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ICS 2004-2005 Annual ReportDoug Burbank, Director
Natural Hazards Ongoing major projects Education: Outreach &
animations Global project base Researchers become
professors External funding
Sumatra M9.0 earthquake, 26 Dec
Sumatra M9.0 earthquake, 26 Dec
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
Next generation of Earthquake Engineering research facilities
Now operational: UCSB NEES permanently instrumented field sites for monitoring ground motion, ground failure, liquefaction, and soil-structure-interaction
NSF funding to ICS ~$450K/year (2004-NSF funding to ICS ~$450K/year (2004-20142014))
Total: $5.8MTotal: $5.8M
The good news:
Ralph Archuleta: Deputy Director of SCEC
Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) renewed for 5 more years (2007-2012)
Global outreach
Oneworld Project: connecting Goleta and Nepali schools
Geotimes November 2004: Beth and Oneworld School Project
Under the guidance of Tanya Atwater
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ICS Research: 99 projects around the globe!
ICS projects
43 new projects in 2004-05
The good news:
New Assistant Professor in Seismology arrives: Chen Ji
New Assistant Research Scientists arrive:
Bookhagen: PotsdamHourigan: YaleDykstra: UCSB
New ICS/SCEC postdocs arrive:
Assimaki: MIT
TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (NASA)
The good news:
New space allocation:~500 asf in Girvetz adjacent to existing ICS
spaceNew nees@UCSB Center established in this
space
Building computer infrastructure:32-node, 64-CPU cluster coming in 2005-06
$15k in upgrading servers, switches, etc
The good news:Three ICS Research Scientists are offered
tenure-track faculty positions at other institutions:
Assistant professors: U. Michigan U. C. Santa Cruz
Full professor: U. Aberdeen
Two other researchers with new positions:Stanford (Fellowship/researcher)Georgia Tech (Assistant Professor)
[last year: new profs at UNC, Montana, SDSU]
Major needs: Rebuild base of researchers
Respond to changed funding environment
Support for ICS administration, particularly CNT
Onward and upward!
ICS gnome
Rising tide
of need
Arnold’s hard rock
budget
What, me worry?
Like last year
• Undergraduate research (REUs) brings UCSB students to Nepal, New Zealand, and Antarctica
• Educational grants for mining data bases and animations
• Filmmaking
NOVA: Nepal
IMAX: Antarctica