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

该奖项与美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室共同资助，将支持2008年2月18日至19日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的研讨会，届时IRIS社区的主要成员将与来自中美洲、南美洲和东南亚几个国家的地震学家齐聚一堂。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采集、管理和开放获取来支持国际研究和教育合作。美国地震界准备利用最近发展和灾难恢复机构在中低收入国家建设网络的资源增加，以促进美国以外的地震学网络，原因有几个。首先，美国国家科学基金会/OISE PIRE奖授予宾夕法尼亚州立大学，帮助建立了非洲阵列，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，并证明了建立一个永久性地震台网可以为成像地球结构提供关键的新数据，同时也加强了科学能力建设和支持灾害监测。其次，IRIS通过翻新RefTek数据记录仪的长期贷款计划，对几个区域网络进行了初步投资，这为建立另一个成功的模式提供了借鉴。研讨会的具体目标是：(1)列举需要长时间高保真地震波形记录的主要区域科学目标；(2)确定提高地震能力和复杂数据产品带来的更广泛的区域社会效益；(3)提出评估新的和现有的区域和国家网络的技术能力和性能的机制。(4)向发展专家和援助机构介绍对综合网络解决方案的需求。一个成果将是由讲习班组织者编写的一份关于发展与能力建设有关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.