Infrastructure for Advanced Study Institutes

1. Community Activities Budget Justification, ProposalAll costs are inflated at 2.5% / year. Costs in years 2 and 4 are higher to hold SITS. Direct Costs: Year 1Year 2 Year 3Year 4Year 5 Salaries & Fringe Benefits 183,392202,200192,675212,437202,432 Levels based partly on extrapolation from rates during the past two years, which include an IRIS Workshop and an Instrumentation Symposium (SITS) in alternating years. But a lower level for SITS, and support for an IRIS Workshop every year is included. These levels support continuing these activities and ongoing improvements to managing a database of publication recipients and participants in IRIS meetings. Also, 50% support for “Frasetto” is included for the new project “Data Processing Library”, anticipating that if a new person must be hired for this project then he or she would have similar skills and salary. Travel 7,6519,3807,9619,7798,288 Travel costs include two domestic trips for the Meeting Planner to prepare for and support the IRIS Workshop, and one trip each for the Public Outreach Manager and the Media and Graphics specialist to IRIS-related meetings. In addition, staff and “consultant” travel costs are included for the Data Processing Library project, for this staff person to visit and be visited by faculty members who are contributing software. Participant Support 153,750189,113161,534198,686169,711 Participant Support costs are estimated from the estimate for supporting participants at the most recent IRIS Workshop and SITS. The Workshop is budgeted for every year; SITS is budgeted during years 2 and 4.

2. Community Activities Budget Justification, ProposalAll costs are inflated at 2.5% / year. Costs in years 2 and 4 are higher to hold SITS. Direct Costs: Year 1Year 2 Year 3Year 4Year 5 Materials and Supplies 8,2007,3545,3857,7289,051 Materials and Supplies costs include a new computer for the staff member supporting the Data Processing Library project during years 1 and 5. Other costs are for miscellaneous items, including software and peripherals that may be required annually to continue developing and maintaining the Data Processing Library, and to produce publications or complete preparations for the IRIS Workshop and SITS. Publications and Printing 16,91317,86117,76918,76518,669 Printing costs are for one Annual Report, two annual brochures (IRIS-at-a-Glance and Seismological Accomplishments), and programs for the Workshop and SITS. Other Direct Costs 7,79013,4508,18414,1308,600 Other direct costs are expected facility fees and equipment rental for meetings and conferences, as well as miscellaneous expenses including conference calls. Total Costs, incl. G&A488,052561,867508,626590,218538,527

3. Infrastructure for Advanced Study Institutes A new mode of leveraging community knowledge has emerged as “advanced study institutes” on methods for processing seismological data. E.g., the USArray Processing Short Courses and the IDS Pan-American Advanced Study Institute. These institutes are benefitting both early- and mid-career seismologists and the developers. Extensive efforts are required to prepare computer environments and application programs that are critical to success and that could be re-used to run different institutes. The goal is to create a resource that • Builds on past short courses and institutes, and ensures that the programs operate in a single, common environment based on a well-documented set of open-source utilities, and thereby facilitates efficient, reliable development of a curriculum for a new institute. • Includes sample data sets that can be used in teaching and tools that facilitate integration of new data into forms that can be used in student-led pilot projects during an institute. • Through ongoing collaboration with the research community, both continues to be up-to-date and grows to include further methods for processing data from individual broadband stations, geographically extensive broadband arrays, and controlled-source data. The project will include developing a computing approach that is both reliable (e.g. a server that is either Internet accessible or carried to the site of an institute) and readily used by the students in work at their home institutes after the course (e.g. students receive a portable computer to keep, or at least software that is assured to run on their own computers). Total Direct Costs 102,311100,884103,359105,895112,738