IRIS Consortium

IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data. IRIS programs contribute to scholarly research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, and the verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Support for IRIS comes from the National Science Foundation, other federal agencies, universities, and private foundations. IRIS supports four major components, the Data Management System, the Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere (PASSCAL), the Global Seismographic Network, and the Education and Outreach Program. IRIS maintains a Corporate Office in Washington, DC.

See also

• Seismology
• Earthquake
• Geophysics
• Plate tectonics
• Reflection seismology
• Seismometer
• Volcanology
• Earthscope
• POLARIS

References

• Smith, S., IRIS - A University Consortium for Seismology, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, Vol. 25, p.1203, 1986.
• "IRIS's About Page". Introduction. http://www.iris.edu/about/iris.htm. 
• van der Vink GE (1998). "The role of seismologists in debates over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 866: 84–113. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09148.x. PMID 12088011. 
• Aster, R., Beaudoin, B., Hole, J., Fouch, M., Fowler, J., James, D., and the PASSCAL Staff and Standing Committee, IRIS PASSCAL program marks 20 years of scientific discovery, EOS trans. AGU, 86, 26 April 2005.
• Butler, R., Lay T., Creager, K., Earle, P., Fischer, K., Geherty, J., Laske, G., Leith, B., Park, J., Ritzwoller, M, Tromp, J., Wen, L., The Global Seismographic Network Surpasses Its Design Goal, EOS Trans. AGU., 85 (23) 225-232, 2004.

External links

• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)
• Global Seismographic Network (GSN)
• Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere (PASSCAL)
• IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center at New Mexico Tech
• IRIS Data Management System
• IRIS Education & Outreach
• IRIS Seismic Monitor
• IRIS Seismology Software and Manuals
• EarthScope
• SeismoArchives - Seismogram Archives of Significant Earthquakes of the World