Foreign Affiliate Member Institutions

The IRIS Consortium welcomes universities, academies of science, government agencies, and other nonprofit institutions outside of the United States as Foreign Affiliates. There is no cost to join IRIS as a Foreign Affiliate, nor are affiliates required to participate in IRIS meetings in the United States or host IRIS meetings locally. Nevertheless, IRIS Foreign Affiliates are expected to promote IRIS goals within their own countries. Promotional activities could involve working with agencies of an Affiliate’s own national government for more open data policies or making geophysical data collected by their government freely available.

When seismologists from IRIS Member institutions in the United States visit the country of an IRIS Foreign Affiliate, they may seek collaborators to join them in field work and data analysis, or help obtain permission to import equipment or visit field areas.When IRIS approaches international agencies such as the United Nations or the World Bank, it may ask Affiliates in regions of proposed activities to evaluate the local benefits and, if appropriate, to seek support of the Affiliate’s national government.

Membership Benefits

  • Receive copies of all IRIS publications, including newsletters and annual reports.
  • Use the IRIS bulk e-mail system to advertise job vacancies and announce significant developments.
  • Become eligible for long-term loans of retired IRIS instrumentation.
  • Faculty, staff, and students can participate in IRIS workshops.
  • Send a representative to IRIS Member meetings.
  • Faculty and staff can join IRIS committees and working groups.
  • Download selected seismological software from IRIS, including:
  • Portable Data Collection Center, developed by IRIS to facilitate organizing and archiving data
  • Seismic Analysis Code, developed at Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory to process and visualize digital time series.
  • Join the list of IRIS contacts that US Members use to find in-country collaborators for international experiments.

Download a Foreign Affiliates brochure

Current Members

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REPRESENTATIVE
Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taiwan Bor-Shouh Huang
Academy of Sciences, Seismological Center, Albania Betim Muço
Australian National University Brian Kennett
AWE Blacknest, United Kingdom Sheila Peacock
British Geological Survey, Great Britain Brian Baptie
Central Queensland University, Australia Mike Turnbull
Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Mexico Cecilio J. Rebollar
Centro Regional de Sismología para América del Sur Daniel Huaco Oviedo
China Earthquake Networks Center Ruifeng Liu
Council for Geoscience South Africa
Artur Cichowicz
Ecole Polytechnique, Canada
General Directorate of Disaster Affairs, Turkey Yildiz Iravul
Geological Survey of Canada, Continental Geoscience Division Isa Asudeh
Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland
Soren Gregersen
Geophysical Institute, Czech Republic Jan Zednik
Geophysical Institute of Israel Rami Hofstetter
Geosciences Azur, France Guust Nolet
GEOTOP, Canada Fiona Darbyshire
Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea So Gu Kim
University of Helsinki, Finland Pekka Heikkinen
Hong Kong Observatory Wong Wing Tak
Hungarian Geological Survey Tamás Fancsik
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Supriyo Mitra
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), France Geneviève Roult
Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy Geological Sciences Meijian An
Institute of Dynamics of Geospheres, Russian Academy of Sciences Vitaly V. Adushkin
Institute of Earthquake Science, China Qi-fu Chen
Institute of Geology, Beijing, PRC Qiyuan Liu
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Ai Yinshuang
Institute of Geophysics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Svetlana Nikolova
Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, PRC Gongwei Zhou
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, New Zealand Mark Peter Chadwick
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Pawel Wiejacz
Instituto de Ciències de la Terra 'Jaume Almera', Spain Antonio Villaseñor
Instituto Geofisico del Peru Edmundo Norabuena
Instituto Nacional de Prevención Sísmica (INPRES), Argentina Patricia Alvarado
Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy Salvatore Mazza
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Joao F.B.D. Fonseca
International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Iran Manouchehr Bahavar
Istanbul Technical University Tuncay Taymaz
Jordan Seismological Observatory Tawfiq Al-Yazjeen
Kandilli Observatory, Bogazici University, Instanbul, Turkey Nurcan Özel
King Fahd University Petroleum and Minerals Ali Öncel
KNMI /ORFEUS Bernard Dost
Kuban State University Vladimir A. Babeshko
Mahidol University, Thailand
 Passakorn Pananont
Masaryk University, Czech Republic Jan Svancara
Meteorological Research Institute, Korean Meteorological Agency Young-Soo Jeon
Nanjing University, China Liang-shu Wang
National Central University, Taiwan Kuo-Fong Ma
National Institute for Earth Physics, Bucharest - Magurele, Romania Andrei Bala
National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - Trieste, Italy Enrico Priolo
National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Cairo Amin Ibrahim Hussein
National Taiwan University (NTU) Shu-Huei Hung
Observatório Nacional, Brazil Jorge Luis de Souza
Peking University, China Shao Xian Zang
Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan Mona Lisa
Royal Observatory of Belgium
Michel van Camp
Seismological Monitoring Center of Georgia Tea Godoladze
Simon Fraser University, Canada Andrew Calvert
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich Domenico Giardini
Technical University of Delft, Netherlands Kees Wapenaar
Tongji University, China Kin-Yip Chun
Tubitak-Marmara Research Center, Turkey M. Namik Yalçin
The University of Queensland, Australia Peter Mora
Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Joaquim Mendes Ferreira
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Carlos Mendoza
Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica Marino Protti
Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Joao Willy Rosa
Universidade do Porto, Portugal Rui Carneiro-Barros
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Marcelo Assumpção
Universite Montpellier II Goetz Bokelmann
University of Bergen, Norway Eystein S. Husebye
University of Bristol, England George Helffrich
University of British Columbia, Canada Michael G. Bostock
University of Bucharest Marian Ivan
University of Calgary, Canada David Eaton
University of Cambridge, England Keith Priestley
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Humayun Akhter
University of Hong Kong Lung Sang Chan
University of Leeds, England Roger Clark
University of Leicester, England Alex Brisbourne
University of Otago, New Zealand Andrew Gorman
University of Oulu, Findland Elena Kzlovskaya
University of Saskatchewan, Canada Igor B. Morozov
University of Science and Technology of China Sidao Ni
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Kin-Yip Chun
University of the West Indies Richard Roberts
Utrecht University, The Netherlands Hanneke Paulssen
Victoria University, Institute of Geophysics, New Zealand Martha Kane Savage