ICS Summary of Highlights

• Relocation of ICS offices to Girvetz Hall, Suite 1140 on August 15, 1994

• Submitted 47 proposals to: USGS, NRC, UCOP, USC, Texas A&M, UC-LLNL, UCEI, FERMCO, NSF, NASA, EPA, UNAVCO, UC-LANL, UCSD, and UC-IGPP totaling $5,080,803

• Administered 36 awards from 12 agencies totaling $4,587,078 including 25 new awards and $1,599,965 in new funding for fiscal year 1994/95

• Submitted 39 scientific papers for publication to 19 journals and publishers

• Professor Emeritus John C. Crowell awarded the Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America

• Dr. Lorne G. Everett elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences; ICS hosted reception in his honor June 7, 1995

• Professor Arthur G. Sylvester awarded the UC Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for the UCSB campus

• September 29, 1994: Hosted Open House in new offices at Girvetz Hall, Suite 1140

• Participated in Los Angeles Regional Seismic Experiment (LARSE) October 10-25, 1994

• Windy Brimer, Andrew Byers, Jason McKenna and Michael Watkins were awarded SCEC undergraduate research internships

• Bruce Luyendyk and Ralph Archuleta organized and hosted, USC-SCEC sponsored, western Transverse Ranges workshop at UCSB, January 22-24, 1995

• Archuleta, Keller, Luyendyk presented seminar on the ICS Earthquake Project (ICSEP) to local government officials in May 1995

• Ralph Archuleta interviewed by KSBY in response to an earthquake in the San Luis Obispo area (September 28, 1994)

• Completed a draft seismic hazard analysis of the Santa Barbara Channel for the Mineral Management Service in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Drilled 520 meter hole into granite in Garner Valley and installed downhole seismographs and ground water pressure monitors

• Participated in UCSB 2nd Annual Earthquake Fair, April 13, 1995

• Set up earthquake information booth for Earth Day Celebration at SBCC, April 23, 1995

• Sponsored four seminars

• Established ICS Home Page on the World Wide Web, http://quake.crustal.ucsb.edu/

• Held our annual picnic in October at Goleta Beach Park

• Hosted visits of:
  • Dr. Michel Campillo, Professor of Geophysics, and Graduate Student Fabrice Cotton, Université de Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
  • Dr. Scott Hornafius, Geological Advisor, Mobil Exploration & Producing
  • Dr. Jonathan M. Lees, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
  • Dr. Raul Madariaga, Professor of Geophysics, Director of Seismological Laboratory, Institut de Physique du Globe, Université Paris VII
  • Dr. Jarg Pettinga, Senior Lecturer, Canterbury University, New Zealand