The Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology (IRIS) currently provides seismic recording instruments to the academic and government seismology research community. These instruments generally fall into 2 categories. The first is those instruments, which record natural sources while the second is for active or man-made sources.
The Batholiths experiment is a seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection survey across the Coast Mountains batholith of British Columbia, Canada. Several PASSCAL staff members will be deployed on the Batholiths Experiment in July of 2009. This project will involve over 2300 Texans and 1900 4.5Hz geophones in a combination of single-channel and three-channel station configurations, and will utilize two separate Field Centers.
Daniel H. López, president of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in Socorro, authorized the expansion of the on-campus building that houses the IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center and the EarthScope Array Operations Facility.
