Out of Africa: Geophysical Monitoring and Capacity Building around the World, Boston Massachusetts Workshop, February 18-19, 2008

Simpson该奖项与NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助，将支持2008年2月18-19日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的研讨会，该研讨会将把IRIS社区的关键成员与来自中美洲、南美洲和东南亚几个国家的地震学家聚集在一起。我们打算制定战略，将发展中国家的地震监测站网络转变为完全可持续的先进地震观测站网络。现代天文台网络可以通过标准驱动的数据获取、管理和开放访问来支持国际研究和教育合作。出于几个原因，美国地震界准备利用最近来自发展和灾难恢复机构的资源增加的机会，在中低收入国家建设地震台网，以促进美国以外的地震台网的发展。首先，向宾夕法尼亚州立大学颁发的NSF/OISE CORER奖帮助建立了非洲阵列，它加强了许多国际科学合作，在撒哈拉以南非洲部署了一套地震仪，并表明，发展永久地震台网可以为成像地球结构提供关键的新数据，同时还可以加强科学能力建设和支持灾害监测。其次，IRIS通过其翻新的RefTek数据记录仪长期贷款计划对几个地区网络的初步投资提供了另一个可供建立的成功模式。研讨会的具体目标是(1)列举需要长时间系列高保真地震波形记录的主要地区科学目标，(2)确定地震能力提高和复杂数据产品带来的更广泛的区域社会效益，(3)建议评估新的和现有的地区和国家网络的技术能力和性能的机制，以及(4)引入发展专家和援助提供者，以满足对综合网络解决方案的需求。其中一个成果将是讲习班组织者编写的关于开发与能力建设相联系的地球物理观测系统的机会的报告。

0802867SimpsonThis award, co-funded with the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering, will support a workshop in Boston, MA on February 18-19, 2008 that will bring together key members of the IRIS community with seismologists from several countries in Central America, South America and Southeast Asia. We intend to build strategies for transitioning networks of earthquake monitoring stations in developing countries into fully sustainable networks of advanced seismic observatories. Modern observatory networks can support international research and educational collaborations through standards-driven data acquisition, management and open access. The US seismology community is poised to take advantage of a recent increase in resources from development and disaster recovery agencies for building networks in low- and middle-income countries to foster seismographic networks outside the US for several reasons. First, an NSF/OISE PIRE award to Pennsylvania State University helped to establish AfricaArray, which has strengthened many international scientific collaborations, deployed a set of seismographs in SubSaharan Africa, and demonstrated that developing a permanent seismic network can provide critical new data for imaging Earth structure while also strengthening scientific capacity building and supporting hazard monitoring. Second, IRIS's initial investment in several regional networks through its long-term loan program of refurbished RefTek data loggers has provided another successful model on which to build.The specific goals for the workshop are to (1) enumerate leading regional science objectives that require long time series of high-fidelity seismological waveform records, (2) identify broader regional social benefits from improved seismological capacity and sophisticated data products, (3) suggest mechanisms for assessing the technical capacities and performance of new and existing regional and national networks, and (4) introduce development experts and aid providers to the need for integrated network solutions. One outcome will be a report, prepared by the workshop organizers, on the opportunities for developing geophysical observing systems linked to capacity building.