ICS 2007-2008 Annual Report Doug Burbank, Director Bradley Hacker, Acting Director  ICS statistics  Centers  Personnel  New infrastructure  Research.

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ICS Annual Report Doug Burbank, Director Bradley Hacker, Acting Director  ICS statistics  Centers  Personnel  New infrastructure  Research

ICS Overview Goals  foster interdisciplinary research that broadens understanding of physical, chemical & biological processes of Earth  including interactions among solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, & biosphere that shape & impact life

Sichuan, M7.9 EQ, May 12, 2008 >67,000 deaths Natural Disasters

Mud volcano Sidoarjo, Java May 2006 covers 7 km 2 to depth of 20 m now 3 m/day; expected subsidence: 140 m Natural Disasters

Requests Up in Spite of Decreasing No. of Researchers funding requests professional researchers faculty

Steady Success Rate % funds granted

Increasing Number of Awards 90/year

Increasing Value of New Awards +$3M/year

Increasing Value of Administered Awards $12M/year

Long-Term Increase in Student Participation undergraduate students graduate students

– Tanya Atwater (NAS, tectonics) – Jim Boles (hydrocarbons) + Bodo Bookhagen (landscape evolution), former ICS postdoc, to Geography + John Cottle (tectonics & mass spectrometry) to Earth Science ± Bradley Hacker Personnel Changes

Research Highlights  Geochronology  Mineral Physics  Earthquakes  Volcanoes  Tectonics

Unprecedented Precision with U–Pb Zircon Dissolution Geochronology Jim Mattinson

World Leaders in Lu/Hf Geochronology Andrew Kylander-Clark

High Spatial Precision Laser Ablation U–Pb Geochronology 100  m Andrew Kylander-Clark

Molecular Dynamics Simulations Show Core–Mantle Boundary Caused by Perovskite Breakdown Frank Spera

Subduction-Zone Seismicity Caused by Dehydration

Models of Magma Genesis Now Work

Pliocene Plate Motion Rifting Exhuming the Youngest Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks

Velocity Anisotropy Caused by Aligned Minerals

Predicted Ground Motion in So Cal Toshiro Tanimoto microns

Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) Data Center Southern California Earthquake Center’s (SCEC) Portable Broadband Instrument Center Network for Earthquake Engineering’s (NEES) Garner Valley site Wildlife Liquefaction Array site Borrego Valley Downhole Array Hollister Earthquake Observatory web search engine for worldwide earthquake strong-motion data Seismology Facilities

cosmogenic radionuclide processing major electron probe upgrade field-emission SEM with electron diffractometer femtosecond laser coupled to twin ICP (single collector + multicollector) mass spectrometers New Analytical Facilities

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