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NSF Pulls Support for Quake Observatory

Quoted: ?Given all the money and time invested, in my opinion it would be wise to finish the job,? says seismologist Cliff Thurber of the University of Wisconsin?Madison, who organized a 31 March letter of support for the project signed by 36 scientists. Mark Zoback, a geophysicist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., who was one of SAFOD?s original principal investigators, calls the NSF?s decision short-sighted.