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