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Organizational News
21 October 2026

New Emerging Investigator Awards to support early career geoscientists

New Emerging Investigator Awards will provide funding and technical support to help early career researchers conduct innovative field-based geophysical research using NSF National Geophysical Facility instrumentation.

Organizational News
21 October 2026

Yellowstone borehole network receives modern upgrades

New edge computers are replacing aging dataloggers, keeping stations alive.

Organizational News
15 October 2026

NSF NGF data and product download quotas

As part of our ongoing transition to modern, cloud-native infrastructure, we will be implementing limits on the volume of data and products that can be downloaded per hour and per day starting October 26.

Science and Society
14 October 2026

How an astrophysical observatory became two seismometers’ new home

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, helped expand a global-scale earthquake network.

Organizational News
6 October 2026

Updates and repairs to PH5 experiment archive

Older PH5 experiments have been updated to resolve data inconsistencies, improve quality, and better align datasets with current PH5 standards.

Science and Society
6 October 2026

The breath of a volcano: Volcán Masaya’s subtle underground activity unveiled by InSAR

It’s often said that volcanoes give plenty of warning before they erupt. But what happens when they don’t? A recent study uses the satellite remote sensing technique, InSAR, to illuminate the behavior of Volcán Masaya, an unpredictable volcano located just 20 kilometers from Nicaragua’s capital city.

Organizational News
1 October 2026

User authentication for NSF NGF data and product downloads

As part of our ongoing transition to modern, cloud-native infrastructure that provides exceptional scalability and performance, we will require user authentication for all data and product downloads beginning December 15, 2026.

Science and Society
29 September 2026

Scientists look to Mexico earthquake to see how well pretrained machine-learning methods perform

New aftershock catalog from 2017 M 8.2 earthquake reveals how machine-learning can facilitate our understanding of tectonically complex environments.

Organizational News
24 September 2026

Announcing Open Source SAC Community Edition v103.0

Our community’s access to the Seismic Analysis Code (SAC) is now being released as open source software as the SAC Community Edition.

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