ICS 2003-2004 Annual ReportDoug Burbank, Director

NEES initiative Educational projects: Computer

animations Global project base Researchers become

professors External funding

NSF’s George E. Brown Jr., Network for Earthquake

Engineering Simulation (NEES) Next generation of Earthquake Engineering

research facilities UCSB NEES Award ($1.2M in 2002) to build two

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

Garner Valley NEES focus: Soil-Structure-Interaction

experimental structure

Remote control of shakers and data acquisition systems coupled with streaming data will provide a unique research and educational facility for the earthquake engineering community

NEES Dedication: Summer, 2004

Speculated cause of Permo-Triassic extinction event

Big Splash: Possible impact crater at Bedout

QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Atwater animations: Collision of India with southern Asia

Atwater animations: Collision of India with southern Asia

QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Atwater animations: Ice-sheet growth and sea-level change

QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Atwater animations: Ice-sheet growth and sea-level change

QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

• 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

Featuring ICSresearchprojects

Office of Research

brochures on undergraduate

research opportunities

at UCSB

2002

2003

Featuring ICSresearchprojects

Office of Research

brochures on undergraduate

research opportunities

at UCSB

2004

2003

ICS Research: 129 projects around the globe!

ICS projects

New sites in 2003-04

The good news:Four ICS Research Scientists are offered

tenure-track faculty positions at other institutions:

Assistant professors: U. North Carolina U. Montana

Associate professor: San Diego State U.Full professor: U. Aberdeen

Two other researchers depart:CaltechN. Carolina State U.

The bad news:These researchers left with >$1.2 M in new

external funding

New funds transferred to other institutions

ICS gnome

Rising tide

of need

Arnold’s hard rock

budget

What, me worry?

Like last year