USArray Siting Outreach

1. USArray Siting Outreach

2. Siting Outreach • Supports building of the facility by • Assisting in finding potential sites • Explaining EarthScope/USArray to local communities • Providing legacy after USArray leaves • Coordinates closely with EarthScope partners (eg. EarthScope National Office, PBO)

3. Siting University Siting Assistance • Universities in most states are helping to find sites in their state • Students working in pairs • Final site selection and permitting handled by TA staff • Promotes active involvement of wider Earth science community • Effective use of local knowledge and interaction with local communities • Students and faculty who have heard about program now contact us

4. Current and Total 2010 Through 2009 • 88 students • 31 universities • Nearly 840 sites Planned for 2010 • 12 students • 7 institutions • 130 sites

5. Siting Universityand PI Identification • TA Manager defines regions • Priority given to IRIS Members and Educational Affiliates • Prefer PIs with some geophysics/seismology background and field experience • Final selections based on what is best for the Transportable Array

6. Siting PI Responsibilities • Recruiting and hiring students • Customizable recruitment flyers provided • Supervising and guiding team members • Submitting monthly progress reports • Ensuring work is completed

7. Site Reconnaissance • Training workshop first week of program • Mandatory for all PIs and students • Remaining 9 weeks of program • Use of computer-based tools to identify potential sites for field visit • Evaluation of potential sites in the field • Submission of weekly status reports • Preparation and submission of Reconnaissance Report for each candidate site • Surveys conducted after workshop and following summer siting used to improve program

8. Siting Public awareness • Assistance to universities to create press releases • Draft USArray press release and web links provided • Pis also use university communications offices • NE, SD, ND, AR, MO have received PR for siting • Newspapers, web, NPR, local TV web site • CO, ND have been successful during installation

9. Outreach Active Earth Display • Simple real-time display designed for visitor centers, small museums, universities, schools • Joint with IRIS E&O, UNAVCO, EarthScope National Office • Evaluation by Hatfield Marine Science Center • Customizable selection of pages to display • Near real-time seismicity and ground motion, GPS data, tsunami warnings • Anyone can apply for their own display and add their own content • Displays provided to 6 USArray Permanent Array station hosts

10. Outreach Active Earth Display • Initial content in use via over 40 active accounts • New modules • Cascadia released in October • Basin and Range in final editing after review • Both are collaborative projects with UNAVCO and ESNO • Additional EarthScope and regional content to be added • 5 kiosks provided to parks and museums as part of ESNO interpretive workshops • 4 kiosks loaned for 2 years to sites in current TA footprint • Selected via competitive applications solicited from State Geological surveys and universities involved in siting effort

11. Outreach TA waveform visualizations • Promotion at workshops and booths at national meetings • Teaching sequence tutorial on web • Used in Active Earth Display and teachable moment Powerpoints • Working with Hatfield Marine Science Center to provide for Magic Planet displays

12. Outreach Web pages and publications • Redesign of USArray pages complete • Easier to update via CMS • Allows fresher, more dynamic content • 1 to 4-page info sheets • Educator’s resource guide DVD • Includes tomography, episodic tremor and slip animations

13. Teachable Moments • PowerPoint presentations created within 24 hrs of major events • For use in middle school – college classrooms • Instructor can select slides to use • Highlights TA visualizations • Joint with Univ. Portland • USGS information, simplified for educational audiences • Pictures, animations, maps, seismic data • Also collaborating with UNAVCO, ESNO

14. onSite • Original purpose was to keep landowners informed • USArray/PBO joint effort • More than 900 names on USArray mailing list • Primary target for newsletter became research audience • Switched to ESNO publication in 2010 – inSights • USArray provides content as requested • USArray to produce separate landowner bulletin twice a year

15. 2009 Workshops • Follow-up workshop in September for middle and high school teachers on Native American lands in AZ which hosted TA sites • Joint with Arizona State University, UNAVCO, EarthScope E&O • Use of EarthScope data in the classroom • 10 schools in current or near future TA footprint received educational seismographs and training in September • Provide legacy after TA moves • USArray data processing workshop in August • Siting Outreach involvement to replicate workshop in future years

16. Extras

17. Siting Subawards • Tailored sample SOW and budget developed for each PI in February • Provides summer stipend for students and some summer salary for PI • Covers travel expenses while doing field work • Siting Program is 10 weeks

18. Regional involvement • Central Plains EarthScope Partnership • Enhance the public awareness and knowledge of EarthScope • Promote conversion of USArray stations into permanent stations • Identify potential collaborators • Science cafes in New Mexico • Organized by NM Museum of Natural History • 5 locations around state • Total of 402 participants • Advertised in local newspapers and generated newspaper and web articles • EarthScope researcher or engineer at each cafe