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

2. 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

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

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

5. Requests Up in Spite of Decreasing No. of Researchers funding requests professional researchers faculty 30 20 10 0

6. Steady Success Rate % funds granted

7. Increasing Number of Awards 90/year

8. Increasing Value of New Awards +$3M/year

9. Increasing Value of Administered Awards $12M/year

10. Long-Term Increase in Student Participation undergraduate students graduate students

11. – 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

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

13. Unprecedented Precision with U–Pb Zircon Dissolution Geochronology Jim Mattinson

14. World Leaders in Lu/Hf Geochronology Andrew Kylander-Clark

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

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

17. Subduction-Zone Seismicity Caused by Dehydration

18. Models of Magma Genesis Now Work

19. Pliocene Plate Motion Rifting Exhuming the Youngest Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks

20. Velocity Anisotropy Caused by Aligned Minerals

21. Predicted Ground Motion in So Cal Toshiro Tanimoto microns

22. 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

23. 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