New NSF-Sponsored Resources to Support Portable Magnetotelluric Instrument Experiments and Data Processing
Abstract
Under the Seismological Facilities for the Advancement of Geosciences (SAGE) award from the National Science Foundation, IRIS has worked with the magnetotelluric (MT) research science community to establish a new pool of portable MT instruments at the PASSCAL Instrument Center (PIC). The PIC supports dozens of portable seismological instrument deployments for Principal Investigators (PIs) every year to facilitate research in the earth sciences. The MT instrument pool at the PIC provides a new capability to the U.S. geophysical research community by offering modern instrumentation with comprehensive training and data handling support at no cost to PIs. Implementing this new capability has been guided by stakeholders through the PASSCAL Standing Committee (PASC), Electromagnetic Advisory Committee (EMAC), and two working groups which have advised on technical topics related to MT instruments, data formats, and data processing software. In this presentation, we will provide an overview and status report of the SAGE MT facility. This will include updates on the new long period and wide band MT systems that are now available, the creation of MT data and metadata standards (MTH5), development of a new open access MT data processing software (Aurora), and the current and future opportunities for students and researchers interested in using MT data in their research.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021AGUFMGP21A..09F