Welcome to 4th Annual Meeting of the NEES Collaboratory Broadening Participation Throughout NEES

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Welcome to 4th Annual Meeting of the NEES
Collaboratory Broadening Participation
Throughout NEES

• Bruce Kutter, UC Davis
• Conference Steering Committee,
• NEES BOD

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4th Annual Meeting

• Issue Forums
• NEESit
• NEESR projects
• Advanced Tools Sessions
• Hybrid Simulation
• Sensors and Instrumentation
• Numerical Simulations
• NEES/UCSD Blind Prediction
• Broadening Participation
• International and Domestic

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Dr. Joseph Bordogna (2004)then Deputy Director,
NSF

• NEES, is a 21st Century model of
  collaboration, integration, and innovation. It is
  a distributed, virtual laboratory for earthquake
  experimentation and simulation. Researchers will
  share and remotely operate equipment at more than
  twenty facilities, from shake tables and a
  tsunami wave basin to field stations.
• http//www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/bordogna/04/jb040
  329_mit.jsp

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Bordogna (2004) (2)

• Using NEESgrid -- a high-performance Internet
  network -- researchers and students will have a
  powerful collaborative space for modeling and
  simulation to study how building design, advanced
  materials and other measures can minimize
  earthquake damage and loss of life.
• These new distributed tools are also a way to
  broaden and deepen educational reach -- to
  underserved populations in our own nation and
  internationally...

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Bordogna (2004) (3)

• We are only at the beginning of this great
  revolution. We know how to share information,
  but we have not yet tapped the full power of
  these technologies by integrating them into a new
  system for research, education, and innovation.
• Italics added

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But the revolution is slow

• We won the first battles got the funding and
  built the equipment, but
• we have not yet changed the way most people do
  research,
• Utility and/or utilization of IT tools have not
  yet lived up to our vision,
• Some, at this meeting, participate because there
  is money - not because of a desire to
  collaborate,
• And, there is not even as much money as we had
  hoped for.

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Stay the Course

• The revolution is difficult because it requires a
  change in culture
• Funding model for facilities and research
• Credit for sharing of facilities and data
• Broadened access to advanced facilities
• If by "Stay the course," they mean that we're
  not learning from our experiences or adjusting
  our tactics to meet the challenges on the ground,
  then they're flat wrong. (GW, November 30, 2005)

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And so, my fellow collaborators, ask not what
NEES can do for you - ask what you can do for
NEES

• Lets work with broadened participation toward
  realization of our visions of NEES.
• I am hopeful that this meeting will mark a new
  phase where meetings are filled with exciting
  research results and IT success stories,
  gradually replacing speeches about visions of
  NEES.

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• I hope you enjoy the meeting!