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IRIS's Education and Public Outreach Program offered animations, videos, lessons, software, posters, and fact sheets to help teachers and the general public learn more about seismology and earth science and understand it better. The goal is to get more people interested in careers in geophysics.
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In 1959, the United States Government launched a research effort aimed at improving national capabilities to detect and identify foreign nuclear explosions detonated underground and at high altitudes. The resultant
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Aster, R., Beaudoin, B., Hole, J., Fouch, M., Fowler, J., James, D., and the PASSCAL Staff and Standing Committee, IRIS PASSCAL program marks 20 years of scientific discovery, EOS trans. AGU, 86, 26 April
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eismology) was a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data. IRIS programs contributed to scholarly research,
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Smith, S., IRIS – A University Consortium for Seismology, Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, Vol. 25, p. 1203, 1986.
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van der Vink GE (1998). "The role of seismologists in debates over the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty".
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Robert Woodward, President; Richard C. Aster, Chair of the Board of Directors
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IRIS maintained a Corporate Office in Washington, D.C.
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The Portable Array Seismic Studies of the Continental
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Global Seismographic Network

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Research
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Lithosphere
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Global Seismographic Network
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Registry of Research Data Repositories
UNAVCO

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