ICS Annual Report Doug Burbank, Director F Natural Hazards F Ongoing major projects F Education: Outreach & animations F Global project base F Researchers become professors F External funding
Sumatra M9.0 earthquake, 26 Dec
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) F Next generation of Earthquake Engineering research facilities F Now operational: UCSB NEES permanently instrumented field sites for monitoring ground motion, ground failure, liquefaction, and soil- structure-interaction F NSF funding to ICS ~$450K/year ( ) u Total: $5.8M
The good news: Ralph Archuleta: Deputy Director of SCEC Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) renewed for 5 more years ( )
Global outreach Oneworld Project: connecting Goleta and Nepali schools
Geotimes November 2004: Beth and Oneworld School Project
Under the guidance of Tanya Atwater
ICS Research: 99 projects around the globe! ICS projects 43 new projects in
The good news: New Assistant Professor in Seismology arrives: Chen Ji New Assistant Research Scientists arrive: Bookhagen: Potsdam Hourigan: Yale Dykstra: UCSB New ICS/SCEC postdocs arrive: Assimaki: MIT
TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (NASA)
The good news: New space allocation: ~500 asf in Girvetz adjacent to existing ICS space New Center established in this space Building computer infrastructure: 32-node, 64-CPU cluster coming in $15k in upgrading servers, switches, etc
The good news: Three ICS Research Scientists are offered tenure-track faculty positions at other institutions: Assistant professors: U. Michigan U. C. Santa Cruz Full professor: U. Aberdeen Two other researchers with new positions: Stanford (Fellowship/researcher) Georgia Tech (Assistant Professor) [last year: new profs at UNC, Montana, SDSU]
Major needs: Rebuild base of researchers
Respond to changed funding environment
Support for ICS administration, particularly CNT
Onward and upward!
ICS gnome Rising tide of need Arnold’s hard rock budget What, me worry? Like last year
Undergraduate research (REUs) brings UCSB students to Nepal, New Zealand, and Antarctica Educational grants for mining data bases and animations Filmmaking NOVA: Nepal IMAX: Antarctica