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About the Cover From the innermost inner core, which influences the evolution of the magnetic field that protects us from cosmic radiation, to the outermost crust, from which we extract resources and where we build foundations for our structures, the cover illustrates recent discoveries about the solid Earth that are enabled by IRIS facilities. Velocity Profile: A two-dimensional P-wave velocity model running from southern Austria across eastern Slovakia and Poland and into Belarus based on data from the Central European Lithosphere Experiment Based on Refraction (CELEBRATION 2000). CELEBRATION is one of a series of seismic refraction experiments conducted between 1997 and 2003 that were possible only with international cooperation in logistics and data openness that is unprecedented for geophysical field experiments of this type. Together these experiments constitute a network of seismic profiles from Lithuania to Austria. The results have provided new information to resolve questions about mountain building and largescale crustal deformation that geologists have been studying since the 18 th century. (Source: Grad, M, A. Guterch, G.R. Keller, T. Janik, E. Hegedus, J. Vozár, A. Ślączka, T. Tiira, J. Yliniemi, and CELEBRATION 2000 Working Group, Lithospheric structure beneath trans-Carpathian transect from Precambrian platform to Pannonian basin - CELEBRATION 2000 seismic profile CEL05, J. Geophys. Res., submitted, 2005). Museum Visitors: The IRIS museum display at the Smithsonian Institutionʼs Museum of Natural History captivates audiences of all ages and interests. (Courtesy of Jason Mallett.) Map of Sumatra-Andaman: Aftershocks for the December 26, 2004 M W 9.3 thrust, including the, M W 8.6 thrust on March 28, 2005, show the extraordinary extent of the rupture zone. As the largest earthquake by far, since highdynamic range, broadband seismometers began to become widespread in the 1980s, this event suggested new analysis methods for rapidly determining the disaster potential of an earthquake, provided new insights about rupture dynamics and tsunami generation, and resulted in unprecedented free oscillation records for studying Earthʼs deep structure. (Reprinted with permission from Lay, T., H. Kanamori, C. J. Ammon, M. Nettles, S. N. Ward, R. C. Aster, S. L. Beck, S. L. Bilek, M. R. Brudzinaki, R. Butler, H. R. DeShon, G. Ekström, K. Satake and S. Sipkin, The Great Sumatra- Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004, Science, 308, 1127-1133. Copyright 2004 AAAS.) Ray Paths: Seismic waves from widely distributed source regions sample the deep mantle en route to the Kaapvaal, Tanzania, and Ethopia/Kenya PASSCAL experiments. Those ray paths shown in red exhibit travel time delays that could not be accounted for with even the best global tomography models from before the time of the experiment, and thus are the basis for discovering the “Africa anomaly,” an extraordinary low-velocity region extending 1300 km up from the core-mantle boundary. The thickness, sharp edges, and magnitude of the velocity anomaly show that a reasonable understanding of mantle convection requires consideration of compositional as well as thermal variability. (Source: Wang, Y. and L. Wen, Geometry and P- and S- velocity structures of the “African anomaly,” J. Geophys. Res., submitted, 2005). About this Proposal This proposal was produced by the IRIS Planning Committee and IRIS staff members on behalf of the IRIS Board of Directors, who represent the full membership of the Consortium, and thus the collective scientific interests of 102 research institutions. The proposal consists of two volumes, including the Project Description, Budget and Program Descriptions in volume 1 and the Review of Accomplishments in volume 2. The Project Description includes an overview of the IRIS Consortium and facilities, the role of IRIS in supporting research and education, a description of our resource needs, and a brief outline of our five-year funding request. The Budget is an explication of our estimates of costs to carry out the activities that are summarized in the Project Description and detailed in the Program Descriptions. The Program Descriptions are synopses of the core IRIS facilities and the programs that operate them. Each synopsis includes an overview of the development and evolution the the facility and a detailed description of plans and resources requested for the IRIS program. The Review of Accomplishments is comprised principally of more than 200 one-page vignettes contributed by the research community that have been enabled by IRIS, in most cases through use of one or more of the core IRIS facilities.
Cornerstone Facilities for Seismology and Earth Sciences The IRIS Proposal July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2011 Submitted to National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities Program By Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005 On behalf of Board of Directors and 102 Member Research Institutions of the IRIS Consortium August 2005
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