Project Title

Global seismograph station at South Pole and Palmer stations

Summary

Event Number:
G-090-M/P/S
NSF / USGS Agreement

Program Manager:
Dr. Michael Jackson

ASC POC/Implementer:
John Rand / Elizabeth Kauffman / Jamee Johnson / Paul Sullivan / Sheryl Seagraves

Principal Investigator(s)

Mr. Kent Anderson
kent@iris.edu
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Socorro, New Mexico

Location

Supporting Stations: McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, South Pole Station
Research Locations: South Pole and Palmer Stations

Description

The United States Geological Survey's Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory (USGS- ASL), in collaboration with the NSF-sponsored Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology consortium's Portable Network's Instrumentation Center (IRIS-PASSCAL), maintains and operates seismometers at South Pole in the South Pole Remote Earth Science and Seismological Observatory (SPRESSO) vault, and at Palmer Station in the Terra Lab.

Field Season Overview

The instrumentation for this project runs continuously, year-round, essentially autonomously, with only limited intervention required by personnel onsite and by the equipment operators via the internet. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic impacts, no participants will deploy to service the equipment in 2020-21, and work that was scheduled to replace the instruments at Palmer Station has been deferred to a later date. Onsite Research Associates will provide monitoring, troubleshooting, and the collection and forwarding of data at each site as needed throughout the year.

Deploying Team Members