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EPIC USER Workshop Pre_AGU Fall 2010

EPIC User Workshop : PRE-AGU - San Francisco December 12th 2010

Hello Dear Participants

We are excited with the great response we got from you all about our second workshop in San Francisco. During this workshop, we would like to focus our efforts  on providing an overview of the EPIC facility to young investigators, anyone with upcoming EPIC supported experiments or plan to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation using EPIC equipment and support.

11/01/2019
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Passcalians Attend AGU Fall Meeting

The annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union is one of the largest and most interesting scientific conferences in the world. Some 15,000 scientists - from students to professional researchers, from small environmental analysis groups to huge government entities like NASA and NOAA - and a small troop from EarthScope - gathered at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco for a week in mid-December 2009 to share their studies and recent results with each other, and with anyone curious enough to listen in.

10/25/2019
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Flexible Array experiment researchers brave alligators in the name of seismology!

 

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 the pond home.

10/24/2019
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USArray

The Flexible Array is a pool of portable seismic instruments supported by the Array Operations Facility at the EPIC. The instruments are available for PI-driven research projects associated with the goals of Earthscope. The pool consists of broadband (325), short-period (100), accelerometer (20), and controlled source (1700) stations. 

10/24/2019
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SEG-Y: What is it?

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists Y Format, or SEG Y, has been the accepted exploration industry data format for digital seismic data since 1975.  Originally a magnetic tape-centric format, SEG Y has evolved over the years to remain the data format industry standard for data analysis and processing.  The latest revision (revision 1 .pdf format) to the format was released in 2002. 

09/25/2019
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SEG-Y files produced from PH5 data sets

 

The SEG-Y file written by ph5toseg is in big endian byte order and attempts to follow the SEG-Y rev 1 standard (May 2002) as outlined in the table below.

The file does not contain a Tape Label.

09/11/2019
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Shipping Information

These articles discuss various aspects of shipping for EPIC experiments. Shipping for Experiments: Policy Shipping Best Practices Shipping Glossary Of Terms Shipping Estimate Form ("The Shipping Calculator")

For shipping questions, please contact Jackie Gonzales, via jackie [at] passcal [dot] nmt [dot] edu (e-mail), or at 575.835.5560

08/29/2019
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Training

  How long will it take? Training at the EPIC takes an average of 2 days to cover a typical experiment.    The first day involves an overview from the PI, a discussion of proposed logistics, introduction or review of project instrumentation and a practice site installation.  The second day covers station servicing and demobilization, the EPIC suite of software for data download and review, and introduction or review of EPIC preferred database and data archiving procedures. What can you expect from us?  Training on the hardware that EPIC will provide for your experiment.  This will include the Digitizer, Sensor(s), Handheld controllers, and Power Systems.
08/29/2019
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Borrowing Equipment

EPIC equipment is available to any research or educational institution to use for research purposes within the guidelines of established Governing Policies. These policies provide that data collected with EPIC equipment be archived at the EarthScope Data Management Center and that the data are openly available to the community. Instruments can be requested online using the EPIC Instrument Request Forms.

Who Can Borrow Equipment

Instrument Use Policy

What is Required if You Borrow Equipment

08/29/2019
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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 seismic community to exchange knowledge on instrumentation, as well as on novel approaches for improving the usefulness of data.

07/21/2019
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