Summary

In 2009, the UseIT challenge was focused on delivering earthquake information to the Earthquake Country Alliance, a new statewide organization (originally established by SCEC) which has the responsibility of coordinating the now-yearly "Great California ShakeOut". Videos and animations were developed and adapted to the specific needs of the ECA regional chapters. To ensure that such materials could be made readily available to the public, the UseIT interns developed new web-based capabilities using an open-source content management system (Drupal), which can be flexibly configured and adapted to video-streaming and other multimedia management, as well as social networking and virtual collaboration.

Challenge Statement

Task: Deliver SCEC Virtual Display of Objects (SCEC-VDO) visualizations on the UseIT website
Team: Vanessa Rodriguez, John Montes De Oca, Yongxin Fei

Mentors: Thomas Jordan, Robert de Groot

Task: Develop new tools in SCEC Virtual Display of Objects (SCEC-VDO)

Team: Jordan Brown, Alec Patino, Kaitlin Welch, Elena Boyd, Jason Armstrong

Mentors: Thomas Jordan, Robert de Groot

Task: Deliver images and animations using SCEC Virtual Display of Objects (SCEC-VDO) of faults and earthquake sequences on the UseIT website that captures the metadata and guides the user

Team: Ziran Zhang, Magali Barba, Saul Garcia, Caroline Kim, Hellen Lopez, Brian Oliver, Roque Quiroz

Mentors: Thomas Jordan, Robert de Groot

Task: Deliver a visual of the intern experience

Team: Natalie Ballew, Andrew Whitesides, D'Nita Howard

Mentors: Thomas Jordan, Robert de Groot

Task: Create a Java Applet Shell that would be able to display a SCEC-VDO scene in a window without having to install SCEC-VDO

Team: Ryan Berti

Mentors: Thomas Jordan, Robert de Groot

Task: Created the website (http://www.earthquakecountry.info/EPIcenter/) portal for the Earthquake & Public Information Centers (EPIcenters)

Team: Grace Hwang

Mentors: Thomas Jordan, Robert de Groot