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<p class=""><b class="">Registration is open for the 2017 Ocean
Bottom Seismology Symposium!</b> </p>
The Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool (OBSIP) Management
Office will be hosting a symposium to promote the science and
applications of ocean bottom seismographs for geophysics research. <br>
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The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.obsip.org/about/2017-obs-symposium/" class="">2017
OBS Symposium</a> will be held September 18-19 in Portland, Maine.
Attendance at the 2015 OBS Symposium exceeded 100 scientists,
engineers and fleet managers and included a strong international and
early career scientist presence.<br class="">
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Speakers will include:<br>
<blockquote class="">Emilie Hooft - University of Oregon<br>
Paul Johnson - University of Washington<br>
Catherine Rychert - University of Southampton<br>
Ross Parnell-Turner - WHOI<br>
Anne Sheehan - University of Colorado Boulder<br>
Gail Christeson - UTIG<br>
Xiaowei Chen - University of Oklahoma<br>
Suzanne Carbotte - LDEO<br>
Natalie Accardo - LDEO<br>
Karin Sigloch - Oxford University<br>
Jennifer Harding - UTIG<br>
Uri ten Brink - USGS<br>
William Wilcock - University of Washington<br>
Anne Trehu - Oregon State University<br>
Haiying Gao - University of Massachusetts Amherst<br>
Dara Merz - University of Alaska Fairbanks<br>
Monica Kohler - Caltech<br>
Emily Roland - University of Washington<br>
Colton Lynner - University of Arizona<br>
Brandon Shuck - UTIG<br>
</blockquote>
The agenda will include a special session on active plate boundaries
dedicated to Kirk McIntosh. In addition to presentations from the
above speakers, we will also have forums on Community Insights
Regarding the Future of OBS Facilities, Future Technologies and Open
Source Software.<br>
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<div class=""> Registration for the workshop is now open at the <a
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href="http://www.obsip.org/about/2017-obs-symposium/registration/"
class="">OBSIP website</a>. Partial participant travel support
will be available for US-based researchers only. <b class="">For
consideration, you must register by August 9th.</b><br class="">
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Please plan to join us!<br class="">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate;
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<div class="">Brent Evers</div>
<div class="">Project Manager<br class="">
OBSIP Management Office<br class="">
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology<br class="">
1200 New York Avenue, NW <br class="">
Suite 400<br class="">
202-407-7003<br class="">
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<div class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:brent.evers@iris.edu" class="">brent.evers@iris.edu</a></div>
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Kasey Aderhold, Ph.D.
Project Associate | IRIS OBSIP Management Office
202-407-7019 | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kasey@iris.edu">kasey@iris.edu</a></pre>
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