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The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Geological Survey to develop a comprehensive understanding of earthquakes in Southern California and elsewhere, and to communicate useful knowledge for reducing earthquake risk. SCEC coordinates a broad collaboration that builds across disciplines and enables a deeper understanding of system behavior than would be accessible by individual researchers or institutions working alone. At the Annual Meeting members of the community gather to share and get updates on SCEC research projects and activities, as well as plan collaborations for the coming year.

Meeting Program. The 2005 SCEC Annual Meeting was held on September 11-14 at the Riviera Resort and Racquet Club in Palm Springs, California.

The meeting was organized by the SCEC Planning Committee, chaired by Ralph Archuleta. In addition to the normal work of planning future activities, we again had several science talks during the meeting, and evenings were set aside for poster sessions/viewing. Posters were put up on Sunday night and viewed through Tuesday night.

The annual meeting formally started on Monday morning and concluded late Wednesday morning. Prior to the meeting there was a one-day (Sunday, September 11) 3D Rupture Dynamics Code Validation workshop, organized by Ruth Harris and Ralph Archuleta. Also on Sunday, a teacher training workshop was held and a viewing of the Salt Creek trench was organized. A USGS/CGS meeting on fault parameters to be used in seismic shaking hazard evaluation was held Sunday night. On Monday night there was a SCEDC Town Hall meeting.

Following the meeting, there was a FARM/ESP workshop. This workshop was a 2-day field-based trip to several classic localities of exhumed faults in southern California. Examination of the Punchbowl fault in the Devil's Punchbowl and above Wrightwood was the highlight, along with examination of the San Andreas fault near Wrightwood and the complex region along the Bluecut on Highway 66. Field trip leaders were Jim Evans and Judith Chester. Download the meeting volume as a Word document

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2005 SCEC Annual Meeting -- Current Agenda
last updated August 10, 2005

Meeting Abstracts and Presentations. SCEC’s long-term goal is to understand how seismic hazards change across all time scales of scientific and societal interest, from millennia to second. The collaboration emphasizes the connections between information gathering by sensor networks, fieldwork, and laboratory experiments; knowledge formulation through physics-based, system-level modeling; improved understanding of seismic hazard; and actions to reduce earthquake risk and promote resilience. Use the form below to search and view all poster and invited talk abstracts submitted to this meeting.

Participants. The SCEC Annual Meeting has become a premier gathering of earthquake scientists in the United States and from around the world, bringing together one of the largest collaborations in all of geoscience. Attendees were comprised of people from various organizations (including profit, non-profit, domestic, and foreign) involved in a SCEC-related research, education, and outreach activities. The following people attended in 2005: