Collaborative Research: Florida to Edmonton Broadband Seismometer Deployment

Brown University, Providence RI

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Abstract

EAR-9903385 Karen M. Fischer We propose to install 25 broadband seismometers between Florida and Edmonton to create (with existing permanent stations) a 35-station quasi-linear array (Figure 2). Stations, borrowed from the IRIS PASSCAL program, would operate for 15 months starting Spring, 2001. Data (3-channel, 40 samples per second)would be processed into SEED volumes at Washington University using the PASSCAL Database, and made publicly available through the IRIS DMC. Data analysis, at Brown and Washington Universities, would be primarily aimed at studying several structural aspects of (1) the core-mantle boundary (CMB) and D'' beneath the central and circum-Pacific, and (2) the upper mantle and crust beneath North America.