My primary activities in 1997 were writing proposals, planning meetings,
traveling, and making presentations.
With help from Tom Henyey and many SCEC participants, I took primary responsibility for the progress reports and proposals to NSF and USGS for 1997 funding. I organized the Breckenridge Retreat and SCEC Steering Committee meetings to discuss plans for a new Science and Technology Center to succeed SCEC. I wrote the 1998 Request for Proposals to reflect the new SCEC scientific priorities.
I traveled extensively to present the SCEC Science Plan to the world, and to agencies with whom we deal. I made presentations to the NAS/NRC Panel on Science of Earthquakes, U.C. Berkeley, AGU Baltimore, AGU San Francisco, Seismological Society of America, IRIS, IASPEI (Thessaloniki, Greece), US/Japan Natural Resources Council on Earthquake Science, National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (Buffalo), California Department of Transportation, Pacific Gas and Electric, and at the SCEC Annual Meeting in Costa Mesa. At the Baltimore AGU meeting I organized a special session on Scientific Issues in Natural Hazard Mitigation. I made visits to George Lee at NCEER, Barbara Romanowicz of U.C. Berkeley, Richard Krimm of FEMA, Jack Moehle at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center (Berkeley), and many others. I went to many workshops organized by SCEC to reach out to the user community, including several joint workshops between SCEC, the City of Los Angeles, and the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California.
I served as the primary contact with the Advisory Council, setting priorities for meetings of the Council and preparing written and oral responses to two Council reports.