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Ocean Bottom Seismographs

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     This section includes lists of Ocean Bottom Seismographs suitable for margins research that may be available for charter, barter or exchange. Only equipment which can opertate at depths greater than 1000m has been considered. Initial point of enquiry information has also been included where it is available.
Please email information about your marine facilities or sea-going equipment (that you are willing for other people to use) to and we will be happy to include those details on this page.

Ocean Bottom Seismometers

  Links :  What is an Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) - here.
Other Research Vessels Search  -  here.
OBS.

GEOPRO

Owner/Operator Institution : 
GeoPro GmbH
St. Annenufer 2
20457 Hamburg
GERMANY

Tel  :  +49-40-3039 9576
Fax  :  +49-40-3039 9578
Email  :  
Contact Page  :  here.

Country : Germany

OBS Numbers : ~ 120

Technical Specification :  GeoPro Instruments - here.

Germany.
OBS.

US National Ocean Bottom Seismography Instrument Pool (OBSIP)

Labs at SIO, WHOI, and LDEO build and maintain the entire fleet forming the US National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool.

A list OBS of contacts for each of these labs can be found - here.

A history of development of ONR funded OBS - here.

Owner/Operator Institution : 
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
360 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1542

Contact  :  Robert S. Detrick - Current Chair of the Management Committee
Tel  :  (508) 289-3335
Fax  :  (508) 457-2150
Email  :  

Consortium Partners : 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Marine Seismology Group
Website  :  OBS details - here.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California
Website  :  OBS details - here.

The Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
The Earth Instutute at Columbia University

Country : United States of America.

OBS Numbers : 
WHIO    ~ 50
SIO    ~ 34
LDEO    ? 64

Technical Specification :  OBSIP Home page  -  here.

USA
OBS.

UK Ocean Bottom Instrumentation Consortium

Owner/Operator Institution : 
OBIC -

Consortium Partners : 

University of Durham
Tel  :  +44 (0)191 334 2300
Contact email  :  
Web Site  :  here

University of Southampton
School of Ocean and Earth Sciences
Contact email  :  
  Web Site  :  here.

Imperial College University of London
Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering
Web Site  :  here.

Country : UK

OBS Numbers : 
Durham    ~ 10
SOC    ~ 28
Imperial    unknown

Technical Specification : 
OBIC - here.
Durham - here.

UK.
OBS.

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Owner/Operator Institution : 
4, Place Jussieu
75005 Paris
FRANCE

Web page  :  here.

Contact  :  
Tel  :  +33 1 4427 9967

Country : France

OBS Numbers : 20

Technical Specification : 
OBS page : French tranlation - here.
OBS page : En Francais - here.

France
OBS.

The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics (UTIG)

Owner/Operator Institution : 
The University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Geophysics (UTIG)
4412 Spicewood Springs Rd
#600 Austin
TX 78759-8500 USA

Tel  :  512-471-6156
Fax  :  512-471-8844
Home page - here.

Country : USA

OBS Numbers : 19

Technical Specification :  OBS page - here.

USA
OBS.

The U.S. Geological Survey Ocean Bottom Seismometer Facility (USGS at WHOI)

Owner/Operator Institution : 
The U.S. Geological Survey
USGS home page - here.

Country : USA

OBS Numbers : 
16 (5 of which are available as part of a rapid response - here.)

Technical Specification :  OBS page - here.

USA.
OBS.

L'UMR Géosciences Azur

Owner/Operator Institution : 
L'UMR Géosciences Azur
L'Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer
Observatoire Océanologique, La Darse, B.P. 48
06235 Villefranche-sur-Mer Cedex - FRANCE

Tel  :  (33) 04 93 76 37 40
Fax  :  (33) 04 93 76 37 66
Home page  :  here.

Country : France

OBS Numbers : 
12 + 12 (by arrangement with the University of Texas.)

Technical Specification :  OBS page - here.

France.  
OBS.

GEOMAR Technologie GmbH

Owner/Operator Institution : 
GEOMAR Technologie GmbH
Wischhofstr. 1-3, Geb.11
D-24148 Kiel
GERMANY

Tel  :  ++49 (0431) 72096-10
Fax  :  ++49 (0431) 72096-99
Email  :  

Country : Germany

OBS Numbers : Unknown

Technical Specification :  OBS page - here.

Germany.
OBS.

Hokkaido University - Institute of Seismology and Volcanology

Owner/Operator Institution : 
Hokkaido University
Institute of Seismology and Volcanology
Home page - here.
Contact page - here.

Country : Japan

OBS Numbers : unknown

Technical Specification :  ISV page - here.

Japan.

Land Seismometers


IRIS/PASSCAL

"Educational and not-for-profit institutions chartered in the U.S., with a major commitment to research in seismology and related fields, may become members of IRIS."

Owner/Operator Institution : 
IRIS (Corporate Headquarters)
1200 New York Ave. NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
USA

Tel  :  (202) 682-2220
Fax  :  (202) 682-2444
Email  :  
  Contact Page  :  here.

Country : USA

Equipment Numbers : 
Short Period Equipment ~250 stations

Technical Specification :  Instruments types - here.


USA.

SEIS-UK

"SEIS-UK provides field equipment, computers and software necessary for experiments involving onshore recording of both controlled seismic sources and earthquakes."

Owner/Operator Institution : 
SEISUK, University of Leicester
Geology Department
University Road
LE1 7RH
UK
Tel  :  +44 (0)116 2523627
Fax  :  +44 (0)116 2523918
Contact Page  :  here.

Country : UK

Equipment Numbers : 

Technical Specification :  SEISUK home page - here.

UK.
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