1997 SCEC Annual Meeting

DATE: October 5-7, 1997

LOCATION: Costa Mesa, CA

To SCEC Scientists and Friends,

The 1997 SCEC annual meeting will be held October 5-7 at the Doubletree Hotel in Costa Mesa, California. The preliminary meeting agenda follows. Highlights of this year's meeting include:

1. A field trip on Sunday, the 5th, led by Lisa Grant, Karl Mueller, and Eldon Gath. The field trip will focus on the geomorphic and structural analysis of the San Joaquin Hills in Orange County, California.

Field Trip Abstract. The San Joaquin Hills are a northwesterly elongated anticlinal structure, onto which eight marine terraces have been mapped. Although an uplift rate of 0.25 mm/yr has been calculated for the San Joaquin Hills along the coast, neither the spatial pattern of this uplift, nor the uplifting mechanism were previously determined. This year's SCEC field trip will explore this area, discussing the preliminary research findings of Lisa Grant, Karl Mueller, George Kennedy, Roz Munro, and Eldon Gath. The trip will visit exposures of late Quaternary marine terrace deposits, where we will discuss the on-going efforts to date the deposits using corals and U-series dating. We will visit and discuss the implications of the Newport Back Bay, an ancestral course of the Santa Ana River, including evidence for Holocene deformation of the abandoned channel. The trip will conclude with a discussion of what we know, what we infer, and what it means to our understanding of the seismic risk from the (possible) southerly extension of the Compton-Los Alamitos struture specifically, and for southern Orange County in general.

2. Posters focused on results of SCEC sponsored research. We will organize posters along disciplinary groups this year.

3. A presentation on the SCIGN program by Yehuda Bock.

4. A presentation of the main results of the Phase III study by Dave Jackson, Norm Abrahamson, and the authors of the Phase III report. The objective of the Phase III report is to address outstanding scientific and engineering issues related to seismic hazard analysis. In particular, the Phase III report focuses on issues related to the incorporation of site response into hazard maps. The generation of hazard maps with site response requires the integration of scientific information from geologists, seismologists, and geotechnical engineers. Seismic hazard analysis is an interdisciplinary problem that provides a useful framework to bring together these different disciplines to produce self-consistent models.

5. The interdisciplinary group sessions will be run in series.

6. A half day session on Tuesday morning to discuss the scientific goals for the new science and technology center proposal due next year. The preproposal is due January 6, 1998 and, if selected to compete, the full proposal is due September 1, 1998. The SCEC Steering Committee has had discussions on this submission and invited colleagues from Northern California to join this new proposal. Northern California colleagues will be invited to the meeting. More on this session will be forthcoming from the directors.

7. The SCEC Advisory Council will attend this meeting.

8. The after dinner speaker on Monday night will be Arch Johnston of CERI, Memphis. His talk is "Dissecting the New Madrid Earthquakes."

9. A meeting of the ROSRINE working group on Tuesday afternoon.

LOCATION/ LOGISTICS

• The Doubletree Hotel is located at 3050 Bristol Street in Costa Mesa. The phone number is 714-540-7000. The hotel is approximately 5 minutes from the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana. Free shuttle service to/from the hotel is available.
• SCEC has blocked a large number of rooms. The room rate is $75, single or double. To get the SCEC price, you must make your reservation through SCEC.
• To make your reservation, please go to the SCEC web page at www.scec.org and fill out the meeting registration form for the annual meeting. Note: Mark Benthien should have this form ready by Thursday of this week. Please complete this registration no later than September 15.
• A lunch and refreshments will be provided for those attending the field trip and all meals from Sunday night until Tuesday morning will be provided. Please note on the reservation form if you plan to attend the field trip.
• Posters should be limited to 4 by 6 feet. We will have easels, boards and mounting material available. If you need more space to show your work, please let me know. For those not attending the field trip, the hall for poster displays will be available at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, the 5th for setup.
• The deadline for submitting the abstract for your poster is September 22. Abstracs should be submitted to me via e-mail. Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words and list title, authors, and affiliation.

If you have any questions, please send me a note via e-mail or call me at 213-740-5842.

John McRaney

Saturday, October 4

11:00 a.m. SCEC Standing Committee on Electronic Communications

1:00 p.m. SCEC Steering Committee

5:00 p.m. Earthquakes and Insurance

Sunday, October 5

10:00 a.m. Field Trip led by Lisa Grant, Karl Mueller, Eldon Gath "The Geomorphic and Structural Analysis of the San Joaquin Hills in Orange County, California"

12:00 p.m. Knowledge Transfer Planning Meeting

6:00 p.m. Icebreaker and Dinner

7:15 p.m. Poster Session (Posters remain available until Tuesday noon)

8:30 p.m. Advisory Council Meeting with presentations by Andrews and Abdouch on Knowledge Transfer/Education Programs

8:30 p.m. Meeting of SCIGN Coordinating Board

Monday, October 6

8:00 a.m. Session I: Plenary Session

Welcome and Introduction

Henyey (20)

SCEC Science Program: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?

Jackson (30)

The SCIGN Project Bock (20)

Report of Knowledge Transfer and Education

Andrews (15),

Abdouch (15)

Break (9:40 to 10:00)

Short Research Reports from Group Leaders

Day (15)

Sieh (15)

Clayton (15)

Hudnut (15)

Knopoff (15)

11:15 a.m. Phase III Presentation

Dave Jackson: Introduction

Dave Jackson: Seismic Source Models

Steve Park: Estimation of Shear Wave Velocities and Site Classifications

Kim Olsen: Site Amplification in the Los Angeles Basin from 3-D Modeling of Ground Motion

Jamie Steidl: Site Response Studies

John Anderson/Yajie Lee: Evaluation of Empirical Attenuation Relations

Norm Abrahamson: Hazard Calculations

Norm Abrahamson: Strong Motion Seismograms for Scenario Earthquakes

Norm Abrahamson: Conclusions

Lunch @ 12:45 p.m.

Session II: Working Group Meetings

Posters Available During These Sessions

Note: There will be no group meeting for education and outreach. Jill and Curt will hold separate sessions with invited scientists to develop Knowledge Transfer/Education RFP.

1:45 to 3:15 p.m. Group A: Jackson

3:15 to 4:45 p.m. Group B: Day

4:45 to 6:15 p.m. Groups C and G: Sieh, Knopoff

Dinner at 6:15 p.m.

Dinner Speaker: Arch Johnston of CERI/Memphis; Title of Talk: Dissecting the New Madrid Earthquakes

7:45 p.m. Groups D and F: Clayton, Hauksson

9:15 p.m. Group E: Hudnut

Tuesday, October 7

8:00 to Noon SCEC II: The Future Proposal Henyey

Note: Colleagues from Northern California will be invited to the meeting.

End of SCEC Meeting

Lunch @ 12:00 p.m. for SCEC Advisory Council and Steering Committee

Advisory Council meets in Executive Session after lunch.

1:00 p.m. ROSRINE Meeting: Schneider