1. ICS 2004-2005 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

2. Sumatra M9.0 earthquake, 26 Dec

5. 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 (2004- 2014 ) u Total: $5.8M

7. The good news: Ralph Archuleta: Deputy Director of SCEC Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) renewed for 5 more years (2007- 2012)

8. Global outreach Oneworld Project: connecting Goleta and Nepali schools

9. Geotimes November 2004: Beth and Oneworld School Project

10. Under the guidance of Tanya Atwater

12. ICS Research: 99 projects around the globe! ICS projects 43 new projects in 2004-05

13. 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

14. TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (NASA)

15. The good news: New space allocation: ~500 asf in Girvetz adjacent to existing ICS space New nees@UCSB Center established in this space Building computer infrastructure: 32-node, 64-CPU cluster coming in 2005-06 $15k in upgrading servers, switches, etc

16. 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]

21. Major needs: Rebuild base of researchers

22. Respond to changed funding environment

23. Support for ICS administration, particularly CNT

24. Onward and upward!

26. ICS gnome Rising tide of need Arnold’s hard rock budget What, me worry? Like last year

27. 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