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1993 Report Seismological Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 cv Southern California Earthquake Center Science Director K. Aki Executive Director T. Henvey Southern California Southern California Earthquake Center Earthquake Center University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 Institutional Representatives R Clayton 1993 Report Seismological Laboratory Catifornia Institute of Technology Pasadena. CA 91125 D. Jackson prepared for the Department of Earth and Space Sciences UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90024 R. Archialeta Department of Geological Sciences SCEC Annual Meeting UCSB Sanfa Barbara, CA December 10-12, 1993 93106 K. McNally Earth Sciences Board of Studies UCSC Santa Cruz, CA 95064 B. Minster Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD La Jolla, CA 92093 L Seeber Lamont-Doherfy Geological Ohs. Columbia University Palisades, NY The Resort at Squaw Creek 10964 Squaw Valley, California T. Heaton USGS - COVE 525 S. Wilson Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106 Telephone (213) 740-5843 FAX (213) 740-0011 0 Southern C1ifornia Earthquake Center Science Director K. Aid Executive Director Southern California Southern California Earthquake Center Earthquake Center University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089 Institutional Representatives 1993 Report Seismological Laboratory California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 91125 0. Jackson prepared for the Department of Earth and Space Sciences UCL5. Los Angeles, CA 90024 R. Archuleta :ences SCEC Annual Meeting December 10-12, 1993 93106 K. McNally Earth Sciences Board of Studies UCSC Santa Cruz, CA 95064 B. Minster Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD La Jolla, CA 92093 1.. Seeber Lamont-Doherty Geological Obs. Columbia University Palisades, NY The Resort at Squaw Creek 10964 Squaw Valley, California T. Heaton USGS - OEVE 525 5. Wilson Ave. Pasadena, CA 91106 Telephone (213) 740-5843 FAX (213) 740-0011 TABLE OF CONThNTS 1993 SCEC ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA 1 PARTICIPANTS 4 SENIOR RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS 6 1993 DIRECrOR’S OVERVIEW 9 REPORTS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL 16 & 18 NSF RECOMMENDATION TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD 20 NSF SITE VISIT REPORT 25 USGS SITE VISIT REPORT 34 SCEC 1994-1998 FIVE YEAR PLAN 40 SCEC EXPENDITURES 1991-1993 56 1993 SCEC INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTS 11-149 GROUP A RESEARCH REPORTS A1-A44 GROUP B RESEARCH REPORTS B1-B25 GROUP C RESEARCH REPORTS C1-C31 GROUP D RESEARCH REPORTS D1-D17 GROUP E RESEARCH REPORTS E1-E15 GROUP F RESEARCH REPORTS F1-F39 GROUP G RESEARCH REPORTS G1-G17 GROUP H RESEARCH REPORTS H1-H13 1993 SCEC ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA Friday, December 10 8:30 p.m. Icebreaker Saturday, December 11 Session I: Plenary Session 8:00 Welcome and Introduction Tom Henyey 8:10 Accomplishments, Proposal/Site Review Process Tom Henyey 8:30 Statement from NSF Jim Whitcomb 8:45 Statement from USGS John Sims 9:00 Education and Outreach Developments Tom Henyey 9:10 Engineering Applications Group Report Geoff Martin 9:20 Infrastructure vs Science Tom Henyey/Kei Aid 9:50 Task Discipline Matrix and Accomplishments Kei Aid 10:20 Proposed Workshops 10:45 Coffee Break 11:15 Discussion of Tasks Discussion Leader Phase II Report and Beyond Dave Jackson Earthquake Scenarios/Geographic Foci Kerry Sieh Fundamental Studies Kei Aid Stress Regimes Proposal Lynn Sykes/Chris ScholzlGene Humphreys Intermediate Term Prediction Bernard Minster Real Time Seismology Egill Hauksson Post Earthquake Response Ralph Archuleta Note: We will break for lunch @ noon and resume this session at 1:00 p.m. 2 Saturday, December 11 Session II: Working Group Meetings 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. GroupsB&H: Archuleta/Martin Group C: Sieh Group D: Clayton 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. GroupE: Agnew Group F: Hauksson Group G: Knopoff Education and Outreach: HenyeyfMcNally Note: There will be an informal discussion of the Phase II Report after these sessions. 3 Sunday, December 12 Session II: Working Group Meetings (Continued) 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. GroupA: Aid Session III: Reports on Future Plans from Group Leaders 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Education and Outreach Tom Henyey Group G (Earthquake Physics) Leon Knopoff Group F (Regional Seismicity) Egill Hauksson Group E (Crustal Deformation) Duncan Agnew Group D (Subsurface Imaging) Rob Clayton Group C (Earthquake Geology) Kerry Sieh Group B (Strong Motion) Steve Day Group A (Master Model) Kei Aid Summary Tom Henyey End of SCEC Meeting Note: SCEC Steering Committee wiLLmeet at conclusion oLsession 4 SCEC Annual Meeting-December 10-12, 1993 Participants Institution Curtis Abdouch USC Rachel Abercrombie USC/UNR Duncan Agnew UC-San Diego KeiAki USC John Anderson Nevada-Reno Ralph Archuleta UC-Santa Barbara Glenn Biasi Oregon Jacobo Bielak Carnegie-Mellon Yehuda Bock UC-San Diego Kevin Bryan San Diego State Jim Buika FEMA James Chin USC Rob Clayton Caltech Aiim Cornell Stanford Jim Davis CDMG Paul Davis UCLA Steve Day San Diego State Jishu Deng Jim Dolan Caltech Art Frankel USGS-Denver Eldon Gath Leighton Bob Ge UCLA Lisa Grant Woodward-Clyde Ruth Harris USGS-Menlo Park Egill Hauksson Caltech Tom Heaton USGS-Pasadena Tom Henyey USC Maria Herzberg San Diego State Kenji Hirabayashi San Diego State Yoshi Hisada USC Ken Hudnut USGS-Pasadena Gene Humphreys Oregon Dave Jackson UCLA Anshu un USC Laurie Johnson Luci Jones USGS/Pasadena Simon Katz USC Leon Knopoff UCLA Jeff Knott UC-Riverside Mark Legg ACTA Eric Lehmer UC-Riverside Yong-gang Li USC Anne Lilje Caltech Grant Lindley UC-Santa Barbara Scott Lindvall Lindvall, Richter, Benuska Mehrdad Mahdyiar Leighton Geoff Martin USC Jon Matti USGS Karen McNally UC-Santa Cruz 5 John McRaney USC Bernard Minster UC-San Diego Jim Mori USGS-Pasadena Karl Mueller Princeton Craig Nicholson UC-Santa Barbara David Okaya USC Randy Palmer Oregon Steve Park UC-Riverside Mark Petersen CDMG Dan Ponti USGS-Menlo Park Maribeth Price Princeton Mike Reichie CDMG Jim Rice Harvard Tom Rockwell San Diego State Charlie Rubin Central Washington Dave Schwartz USGS-Menlo Park Jennifer Scott Caltech Craig Scrivner Caltech Nano Seeber Lamont Bruce Shaw Lamont Kerry Sieh Caltech Bob Simpson USGS-Menlo Park John Sims USGS-Reston Jamie Steidi UC-Santa Barbara Ross Stein USGS-Menlo Park Mark Stirling Nevada-Reno Denise Steiner USC John Suppe Princeton Lynn Sykes Lamont Mary Templeton Cal State-Fullerton Leon Teng USC Paul Thenhaus USGS-Denver Kim Thorup San Diego State Alexei Tumarkin UC-Santa Barbara Frank Vernon UC-San Diego John Waggoner Jim Whitcomb NSF Bob Yeats Oregon State 6 Southern California Earthquake Center Senior Research Investigators (1993 Principal Investigator and Science Director: Keiiti Aki Department of Geological Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089 Executive Director: Thomas L Henyey Department of Geological Sciences University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 90089 Principal Institutions Scientists University of Southern California Simeon Katz Department of Geological Sciences Yong-Gang Li Los Angeles, California 90089 David Okaya Charles G. Sarnn,is Ta-hang Teng University of Southern California Vincent Lee Department of Civil Engineering Geoffrey R. Martin Los Angeles, California 90089 Mihaio Trifunac University of Southern California Marijan Dravinski Department of Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089 California Institute of Technology Robert Clayton Seismological Laboratory James Dolan Pasadena, California 91125 Egill Hauksson Donald Helmberger Hiroo Kanamori Kerry Sieh JoAnn Stock DaPeng Zhao California Institute of Technology John Hall Department of Civil Engineering Ronald Scott Pasadena, California 91125 Columbia University John Armbruster Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Leonardo Seeber Palisades, New York 10964 Christopher Scholz Bruce Shaw Lynn Sykes University of California Paul Davis Department of Earth and Space Sciences David Jackson Los Angeles, California 90024 7 University of California Yan Kagan Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Leon Knopoff Los Angeles, California 90024 University of California Miaden Vucetic Department of Civil Engineering Los Angeles, California 90024 University of California Duncan Agnew Scripps Institution of Oceanography Yehuda Bock LaJolla, California 92093 Bernard Minster Frank Vernon University of California Ralph Archuleta Department of Geological Sciences Craig Nicholson Santa Barbara, California 93106 Sandra Seale Alexei Tumarkin University of California Thorne Lay Earth Sciences Board of Studies Karen McNally Santa Cruz, California 95064 Steven Ward Member Institutions Scientists University of California Stephen Park Department of Earth Sciences Riverside, California 90024 University of Nevada John Anderson Department of Geological Sciences Steven Wesnousky Reno, Nevada 89557 San Diego State University Steven Day Department of Geological Sciences Thomas Rockwell San Diego, California 92182 Harvard University James Rice Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Brad Hager Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Princeton University John Suppe Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences Princeton, New Jersey 08544 8 Oregon State University Robert Yeats Department of Geosciences Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Central Washington University Charles Rubin Department of Geology Ellensburg, Washington 98926 California State University Sally McGill Department of Geology San Bernardino, California 92407 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Jian Lin Department of Geology and Geophysics Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 University of Oregon Ray Weldon Department of Geological Sciences Eugene, Oregon 97403
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