Devany Brown, Marylin Contreras, Arnol Deolarte, and Jakayla Walker

 Each year a grand challenge is given to the U SE IT interns by SCEC director Tom Jordan.  The Grand Challenge for this year was to develop a Seismic Crisis Visualization System using the Southern California Earthquake Center Virtual Display of Objects (SCEC-VDO) to display information needed for operational earthquake forecasting.

 Use an open source content management system called Drupal to deliver resourceful information to an array of audiences by adding content to the already existing U SE IT website.  This website can be accessed at

 Collected scientific research information from the Science Research Team to create content.  Gathered SCEC-VDO animations created by the SCEC-VDO Production Team.  Collaborated efforts with the SCEC-VDO Development Team to develop the ability to live stream the Real-time Earthquake Plug-in.

 Informs SCEC’s staff and interns about each of the groups’ and individual’s goals during the course of the Grand Challenge. rack

 Displays important information about earthquake forecasting and participation probabilities.

Displays general information about earthquakes.

 Ability to Live stream the Real-time Earthquake Plug-in as Seismic data is being pulled from a Caltech server that updates every thirty seconds. /activity_updates

 2010 SCEC Intern Research Lecture Series  Updated 2010 All Intern Field Trip with images

Dr. Tom Jordan Dr. Robert de Groot Michael Ihrig Kaitlin Welch