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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 2003 SCEC Annual Meeting was held on September 7-10 at the Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach in Oxnard, California, site of the previous three SCEC annual meetings.

The meeting was organized by the SCEC Planning Committee, chaired by Tom Henyey. There were poster presentations with abstracts due no later than August 20. In addition to the normal work of planning future activities, we 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. Following the meeting, there was a FARM workshop, being organized by Terry Tullis and Ruth Harris.

There was an informal field trip on Sunday, September 7 led by Ed Keller and Larry Gurrola. Participants met at the hotel for a noon departure. A short description of the trip is available.

2003 SCEC Annual Meeting

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 2003: