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IRIS/PASSCAL Celebrates Career of Jim Fowler
Jim Fowler started as IRIS Chief Engineer in 1984, and became the founding manager for the PASSCAL program. In 1999, he relocated from Washington D.C. back to his home state of New Mexico, and set up...
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8th annual Polar Technology Conference coming to Vermont in April 2012
The 8th annual Polar Technology Conference will be hosted by IRIS/PASSCAL on 3-5 April 2012 at the Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee, Vermont, USA. Several staff members will be in attendance from both...
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IRIS/PASSCAL Dedicates Seismometer Testing Observatory to Jim Fowler
On March 28th, 2012, a beautiful Spring day, staff from the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), US Geological Survey, Sandia National Labs, and...
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Flexible Array experiment researchers brave alligators in the name of...
The alligator photographed guards SESAME's station E22. Locals report the alligator likely made a short traverse through the forest from a nearby river, where alligators are commonly spotted, to call...
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IRIS Orientation Week Kick-starts a Busy Summer for Student Interns
For the last few years, several students have gathered at the PASSCAL Instrument Center (PIC) for the IRIS Undergraduate Internship Orientation Week. In the IRIS Undergraduate Intern program, fifteen...
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Mendenhall Glacier, Up Close and Personal
IRIS/PASSCAL has been a key supporter of a novel deployment of equipment at Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. A team of researchers from the University of Alaska Southeast, the University of California...
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PASSCAL Intern Spends Summer on the Ice
IRIS/PASSCAL summer intern Alan Shi has some interesting stories to tell about his last few months with the PASSCAL Instrument Center in Socorro, NM. The season began calmly enough, and Alan enjoyed...
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AGU 2012 PASSCAL Data Archiving Workshop
December 2, 2012 San Francisco-Palomar HotelAn IRIS PASSCAL data-archiving workshop will be offered prior to the 2012 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. This workshop will serve as an opportunity to...
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Installing a "Cold and Dark" Seismic Station in the Yukon
On October 8-13, 2012, a three-man team from the EarthScope Transportable Array and IRIS/PASSCAL installed a prototype "cold and dark" seismic station at Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, Canada, just...
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Facility Plan for Polar Seismic and Geodetic Science is Available
The seismic and geodetic Polar communities have worked with IRIS and UNAVCO to provide a plan for the growth, development, management and governance of Polar support services for the NSF facilities....
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Training at PASSCAL
In addition to loaning and maintaining devices from the instrument pool, and providing vital assistance to PIs in the field, PASSCAL also trains PIs and their colleagues at our facility in Socorro, New...
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IRIS PASSCAL Supports Fluvial Seismology Research in Grand Canyon
When and how do rivers transport sediment from eroding landscapes? New research by Brandon Schmandt and Karl Karlstrom of the University of New Mexico and Rick Aster of New Mexico Tech is shedding...
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Freshman Senator Visits IRIS/PASSCAL
On Friday, February 22nd, New Mexico's newest member of the United States Senate, Martin Heinrich, paid a visit to New Mexico Tech, and the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center. Senator Heinrich, who won his...
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PASSCAL Staff in the News
It's been an eventful media week for several of the staff of IRIS PASSCAL, who were highlighted in a lengthy piece on women in science in the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association's...
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Seismic Instrumentation Technology Symposium coming to Albuquerque on June...
The next Seismic Instrumentation Technology Symposium (ITS2013) will be held in Albuquerque, NM on June 10th and 11th, 2013, at the Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel.The IRIS website has a page for...
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EarthScope/TA Featured on the Weather Channel
The EarthScope/Transportable Array program was highlighted on the Weather Channel in an April 26th report by correspondent Dave Malkoff, titled "A CT Scan for the Earth." The segment included the...
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Seismic Community Gathers for SITS
The 2013 Seismic Instrumentation Technology Symposium (SITS) was held in Albuquerque, NM on June 10th and 11th, 2013. The well-attended symposium provided a splendid opportunity for members of the...
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IRIS/PASSCAL Intern Caps Busy Summer with Alaska Deployment at Poker Flat
It's been a busy summer for IRIS/PASSCAL intern Kasey Aderhold, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Earth & Environment, Boston University. Kasey has been heavily involved in an ongoing comparison...
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P.I. Transition coming to the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center
After 15 years of shepherding the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center as Principal Investigator, Rick Aster will be leaving NM Tech to begin a new phase of his career at Colorado State University as...
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Nature Magazine Marks Transportable Array Milestone
A November 5th article in the prestigious journal Nature discusses a major milestone in the Transportable Array project. In her article "US seismic array eyes its final frontier," Nature's Alexandra...
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