While earthquakes present dire hazards to human society, they also offer opportunities to study the composition and dynamic processes of the entire Earth. The Institute for Geophysics plans to establish a "Seismology in Schools" project though the GK-12 program and in conjunction with the Texas Regional Seismic (TexSeis) network. The long-term goal is link each station in the TexSeis network, including the Hockley seismographic station maintained by UTIG, to a nearby host school.

The project would engage students in the acquisition and manipulation of seismological data and is relevant to EarthScope, a new major NSF-sponsored initiative to study the structure and deformation of North America. Please contact Jay Pulliam for additional information.