WHERE I WORK

In July 2000 I went to work at the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center on the New Mexico Tech campus in Socorro, New Mexico.  IRIS, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, is a consortium of about 97 colleges, universities and research institutions.  PASSCAL, the Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere Instrument Center provides portable seismic monitoring equipment, and software to process the data collected, for geophysicists to use in experiments around the world.  All of the equipment is owned by the U.S. Government, and the whole program is funded through the National Science Foundation.

Above is a picture of the instrument center taken on June 24, 2002 at about noon.  The haze was the smoke from the forest fires that were about to devour Show Low, Arizona which is about 250 miles west of Socorro.

More on the PASSCAL Instrument Center is here.

Below is a list of projects that I have been involved with.  The explanations are not too terribly technical in nature since they are mostly here just to let my mom know what I do for a living:

Project 1: Anatomy Of An Experiment is here (Hill AFB, Utah, July-Aug 2000)
Project 2: Superstition Hills is here (Superstition Hills, California, November 2000)
Project 3: Faults In The City is here (Santa Clara County, California, December 2000)
Project 4: Tropical Hotspots is here (Tiwi, Luzon, Philippines, February 2001)
Project 5: Way South Of The Border is here (Venezuela, July 2001)
Project 6: Enter The Dragon is here (Qinghai Province, China, July 2002)
Project 7: This Is Summer? is here (Antarctica, October 2002-January 2003)
Project 8: A Small Experiment In The Old Country is here (Czech Republic/Germany, May-June 2003)
Project 9: Urban Seismology In The Naughties is here (Los Angeles/Las Vegas, July 2003)
Project 10: CENSORED
Project 11: A Quickie In Kirtland is here (Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September-October 2003)
Project 12: Roman Holidays is here (Southern Italy, December 2003-January 2004)
Project 13: Shaking In Anticipation is here (Bombay Beach, Salton Sea, California, March 2004)
Project 14: Return To The Jungle is here (Venezuela, May 2004)
Project 15: This Armenia Is Not Near Turkey is here (Colombia, June 2004)
Project 16: Winnewhere!? is here (Northwest Nevada, September 2004)
Project 17: The Longest Line is here (Nevada/Utah, August 2005)
Project 18: Paradise? is here (American Samoa/Samoa, November 2005)
Project 19: Almost On Top Of The World will be here (Central China, 2007)
Project 20: The Middle Of Asia will be here (China/Kyrgyzstan, 2007)
 

Experience an earthquake through the Internet here.

The most infrequently updated web cam on the Internet is here.

Since something about this page should actually be related to real work a link to my documentation is here.

2007-Jan-08