are comprised of 60 instruments of the following types:<br class=""><br class="">20 Trawl Resistant (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)<br class="">10 Standard Deep (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)<br class="">15 ABALONES (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)<br class="">15 WHOI (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)<br class=""><br class="">All 60 instruments use a common Trillium Compact sensor. The Amphibious Array Instruments are available in addition to the normal OBSIP fleet of approximately 100 broadband and 90 short period instruments.<br class=""><br class="">Please consider these instruments available for use in your July and August 2015 proposals to NSF. For additional information on these instruments please visit <a href="http://www.obsip.org" class="">www.obsip.org</a> or contact the OBSIP Management Office.</div></body></html>