CORSSA: The Community Online Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis
Date: 01/05/2011
Forwarded announcement from Jeremy Zechar, ETH Zurich:
Dear colleagues,
We would like to bring to your attention a new educational resource in statistical seismology-- CORSSA: The Community Online Resource for Statistical Seismicity Analysis
The goal of CORSSA is to promote excellence in statistical seismology by providing the knowledge and resources necessary to understand and implement the best practices, so that the reader can apply these methods to their own research.
CORSSA covers a wide variety of themes:
* Introductory Material
* Introduction to Basic Features of Seismicity
* Basic Features of Statistics Applicable to Seismicity
* Understanding Seismicity Catalogs and Their Features
* Basic Techniques for Analyzing and Modeling Seismicity
* Methods for Testing Earthquake Predictability and Other Hypotheses
* Data Standards
Each of these themes includes a series of articles.
CORSSA is an open community of authors and readers. It is a community of authors because it requires many people to cover the breadth of expertise necessary to authoritatively address these complex problems. Authority in science stems from authors with known expertise and from implementing a peer review system for CORSSA articles. Thus, identified experts write articles for CORSSA, these articles are peer reviewed and eventually are approved or rejected by an editorial board. CORSSA expands this community through an online forum that allows readers and authors to discuss the articles and issues. These comments will be used to improve the articles.
CORSSA is an educational resource and will contain only methods that have already been published in established peer-reviewed journals. CORSSA will not contain new scientific results. Such advances should be published through the traditional scientific journals before being included in CORSSA.
CORSSA is a living online resource so that it is open-access, in order to take advantage of new publishing approaches that are not possible on the printed page, to develop a dialogue throughout the CORSSA community by including forums in the resource, so that it can go online when the first sections are completed, and so that it can be frequently expanded and updated.
We are inviting you to visit the CORSSA web resource, to use it for your own eduction and the education of students working with you. We also would specifically like to ask you to become a part of the CORSSA community and contribute to the CORSSA development through articles and forum contributions. Please contact us with feedback, ideas and suggestions on how to advance CORSSA. Sincerely,
The CORSSA executive committee ( http://www.corssa.org/about/excomm )
