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Organizational News
3 September 2026

Migration of ds.iris.edu website content to the NSF NGF cloud

EarthScope is undertaking a platform shift to the cloud for the ds.iris.edu website content and applications, which may temporarily affect access to certain applications or web pages.

Organizational News
2 September 2026

The irisws-metadatachange web service is moving

Our irisws-metadatachange web service, the primary source of historical changes made to SEED metadata records, is moving as part of our cloud transition.

Science and Society
2 September 2026

Giving new life to old data: 2010s seismic data reveal striking evidence of a hurricane’s landfall

The Transportable Array, a massive project to seismically map North America, was equipped with all the right tools to measure earthquakes — and surprisingly — hurricanes.

Organizational News
26 August 2026

Migration of NSF’s NGF Seismology Data Products to the Cloud

EarthScope Data Services is migrating NSF’s NGF Seismology data products to the AWS cloud as part of our strategic initiative to modernize the data and metadata access capabilities of NSF’s National Geophysical Facility (NSF NGF) in the cloud.

Organizational News
26 August 2026

Introduction to Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geophysics self-paced course now open

Learn how to create publication-quality maps and visualize geophysical data with the new Introduction to Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) for Geophysics self-paced course.

Organizational News
25 August 2026

PH5 web services and Seattle systems retirement

The PH5 web service tools and the Seattle-based PH5 archiving systems will be decommissioned on September 1, 2026, while the PH5 datasets are being transformed and migrated to the NSF NGF SEED archive.

Organizational News
24 August 2026

Retirement of the irisws-resp and sacpz web services

Both irisws-resp and irisws-sacpz are now integrated into the new FDSN station service. As a result, we are retiring these features as independent services.

Organizational News
23 August 2026

Retirement of the irisws-traveltime and distaz web services

Legacy web services irisws-traveltime and irisws-distaz that offer seismic travel-time and distance-azimuth calculations will soon be retired.

Science and Society
21 August 2026

To better understand whales, geophysicists explore old data in new ways

New research expands the limits of traditional bioacoustic monitoring by finding whale signals in unexpected places.

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