Department of the Interior Grant: Operation of the Mid-America Integrated Seismic Network 2020-2024

Notice of Intent to award a cooperative agreement to the University of Memphis in support of the proposal entitled “Operation of the Mid-America

Integrated Seismic Network – CERI”. The recipient will be responsible for: operating and maintaining seismic stations and associated station metadata that meet ANSS standards, ensuring delivery of station waveform data and accurate station metadata to other ANSS networks and ANSS designated archives, adhering to the implementation of ANSS approved software standards to ensure efficient flow of data and information for robust delivery of ANSS products and services and interoperability, producing authoritative catalogs of earthquake source parameters and other ANSS products and services that meet ANSS standards, contributing to the operation and development of the Station Information System (SIS), working with ANSS and the ANSS National Implementation Committee (NIC) toward using or populating SIS for station inventory control and description and maintenance of station metadata and coordinating seismic monitoring activities with ANSS management and ANSS participants. The recipient is uniquely qualified to carry out this work as they are the only USGS-supported seismic network in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The PI has been extensively involved with this effort as a seismic network operator. Specialized equipment is needed for monitoring and has been deployed by the recipient in the regions of monitoring. Some of the field sensors and central recording and computing equipment is university-owned and would not be available to another source. Furthermore, data from the instruments is transmitted to the universities’ facilities and relocation of the data receiving point and telemetry equipment would be costly and time-consuming.