Mexico, Rob Clayton

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Tectonics Observatory2005- Annual Meeting
November 8

• 830-1030
• Mexico, Rob Clayton
• Sumatra, Kerry Sieh
• Taiwan, Jean-Philippe Avouac
• Western US, Mike Gurnis
• Alaska,  Kerry Sieh
• Large earthquakes, Jeroen Tromp, Don Helmberger
• Subduction processes, Japan, Mark Simons
• Iran, Brian Wernicke
• 1030- Discussion, tea and lunch around the
  posters for whole day

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Tectonics Observatory2005- Annual Meeting
November 9

• 900-1200 Round Table Discussion. Salvatory
• 100-400 Debriefing TO-faculty. Buwalda.

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The Caltech Tectonics Observatory

• Take advantage of recent technological advances
  in Earth Sciences to gain some better
  understanding of the dynamics of the lithosphere
  that will renew/encompass current paradigms
  (Plate Tectonics, Elastic rebound model of the EQ
  cycle)

? 15 Faculty involved ? 11 students and 5 postdocs
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• Stimulate cross-fertilization among the various
  earth science disciplines in the Division.
• Develop the use of most recent techniques for
  tectonic studies (CGPS, satellite imagery,
  thermochronology, seismic imaging, isotopic
  geochemistry )
• Take advantage of new computational techniques
  and recent hardware advances.

We intend to create an stimulating
multidisciplinary environment to breed a new
generation of earth scientists who will conceive
the future theory and models of the earth dynamics
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Implementation Strategies

• Focus Areas
• Targeted field efforts in key areas
• Data from existing and planned national networks
  (U.S., Japan, and Taiwan)
• Analysis Center
• Computational
• Geochemical
• Geological Geophysical
• (field obs. remote sensing)

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People-Organization

• Steering committee R. Clayton, J. Eiler, M.
  Gurnis, K. Sieh, M. Simons, B. Wernicke, J.P
  Avouac
• 15 Faculty, 5 Postdoc, 11 Grad Students.
• Visiting faculty and students.
• TO Office manager Heather Steele
• Administrative assistant Sheryl Garcia
• GIS lab Joanne Giberson
• Computation M. Turner, David Kewley
• GPS John Galetzka, X X
• Imagery F. Ayoub

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Infrastructure

• GIS facilities
• Beowulf
• Deployment of CGPS networks Sumatra, Nepal,
  Taiwan, Chili, Western US
• Geochemistry Mass Spectrometers for Stable
  Istopes and He
• Seismology 50 Broadband seismometers for
  temporary deployement, Permanent array in Sumatra
  

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GIS Laboratory 309 N. Mudd

• GIS Software
• ArcGIS ArcInfo, ArcEditor, ArcView
  http//www.esri.com
• Image Processing Software
• ERDAS Imagine http//gis.leica-geosystems.com/
• RSI ENVI/IDL http//www.rsinc.com/
• Data Sets
• California Data SPOT Images (10m), ASTER L1B,
  Geology, So. Cal Faults (detailed)
• U.S. Data DEM NED (10m-30m), 124K Topo Maps,
  ESRI United States data set
• (States, Counties, Cities, Zip
  Codes, Lakes, Rivers, Roads, etc)
• World Data ETOPO, GTOPO, SRTM (90 meter), ESRI
  World data sets (Countries,
• Cities, Roads, Rivers,
  Faults, etc)
• Computers Hardware
• 8 Dell Workstations DVD-ROM, CD-RW, 1-2 GB RAM,
  SCSI Hard drives, 64MB
  128MB Video cards, and Gb NIC.
• HP 5500 Large Format Poster Printer Wasatch
  SoftRIP software for fast printing.
• External CD/DVD Burner, 300GB External hard
  drive, 512MB USB memory key.

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GPS Division Resources

• Library
• HP815mfp 42 Large format scanner and printer
  located in the Library map room. Contact Jim
  ODonnell for more information.
• Division Field Equipment
• 8 Laptops Windows XP with all available GIS,
  image processing, and support software.
• 8 GPS receivers 7 Garmin ETrex 1 Garmin 3
• Linksys Wireles Router

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Regional Targets
Japan
Arabia and Indo-Asia collision zone
Taiwan
Sumatra
Western North America
Middle America
Peru-Chile America