The SC approves the minutes from the previous SC meeting with amendments from Bill Leith and John Derr.
Responsibility: Anderson
Resolution: The SC encourages the IRIS IDA group to investigate the possibility of installing a GSN quality station in Tajikistan.
Responsibility: Berger
Resolution: The SC does not support the continued spending of GSN funds on the license cost for the Hawaii-2 cable system sued by H2O station beyond the funds currently available to the H2O and cable grant (~$33K). The SC anticipates that the next license fee (Year 2007, pay in December of 2006) will be the last payment
Responsibility: Butler
SC advises ASL to install a well isolated STS-2 instead of an STS-1 vertical at TARA, KANT, and XMAS stations
Responsibility: Gee
The chair askes the GSN Program Managers and Network operators to get together to devise some candidate metrics for stations uptime that are useful for 1) science, 2) tsunami warning, 3) USGS mission (earthquake hazard mitigation), and 4) Ancillary sensors (eg microbarographs)
Responsibility: Butler/Anderson/Davis/Gee
The chair request that starting with Joe Steim's presentation of GSN noise levels, develop an analysis to evaluate the viability of STS-1 deployments throughout the GSN, and to develop more informed tradeoff metrics for futre deployments and maintenance priorities.
Responsibility: Anderson
The chair proposes that three papers be written to demark the completion of the ANSS Backbone