SGER: Development of the MERMAID Float: an Autonomous Vehicle for Recording Regional Earthquakes within the World's Oceans

P.I. - Orcut Proposal-0236557 MERMAID浮标的开发：一种用于记录世界海洋区域地震的自动车辆项目摘要PI建议测试无系留浮标是否可以记录在1-2 km深处漂流时的地震波到达。具体来说，他们建议建造一个用于记录海洋内地震的原型浮标。他们把这个浮标命名为MERMAID（独立潜水员在海洋区域的移动的地震记录仪）。如果拟议的试点项目取得成功，将有可能利用现有的监测工作来填补海洋盆地内造成的全球海洋覆盖面的巨大空白，并将大大提高我们通过层析成像反演对地球更深区域成像的能力

P.I. - OrcuttProposal - 0236557Development of the MERMAID float: an autonomous vehicle for recording regional earthquakes within the world oceansPROJECT SUMMARYThe PIs propose to test whether untethered floats can record arrivals of teleseismic P waves while drifting at depths of 1-2 km. Specifically, they propose to construct a prototype float for recording earthquakes within the oceans. They have named this float MERMAID (Mobile Earthquake Recorder in Marine Areas by Independent Divers). If the proposed pilot project is successful, it will opens up the possibility of using existing monitoring efforts to fill in the large gaps in global teleseismic coverage posed within the ocean basins, and will significantly enhance our ability to image the deeper regions of the Earth through tomographic inversions