Brief history of Pacific Array

• 2014 May @IRIS workshop: The idea was presented as a poster for the first time in public.
• 2014 Oct @IRIS Amphibious Array Facility Workshop: An invited presentation
• 2014 Dec @AGU Fall meeting: "Pacific Array"
• 2015 March @ NOMan symposium: International steering committee (*) was born
• 2015 May @JpGU: "Pacific Array"
• 2015 June @IUGG: "Pacific Array"
• 2015 Sept @IPGP-ERI workshop: collaboration with IPGP researchers is established
• 2015 Nov @Seoul National University: a possibile collabotation is discussed
• 2015 Dec @AGU: presented at the International OBS SIG meeting
• 2015 Dec @AGU: ION (International Oceanic Network) business meeting unanimously voted for supporintg Pacific Array.
• 2016 April @EGU "Pacific Array" by the steering committee
• 2016 May @SEISMIX2016: Keynote presentation on a related topic
• 2016 May @JpGU: "Sub-oceanic mantle" session
• 2016 Dec @AGU: "Pacific Array of, by and for Global Deep Earth Research" (HK invited)
• 2016 Dec @AGU: presented at the International OBS SIG meeting
• 2016 Dec @AGU: ION business meeting
• 2017 May post-JpGU workshop
• 2017 Sep @IRIS OBS symposium: poster
• Pacific Array 2017 update (2017/12/13)
• 2018 April @EGU: ION business meeting
• 2018 May @JpGU: "Probing the Earth's interior with geophysical observation on seafloor" session

*International steering committee:
	- JAPAN     H. Kawakatsu (ERI), H. Utada (ERI)
	- USA       D. Forsyth (Brown), G. Ekstrom (Colombia), 
	            R. Evans (WHOI), J Gaherty (LDEO)
	- EU        J.-P. Montagner (IPGP)
	- Australia B. Kennett (ANU)
	- S. Korea  S.-M. Lee (SNU)
	- Taiwan    P-Y. P. Lin (TORI)
	- China     Peng YU (Tongji Univ.)