The Second NSF Infrasound Workshop seeks to identify future, ongoing, or past infrasound studies that demonstrate the added value of infrasound technology to basic research in the geosciences, and define possible areas of future cooperation with IRIS in the context of resource and data sharing.

The NSF directed the infrasound community to define proof-of-concept experiments that would demonstrate the added value of infrasound to basic research in the geosciences. Amongst the subjects of interest are volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the effects of severe weather in the atmosphere and the oceans. In addition to ongoing efforts to obtain NSF funding to investigate some or all of these subjects, it may also be possible to identify existing data sets that can be mined to extract new insights. During the workshop we updated the community on progress in fulfilling the goals of the First NSF Infrasound Workshop, and defined new objectives for the coming year. In addition, we discussed possible future coordination with IRIS for the dissemination of data sets and the addition of infrasound systems to the PASSCAL instrument pool.