The mobile Finnish Seismic Instrument Pool (FINNSIP) is one of the largest seismic instrument pools in Europe, with over 1300 instruments. The FINNSIP is owned and maintained by Finnish universities and research institutions, coordinated by the Institute of Seismology, University of Helsinki. Other parties of the FINNSIP consortium are Aalto University, the Geological Survey of Finland GTK, and the Universities of Oulu, and Turku.
The FINNSIP was built up during 2020-2024 and now includes 46 broadband seismometers and digitizers, 5 accelerometers, and 1229 and 71 Geospace and SmartSolo autonomous geophone units, respectively. The instruments were chosen to enable a diverse range of acquisition styles and monitoring.
The greatly expanded observational capability will contribute to science by providing massive new datasets, observations and results, and strengthen and extend the role of Finland in EPOS. The FINNSIP provides instruments for seimological research of the FINNSIP consortium partners, as well as the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute of the National Land Survey of Finland and VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, which were part of the FLEX-EPOS project, where the instrument pool was initiated (read more about FLEX-EPOS below). The instruments are intended mainly for non-economic research and education projects, but economic projects can also be considered. The main call for applications for the FINNSIP instruments is open twice a year, in November-January and June-August.
Contact:
FINNSIP coordination office:
flex-epos [at] helsinki.fi
FINNSIP coordinator:
Gregor Hillers (gregor.hillers [at] helsinki.fi)
Roméo Courbis (romeo.courbis [at] helsinki.fi)
FLEX-EPOS (“Flexible instrument network for enhanced geophysical observations and multidisciplinary research”) was a project funded by the Academy of Finland under the EPOS-FI umbrella. The aim of the project was to create a national research infrastructure of geophysical instruments and multi-disciplinary geophysical superstations to be further utilized in separately funded research projects aiming at solving fundamental scientific questions in seismology, geomagnetism and geodesy. As a result of the project the seismic, geomagnetic and geodetic instrument pools created will remain even after the FLEX-EPOS project is over in the end of 2024. FLEX-EPOS consortium parties are the universities of Helsinki, Oulu, Turku and Aalto, the Geological Survey of Finland, National Land Survey of Finland (Finnish Geospatial Research Institute) and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.