Notice of Intent: Operation of the Northern California Earthquake Management Center, and the UC Berkeley Seismic Networks, 2020

Notice of Intent to award a cooperative agreement to the University of California Berkeley (UCB) pursuant to the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) in support of the project entitled "Operation of the Northern California Earthquake Management Center, and the UC Berkeley Seismic Networks, 2020". The main objectives of the agreement are: operation and maintenance of seismic stations and associated station metadata of the UCB Berkeley Seismological Laboratory (BSL) that meet ANSS standards, ensuring delivery of station waveform data and accurate station metadata to other ANSS networks and ANSS designated archives, adhering to the implementation of ANSS approved software standards to ensure efficient flow of data and information for robust delivery of ANSS products and services and interoperability, producing authoritative catalogs of earthquake source parameters and other ANSS products and services that meet ANSS standards, contributing to the operation and development of the Station Information System (SIS), working with ANSS and the ANSS National Implementation Committee (NIC) toward using or populating SIS for station inventory control and description and maintenance of station metadata and coordinating seismic monitoring activities with ANSS management and ANSS participants. 

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