2009 Annual Meeting: Palm Springs, CA
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 SCEC 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 2009 SCEC Annual Meeting will be held September 12-16 in Palm Springs, California at the Hilton Palm Springs resort. This year the meeting will focus on developing the long-term research agenda for the SCEC collaboration, in preparation for the next Center proposal (due early in 2010). It is an opportunity for the SCEC community to provide input on SCEC research priorities for the coming years. Towards this end, the Annual Meeting will be divided into thematic sessions to focus discussions to define Center research priorities. Each session will begin with an invited talk to kick off and stimulate discussions on the theme.
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As always, the SCEC Annual Meeting is an opportunity for the community to share and get updates on SCEC research projects and activities, as well as plan collaborations for the coming year. A total of 270 poster abstracts were submitted to the 2009 SCEC Annual Meeting!
Because of space restrictions, the posters were divided into two groups for viewing. The results in the abstract search below will provide the location of each abstract and link to a map guide for either Group 1 or Group 2, as well as the time of the poster set-up, removal, and viewing for each session.
Saturday, September 12th |
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| Workshop on Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms - Session I | |
| Workshop on Transient Anomalous Strain Detection - Session I | |
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Earthquake EPIcenters Meeting (Rancho Mirage Public Library) download flyer (88 KB PDF) |
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Sunday, September 13th |
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| 08:00-12:00 | Workshop on Dynamic Weakening Mechanisms - Session II |
| 08:00-12:00 | Workshop on Transient Anomalous Strain Detection - Session II |
| 08:00-17:00 | Source Inversion Validation Workshop |
| 08:00-15:00 | Student Field Trip to the San Gorgonio Pass |
| Southern San Andreas Fault Evaluation Workshop, Project Summary, and the Way Forward | |
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Science Educator Workshop |
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| 16:30-18:30 | Poster Session Set-Up |
| 18:00 | SCEC Annual Meeting Ice-Breaker/Welcome Reception |
| 18:30 | SCEC Advisory Council Meeting (Working Dinner) |
| 20:00-22:30 | Poster Session I (Group 1 Posters) |
Monday, September 14th |
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| 07:00-08:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 08:00 | Welcome and State of the Center (Tom Jordan) |
| 08:30 | Report from NSF (Greg Anderson) |
| 08:40 | Report from USGS (Mike Blanpied, Elizabeth Lemersal) |
| 08:50 | Communication, Education, and Outreach 2008-2009 Highlights (Mark Benthien) |
| 09:10 | SCEC Science Accomplishments (Greg Beroza) |
| 10:10 | Break |
| 10:40 | Introduction to the SCEC4 Proposal Process (Tom Jordan, Nadia Lapusta, Greg Beroza) |
| 11:00 | Plenary Talk: Deciphering tectonic tremor beneath the San Andreas fault near Parkfield: Repeating events, migration, and possible deep slip preceding the 2004 M 6.0 earthquake (David Shelly) |
| 11:30 | Science Discussion: What data are most needed to understand the processes of active faulting, and which are the most promising for discovering new earthquake phenomena? (Moderator: Greg Beroza | Reporter: Mike Oskin) |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 | Poster Session II (Group 1 Posters) |
| 16:00 | Plenary Talk: Bridging the gap between seismology and engineering: avenues for collaborative research (Christine Goulet) |
| 16:30 | Science Discussion: How can earthquake scientists most effectively work with earthquake engineers to reduce earthquake risk? (Moderator: Swami Krishnan | Reporter: Rob Graves) |
| 19:15 | SCEC Recognition Banquet |
| 20:30 | Poster Session III (Group 1 Posters) |
Tuesday, September 15th |
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| 07:00-08:00 | Poster Turn-Over |
| 07:00-08:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 08:00 | Plenary Talk: Fault lubrication during earthquakes (Giulio di Toro) |
| 08:30 | Science Discussion: What field and laboratory observations are most crucial for validating models of stress evolution and rupture dynamics? (Moderator: Judi Chester | Reporter: Nadia Lapusta) |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Plenary Talk: Magnitude-frequency statistics on a single fault: Does Gutenberg-Richter scaling apply? (Morgan Page) |
| 11:00 | Science Discussion: How can progress best be made in understanding the predictability of earthquake ruptures? (Moderator: Ned Field | Reporter: Jeanne Hardebeck) |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 | SCEC Advisory Council Meeting, Executive Session (Working Lunch) |
| 14:00-15:30 | Poster Session IV (Group 2 Posters) |
| 15:30 | Plenary Talk: Seismic tomography and imaging of the southern California crust (Carl Tape) |
| 16:00 | Science Discussion: What innovations in theoretical and numerical modeling are needed to understand fault-system dynamics, forecast earthquake occurrence, and predict earthquake effects? (Moderator: Brad Aagaard | Reporter: Thorsten Becker) |
| 17:30 | 2010 Science Collaboration and Planning |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| 20:00 | Poster Session V (Group 2 Posters) |
| 20:00 | SCEC Advisory Council Meeting (Executive Session) |
Wednesday, September 16th |
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| 07:00-08:00 | Remove posters |
| 07:00-08:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 08:00 | Plenary Talk: Long- and short-term operational earthquake forecasting in Italy: the case of the April 6, 2009, L'Aquila earthquake (Warner Marzocchi) |
| 08:30 | Science Discussion: How should SCEC participate in national and international partnerships to promote earthquake system science? (Moderator: Rowena Lohman | Reporter: John Shaw) |
| 10:00 | Report from the Advisory Council (Mary Lou Zoback) |
| 10:30-12:00 | SCEC4 Planning and Wrap-Up Session (including reports from Session Themes Discussion, input from the SCEC Board Committee on Fundamental Problems in Earthquake Science, and forward planning for SCEC4 Proposal) |
| 12:00-14:00 | SCEC Board Meeting (Working Lunch) |
| 12:00-14:00 | SCEC Planning Committee Meeting (Working Lunch) |
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. The breadth of SCEC research and activities can best be seen in the meeting presentations, which include 286 posters and 7 invited talks. 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 2009:
