SCEC Award Number 10188 View PDF
Proposal Category Individual Proposal (Data Gathering and Products)
Proposal Title SCEC Borehole Instrumentation Program
Investigator(s)
Name Organization
Jamison Steidl University of California, Santa Barbara
Other Participants
SCEC Priorities B5, B5, A4 SCEC Groups Seismology, GMP, SHRA
Report Due Date 02/28/2011 Date Report Submitted N/A
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Intellectual Merit The SCEC borehole data gathering effort is contributing to the overall scientific goals of the SCEC collaboratory. For example, the borehole data available online at the SCEDC and at IRIS from the SCEC/PBO stations in the Anza region are providing a unique new high-resolution data set for analysis of earthquake source parameters (Priority A4), as well as providing observations of non-volcanic tremor induced events in the region following large regional and very large global earthquakes. In addition, the borehole instrumentation is critical to improving our understanding of nonlinear effects and to developing methodologies to include these effects into ground motion simulations (Priority B4, B5).
Broader Impacts The SCEC borehole continues to utilize undergraduate lab assistants to assist with field and data processing activities. This undergraduate research experience is too often neglected, with seismic data being so easily obtainable on the Internet. Students are often not given the opportunity to learn as part of their education how to collect quality data, and how to tell good data from bad data. The SCEC field and lab experience at UCSB provides this important activity, for both local students and summer interns from other schools through the SCEC REU program.
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