Global PASSCAL

A variety of policies govern the use of EPIC and EarthScope Flexible Array equipment, and the support provided by the EPIC. These policies are vetted by the EPIC Standing Committee and the USArray Advisory Committee (see http://www.iris.edu/hq/about_iris/governance for more information about EarthScope govenance and committee membership and charge). Links to EPIC policies are listed below:

Welcome to the EPIC General Information web pages. Here you will discover how to borrow EPIC equipment, learn about the equipment and services we provide, and browse past, current and future experiments scheduled to use our facility.

Principal Investigator: _________________________

Experiment: ________________

Portable field recording equipment, field computers and other associated equipment purchased by the EPIC Program are being made available to the experiment referenced above. In return for the use of this equipment, the Principal Investigator (PI) is expected to adhere to the following conditions with respect to the operation, care and disposition of the equipment and data obtained:

1. Copies of all data sets acquired with the instruments will be made available to the EarthScope Data Management Center in accordance with the EPIC Data Delivery Policy.

Portable field recording equipment and field computers purchased by the EPIC Program are available to any research or educational institution to use for research purposes within the guidelines established in this document. The intent of these guidelines is to establish the procedures to enable investigators to request the instruments, to let them know what requirements and responsibilities are incurred in borrowing the equipment and to know when and how the decisions on instrument allocation will be made.