2006 SCEC Annual Meeting
Hilton Palm Springs Resort |
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 Progam. The 2006 SCEC Annual Meeting was held September 10-13 at the Hilton Palm Springs Resort in Palm Springs, California. Note: The meeting was moved to this venue from our usual meeting hotel, the Riviera Resort and Racquet Club. The Riviera was sold in March and closed on May 29 for a $300M renovation.
The Hilton is about 3 km from the Riviera, in downtown Palm Springs. Due to this venue change, the meeting facilities were not as spacious as the Riviera, but the hotel was adequate for our needs.
The meeting was organized by the SCEC Planning Committee, chaired by Ralph Archuleta. There were poster presentations with abstracts due no later than August 24. Abstracts were submitted on line and you can now search for abstracts below. In addition to the normal work of planning future activities, we again had several science talks during the meeting, with evenings set aside for poster sessions/viewing.
The annual meeting formally started on Monday morning and concluded late Wednesday morning. Prior to the meeting, there was a one-day workshop on California 3-D Seismic Velocity Models, a meeting to discuss the Southern San Andreas Fault (SoSAFE) Project, and a viewing of the paleoseismic study site at Salt Creek -- all on Sunday, September 10. There was also a two-day pulverization workshop and field trip on Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 9-10). During the Monday night (Sept. 11) poster session, in addition to the usual posters and demos, there was a UseIT SCEC/VDO software release party. After the main meeting ended, there was a meeting on Extreme Ground Motion research results, from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday (Sept. 13-14).
2006 SCEC Annual Meeting
Saturday, September 9 |
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all day | Field Trip: Pulverized Faults (San Andreas fault) | Chester/Ben-Zion | |
Sunday, September 10 |
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07:30 - 08:30 | Continental Breakfast | Palm Canyon/Tapestry Room | |
09:00 - 14:00 | Salt Creek Trench Viewing | Seitz/Williams | |
09:00 - 16:00 | Statewide Velocity Model Workshop | Hauksson | |
09:00 - 16:00 | Pulverization Workshop | Chester/Ben-Zion | |
15:00 | Poster Session Set-Up | Plaza Ballroom | |
16:00 - 18:30 | Southern San Andreas Project Meeting | Hudnut | |
18:30 | Cocktails | Poolside | |
19:00 | Icebreaker Reception | Poolside | |
20:00 | SCEC Advisory Council Executive Session | Boardroom | |
20:00 | Poster Session | Plaza Ballroom Hotel Lobby |
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Monday, September 11 |
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07:00 | Continental Breakfast | Tapestry Room Terrace Restaurant Harvey's Bar Plaza Alfresco |
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Session I: Chair: Ralph Archuleta | Horizon Ballroom | ||
08:00 | Welcome and State of the Center | Tom Jordan | |
08:15 | Report from NSF | ||
08:30 | Report from USGS | ||
08:45 | State of the CEO Program | Mark Benthien | |
09:15 | SCEC 3-New Paradigm and New Initiatives | Tom Jordan | |
10:00 | Break | ||
10:30 | "The Other Strike-Slip Plate Boundaries -- A Synoptic Model of Slip on Oceanic Ridge Transform Faults" | Margaret Boettcher | |
11:00 | "Toward Southern California Waveform Tomography Based Upon Adjoint Methods" | Jeroen Tromp | |
11:30 | Introduction: Planning Process and New Meeting Structure | Ralph Archuleta | |
12:00 | Lunch | Tapestry Room Terrace Restaurant Harvey's Bar Plaza Alfresco |
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Session II: Chairs: Mike Oskin and Ken Hudnut | Horizon Ballroom | ||
13:30 | "Investigating the Mechanics of Crustal Deformation and the Seismic Cycle in the Himalaya" | Jean Philipe Avouac | |
14:00 | "Earthquakes That Break the Earth's Surface" | Steve Wesnousky | |
14:30 | Discussion -- Topic Group 1:
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15:30 | Break | ||
16:00 | "Quantifying the Link Between Surface Deformation, Stress Evolution, and Seismicity in the Southern California Fault System" | Brad Hager | |
16:30 | WGCEP, CSEP, Southern San Andreas (10 minutes each) | Ned Field Tom Jordan Ken Hudnut |
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17:00 | Continued Discussion: Topic Group 1 | ||
18:00 | Cocktails | Poolside | |
19:00 | Dinner | Horizon Ballroom | |
20:00 | Poster Session and UseIT Intern Software Release Party | Plaza Ballroom | |
20:00 | SCEDC Users Meeting | Rob Clayton/Vikki Appel | |
Tuesday, September 12 |
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07:00 | Continental Breakfast | Tapestry Room Terrace Restaurant Harvey's Bar Plaza Alfresco |
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Session III: Chairs: Judi Chester and Nadia Lapusta | Horizon Ballroom | ||
08:00 | "Stress and Strain in Southern California" | Thorsten Becker | |
08:30 | "The Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Afterslip Following the 2004 Parkfield, CA, Earthquake Estimated from Global Positioning System Data" | Jessica Murray | |
09:00 | Discussion: Topic Group 2
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10:30 | Break | ||
11:00 | Physical Limits to Ground Motion; Broadband Modeling -- 10 min. each | Tom Hanks Rob Graves |
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11:20 | Continued Discussion -- Topic Group 2 | ||
12:00 | Lunch | Tapestry Room Terrace Restaurant Harvey's Bar Plaza Alfresco |
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Session IV: Chairs: Rob Graves and Ruth Harris | Horizon Ballroom | ||
13:30 | "Rock Damage and Earthquake Dynamics" | Yehuda Ben-Zion | |
14:00 | "Putting Rupture Dynamics into Ground Motion Prediction" | Steve Day | |
14:30 | Discussion -- Topic Group 3
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16:00 | Break | ||
16:30 | Continued Discussion -- Topic Group 3 | ||
17:00 | Community Modeling Environment TeraShake (Kim Olsen); CyberShake (Rob Graves); OpenSHA (Ned Field) |
Bernard Minster | |
18:00 | Cocktails | Poolside | |
18:30 | Dinner | Terrace Restaurant Harvey's Bar Plaza Alfresco |
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19:30 | Poster Session | Plaza Ballroom | |
20:00 | SCEC AC Meeting | Boardroom | |
Wednesday, September 13 |
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Session V: Chair: Tom Jordan | Horizon Ballroom | ||
08:30 | Advisory Council Report | Sean Solomon | |
09:00 | "New Perspectives on Fault Zone Processes and Rupture Dynamics" | Jim Rice | |
09:30 | "Robustness, Fragility, and Earthquake Complexity" | Jean Carlson | |
10:00 | Meeting Summary: Chairs of 4 sessions (Topics 1, 2 and 3), CME (15 minutes each) | Group Leaders | |
11:00 | Wrap-Up and Planning for 2007 | Tom Jordan | |
12:00 | End of SCEC Meeting | ||
12:00 | Lunch for PC, Board and ExGM Workshop Participants | ||
Afternoon | Extreme Ground Motion Workshop SCEC Board Meeting Planning Committee Meeting |
Palm Canyon Boardroom Tapestry |
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 2006: