Announcements
- Long-term strategy plan within ORFEUS
ORFEUS strategy plan
July 3-5, 2001 the KNMI hosted the "Strategy meeting on data exchange
for European Seismology" with the goals to review the present needs and
trends in Europe and to establish the future policy for ORFEUS.
At the EGS General Asembly in Nice, April 22, 2002 a follow-up meeting
discussed a number of practical issues to follow this up. At the
ORFEUS board meeting, the same day, general agreement was reached about
an ORFEUS strategy plan.
Expression of Interest
Parallel discussions took place on preparing an Expression of Interest (EoI)
for a Network of Excellence towards the 6th framework programme of the EC:
"Network of Excellence of Research and Infrastructures for European Seismology."
The main objective of such an EoI is to provide the EC with additional
information for formulating the first calls. These EoI do not receive any
feedback. More EC information can be found on the
ORFEUS announcements pages. The complete EoI has not been finalized
when this newsletter came out, but it will be made accessible on the
ORFEUS web pages.
ESF Science Report
Also towards the ESF the European seismological community is preparing a
case for stronger European scale support for seismology in Europe. A
science report is being prepared by European seismologists and coordinated
by the ORFEUS ExeCom. Please, contact Jan Zednik (email:
jzd@ig.cas.cz) if you would like to
contribute.
- MEREDIAN: complementary EC-proposal
ORFEUS has submitted a proposal "MEREDIAN-2" to add
Newly Associated States (NAS) to the ongoing
MEREDIAN project.
Participants from eight candidate EU countries have joined in the proposal.
The objective is to include these participants within the MEREDIAN initiative
to exchange data in real time and to improve their waveform data archives
and its accessibility.
- EMICES: A new EC-project at ORFEUS
May 1, 2002 a new EC-project within Accompanying Measures has started.
EMICES stands for European Mediterranean Infrastructure
Co-ordination for Eearthquake Seismology.
Co-ordinator is the Seismology Division of the KNMI and in practical terms
the ORFEUS staff. Participants
in this project are:
European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, Bruyères-le-Chatêl, France.
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Laboratori d'Estudis Geofísics "Eduard Fontserè",
Barcelona, Spain.
National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Department of Geophysics, Athens, Greece.
Geological Survey Department, Ministery of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, Nikosia, Cyprus.
This project intends to organize three workshops:
"Real time data exchange within Europe" (ORFEUS WG1 workshop)
Place: Barcelona, Spain. Date: October 23-25, 2002.
Details and upcoming announcements can be found on
the EMICES web pages
"Distributed, Object Oriented Computing for Seismology" (ORFEUS WG4 workshop)
Place: Athens, Greece. Date: in 2003. Details and upcoming announcements can be found on
the EMICES web pages
"Seismic hazard and data exchange within the Mediterranean"
Place: Nikosia, Cyprus. Date: in 2003/2004. Details and upcoming announcements can be found on
the EMICES web pages
- ORFEUS workshop in Istanbul
ORFEUS WG2 is organising its third workshop on
"Installation and operation of broad-band seismograph stations".
Host: Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute (KOERI), Istanbul, Turkey.
Date: November 18-20, 2002
Details and upcoming announcements can be found on
the ORFEUS web pages
This ORFEUS and Kandilli sponsored workshop is intended for station
operators, advanced students in seismology and other people directly
involved in practicalities of modern broad-band seismograph stations.
The workshop provides an opportunity to be confronted with the
state-of-the-art knowledge on broad-band recording and basic data
processing by highly experienced network operators and specialists.
Emphasis will be put on 'hands-on' practice with seismometers,
dataloggers and relevant software.
The workshop also provides an ideal opportunity to discuss station
or network specific problems with the lecturers.
In order to keep the workshop efficient, the number of participants
will be limited to, at most, 35 persons. Therefore, please register
in time. In case of over booking Orfeus keeps the right to select
among the registrations. Preference will
be given to Orfeus participants and a number of places will be
reserved for Turkish participants.
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