Background Information
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently organized a training workshop in Baku Azerbaijan. The workshop was sponsored by The US Department of Energy, the Seismic Survey Center of the Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, and IRIS. Participants came from the Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia including these 14 countries: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UAE. Lecturers came from Canada, Germany, Hungary, and the United States. A total of ~50 people attended the workshop. The Science & Technology Center in Ukraine facilitated the workshop and provided considerable logistical and financial support.
The major topics discussed in the workshop included Gurban Yetermishli providing the seismic setting of Azerbaijan in the opening keynote address, followed by Tuna Onur providing the motivation for improving the monitoring in the region from a structural engineering perspective. Rengin Gok and Rob Mellors of LLNL presented talks on Seismic structure and Mud Volcanoes. Bob Woodward and Katrin Hafner gave an overview of IRIS and the Global Seismograph Network. This was followed by a series of lectures discussing the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (FDSN) and the new effort to develop a worldwide federation of seismic data centers, by Tim Ahern; an overview of seismic site selection and installation concerns by Pete Davis; an overview of the MUSTANG Quality Assurance initiative at IRIS by Laura Hutchinson; an overview of IRIS data services and methods to archive and access the large archive at the IRIS DMC by Tim Ahern; ObsPy training was given by Tobias Megies; instruction on the ILOC program was presented by Istvan Bondar, and finally Bernd Weber provided one day of instruction on the SeisComp3 seismic network management system.
This was a productive meeting, the first of its kind that combined the Middle East, Caucuses, and Central Asian seismic networks. All participants agreed that a great deal of technical information was provided that would help future coordination and improve the seismic monitoring capability in this region.
Location Details
Azerbaijan National Academy of Science Central Library of Science
Baku, Azerbijan
Technical Requirements
None
Sponsors
IRIS Data Services , Republican Seismic Survey Center and Science and Technology Center in Ukraine .
Important Dates and Venue
Workshop will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Workshop Contacts
NSF SAGE Contact(s)
Local Contact(s)
- No local contact defined.