A Community-Based OBSIP Management Office

学术界正在处理1996年《海洋地质学和地球物理学的未来》报告所述的科学问题，这些问题需要短期和长期部署大量海底地震仪和（或）海底水听器。除了支持通过NSF海洋科学部（OCE）海洋地质地球物理学核心计划资助的研究外，EarthScope，大陆动力学，大洋钻探计划和GeoPRISMS计划越来越多地使用海底地震仪。为了提供支持这些计划所需的大量仪器，保持必要的技术能力，并为广大用户提供海底地震仪器，1999年建立了海底地震仪器库（OBSIP）。鉴于对海底地震仪的持续需求，海洋环境组织的海洋地质和地球物理方案征求关于设立海底地震仪管理办公室的建议。OMO将在OBSIP的监督和管理方面提供必要的改进。OMO的更广泛影响包括其对美国科学基础设施的固有贡献，对海洋地质地球物理学计划的广泛科学目标的支持，以及对具有特别高社会相关性的科学目标的具体贡献，例如华盛顿卡斯卡迪亚地区，俄勒冈州和北方加州的地震灾害。

The academic community is addressing science questions as described, for example, in the 1996 Future of Marine Geology and Geophysics (FUMAGES) report, that require short- and long-term deployments of large numbers of ocean-bottom seismometers and/or ocean-bottom hydrophones. In addition to supporting research funded through the NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) Marine Geology & Geophysics Core Program, there is increasing use of ocean bottom seismometers by the EarthScope, Continental Dynamics, Ocean Drilling Program, and GeoPRISMS Programs. To provide the large number of instruments needed to support these programs, maintain the necessary technical capability, and provide access to Ocean-Bottom Seismic Instruments for a broad user community, the Ocean-Bottom Seismic Instrument Pools (OBSIP) were established in 1999. In light of the continuing demand for ocean bottom seismometers, the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program of OCE invited proposals to establish a Management Office for OBSIP (OMO). The OMO will provide essential improvements in oversight and management for OBSIP. Broader impacts of the OMO include its inherent contribution to the U.S. science infrastructure, support for the broad scientific objectives of the Marine Geology & Geophysics Program, and its specific contribution to scientific objectives that have particularly high societal relevance, such as earthquake hazards in the Cascadia region Washington, Oregon and Northern California.