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A friendly reminder that the webinar on the potential Alaska
Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment is today, April 25th, at 1pm
EDT. See the link below to register.<br>
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<b>Announcing a Webinar on the potential of an Alaska Amphibious
Community Seismic Experiment </b><br>
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When: Monday, April 25 2016, 1:00p EDT<br>
Register to Attend: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8988913650872822532">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8988913650872822532</a><br>
<b><i>Standard IRIS-hosted webinar format applies; attendees can
type questions into the webinar interface, which will be
communicated to the organizers.</i></b><br>
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Likely Presenters: Susan Schwartz, Geoff Abers, Rob Evans, Jeff
Freymueller, Emily Roland, Doug Wiens<br>
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On March 16, NSF released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL; NSF16-061;
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16061/nsf16061.jsp">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16061/nsf16061.jsp</a>)
encouraging proposals for community-driven shoreline-crossing
seismological arrays along the Alaska subduction margin. The
concept follows directly from the success of the Cascadia
Initiative (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://cascadia.uoregon.edu/">http://cascadia.uoregon.edu/</a>)
community experiment, and is targeted toward subduction-related
problems of relevance to GeoPRISMS and EarthScope science plans.
The Alaska experiment would take advantage of the Alaska component
of the Earthscope Transportable Array currently being deployed, in
a region of great earthquakes and abundant volcanism. A workshop
in October, 2014 provided scientific rationale for such successors
to the Cascadia Amphibious Array, as outlined in a 2015 report (<a
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href="https://www.iris.edu/hq/files/workshops/2014/10/amphibious_array_facility/docs/AAFW_Report_FINAL.pdf"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.iris.edu/hq/files/workshops/2014/10/amphibious_array_facility/docs/AAFW_Report_FINAL.pdf">https://www.iris.edu/hq/files/workshops/2014/10/amphibious_array_facility/docs/AAFW_Report_FINAL.pdf</a></a>).
Much of that report emphasized the seismogenic megathrust and
volatile cycling through the subduction factory as the two major
science targets that require broad, shoreline-crossing
observations in subduction zones. Both targets could be optimally
addressed by studies of the Alaska margin. The DCL specifically
invites community experiment proposals to be submitted to the July
15, 2016 GeoPRISMS deadline.<br>
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This webinar discusses some of the scientific opportunities for
such a shoreline-crossing deployment of seismometers across the
Alaska Margin, and opportunities for complementary
magnetotelluric, geodetic, and other geophysical observations. It
focuses on opportunities in the regions off the Alaska Peninsula
and south-central Alaska, where the on-land Transportable Array
exists, extending onshore and offshore. <br>
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The presenters will also discuss ways community members could
become involved in a community proposal for such a deployment,
along the lines described by the DCL. A web page (<a
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href="http://geoprisms.org/research/community-projects/alaska/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://geoprisms.org/research/community-projects/alaska/">http://geoprisms.org/research/community-projects/alaska/</a></a>)
has been set up to engage community members and communicate
strategies, including a mechanism for qualified PI’s to volunteer
to join the PI team.<br>
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This is an exciting opportunity to collect what should be one of
the seminal data sets from an active subduction zone. <br>
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Kasey Aderhold
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