LAMONT-DOHERTY COOPERATIVE SEISMOGRAPHIC NETWORK: SERVICE TO EDUCATION
AND COMMUNITY

REVETTA, F.A., Geology Department, State University of New York,
Potsdam, NY 13676; ROSS, R.M., Paleontological Research Institution, 
1259 Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850, MILLER, Z., Carthage Central 
High School, Carthage, NY 13619, and SCHUSTER, W., Black Rock Forest 
Consortium, Cornwall, NY 12518

The Lamont-Doherty Cooperative Seismographic Network (LCSN) contributes
to outreach in ways that are unique to its structure.  It is unusual in
using a variety of station keepers (college & university faculty,
secondary school teachers, museums, etc.) to engage a wide variety of
audiences and to reach out to large numbers of the general public.  It
also provides professional development and improved awareness among
station operators who are not professional seismologists.  All of this
is an example of involving the community to extend observations and
thereby makes science accessible to the public. Examples include
research seismometers installed and used for education in a high school
in Carthage, NY, at the Black Rock Consortium for environmental
research and education in the Hudson Highlands, and at a museum
dedicated to Earth system history in Ithaca, NY.

The Potsdam Seismic Network, which is part of the LCSN, serves as an
example of how the LCSN serves education, the community and research.
The network is used as a teaching tool or laboratory to teach
undergrads how seismic stations are installed and repaired.  The
records obtained from the network are used to teach the students
seismogram interpretation in the classroom as class exercises.  The
community is served by providing the general public and news media
information about the local earthquakes.  This information usually
includes verification that the event is an earthquake and information
about its location, time and magnitude.  The network also provides the
opportunity for undergraduates to become engaged in research.  Every
year students present a paper or poster at various professional
meetings on their study of the local seismicity recorded by the
network.  These research presentations bridge the gap between being a
student and a professional.  The network also arouses student interest
in the local geology and stimulates their imagination to explain the
earthquake occurrence.