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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undergraduate students
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
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