Background Information
The goal of this workshop is to formulate a plan to revitalize research and development of techniques in seismometry and related seismographic instrumentation in the USA.
Few fundamental advances have been made in seismometers since the introduction of the broadband feedback systems nearly 1/4 century ago. In the intervening period, academic (and to a lesser extent industrial) research and developments on seismographic instrumentation has declined. Today, adequate sensors to meet the scientific requirements are in short supply. Further, the pool of trained scientists working on seismographic instrumentation in the USA has dwindled to near zero.
Through this workshop, the geoscience community interacted with research and development groups involved in sensor technology, material sciences and nanotechnology to assess emerging technologies that have applications in inertial sensors. One goal of this workshop was to consider whether and how such advances might be applied to the design and manufacture of a new-generation, ultra-quiet, mHz – 20 Hz seismic sensor.
The workshop included 66 participants from the sensor engineering, seismological and industry communities.
The workshop will generate a strategic plan to develop the next generation of broadband seismic sensors. Expected release date is Summer, 2004. All breakout groups, presentations and posters can be found by following the links above. A CD-ROM containing all this material will be sent to all participants in Spring, 2004.
Reports
Pre-workshop
Post-workshop
- Workshop Final Report
- The Future of the Very Broadband Sensor – Presented at AGU Spring 2004
- Can the STS-1 Very Broadband Sensor Be Replaced? – Presented at the IRIS Workshop 2004
- The Future of the Very Broadband Sensor II – Presented at AFRL Sensor Workshop, Sep 2004
Agenda
| Time | Description |
| March 23 | |
| 18.30 – 20.00 | Dinner |
| March 24 | |
| 7.00 – 8.30 | Buffet breakfast |
| 8.30 – 8.45 | Welcome and Introduction (Ingate) |
| 8.45 – 9.15 | The Seismic Spectrum: signal and noise (Berger) |
| 9.15 – 9:30 | Capturing the “hum” of the Earth on low frequency seismic arrays (Romanowicz) |
| 9.30 – 10.30 | History of broadband seismometry and analysis of classical designs (Wielandt) |
| 10.30 – 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | US Sponsored R&D (Farrell) |
| 11.15 – 12.00 | Seismological requirements
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| 12.00 – 13.00 | The Manufacturing Issues
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| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Foreign (France, Japan, Russia,…) Programs |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Agency perspective (NSF; DOE; DOD, JPL/NASA) |
| 15.00 – 15.15 | Break |
| 15.15- 16.00 | Roundtable overview of new technologies. Who is doing what? |
| 16.00 – 17.00 | Posters, with brief introductions by authors |
| 17.30 – 18.00 | Roundtable overview of new technologies and future directions |
| 18.00 – 19.00 | Hosted Hospitality Hour |
| 19.00 – 20.30 | Dinner |
| March 25 | |
| 7.30 – 8.30 | Buffet breakfast |
| 8.30 – 9.30 | Plenary – organize and provide direction to breakout groups |
| 9.30 – 12.30 | Breakouts
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| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 – 14.30 | Plenary: Summary of breakouts |
| 14.30 – 18.00 | Free (hiking, use of Granlibakken activities) |
| 18.30 | Dinner |
| 20.00 – 22.00 | Breakouts (continued) |
| March 26 | |
| 7.30 – 8.30 | Buffet breakfast |
| 8.30 – 10.30 | Wrap-up
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| 10.30 – 12.30 | Writing Assignments for Organizing Committee |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch |
Breakout Group Charges
Attendees broke into 5 breakout groups, to address the following, and other, issues. View the presentations to download the results of each breakout group.
Requirements, Needs, and Wants (Leaders: Romanowicz/Davis)
- Seismological science-driven requirements – terrestrial and oceans
- Do we need a single-band sensor, or complimentary sensors?
- Shorter-period transportable of longer-period observatories>
- Geographical distribution: How many will be needed? By whom (e.g., GSN/FDSN, regional networks, Universities, Feds., etc)?
- What should be the life-cycle of sensors?
- Data quality control
New Ideas, Concepts, and Designs (Leaders: Zumberge/Collins)
- Gather a summary of new ideas
- What are the promising new concepts?
- What is the effort of development?
- Other factors such as reliability, OBS use, O&M costs?
- Do they need to be complimented with other sensors?
- Acceptable cost to manufacture?
Testing and Testing Facilities (Leaders: Followill/Hutt)
- Who/where are current testing facilities? Do we need more?
- Facility design – minimum requirements
- How to test new designs (e.g. SCG, laser designs, etc)?
- What is required to upgrade test facilities to support new designs?
- Policies for test facility use and data access
- Support for test facilities
Academic/Industrial Partnerships (Leaders: Farrell/Stump)
- What is an appropriate relationship?
- Intellectual property issues?
- Student involvement
- Cross-market utilization? Other programs such as NEES, LIGO, SLA?
Educational Perspectives and Funding Strategies (Leaders: Sacks/Laske+Langston)
- How to revitalize long-term university R&D
- Should IRIS be involved? If so, how?
- Which funding agencies to target?
- If NSF, how to engage ENG/GEO/OCE? Use of matched funding?
- Develop graduate program in sensor design. How to encourage industry to participate?
- Scale of graduate program? Internships, fellowships, duration, number of students, cost? How many universities would be involved?
- Can new designs be used in other educational programs? Schools?
- Education and outreach opportunities
Workshop Organizers and Steering Committee Members
| Dr. Jon Berger (Chair) Scripps Institution of Oceanography/IGPP0225 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 USA jberger@ucsd.edu |
Dr. Shane Ingate IRIS 1200 New York Ave NW Washington, DC 20005 USA shane@iris.edu |
| Dr. John Collins Dept Of Geology & Geophysics Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MS 24 Clark South, 360 Woods Hole Road Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 USA jcollins@whoi.edu |
Dr. Jim Fowler IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center Tech Industrial Park 100 East Road Socorro, NM 87801 USA jim@iris.edu |
| Dr. Pres Herrington Ground-Based Monitoring R&E Dept Sandia National Laboratories PO Box 5800 Albuquerque, NM 87185-0572 USA pbherri@sandia.gov |
Dr. William Farrell SAIC farrell@gefion.gso.saic.com |
| Dr. Charles Hutt Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory US Geological Survey P.O. Box 82010 Albuquerque, NM 87198-2010 USA hutt@asl.cr.usgs.gov |
Dr. Barbara Romanowicz Seismological Laboratory University Of California, Berkeley 215 McCone Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 USA barbara@seismo.berkeley.edu |
| Dr. Selwyn Sacks Dept Of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution Of Washington 5241 Broad Branch Road NW R-164 Washington, DC 20015 USA sacks@dtm.ciw.edu |
Dr. Erhard Wielandt Institut Für Geophysik Universität Stuttgart Richard-Wagner-Str 44 70184 Stuttgart GERMANY ew@geophys.uni-stuttgart.de |
| Dr. Frank Vernon Scripps Inst Of Oceanography/IGPP University Of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 USA flvernon@ucsd.edu |
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Sponsors
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Important Dates and Venue
Workshop will be held in Lake Tahoe, CA, United States of America.
