Coordination meeting for Tech Staff involvement in HUD sponsored portable array.

September 11, 2017 10:30am 

Chris Cramer, Steve Horton, and Mitch Withers

A portion of the HUD grant funded acquisition of 5 portable seismic stations.

Hardware consists of Reftek 130S, Trillium 120 Posthole sensors, and 
ancillary hardware.  Equipment is in house and Jim is in process of ordering
ancillary hardware.

The project needs to have all five sufficiently operational to run for
overnight testing prior to the end of September (e.g. no vaults, solar, etc
are required).

A prototype of the long term deployment system is needed though the full build
of all five can be done after Nov 1.

Cramer needs instruction on operating the PEG seismic source.

There's also a need to track all components, not just tagged hardware, to
prevent mixing with other systems (e.g. there are AG, CERI, HUD, and other
projects that all have portable hardware and each specific station needs
to have all its own components self-contained and preserved).  Steve plans
to use colored tape and a simple spreadsheet in the short term, but a
more peramanent solution is desirable and may benefit multiple CERI
instrument pools.

There is no Tech Staff salary support in the grant.

The seismic networks have a large back-log of station repairs and preventive
maintenance that needs to be completed prior to early November.

Action Items

Horton will prep the stations for the overnight tests prior to the end of
September. Steiner may be able to help.

Bollwerk will continue acquisition of ancillary hardware as time permits.

Bollwer/Steiner will work on prototype as time permits with a goal of a
complete, relatively final system prior to the end of October.

Mitch will create dataless.

McGoldrick will provide PEG training sometime in September.

Horton/Bollwerk/Steiner/McGoldrick will finish building all 5 long term systems
over the winter break.

Horton, Bollwerk, and others will continue to explore a complete station
tracking system.