IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

1. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies How to revitalize long-term university R&D - problem 1: not enough students are encouraged to build instruments - problem 2: career review process also discourages instrument development - need universities with technical support staff, service centers, construction facilities; - only few universities still do instrument development (e.g. CERI, SIO); some facilities may disappear (e.g. SIO machine shop); - people who run these places are typically not professors (need to do something about problem 2; Laske) - solutions for problem 1: - need to encourage students to get involved in instrument development (e.g. like in physics and engineering) - fellowships/internships, e.g. ERI (Earthquake Research Institute, Japan) - IRIS should be involved to fund/give seed funds for fellowships - some places could easily expand program (Hansen) (e.g. Geophys. Inst. Univ. Alaska/Fairbanks; diverse age distribution; machine shop is increasing) - encourage publications on instrument design IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

2. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Example ERI ERI: Earthquake Research Institute: - fund internships to send students to other universities; also abroad after establishing relationship - budget strategy: relatively easy to get money for instrument development which is related to current Japanese scientific projects; also have funds available to send students and scientists abroad; - so this provides easy way for inviting U.S. institutions for technology transfer as Japanese visitors will help in instrument development; - there is great desire for scientific and intellectual exchange; this may be way to get instrument technology into U.S. universities that do not get funding for development directly; IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

3. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Should IRIS be involved? How? - fund/give seed funds for fellowships/internships - internships should be at universities - IRIS should distribute GPP data of SC gravimeters IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

4. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Which funding agencies to target? - pure science hard to fund (unlike abroad); why do U.S. not have a SC gravimeter? - earth sciences/earth scientists need to be reeducated - need to go to multitude of funding agencies - I&F as one funding source; but also MRI (?), OCE, OPP programs - engineering appears to be most promising - use matching funds as strategy to secure funding - NSF for fellowships to fund graduate students (NSF education program!!) IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

5. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Which funding agencies to target? - develop solid sales strategies * U.S. equipment funded abroad; U.S. needs own SC gravimeters; * innovative designs come from abroad so U.S. is behind already; need a 2” GS13; * current graduates in industry come from abroad * homeland security; funding climate has shifted within last 2 years; also, a lot easier to get funding from DoD 30 years ago; * communicate at the next SMDC (Space Missile Defense Command) meeting (Orlando) (Berger) * try to get something like ERI (Earthquake Research Institute) for U.S. for E&O (Sacks) IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

6. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Instrumentation at Universities? - it will take a couple of years to develop new sensor; but researcher needs to find funding for instrument development - Berkeley has long-standing curriculum in instrument design (Hansen) - university has to have interest in educating students in instrumentation - need courses to teach; need funding to develop courses; Fairbanks could do something like this but currently no resources(Hansen); perhaps SIO too (Laske); CERI has technical program but not graduate program (Langston) - faculty recruitment? - most effective at a university who has support facilities; I.e. machine shops! - will this be limited to engineering schools? - students should NOT be put indefinitely into machine shops - important though that 1) students gets experience to work with materials 2) specific/difficult tasks carried out by individual who develops instrument (PRL=product realization labs; Dan DeBra) (IDL = Instrument Development Lab) IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

7. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies How many universities would be involved - still quite a few universities who build instruments - e.g. people who make OBSs, though this number seems to go down - do machines shops have to be within departments? - internships to exchange students between universities; (also between disciplines) e.g. ERI model: Japanese students spent time with Wielandt - need to educate enough students to maintain legacy - IRIS involvement: should collect show of hands which university is interested in instrument development/fellowship exchange/training IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

8. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies How to encourage industry to participate? - Problem: need to find new spring material (not attractive for industry to invest/research/sell in small quantities) - industry already has a lot of knowhow and experience in instrument design - industry not too interested in risky R&D - Solution? - research needs to be done at universities, in partnerships with industry - convince industry that future hires are today’s students - internships for students (Laske) - students have to be given future job perspectives (computer sciences more attractive??) IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

9. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Can new designs be used in other educational programs? - people like McEvilly are no longer around - few places left who are really active in instrument development, e.g. SIO/WHOI/Lamont (OBS and others), Fairbanks (infrasound), CERI - need to offer financial support to attract interest; needs to be scientifically oriented; building instruments should be part of curriculum; faculty recruitment; - course development encouraged/funded by IRIS - SIO seismometry seminar of 2002 was video taped and perhaps should be distributed (Ingate) - perhaps seek collaboration with industry (e.g. send student to Kinemetrics to learn about nanotechnology) - need development for horizontal components (rotational seismometers rather than tiltmeters?) IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

10. Group5 : Educational Perspective and Funding Strategies Education and Outreach Opportunities - encourage partnerships with local educators and parks (e.g. National Park staff who is interested in research; Denali Fault Zone) “get people interested in technical devices!” (Hansen) - UCSD is the other way round; E&O through visualization, so collaboration with computer sciences is very active (Laske) - Smithsonian and DTM have drums (Sacks); people are more interested in instruments rather than computer screens (Ingate); “classical drum recordings much more attractive than computer screen” - need moving pieces!!! (e.g. gutted STS-2?; levitation display) - seismometer for high-schools program (e.g. AS1); PEPP - IRIS poster should include free oscillations in outreach posters - free oscillation displays at museums - tie science to instrument requirements IRIS Broad-Band Instrumentation Workshop; Lake Tahoe, Mar 24-26, 2004

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