ICS 2003-2004 Annual Report Doug Burbank, Director

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ICS 2003-2004 Annual ReportDoug Burbank, Director

• NEES initiative
• Educational projects Computer animations
• Global project base
• Researchers become professors
• External funding

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NSFs 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 (2004-2014)
• Total 5.8M

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Garner Valley NEES focus Soil-Structure-Interact
ion 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
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NEES Dedication Summer, 2004
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Big Splash Possible impact crater at Bedout
Speculated cause of Permo-Triassic extinction
event
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Atwater animations Collision of India with
southern Asia
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Atwater animations Collision of India with
southern Asia
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Atwater animations Ice-sheet growth and
sea-level change
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Atwater animations Ice-sheet growth and
sea-level change
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• 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

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Office of Research brochures on undergraduate
research opportunities at UCSB
Featuring ICS research projects
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Office of Research brochures on undergraduate
research opportunities at UCSB
Featuring ICS research projects
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ICS Research 129 projects around the globe!
ICS projects New sites in 2003-04
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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 Caltech N. Carolina State U.
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The bad news These researchers left with gt1.2 M
in new external funding
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ICS gnome
Like last year
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