ICS 2007-2008 Annual Report

Doug Burbank, DirectorBradley Hacker, Acting Director

ICS statistics

Centers

Personnel

New infrastructure

Research

ICS Overview

Goals foster interdisciplinary research that

broadens understanding of physical, chemical & biological processes of Earth

including interactions among solid Earth, hydrosphere, atmosphere, & biosphere that shape & impact life

Sichuan, M7.9 EQ, May 12, 2008

>67,000 deaths

Natural Disasters

Mud volcano Sidoarjo, Java

May 2006

covers 7 km2 to depth of 20 m

now subsiding @ 3 m/day; expected subsidence: 140 m

Natural Disasters

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graduate students

– Tanya Atwater (NAS, tectonics)– Jim Boles (hydrocarbons)

+ Bodo Bookhagen (landscape evolution), former ICS postdoc, to Geography+ John Cottle (tectonics & mass spectrometry) to Earth Science

± Bradley Hacker

Personnel Changes

Research Highlights

Geochronology

Mineral Physics

Earthquakes

Volcanoes

Tectonics

Unprecedented Precision with U–Pb Zircon Dissolution

Geochronology

Jim Mattinson

World Leaders in Lu/Hf Geochronology

Andrew Kylander-Clark

High Spatial Precision Laser Ablation U–Pb Geochronology

100 m100 m

Andrew Kylander-Clark

Molecular Dynamics Simulations Show Core–Mantle Boundary Caused by Perovskite

Breakdown

Frank Spera

Subduction-Zone Seismicity Caused by Dehydration

Models of Magma Genesis Now Work

Pliocene Plate Motion

Rifting Exhuming the Youngest Ultrahigh-Pressure Rocks

Velocity Anisotropy Caused by Aligned Minerals

Predicted Ground Motion in So Cal

Toshiro Tanimoto

microns

Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) Data Center

Southern California Earthquake Center’s (SCEC) Portable Broadband Instrument Center

Network for Earthquake Engineering’s (NEES)Garner Valley site

Wildlife Liquefaction Array site

Borrego Valley Downhole Array

Hollister Earthquake Observatory

web search engine for worldwide earthquake strong-motion data

Seismology Facilities

cosmogenic radionuclide processing

major electron probe upgrade

field-emission SEM with electron diffractometer

femtosecond laser coupled to twin ICP (single collector + multicollector) mass spectrometers

New Analytical Facilities