ICS 20072008 Annual Report Doug Burbank, Director Bradley Hacker, Acting Director

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ICS 2007-2008 Annual ReportDoug Burbank,
DirectorBradley Hacker, Acting Director

• ICS statistics
• Centers
• Personnel
• New infrastructure
• Research

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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

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Natural Disasters
Sichuan, M7.9 EQ, May 12, 2008 gt67,000 deaths
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Natural Disasters
Mud volcano Sidoarjo, Java May 2006 covers 7 km2
to depth of 20 m now subsiding _at_ 3 m/day
expected subsidence 140 m
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Requests Up in Spite of Decreasing No. of
Researchers
funding requests
faculty
30
20
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professional researchers
0
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Steady Success Rate
funds granted
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Increasing Number of Awards
90/year
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Increasing Value of New Awards
3M/year
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Increasing Value of Administered Awards
12M/year
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Long-Term Increase in Student Participation
undergraduate students
graduate students
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Personnel Changes
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
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Research Highlights

• Geochronology
• Mineral Physics
• Earthquakes
• Volcanoes
• Tectonics

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Unprecedented Precision with UPb Zircon
Dissolution Geochronology
Jim Mattinson
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World Leaders in Lu/Hf Geochronology
Andrew Kylander-Clark
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High Spatial Precision Laser Ablation UPb
Geochronology
Andrew Kylander-Clark
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Molecular Dynamics Simulations Show CoreMantle
Boundary Caused by Perovskite Breakdown
Frank Spera
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Subduction-Zone Seismicity Caused by Dehydration
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Models of Magma Genesis Now Work

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Rifting Exhuming the Youngest Ultrahigh-Pressure
Rocks
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Velocity Anisotropy Caused by Aligned Minerals
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Predicted Ground Motion in So Cal
microns
Toshiro Tanimoto
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Seismology Facilities
Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion
Observation Systems (COSMOS) Data Center
web search engine for worldwide earthquake
strong-motion data
Southern California Earthquake Centers (SCEC)
Portable Broadband Instrument Center
Network for Earthquake Engineerings (NEES)
Garner Valley site
Wildlife Liquefaction Array site
Borrego Valley Downhole Array
Hollister Earthquake Observatory
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New Analytical 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