Public operating summary
The 2022 report records the transition from campaign-based analysis to a standing false-alarm framework. This was the year the Laboratories began rejecting more candidates earlier, with documented negative controls, before public language was drafted.
Operating facts
- Continuous recording
- 99.97% station uptime
- Active Field Array hosts
- 27,360 average monthly
- Public catalog accessions
- 8 public records
- Archive digitization
- 294 media items stabilized or indexed
- Operating reserve
- 27 months at current burn
- Publication policy
- No funder review before release
Renner Endowment
47%
Calder Ridge Trust
18%
Private research grants
14%
Principal supporters
10%
Field Array in-kind compute
11%
Research record
- Issued the false-alarm-rate framework used by candidate scoring.
- Moved candidate rejection logs into the report record instead of analyst notebooks.
- Expanded source-backed external reading for infrasound and instrument longevity.
- Updated Field Array result intake to preserve failed candidate metadata.
Stewardship
The board approved a policy that rejection logs are retained as scientific records.
Program budgets were reorganized around standing records, not campaigns.
No restricted support was accepted for catalog entries under active review.
Archive and records
- Records of a concluded 1980s infrasound program were indexed for researcher request.
- The report index began retaining negative-control references alongside public abstracts.
- Older field correspondence was separated from instrument records for privacy review.
Open operating risks
- False positives remain expensive because every serious candidate creates retention obligations.
- External reference pages require periodic link review.
- Station staffing is vulnerable to specialized skill concentration.