Project Skippy explores lithosphere and mantle beneath Australia

A new project is probing the seismic structure of the lithosphere and mantle beneath Australia. The Skippy Project, named after the bush kangaroo, exploits Australia's regional seismicity and makes use of recent advances in digital recording technology to collect three‐component broadband seismic data from over 60 sites across the continent (Figure 1). The main goal of the Skippy Project, which is run by Australian National University's Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES), is to delineate the three‐dimensional seismic structure of the lithosphere and mantle beneath the continent.