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 2014 SCEC Annual Meeting will be the third meeting of the SCEC4 Collaboration "Tracking Earthquake Cascades." The SCEC Science Planning Committee has designed the program to assess the progress towards goals set forth in the SCEC4 proposal and to prepare for the SCEC5 proposal. The meeting sessions comprise a series of thematic discussions to engage the SCEC community in the formulation of goals for SCEC5. Each theme discussion will kick off with a plenary talk, followed by brief reports by SCEC leadership outlining possible directions for SCEC5. The SCEC community will be able to provide input and guidance on those potential directions in the discussion following each report.
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| Saturday, September 6, 2014 | Tuesday, September 9, 2014 | ||
| 10:00 – 18:00 | Group Meeting: SCEC Community Geodetic Model | 07:00 – 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 10:00 – 18:00 | Group Meeting: SCEC Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability | 08:00 – 10:00 | How can the hazard from simulated earthquakes effectively reduce risk in the real world? Can We Rely on Linear Elasticity to Predict Long-Period Ground Motions?, Daniel Roten Theme: Ground Motion Simulations, Kim Olsen Theme: Infrastructure System Risk, Jack Baker |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Workshop: SCEC San Gorgonio Pass Special Fault Study Area (by application) | ||
| Sunday, September 7, 2014 | 10:30 – 12:30 | What aspects of earthquake behavior are predictable? Waste water injection induced seismicity in naturally-active, seismogenic regions in central California, Thomas Goebel Theme: "Atectonic" or Triggered Seismicity, Emily Brodsky Theme: Science of Operational Earthquake Forecasting, Ned Field |
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| 09:00 – 17:00 | Group Meeting: SCEC Source Inversion Validation | ||
| 09:00 – 17:00 | Workshop: SCEC Earthquake Ground Motion Simulation and Validation | ||
| 09:00 – 17:00 | Workshop: SCEC Post-Earthquake Rapid Scientific Response | 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Welcome Social | 14:00 – 16:00 | Here it comes! What just happened? How can SCEC better prepare to respond to future earthquakes? Differential LiDAR - a new tool for mapping coseismic fault-zone deformation, Ed Nissen Theme: Earthquake Early Warning Research, Elizabeth Cochran Theme: Post-Earthquake Rapid Response, Mike Oskin |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | SCEC Distinguished Speaker: Norm Abrahamson on Reducing Epistemic Uncertainty in Seismic Risk Estimation |
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| 19:00 – 21:00 | Welcome Dinner | ||
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Leadership Meeting: SCEC Advisory Council (members only) | 16:00 – 17:30 | Poster Session |
| 21:00 – 22:30 | Poster Session | 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner |
| Monday, September 8, 2014 | 21:00 – 22:30 | Poster Session | |
| 07:00 – 08:00 | Breakfast | Wednesday, September 10, 2014 | |
| 08:00 – 11:00 | The State of SCEC Welcome and State of the Center, Tom Jordan Remarks from NSF, Greg Anderson Remarks from USGS, Bill Leith Communication, Education, and Outreach, Mark Benthien SCEC Science Accomplishments, Greg Beroza |
07:00 – 08:00 | Breakfast |
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Report from the Advisory Council, Gail Atkinson | ||
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Briefing on the M6.0 South Napa Earthquake, Ben Brooks | 08:30 – 10:00 | How can we communicate more effectively what we know and what we don't? The IDEA Model: A Practical Tool for Designing Effective Early Earthquake Warning Messages, Deanna Sellnow, Tim Sellnow Theme: Risk Communication and New Technologies, Dave Wald |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Looking Forward to SCEC5, Tom Jordan | ||
| 11:00 – 12:30 | How do we deal with known unknowns and unknown unknowns? Reducing variability in earthquake stress drops to define secondary trends, Annemarie Baltay Theme: Reducing Epistemic Uncertainty, Glenn Biasi, Tom Herring |
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| 10:30 – 12:30 | The Future of SCEC This Next Year: 2015 SCEC Science Collaboration, Greg Beroza Defining SCEC5 Priorities, Tom Jordan |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | 12:30 | 2014 SCEC Annual Meeting Adjourns |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | What properties of the Earth and the faults within it are important for understanding system behavior? Beyond Elasticity: New Directions in Earthquake Modeling, Eric Dunham Theme: Beyond Elasticity, Yuri Fialko Theme: Simulating Earthquake Processes, Nadia Lapusta |
12:30 – 14:30 | Leadership Meeting: SCEC Science Planning Committee (members only) |
| 12:30 – 14:30 | Leadership Meeting: SCEC Board of Directors (members only) | ||
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19:00 – 21:00 21:00– 22:30 |
Poster Session
SCEC Honors Banquet |
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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. In 2014, over 550 people pre-registered and 286 poster abstracts were submitted. Pre-registrants include more than 155 first-time attendees. We welcomed many new scientists and proto-scientists, including almost 200 undergraduate and graduate students. The following people attended in 2014:
