Earthscope Consortium Inc.

Earthscope Consortium Inc., operating as Iris, is a tax-exempt nonprofit university consortium registered in SAM.gov since January 2008. The organization specializes in seismological instrumentation, geodetic equipment, data services, education, and outreach to support geoscience research. As a non-profit organization focused on advancing earth science capabilities, Earthscope Consortium provides critical infrastructure and research support across multiple scientific disciplines, with a particular emphasis on understanding seismic and geodetic phenomena that inform hazard assessment, disaster resilience, and fundamental earth science discovery.

Earthscope Consortium's federal contract activity has been limited, consisting of two purchase orders awarded by the Hawaii Volcano Observatory. The first contract, valued at $34,872.11 and completed in August 2025, involved the shipping of 2,000 seismic nodes in a 40-foot sea container. The second purchase order, valued at $6,632.43 and completed in June 2024, supported the Earthscope Consortium program. Both contracts were firm-fixed-price arrangements with no set-aside designations. Additionally, the organization received a subcontract award from Applied Research Associates, Inc. on March 31, 2025, for shipping logistics support. These contract awards demonstrate the organization's operational role in providing specialized geophysical instrumentation and support services to federal science agencies.

Earthscope Consortium's grant portfolio is substantially more robust, reflecting its core mission as a research infrastructure provider. The organization holds multiple significant cooperative agreements from the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, including major awards for the National Geophysical Facility (NGF) totaling $19,500,000 (beginning October 2025, extending through September 2030), which focuses on advancing earth science capabilities through innovations in geodesy and seismology. The consortium also operates the Seismological Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (SAGE), which manages global and regional seismic networks, portable instrumentation, and open-access data management systems. Additional NSF grants support the Geodetic Facility for the Advancement of Geoscience (GAGE), with multiple cooperative agreements spanning 2023 through 2026 covering geodetic research, data services, and workforce development. Earthscope has received project grants supporting the OpenTopography cyberinfrastructure platform for topographic data access, the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions) Catalyst initiative, and computational skill-building workshops in seismology. The organization has also received smaller project grants addressing earthquake early warning accessibility and equity in geosciences. As a subgrantee, Earthscope has supported research through awards from the University of Hawaii, University of Washington, University of California San Diego, and Concord Consortium, contributing to projects focused on mapping tools sustainability, GNSS data centers, national data platforms, and earth science curriculum development. Funding partners include the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Office of Acquisitions and Grants, demonstrating broad federal agency engagement in advancing research infrastructure and geoscience education.