EMSOC is a confederation of U.S. university research groups active in electromagnetic induction studies of the Earth's interior. While it began in 1998 solely as an facility to provide MT instruments to academic researchers in the United States, it now provides commercial interpretation software to member institutions and conducts a small outreach program to universities.  EMSOC began in 1999 to help US Array plan an MT component and now provides equipment and technical support to the much larger Earthscope MT program. In the past 3 years, it has run annual training seminars at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, CalTech, and at the 2006 IRIS National Meeting. 

Since 1999,  EMSOC has provided equipment for NSF-funded projects in Kyrgyzstan, China, Tibet, Argentina, Africa, the Pacific Northwest,  Yellowstone, Alaska,  the Great Basin, and Parkfield.

As of December 2007, EMSOC will be accepting requests for equipment and will attempt to fulfill those requests as long as the equipment remains operational.  Pending the success of a new proposal to be submitted in February 2008 and our ability to obtain some bridging funds to keep the equipment operational until the proposal is funded, requesters are advised that they may be required to pay rental fees for the equipment.  A fee schedule has not yet been set.

EMSOC Meetings

2005 Earthscope MT Instrument Test

2007 Proposal

This site was last updated on 03-01-08. Contact EMSOC