2000 Funded Research Projects

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(Listed By Working Group, A-F. I=Infrastructure)

Principal Investigator	Project Title	Affiliation	Group
Ned Field	Working group on Southern California earthquake potential	USC	A
Bill Foxall	Working group on Southern California earthquake potential	LLNL	A
Dave Jackson/Zhen-Kang Shen/Yan Kagan	Working group on Southern California earthquake potential	UCLA	A
Steve Ward	Working group on Southern California earthquake potential	UCSC	A
Ned Field	Phase III report & SCEC-RELM	USC	A
Egill Hauksson/Jeanne Hardebeck	Tectonic stress and earthquake hazards	Caltech	A
David Jackson	Seismic hazard estimation	UCLA	A
Yan Kagan	Stress modeling	UCLA	A
Bernard Minster	Assessment of intermediate-term earthquake prediction algorithms	UCSD	A
Nano Seeber	Earthquakes, Faults and Stress in Southern California	Columbia	A
Lynn Sykes	Development of a physical model of stress evolution for Southern California and preparation of legacy document	Columbia	A
Steve Wesnousky	Crustal deformation processes, Seismicity, and the Gutenberg-Richter distribution	UNR	A
Max Wyss	The relationship between local fractal dimensions and b-value anomalies	Univ. of Alaska	A
John Anderson	High frequency ground motion by regression and simulation	UNR	B
Ralph Archuleta	Validation and verification of 3-D wave propagation and kinematic source representation	UCSB	B
Jim Brune	Toppling accelerations of precarious rocks for constraining strong motion attenuation relationships for great earthquakes	UNR	B
Rob Clayton	Reciprocal Green's Functions	Caltech	B
Paul Davis	Analysis of Northridge aftershocks amplitude and damage, and Santa Monica high resolution experiment	UCLA	B
Steve Day	Three-dimensional simulation of long period ground motion in L.A. Basin	SDSU	B
Robert Graves	Verification and validation studies for computing 3D ground motions	URS Group Inc.	B
Donald Helmberger	Basin-edge structures from waveform modeling	Caltech	B
Daniel Lavallee	Modeling of nonlinearity in strong ground motion during the 1994 Northridge earthquake	UCSB	B
Peng-Cheng Liu	Source parameter inversion using 3-D Green's functions	UCSB	B
John Louie	Analysis of shallow site response to LARSE-2 blasts at precarious rock sites near the San Andreas fault	UNR	B
Kim Olsen	Ground motion modeling in Los Angeles	UCSB	B
Jamie Steidl	SCEC Borehole instrumentation initiative: A SCEC science and infrastructure legacy SCEC/ROSRINE Workshop on Borehole Array Data Utilization	UCSB	B
Jamie Steidl	The Hector Mines portable deployment data processing	UCSB	B
Yuehua Zeng	Simulation of ground motion in the Los Angeles basin	UNR	B
Ramon Arrowsmith	Historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas fault between Cholame and the Carrizo plain	ASU	C
Marc Caffee	Paleoseismic assessment of faulting in the eastern California shear zone: A study using cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating	LLNL	C
Jim Dolan	3-D trench study of the slip rate of the Raymond fault, San Gabriel Valley	USC	C
Jim Dolan	Event ages and slip/event from the easternmost Sierra Madre Fault, San Dimas, California	USC	C
Lisa Grant	Historic and paleoseismic behavior of the south-central San Andreas fault between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain	UC-Irvine	C
Lisa Grant	Neotectonics and holocene paleoseismology of the San Joaquin Hills, Orange County, California	UC-Irvine	C
Scott Lindvall	Collaborative paleoseismologic studies along the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake surface rupture and adjacent faults and a field test for paleoseismic methods	William Lettis & Assoc.	C
Sally McGill	Paleoseismic studies of the San Andreas fault near San Bernardino	CSSBU	C
Tom Rockwell	Collaborative paleoseismologic studies along the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake surface rupture and adjacent faults and a field test for paleoseismic methods	SDSU	C
Charles Rubin	Collaborative paleoseismologic studies along the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake surface rupture and adjacent faults and a field test for paleoseismic methods	CWU	C
Charles Rubin	Two reports in one PDF file: Variations of fault slip per event on the Carrizo Segment, San Andreas fault: Is the repetition of fault slip characteristic through time? and Hydraulic trench shoring for paleoseismic studies in Southern California	CWU	C
Gordon Seitz	Refinement of the Pitman Canyon paleoseismic record: cross-site stratigraphic correlation and unfolding of events 4 through 6	LLNL	C
John Shaw	Seismic reflection transect and 3-D structural model of blind-thrust systems in the Los Angeles basin	Harvard	C
Kerry Sieh	Publication costs for papers on the Elysian Park fault and the Landers earthquake	Caltech	C
Kerry Sieh	Neotectonic and paleoseismic investigation of the San Andreas fault system, San Gorgonio pass	Caltech	C
Jan Vermilye	Evaluation of pressure solution deformation associated with faulting in Southern California: Implications for the physics of fault slip and seismic hazard assessment	Whittier	C
Chris Walls	Dating the most recent event on the Chino fault	ECI	C
Ray Weldon	Dating the past 12 earthquakes on the Southern San Andreas fault at the Wrightwood, CA paleosiesmic site	Oregon	C
Robert Yeats	Northern Los Angeles Basin: Synthesis of Subsurface data in relation to identification of earthquake sources	Oregon State	C
Doug Yule	Neotectonic and paleoseismic investigation of the San Andreas fault system, San Gorgonio pass	CSUN	C
Rob Clayton	Development of Version 2 of the 3-D velocity model	Caltech	D
Rob Clayton	Analysis of the Mid and lower crust from the LARSE II data	Caltech	D
Tom Henyey/Rob Clayton/David Okaya	LARSE II	USC	D
Paul Davis	Management of LARSE II (UCLA) stress modeling and data analysis	UCLA	D
Paul Davis	LARSE II: High resolution Santa Monica experiment	UCLA	D
Egill Hauksson	3-D Velocity models, focal mechanisms, and maximum depth of seismicity	Caltech	D
Eugene Humphreys	Southern California dynamics	Oregon	D
Marc Kamerling	Extension of three dimensional velocity model into Santa Barbara basin, western transverse ranges	UCSB	D
Monica Kohler	Analysis of Los Angeles region seismic experiment (LARSE) II teleseismic data for 3-D lithospheric structures in the western Transverse Ranges, San Fernando Valley, and Santa Clarita Valley	UCLA	D
Yong-Gang Li/John Vidale	A Systematic analysis of trapped wave data recorded at the Hector Mine rupture zone, and a continued study of Punchbowl fault process zone	USC	D
Harold Magistrale	Factors influencing the maximum depth of earthquakes	SDSU	D
Harold Magistrale	Geotechnical constraints for the 3-D seismic velocity model	SDSU	D
Harold Magistrale	Maintenance on the 3-D seismic velocity seismic model	SDSU	D
David Okaya	Crustal and basin setting of the Northridge Earthquake from analysis of the LARSE II Transect and industry data	USC	D
Kim Olsen	Test of SCEC velocity model	UCSB	D
Mousumi Roy	Constraints on the SCEC 3D velocity model from gravity data	New Mexico	D
John Shaw	Velocity and density structure of the Los Angeles basin from borehole logs and industry seismic reflection data	Harvard	D
Walter Silva	Geotechnical constraints for the 3-D seismic velocity model	Pacific Engineering Analysis	D
Gerry Simila	Los Angeles regional seismic experiment (LARSE) Phase II: Auxiliary lines investigation of the shallow crustal structure of the San Fernando valley	CSUN	D
Lupei Zhu	Image crustal structure across the San Andreas fault using the LARSE II data	USC	D
Duncan Agnew/Hadley Johnson	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Archiving	UCSD	E
Duncan Agnew	Modeling Postseismic Deformation from the Hector EQ: Comparing GPS and Long-Base Strain	UCSD	E
Duncan Agnew	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Processing	UCSD	E
Zhen-Kang Shen	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Processing	UCLA	E
Rob King/Tom Herring	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Processing	MIT	E
Duncan Agnew	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Collection	UCSD	E
Susan Owen	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Collection	USC	E
Zhen-Kang Shen	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Collection	UCLA	E
Roland Burgmann and Evelyn Price	Coseismic static stress and fault interactions the 1992 Landers and 1999 Hector Mine earthquakes from InSAR, GPS, and elastic half-space modeling	UC-Berkeley	E
Michele Cooke	Comparing mechanical and geodetic models of Los Angeles basin faults	Mass/Amherst	E
Andrea Donnellan	Response of the Ventura basin to the Northridge Earthquake	JPL	E
Brad Hager	Estimates of and Continuum Models of Landers Postseismic Motions and Displacements at Convergent and Divergent Block Boundaries	MIT	E
Susan Owen	Comparing mechanical and geodetic models of Los Angeles basin faults	USC	E
David Sandwell	Near-Real-Time Interferometry of Southern California	UCSD	E
Zhen-Kang Shen	Strain rate modeling	UCLA	E
Mark Simons	Constraints on crustal rheology and 3-D fault geometry from co-seismic and post-seismic deformation associated with the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake	Caltech	E
Yehuda Ben-Zion	Dynamic rupture in heterogeneous fault zone	USC	F
Yehuda Ben-Zion	Coupled self-organization of seismicity patterns and networks of faults, and basis for evaluating seismic risk and precursors	USC	F
Steve Day	Near-Fault ground motion from dynamic simulations	SDSU	F
Steve Day	Dynamic modeling of earthquake on inhomogeneous faults	SDSU	F
Hiroo Kanamori	Dynamic triggering of earthquakes	Caltech	F
Kim Olsen	3-D Elastic finite-difference simulation of a dynamic rupture	UCSB	F
Jim Rice	Spectral elastodynamic simulations of complex rupture phenomena and slip histories on planar faults	Harvard	F
Jim Rice	Faulting with dynamically self-chosen rupture paths and non-planarity in complex fault systems	Harvard	F
Charlie Sammis	Fault-Zone physics and mapping accelerated seismic moment release	USC	F
Ralph Archuleta	SCEC Strong-motion database SMDB	UCSB	I
Ralph Archuleta	Portable broadband instrumentation	UCSB	I
Yehuda Bock	Infrastructure Support for SCIGN	UCSD	I
Rob Clayton and Katrin Hafner	SCEC Data Center operations	Caltech	I
Hiroo Kanamori/Egill Hauksson	Enhancement of TERRAscope	Caltech	I
Bernard Minster	SCEC science director report	UCSD	I
Kerry Sieh	Interpretive trail along the San Andreas Fault at Wallace Creek	Caltech	I
Frank Wyatt/Duncan Agnew	Pinon Flat Observatory: Continuous Monitoring of Crustal Deformation	UCSD	I

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