A Community-Based OBSIP Management Office

学术界正在解决科学问题，例如1996年《海洋地质和地球物理学的未来》报告中所描述的问题，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。除了支持由美国国家科学基金会海洋科学部（OCE）海洋地质和地球物理核心计划资助的研究外，地球范围、大陆动力学、海洋钻探计划和地球地质系统计划也越来越多地使用海底地震仪。为了提供支持这些项目所需的大量仪器，保持必要的技术能力，并为广泛的用户群体提供海底地震仪器，海底地震仪器池（OBSIP）于1999年成立。鉴于对海底地震仪的持续需求，OCE的海洋地质和地球物理方案邀请了建立OBSIP （OMO）管理办公室的建议。运营管理办公室将在监督和管理OBSIP方面提供必要的改进。OMO更广泛的影响包括它对美国科学基础设施的固有贡献，对海洋地质和地球物理计划的广泛科学目标的支持，以及它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、俄勒冈和北加州卡斯卡迪亚地区的地震灾害。

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.