Agency history, 1975-

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Subject

  • Squires, David
  • McClelland, Lindsay
  • Luhr, James F
  • Siebert, Lee
  • Andrews, Benjamin James
  • Cottrell, Elizabeth
  • Scientific Event Alert Network (National Museum of Natural History (U.S.))
  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Mineral Sciences
  • Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Network
  • Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Project

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Smithsonian Year
  • Torch, December 1975
  • E-mail note, James Luhr to William Cox, October 28, 1999
  • Global Volcanism Program website, https://volcano.si.edu/
  • "In memory of James F. Luhr, volcanologist, petrologist and friend", Lee Siebert, Anne Peslier, Jose Macías, and Johan Varekamp, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 197, Issue 1, November 2010
  • The Scientific Event Alert Network (SEAN) was established in December 1975 to provide scientists with timely information concerning transient geophysical, astronomical, biological, and anthropological events. At that time, the functions and key personnel of the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory were transferred to SEAN. SEAN was placed under the administration of the Director's Office, National Museum of Natural History. In 1981 SEAN offices were moved to the Department of Mineral Sciences, and in the following year it stopped reporting biological and anthropological events. In 1990 SEAN was renamed the Global Volcanism Program. Over time, the office was also interchangeably known as the Global Volcanism Network or the Global Volcanism Project.
  • SEAN was directed by David Squires, Operations Officer, 1976-1981, and Lindsay McClelland, Museum Specialist, 1981-1990. James F. Luhr was Director of the program from 1995-2007. Lee Siebert was Director from 2007-2010, and was followed by Elizabeth Cottrell, Director, 2010-2016. Benjamin James Andrews began his tenure as Director in 2017.
  • For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of" above.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1975
  • 1975-

Topic

  • Volcanology
  • Volcanoes
  • Volcanological research
  • Volcanism
  • Volcanic eruptions
  • Monitoring
  • Volcanoes--Monitoring

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00094

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