SCEC: 1999 Funded Research Projects

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1999 Funded Research Projects

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Principal Investigator	Project Title	Affiliation	Group
Duncan Agnew/ Hadley Johnson/ Greg Lyzenga/ Rob Reilinger/ Susan Owen	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Collection	UCSD/UCLA/MIT /Harvey Mudd/USC	E
Duncan Agnew/ Hadley Johnson/ Greg Anderson	SCEC Survey-Mode GPS Data Archive
Duncan Agnew/ Zheng-Kang Shen	Improving the SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: GPS Data Processing	UCSD/UCLA/MIT	E
John Anderson/Feng Su/Yuehua Zeng	High Frequency Ground Motion by Regression and Simulation	Nevada, Reno	B
Ralph Archuleta	Portable Broadband Instrumentation	UCSB	I/B
Ralph Archuleta/Alexei Tumarkin	SCEC Strong-Motion Database SMDB and Empirical Green's Functions Library EGFL	UCSB	I/B
Ramon Arrowsmith/ Elizabeth Stone (with Lisa Grant)	Historic and Paleoseismic Behavior of the South-Central San Andreas Fault Between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain	Arizona State/UC Irvine	C
Yehuda Ben Zion	Dynamic Rupture in Heterogeneous Fault Zones	USC	F
Yehuda Ben Zion	High Resolution Imaging of Fault Zone Properties	USC	D
Yehuda Ben Zion	Coupled Self-Organization of Seismicity Patterns and Networks of Faults, and Basis for Evaluating Seismic Risk and Precursors	USC	F
Yehuda Bock et al	SOPAC Infrastructure Support for SCIGN	UCSD	I/E
Jim Brune	Survey for Precarious Rocks on the Foot Wall of Major Earthquakes Involving Thrust Motion	Nevada, Reno	B
Jim Brune/Rasool Anooshehpoor	Toppling Accelerations of Precarious Rocks on a Profile Perpendicular to the San Andreas Fault for Constraining Strong Motion Attenuation Relationships for Great Earthquakes	Nevada, Reno	B
Jim Brune/Yuehua Zeng/John Anderson	Constraints on Source Parameters for Great Earthquakes Provided by Precarious Rocks in the Mojave Desert and San Gabriel Mountains	Nevada, Reno	F
Rob Clayton	Reciprocal Green's Functions	Caltech	B
Rob Clayton	Enhancements to the Southern California 3D Velocity Model	Caltech	D
Rob Clayton/ Katrin Hafner	SCEC Data Center Operations	Caltech	I
Paul Davis	Analysis of Northridge Aftershock Amplitudes and Damage and Santa Monica High Resolution Experiment	UCLA	B
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
Steve Day	Effects of Low Velocity Near-Surface Sediments on Long Period Basin Response	SDSU	B
Steve Day	Three-Dimensional Simulations of Long Period Ground Motion in LA Basin	SDSU	B
Steve Day/Ruth Harris	Dynamic Modeling of Earthquakes on Inhomogeneous Faults	SDSU	F
Jishu Deng/Egill Hauksson	Stress Evolution and Earthquake Triggering in Southern California	Caltech	A
James Dolan	Paleoseismology of the San Andreas Fault at Elizabeth Lake, California	USC	C
James Dolan	Paleoseismologic and Slip Rate Investigation of the Verdugo Fault, Palm Park, Burbank	USC	C
Andrea Donnellan	Response of the Ventura Basin to the Northridge earthquake	JPL	E
Ned Field/James Dolan/Bill Foxall/Dave Jackson/Steve Ward/Jishu Deng/John Anderson/Mark Petersen	Working Group on Southern California Earthquake Potential	USC/LLNL/UCLA/UCSC /Caltech/Nevada, Reno/CDMG	A
Ned Field	Completion of the Phase III Report and Non-Technical Overview	USC	A
Lisa Grant	Holocene Paleoseismology of the San Joaquin Hills, Orange County, California	UC Irvine	C
Lisa Grant (with Ramon Arrowsmith/ Elizabeth Stone)	Historic and Paleoseismic Behavior of the South-Central San Andreas Fault Between Cholame and the Carrizo Plain	Arizona State/UC Irvine	C
Rob Graves/Arben Pitarka	Ground Motion Validation Studies on the SCEC 3D Seismic Velocity Model	Woodward-Clyde	B
Katrin Hafner/John Marquis/Egill Hauksson	SCEC Regional Seismicity Web Module	Caltech	I
Brad Hager/Liz Hearn/Tom Herring/Bob King/Simon McClusky/Rob Reilinger	Estimates of and Continuum Models of Landers Postseismic Motions and Displacements at Convergent and Divergent Block Boundaries (5.1 MB)	MIT	E
Jeanne Hardebeck/Egill Hauksson	Tectonic Stress and Earthquake Hazards	Caltech	A
Egill Hauksson/Julie Nazareth	Thickness of the Seismogenic Crust in Southern California	Caltech	D
Egill Hauksson/ Hiroo Kanamori	Enhancement of TERRAscope	Caltech	I/D
Moritz Heimpel/Leon Knopoff	Model of the Southern California Fault Network	UCLA	F
Don Helmberger	Basin-Edge Structures from Waveform Modeling	Caltech	D
Tom Henyey/Rob Clayton/Paul Davis	1999 LARSE 2 Field Operations	USC/Caltech/UCLA	D
Martha House	Bedrock Uplift of the San Gabriel Mountains: Linking Long-Term Rates to Modern Observations	USC/Caltech/UCLA	C
Gene Humphreys	Southern California Dynamics	Oregon	D
Dave Jackson/Yan Kagan	Seismic Hazard Estimation	UCLA	A
Hadley Johnson	Southern California Strain Field Computed from SCEC Crustal-Motion Map: A Web-Based Application	UCSD	E
Yan Kagan/Dave Jackson/Zhengkang Shen	Stress Modeling	UCLA	A
Monica Kohler	Management of the Los Angeles Region Seismic Experiment II Passive Array, II. Upper Mantle Tomographic Imaging for Mantle Lithospheric Deformation Beneath the Western Transverse Ranges and Incorporation into the SCEC 3D Seismic Velocity Model (5.9 MB)	UCLA	D
Daniel Lavallee/Ralph Archuleta	Modeling of Nonlinear Strong Ground Motion During the 1994 Northridge, Earthquake at the Van Norman Dam Complex	UCSB	B
Yong-Gang Li/John Vidale	3-D Structure of the Landers Rupture Zone from Trapped Waves and Seismic Measurements at the Punchbowl Fault	USC/UCLA	D
Scott Lindvall/ Thomas Rockwell/ Timothy Dawson/ John Helms/ Kristin Weaver	Paleoseismic Study of the San Andreas Fault at Frazier Mountain	William Lettis/ SDSU	C
Peng-cheng Liu/Ralph Archuleta	Source Parameter Inversion Using 3-D Green's Functions	UCSB	B
John Louie/Jim Brune/Rasool Anooshehpoor	Shallow Site Response and Fault-Reflection Recording During LARSE-2	Nevada, Reno	B
Harold Magistrale	Integrating Tomographic and Basin Models for 3-D Velocity Model Version 2	SDSU	D
Harold Magistrale	Geotechnical Constraints for 3-D Velocity Model Version 2	SDSU	D
Harold Magistrale/Steve Day/ Jennifer Lewis	Moho Configuration for 3-D Velocity Model Version 2	SDSU	D
Sally McGill	Paleoseismic Studies of the San Andreas Fault in the San Bernardino Area.	CSU San Bernardino	C
Bernard Minster/ Nadya WIlliams	Intermediate Term Earthquake Prediction Algorithms	UCSD	A
Kim Olsen	Ground Motion Modeling in Los Angeles	UCSB	B
Kim Olsen	3-D Elastic Finite-Difference Simulation of a Dynamic Rupture	UCSB	F
Jim Rice	Elastodynamic Simulations of Rupture Propagation and Earthquake Sequences along Complex Fault Systems	Harvard	F
Jim Rice	New Methodology in Computational Seismology for Dynamic Rupture along Complex Fault Systems	Harvard	F
Mousumi Roy/Rob Clayton	Two and Three-Dimensional Modeling of Gravity, Topography, and Seismic Data in the Los Angeles Region	New Mexico/Caltech	D
Charlie Rubin	1) Variations of Fault Slip Per Event on the Carrizo Segment, San Andreas Fault 2)Site Reconnaissance for Paleoseismic Studies along the Sierra Madre fault from Big Tujunga to San Antonio Canyon 3) Hydraulic Trench Shoring for Paleoseismic Studies in Southern California	Central Washington	C
John Rundle	Pilot Program for the GEM Project	Colorado	A
Charlie Sammis	Fault-Zone Physics	USC	F
Nano Seeber/John Armbruster	Earthquakes, Faults and Stress in Southern California	Columbia	A
John Shaw	Seismic Reflection Transect and Geologic Cross Section Across the Central Los Angeles Basin and San Pedro Bay	Harvard	D
John Shaw/ Peter Suess	Velocity Structure of the Los Angeles/San Fernando Basins from Sonic Logs and Stacking Velocities	Harvard	D
Peter Shearer/ Keith Richards-Dinger	Precision Relocation of Los Angeles Region Seismicity	UCSD	D
Kerry Sieh/Egill Hauksson	Characterization of Active Faults in East Los Angeles and Relationship of Aftershocks to Mainshock Rupture of the Landers Earthquake	Caltech	D
Kerry Sieh/Doug Yule	Neotectonic and Paleoseismic Investigation of the San Andreas Fault System, San Gorgonio Pass (3.3 MB)	Caltech	C
Walt Silva	Geotechnical Constraints for 3-D Velocity Model Version 2	Pacific Engr.	D
Chris Sorlien	Rapid Subsidence and South Propagation of the Active Santa Monica Mountains-Channel Islands Thrust	UCSB	C
Jamie Steidl	Application of Site Characterization Studies to Ground Motion Prediction: Uphole/Downhole Modeling at the Van Norman Dam Complex	UCSB	B
Jamie Steidl/Ralph Archuleta	Workshop - Borehole Data Utilization and Blind Prediction Test	UCSB	W
Jamie Steidl/Ralph Archuleta	Borehole Instrumentation Initiative	UCSB	I/B
Ross Stein	SCEC Stress-Triggering and Deformation Software Training Workshop	USGS	W
Lynn Sykes	Development of a Physical Model of Stresses in Southern California	Columbia	A
Alexei Tumarkin/Ralph Archuleta	Integrated Approach to Time Histories Prediction	UCSB	B
Jan Vermilye	Pressure solution deformation associated with faulting in southern California: Implications for the physics of fault slip and seismic hazard assessment	Whittier College/ Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory	F
Mladen Vucetic	Dynamic and Cyclic Soil Properties Required for Evaluation of Non-Linear Site Response	UCLA	D
Steve Ward	Research Toward the Master Model/ Seismicity Simulations: Northern California	UCSC	A
Steve Wesnousky	Seismicity, Fault Evolution, and Growth of Fault Networks	Nevada, Reno	A
Frank Wyatt/Duncan Agnew	Pinon Flat Observatory: Continuous Monitoring of Crustal Deformation	UCSD	I/E
Bob Yeats	Subsurface Synthesis of Northern Los Angeles from the Wilshire Arch to the Whittier Fault/ An Undergraduate Course in Earthquake for Non-Majors:Text, Fig. 1, Fig. 2(5.4MB), Fig. 3, Fig. 4(3.2MB), Fig. 5	Oregon State	C
Yuehua Zeng/John Anderson	Simulation of Ground Motion in the Los Angeles Basin	Nevada, Reno	B
Lupei Zhu	1. The 1994 Northridge earthquake aftershocks study 2. 3DMoho depth variation in southern California 3. High resolution crustal structure imaging of SAF	USC	D

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